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The Vietnam War tends to conjure up images of American soldiers battling an elusive enemy in thick jungle, the thudding of helicopters overhead. But there were in fact several Vietnam wars - an anticolonial war with France, a cold war turned hot with...

Trials of those responsible for large-scale state brutality have captured public imagination in several countries. Prosecutors and judges in such cases, says Osiel, rightly aim to shape collective memory. They can do so hi ways successful as public...

This book examines the connection between sociology and the challenges faced by the modern military.Military sociology has received little attention in the broader academic world, and is mostly focused on civil-military relations. This book seeks to...

Operational art emerged from the campaigns of Frederick the Great to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. It was the result of three dynamic interrelationships: between military and non-military factors such as social, economic and political developments;...

This book analyzes the strategic implications of the shift in focus for the US Armed Forces from regular to irregular war. Lawrence Freedman closely examines the difficulty the US Armed Forces face in shifting their focus from preparing for regular wars,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198528371Author Toby DodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Thomson WestWeight(grams) 249g

Originally published in 1994, the late Keith F. Otterbein's scholarship had followed an overall design since 1962, when he began conducting comparative studies of warfare using both ethnographic and cross-cultural methods. Through a conceptual framework...

This is a unique account of the ways in which British veterans of the Second World War remembered, understood, and recounted their experiences of battle throughout the post-war period. Focusing on themes of landscape, weaponry, the enemy, and...

The technical transformation of the Royal Navy during the Victorian era posed many design, tactical and operational problems for administrators from the 1830s onwards. The switch from sail to steam required the creation of a system of defended coaling...

This edited Adelphi volume brings together senior scholars as well as rising analysts of Egypt to examine the turbulent period from the January 2011 uprising to the consolidation of power of President Abdelfattah el-Sisi in 2014-15. The nine authors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198530787Author Chris AldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Thomson WestWeight(grams) 136g

A comprehensive assessment of Soviet relations with the West, set in the context of the emergence of a new Russia. This volume anlayzes the formulation of foreign policy during the period from the first decade of the Bolshevik Revolution, through the...

Published now for the first time in paperback My Boy Jack is the extraordinary story of Kipling's search for his son. John Kipling was reported missing in the Battle of Loos on the Western Front in 1915. His father, Rudyard, had pulled strings to get his...

Heroes of the SAS details the personal stories of men who have, through their extraordinary valour and devotion to duty, left their mark on the history of the British Army's elite Special Forces regiment. From the early days in North Africa during World...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858337326Author J.P.C. LabandFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Bramley BooksPublisher CLBWeight(grams) 693g

From the wooden horse of Troy to the Gulf War, military history has been as much marked by chance and error, as by gallantry and heroism. Many conflicts have been decided by the caprice of weather, bad intelligence, heroism where it wasn't expected, or...

This is the story of Operation Overlord, told in the words of the men who were there. Robin Neillands and Roderick de Normann have sought out some of the unsung heroes of D-Day, men of every rank and arm of service, from all the major nations involved,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845275556Author Lyn EbenezerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903576021Author Alan StorkeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Christian Studies PressPublisher Christian Studies PressWeight(grams)...

This comprehensive volume encompasses not just the greatest land battles of all time, but sieges such as Constantinople and Tenochtitlan; naval battles such as Actium, the Armada, Trafalgar and Tsushima; and the crucial conflicts in the air during the...

From bestselling author of 'Tommy' and 'Redcoat', the rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire considered to be the jewel in Britain's imperial crown. 'Sahib' is a broad and sweeping military history of the British...

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This book is intended to be both a prequel and sequel to the chapter Jimmy wrote for The Ten Fighter Boys. Filling in the 'missing pieces', the book charts his early life before the ourbreak of war in 1939, the decisions he made, and those that were made...

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This work provides an understanding of the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. These two interdependent wars were the greatest armed conflicts in Europe in the second half of the 20th century. This work provides an analysis of their successes and...

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A riotous collection of military facts and figures. Includes such categories as 'The Eight Wounds Sustained by Alexander the Great' and 'The Worst Reasons for Starting a War'. Essential Militaria is an invaluable repository of information, facts and...

Told through the stories of the combatants themselves, this unique history of the soldier provides a penetrating insight into the politics, emotions and psychology of war and its aftermath. Focusing primarily on the period from the Napoleonic Wars to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946771882Author Philip J. HaythornthwaiteFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Spellmount Publishers LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd

While the 1914 Christmas truces have a mythological status in British culture, intimate interactions with the enemy are, this edited collection shows, a staple of modern warfare. Spanning the nineteenth century to the present, chapters consider how...

A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them Benjamin Franklin once said, “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” But what determines whether war or peace is chosen?...

Combining the social and cultural history of war, global and maritime history, this book examines the Argentine Navy during the First World War and in its immediate aftermath. Drawing from a wide range of primary sources, including naval publications,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571307760Author Nicholas RankinFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Faber & FaberPublisher Faber & Faber

For over 70 years, from 1643 to 1715, Louis XIV fought a series of increasingly bitter wars with the Dutch, the Spanish, the British and the Austrians. During his long reign France was the foremost power in Europe and the king used his military and...

The History & Fundamentals of Knife Combat is the first installment of the most comprehensive and practical book on knife fighting and edged weapon combat that has ever been written. Spread out over two volumes, it serves to introduce the reader to every...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032307213Author Eyal Ben-AriImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd