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This book, first published in 1983, examines weapons standardisation as one aspect of NATO's efficiency. It analyses the economic arguments for weapons standardisation, the limitations of the analysis and the available evidence. A political economy or...

This book, first published in 1985, examines the questions of European security that lie at the heart of the confrontation between the superpowers. It concentrates on ways of achieving defence by conventional means rather than a reliance on nuclear or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198292630Author Michael LeiferFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Thomson West

At last the book on Military Medals that collectors have been anxiously awaited! Hundreds of photographs of rare, seldom seen medals, decorations and orders, as well as those awards commonly encountered, with their intricate details captured in...

September 17, 1862, over 25,000 men became casualties in the battle of Antietam, on the Civil War's single bloodiest day. Confederate and Federal infantry and artillery faced each other at close quarters in the woods around the town of Sharpsburg,...

Marine Cargo Operations clearly spells out the basic principles of cargo operations and acquaints merchant officers with the techniques of stowage and their application. Based on the authors' half century of experience, the book singles out the most...

Told in the voices of the soldiers, doctors, and nurses who were the untested but valiant defenders of Corregidor, the tiny island fortress of Generals Macarthur and Wainwright; Corregidor is the remarkable history of forty American and Filipino...

With the beginning of the Operation Barbarossa more than 100,000 Ukrainians volunteered for the fight against Stalin and communismn. These volunteers were put into Schutzmannschafts-Bataillone under the control of the German Police. After Stalingrad...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762448128Author Jon E. LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Running Press,U.S.Publisher Running PressWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 197mm * 132mm...

Following the critically acclaimed Zen at War (1997), Brian Victoria explores the intimate relationship between Japanese institutional Buddhism and militarism during the Second World War.Victoria reveals for the first time, through examination of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486255095Author A. T. MahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 740gDimensions(mm)...

This book aims to engage with contemporary security discourses from a critical perspective. It argues that rather than being a radical, analytical outlook, much critical security theory fails to fulfil its promise to pose a challenge to contemporary...

This book provides a provocative analysis of relations between Europe and America during the tempestuous years 1998-2004. Analysing EU foreign policy, it concludes that the lessons learnt in interacting with America have been crucial in shaping the...

The clash at Chancellorsville in 1863 was an enormously complex ten-day campaign. At its conclusion, General Joseph Hooker, the confident commander of the Army of the Potomac, was in disgrace, while Confederate General Robert E. Lee had won a decisive...

A desperate gunman holds a planeload of innocent passengers hostage. A heavily armed cult leader refuses to leave his compound, threatening mass suicide by a hundred of his brainwashed followers. A neo-Nazi militant in a cabin hideout keeps federal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143784968Author Will DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage (Australia)Publisher Random House Australia

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190263478Author Lecturer in Political Science Lukasz KamienskiFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University...

The ebbs and flows of Indian history can also be charted through the country's "maritime blindness" - its onset and the national endeavour to overcome it. The story of developing India's maritime capacity, since independence, is also about the...

How do we know when a war ends? For many, the resolution of a conflict comes not with the last traces of smoke left on the battlefield, but with the formal ceremonies of surrender: possession and repossession, the signing of treaties, and the pomp and...

This book brings together a wide range of case studies to explore the experiences and significance of women warriors in Southeast Asian history from ancient to contemporary times. Using a number of sources, including royal chronicles, diaries, memoirs...

Today, war is considered a last resort for resolving disagreements. But a day of staged slaughter on the battlefield was once seen as a legitimate means of settling political disputes. James Whitman argues that pitched battle was essentially a trial with...

From Stealth Patrol :"He spoke in a sort of clipped cadence, his words tumbling out quickly, one on top of the other and his voice was deep and throaty, the way a bear might sound, if he could talk, after a night of drinking.'Basically I'm here...

Gettysburg, July 1 presents the most detailed regimental-level account ever written of the critical first day of the Civil War's greatest battle. Using firsthand sources, most of which are unpublished and some never before cited, Gettysburg, July 1...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789463382014Author Andris J KursietisFormat PaperbackPage Count 596Imprint Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijPublisher Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijWeight(grams) 1132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802122322Author Anthony LoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

The government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is a decade into a sweeping military modernisation program that has fundamentally transformed its ability to fight high tech wars. The Chinese military, using increasingly networked forces capable of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781489715012Author Msa) Sei Rubel Gehyeka (BbaFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint LiferichPublisher LiferichWeight(grams) 136g

I saw the field of battle... It still exhibits a most striking picture of desolation all the neighbouring houses being broken down by cannon-shot and shells. There was one sweet little chateau in particular called Hougomont which was the object of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780913759Author Pat CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

The Schutztruppen, the Expedition Korps, and III. See-Bataillon of the Imperial German Marines were the forces assigned to protect Germany's far-flung Colonial possessions in Africa and China. Uniform students and modelers have found scant published...

This book reappraises the ill-fated raid named operation Jubilee, focusing on aspects such as naval and air operations in the Channel, signals, radar intelligence, agents and deception. It draws from official archives, both German and Allied. From these...

The end of the Seven Years' War found Britain's professional army in America facing new and unfamiliar responsibilities. In addition to occupying the recently conquered French settlements in Canada, redcoats were ordered into the trans-Appalachian west,...

Filled with insightful anecdotes and lively narrative, The Generals of Gettysburg presents detailed information on the character and personality of all 133 combat-command officers as well as an in-depth account of each man's actions on the field. This...

In response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on the second of August 1990, a small group of air power advocates in the Pentagon proposed a strategic air campaign - "Operation Desert Storm" designed to drive the Iraqi army from Kuwait by a sustained effort...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780914121Author Pat CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

During the last decades of the 1800s and the first decade of the 1900s, some of the most elegant and colorful military service caps (schirmmutzen) were worn by the Imperial German cavalry. The unique color combinations identified each regiment, and were...

The Reluctant Raiders is perhaps the most documented and researched book on a United States Navy land-based squadron flying the PB4Y-1 Liberator and PB4Y-2 Privateer. The final result of five years of research, the book traces the squadron's history from...

The Orders and Decorations of the "enemy" during the Vietnam War have remained shrouded in mystery for many years. References to them are scarce and interrogations of captives during the war often led to the proliferation of misinformation concerning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869194109Author Al J. VenterFormat HardbackPage Count 430Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 1030g

A detailed examination of one of the Civil War's most tragic battles pitting Robert E. Lee against Ulysses S. GrantBook InformationISBN 9780306812897Author John CannanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER...