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Chosen by William Safire in the New York Times to be the publishing sleeper-seller of the year for 2007 In this rapid-paced book, a former CIA chief of Soviet bloc counterintelligence breaks open the mysterious case of KGB officer Yuri Nosenko' s 1964...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982110553Author Debra Kay HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Seminole Wars FoundationPublisher Seminole Wars FoundationWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615506166Author Leslie G KinneyFormat HardbackImprint Bay Mills PublishingPublisher Bay Mills PublishingWeight(grams) 826g

Since the collapse of the French Army in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, military strategists and officials have recognized the critical importance of mobilization and concentration to the outcome of armed conflicts. This study breaks new ground in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313252938Author Martin K. SorgeFormat HardbackPage Count 195Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book provides a comprehensive historiographical and bibliographical survey of the Falklands/Malvinas campaign of 1982 as well as the historical and cultural background. Rasor has compiled a comprehensive guide to published sources, oral histories,...

This book explores the expectations, experiences, and reactions of Allied servicemen and women who served in the wartime Pacific and viewed the South Pacific through the lens of Hollywood's South Seas. Based on extensive archival research, it explores...

It is often said that war is 5% horror and 95% boredom. In this sense, military boredom is historically enduring as well as personally enduring for the soldiers who have to endure it. This book contributes to a deeper understanding - historically,...

By piecing together diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and rare privately printed memoirs, the author has created a story which tells how America's ragtag navy-composed mainly of converted yachts, steamers and tugboats-was able to fight and win against the...

This is a fast-paced survey of the history of war in the Eurasian world from classical Greece to the French Revolution. Defining the period as the era of pre-industrial warfare, Frederic Baumgartner describes the broad differences, as well as the...

This book documents American planning for the occupation of Austria after World War II. The authors show how plans made during the war had to be changed in the face of military and political realities and the postwar years of frustration and hope,...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313243998Author Roger J. SpillerFormat HardbackPage Count 482Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648854630Author Carol RosenhainFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Echo BooksPublisher Echo BooksWeight(grams) 152g

This is an excellent advanced study in strategy in the nuclear age. Cimbala covers the field thoroughly. He challenges much of the conventional and established approaches to deterrence and crisis management. . . . Cimbala's work is a valuable and...

Although war has been analyzed from many perspectives, no scholar has satisfactorily explained why the human race fights and how we came to create a degree of military sophistication capable of destroying the entire species. Gabriel addresses these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982967676Author Elbert Green HubbardFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Pylon PublishingPublisher Pylon PublishingWeight(grams) 46g

Since World War II, there have been no engagements between carrier air groups, but flattops have been prominent and essential in every war, skirmish, or terrorist act that could be struck from planes at sea. Carriers have political boundaries. They range...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837175317Author Dave Richard PalmerFormat HardbackPage Count 229Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837163895Author Henry HethFormat HardbackPage Count 303Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book examines the Indian nuclear policy, doctrine, strategy and posture, clarifying the elastic concept of credible minimum deterrence at the center of the country's approach to nuclear security. This concept, Karnad demonstrates, permits the Indian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788407284Author Larry L NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 231g

Citizen-soldiers have played one of the most important roles in providing an integral part to the United States national defense system. From the earliest founding of the American militia in 1636, to the participation of National Guard and Reserve forces...

In medieval Europe hostages were given, not taken. They were a means of guarantee used to secure transactions ranging from treaties to wartime commitments to financial transactions. In principle, the force of the guarantee lay in the threat to the life...

Until now, little has been known about Nathan "Shanks" Evans, a prominent and highly controversial Confederate general who served throughout the Civil War in several theatres of operations. Thankfully, because of a recently discovered cache of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369387288Author David CoombesFormat PaperbackPage Count 780Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 966g

The first detailed account in English of the battle that defined the elite unit's fidelity to the mission. The battle was fought at Camerone, some 40 miles west of Vera Cruz, Mexico, on April 30, 1863; the opponents were the half-strength 3d Company, 1st...

In 1969, after his return from Vietnam, George Marrett took a job as a test pilot at Hughes Aircraft. For twenty years, he tested the most sophisticated airborne radar and missiles ever designed for advanced Navy and Air Force aircraft. Marrett's...

From antiquity, the history of China has been marked by invading tribes, warring states, and popular uprisings. This heritage of conflict produced a body of martial literature exploring the fundamental principles of warfare and their methods of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788415807Author Robert J TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 231g

This interdisciplinary study provides a broad conceptual and factual base for a deeper understanding of the social, political, and economic forces that contribute to war and peace in the modern world. Focusing on war as an integral part of the political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313214974Author Professor Richard A. GabrielFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

July 1990 marked the 50th anniversary of one of the most critical and decisive struggles in the European theater of World War II. Following the withdrawal of British forces at Dunkirk and the fall of France, the Battle of Britain pitted some 2,800...

A strong addition to the existing military history reference literature and to its series. . . . Dawson's research guide is more useful than a standard bibliography, and much more thorough for the time period covered than [other] sources. . . . Dawson...

This examination of the history of the 20th century and the place of war in its unfolding presents a radical, unorthodox interpretation of both. With provision for seeing 1945 as the proper starting point for the 20th century and 1968 as the year that...

The battle of Kursk was the last major German offensive on the Eastern Front. The battle began well for the Germans, but the Russians delayed them long enough for reserves to come forward. Soon the defenders outnumbered the attackers, and Hitler called...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313233227Author John I. AlgerFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857060105Author Honore De BalzacFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 576g

Ten years after the end of the Gulf War, the conflict continues with unresolved questions about economic sanctions and Iraq's participation in the oil export system. A specialist in Middle Eastern politics and an intelligence officer, Pelletiere covered...

An important contribution to the political science and military history literature, this is the first book to present the Argentinean side of the battle for the Malvinas (Falklands) in May 1982. The author, a senior official in the Argentine Air Force...

In France the decade preceding the outbreak of the First World War was characterized by a revival of nationalism and militarism. Wesseling analyzes the ideas current in France in this period about the use, value, and beauty of war, the army, and army...