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Vastly outnumbered, British soldiers and civilians were threatened with extermination in their most valued colonial possession. As the vaunted Victorian army began a counteroffensive, the key to final victory lay at Lucknow, where 3,000 British men,...

The nomadic peoples of central Asia,Huns, Bulgars, Magyars, Mongols,are still known to us for their legendary fighters Attila, Genghis Khan, and Timur Lenk (Tamerlane), as well as for their feats of calculated brutality. (Timur Lenk would leave piles of...

General Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888) was the most important Union cavalry commander of the Civil War, and ranks as one of America's greatest horse soldiers. From Corinth through Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, he made himself a reputation for...

FBI operative Raymond W. Holcomb's assignments took him across America, the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Africa, and involved espionage, counter narcotics, Mafia takedowns, national security, Special Weapons and Tactics, and much more. He and his men...

Winner of the 2006 Richard W. Leopold Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2006 George Pendleton Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government Only five black men were admitted to the United States Naval...

In Leigh Armistead's second edited volume on warfare in the Information Age, the authors explore the hype over possibilities versus actuality in their analysis of Information Operations (IO) today. First, leaders must better understand the informational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811773782Author William NesterFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Stackpole BooksPublisher Stackpole Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541604346Author Andrew PettegreeFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 680g

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138984653Author Cynthia Hewitt de AlcantaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis...

Responding to security scholars' puzzling dearth of attention to children and childhoods, the contributors to this volume reveal the ways in which they not only are already present in security discourses but are actually indispensable to them and to the...

In late Victorian England, even as the sword was being rendered useless on the battlefield, swordsmanship was experiencing a unique revival. Captain Alfred Hutton and Egerton Castle, both devoted fencers and amateur historians, led a systematic study and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788173047343Author Maartje van ErdFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and...

This book, first published in 1991, is the cumulative result of a long period of research by qualified experts in an attempt to analyse the legal and scientific problems of arriving at definitions in the task of preventing an arms race in outer space...

This book investigates, and explains, the extent to which different liberal democracies have resorted to the use of force since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.The responses of democratic states throughout the world to the September 2001 terrorist attacks...

This book, first published in 1985, is an in-depth analysis of the Luftwaffe in the Second World War, using previously untapped German archives and newly-released ‘Ultra’ intelligence records. It looks at the Luftwaffe within the context of the overall...

An often overlooked aspect of the Cold War was the extent of diplomatic espionage that went on in the countries behind the Iron Curtain. Every Western diplomat stationed in the Soviet bloc was targeted as a spy by the security apparatus in these...

This book, first published in 1985, is a scholarly examination of the of the British wartime evacuation of 4 million people, mostly children, from the cities to the countryside – and how it affected social life during the war years. It uses hitherto...

This book, first published in 1991, is the cumulative result of a long period of research by qualified experts in an attempt to analyse the legal and scientific problems of arriving at definitions in the task of preventing an arms race in outer space...

This book, first published in 1982, provides a well-informed historical overview, insightful analysis and searching critique of arms control agreements and negotiations from the Hague Declaration of 1899 to the SALT Treaties and Conventions of the 1970s...

In 1998 the World Bank published a report entitled "Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn't and Why". This report presents the results of an extensive investigation into the effectiveness of development aid. The main message of the text of the...

Taking an explicitly comparative theoretical approach, Saeed Shafqat presents a comprehensive exploration of civil-military relations in Pakistan. He begins by describing the history of military hegemony in this volatile South Asian country and then...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788194283706Author Ajay SinghFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Pentagon PressPublisher Pentagon PressWeight(grams) 524g

This book, first published in 1991, examines Britain’s defence and foreign policy of the 1980s , and explores a variety of alternative roles for Britain in the radically changed circumstances of the 1990s. The authors analyse the full range of major...

This book, first published in 1946, collects documents illustrating the foreign policy of the Soviet Union during the Second World War. They show how the fighting alliance of the USSR, Britain and the USA came into being and grew stronger, how relations...

This book, first published in 1981, is a study of the social and political sources of amoral political rule in modern times. Only a moral indifference unparalleled in history made the Holocaust possible, and by linking the German imperial ambitions to...

This book, first published in 1989, analyses Western and Soviet perceptions of each other's military thoughts and doctrines, a key part of the Cold War, where both sides planned to both win a possible conflict, and to avoid one. The work demonstrates...

This book, first published in 1956, analyses the Red Army's strategic planning for a war involving nuclear weapons - whereby the front line is thinned out to protect it from nuclear attack and replaced by large-scale offensive operations in NATO's rear...

This book, first published in 1985, is a scholarly examination of the of the British wartime evacuation of 4 million people, mostly children, from the cities to the countryside - and how it affected social life during the war years. It uses hitherto...

This book, first published in 1955, collects together accounts of some of the men and women who served as members of the remarkable S.O.E. This organisation was set up by Britain to encourage, help and organise resistance movements in occupied countries,...

This book, first published in 1955, examines the total economic, political and social breakdown that Germany suffered in the last year of the Second World War and in its immediate aftermath, and the beginnings of the recovery in the Western half of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197649671Author Antoine J BousquetFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

The War to End All Wars is considered by many to be the best single account of America's participation in World War I. Covering famous battles, the birth of the air force, naval engagements, the War Department, and experiences of the troops, this...

This study looks at the interpretations and effects of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and offers readings of its possible future effects.Book InformationISBN 9781138977341Author Ian BellanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint RoutledgePublisher...

This book is a judicial, military and political history of the period 1941 to 1954. As such, it is also a United States legal history of both World War II and the early Cold War. Civil liberties, mass conscription, expanded military jurisdiction,...

Countries have instituted polices to make their armed forces more inclusive, and soldiers now undergo cultural awareness training before they see active duty. Policy makers and military organizations agree that culture is important. But what does...

First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415498425Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackImprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

Contributions to this volume consider the importance of mediation in violent conflict. Practical and applied, this publication will be of interest to scholars, academics, policymakers and practitioners. It was originally published as a special issue of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119366072Author Andrew BuchananFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John Wiley & Sons IncWeight(grams) 666g

First published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138458840Author VARIOUS AUTHORSFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 585g

The tragic news of the ISIS-inspired massacres in Europe and countless other locations throughout the Middle East, in conjunction with the failed political coup against Erdogan in Turkey, have raised the spectre of an ideological struggle that is more...