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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999785413Format PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Cynefin RoadPublisher Cynefin RoadWeight(grams) 345g

The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, from the Captains General to General Trujillo traces the interaction of the military and the civilian population, showing the many ways in which the military ethos has permeated Dominican culture...

This book is the first systematic attempt to study the situation of European and American Muslims after 9/11, and to present a comprehensive analysis of their religious, political, and legal situations.Since 9/11, and particularly since the Madrid and...

Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far behind in the race to develop the aeroplane before the First World War? Despite their initial advantage, they were overtaken by the Wright brothers in America, by the French...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954937003Author Christopher WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Royal Green Jackets Museum TrustPublisher Royal Green Jackets Museum Trust

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951660065Author George CaldwellFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Bugle Horn PublicationsPublisher Bugle Horn Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901721174Author D SmurthwaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint National Army MuseumPublisher National Army MuseumWeight(grams) 320g

The roots of today's Middle East conflict are extremely deep and exceedingly tangled and Jill Hamilton has done a wonderful job in unravelling a complicated story. Describing the background to the present conflict - she intertwines the sad story of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791427781Author Ruth LinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

An informative guide for budding Roman soldiers, this handbook gives an insider's view of what it was like to fight in the Roman army. All of the gruesome truths of life in the Roman army are revealed including what soldiers used to eat, what they used...

This series of journals takes a close-up look at elite military and law enforcement forces from around the world. Explore these elite units and their missions with atmospheric photos of their equipment and personnel. The 64 page format features colour...

Heathrow airport handles more than 40 million passengers every year, a colossal operation requiring phenomenal effort, resources and planning. Jerram provides facts and figures made possible by the comprehensive air-side access given by Heathrow Airport...

For much of its long history, Britain has been bloodily ravaged by war and internal strife: foreign invasions have devastated British society, bitter battles have been fought over social and political rights, and brutal warlords have torn the country...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410211286Author Earl F StoverFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780117016255Author Charles AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 177Imprint Stationery Office BooksPublisher TSO

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When war broke out in 1939, Hitler created `Strafbattalion' (Penal Battalion) units to deal with incarcerated members of the Wehrmacht as well as `subversives'. His order stated that any first-time convicted soldier could return to his unit after he had...

It took just three weeks for the second Gulf War to shake the world. Despite public protest and months of international negotiations, the bombs fell on Baghdad. Now, we can see the full picture. Guardian journalists - some of them in the heat of battle,...

This book is for the young adult who is interested in enlisting in the United States Air Force. It will walk him or her through the enlistment and recruit training process: making the decision to join the military, talking to recruiters, getting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781489716569Author Anthony PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint LiferichPublisher LiferichWeight(grams) 498g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546257295Author Ron Doc MosbaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 227g

A Marine Corps recruiter returns to his old stamping grounds to speak with some of the men he enlisted, their families, and the families of others who were killed in action. Some remember their experience with a sense of patriotism; others are bitter...

Packed with tales of the heroic, comic, eccentric, and tragic, this superb collection fully captures the flavour of barrack life and enlists the reader on campaigns as distant in time as Caesar's Gallic wars and the siege of Port Stanley during the...

In early 1945, with the whole of Central Europe in the hands of the Russians, more serious problems loomed for the Anglo-American armies. The Red Army was heading rapidly for Denmark. Suddenly a real fortified city emerged in Eisenhower's thinking -...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905087587Author David StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Book HousePublisher Salariya Book Company Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806116082Author Lawrence A. FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press

After the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, the Royal Navy was not involved in a major war until 1914. The Crimea and Boer Wars required little more than bombarding the enemy and ferrying the Army. Nevertheless, mighty fleets were kept in all parts of the...

In the recent war in Iraq, the 7th Armoured Brigade, bearers of the Desert Rats insignia, was immediately engaged in some of the fiercest early fighting, ultimately taking Basra for the Allies. John Parker draws heavily on first-hand accounts for a story...

They were the most unlikely siblings - one, Adolf Hitler's most trusted henchman, the other a fervent anti-Nazi. Hermann Goering was a founder member of the Nazi Party, who became commander of the Luftwaffe, ordering the terror bombing of civilians and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752416939Author Brian KingcomeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

These are the memoirs of Sergeant John Dougl as, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Scots, and his experiences as a soldier from 1809-1817. The book provides a narrative of th e Peninsular Campaign, with a descriptions of Quatre Bras an d Waterloo 'Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954155100Author Brummie StokesFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Brummie Stokes BEM - MISMPublisher Brummie Stokes BEM - MISM

This complete history incorporates the `voices' of the Holocaust, not only the perspectives of the victims, but also the perpetrators and bystanders. Bergen reveals the common misunderstanding that the Holocaust was aimed solely at Jews. In actual fact...

The Victoria Cross, established in 1856 during the Crimean War, has remained to this day the highest British reward 'for valour' and is perhaps the most prestigious gallantry medal in the world. The VC has been earned in every theatre of war where...

In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life another extraordinary band of brothers - the men who...

On the basis of 1,400 oral histories from the men who were there, bestselling author and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose reveals for the first time anywhere that the intricate plan for the invasion of France in June 1944 had to be abandoned...

Two months before he shot himself, Adolf Hitler saw where it had all gone wrong. By failing to seize Gibraltar in the summer of 1940, he lost the war. The Rock of Gibraltar, a pillar of British sea-power since 1704, looked formidable but was...

From ancient times to the Bay of Pigs and the Falklands War, military history has been marked as much by misjudgements and incompetence as by gallantry and glory. Such blunders have sometimes ended in tragedy, sometimes in farce - such as the English...