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by Ernesto Che Guevara
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Guerrilla Warfare by the revolutionary Che Guevara has become the guidebook for thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries around the world. Guevara intended it to be a manual on guerrilla warfare, as inspiration for revolutionary movements in Latin America, Africa and Asia, stressing the...
Fighters Over the Falklands
Defending the Islanders' Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Fighters Over The Falklands captures daily life using pictures taken during the author's tours of duty on the Islands. From the first detachments of Phantoms and Rapiers operating from a rapidly upgraded RAF Stanley airfield to life at RAF Mount Pleasant, see life from the author's perspective as...
The New Spatiality of Security
Operational Uncertainty and the US Military in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This book provides a rigorous critical analysis of how the US military operates in Iraq, exploring the spatial practices of violence.
Contemporary critical analyses of the United States’ involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan emphasise the hegemonic nature of the US military experience, while...
by Christopher Tuck
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Understanding Land Warfare provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare.
The book is a thematic, debate-driven analysis of what makes land warfare unique; how it interacts with the other environments; the key concepts that...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This edited volume addresses the relationship between the essential nature of war and its character at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
The focus is on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, situations that occupy a central role in international affairs and that have become highly...
Tide of War
The Impact of Weather on Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The first comprehensive look at nature’s role on military history from the author of A Pestilence on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Halley’s Comet helped to announce the fall of the Shang Dynasty in China, a solar eclipse frightened the Macedonian army enough at Pydna in 168 BC to ensure victory...
Investing in Peace
Aid and Conditionality after Civil Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book analyzes the provision of aid to countries that have undergone negotiated settlements to civil wars, drawing on recent experiences in Bosnia, Cambodia, El Salvador, and Guatemala. It focuses on the potential for peace conditionality, linking aid to steps to implement accords and consolidate...
Germany and the Axis Powers
From Coalition to Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
It seemed that whenever Mussolini acted on his own, it was bad news for Hitler. Indeed, the Fuhrer's relations with his Axis partners were fraught with an almost total lack of coordination. Compared to the Allies, the coalition was hardly an alliance at all. Focusing on Germany's military relations...
Storm of Steel
The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919–1939
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
In this fascinating account of the battle tanks that saw combat in the European Theater of World War II, Mary R. Habeck traces the strategies developed between the wars for the use of armored vehicles in battle. Only in Germany and the Soviet Union were truly original armor doctrines (generally known...
The Ordeal of Captain Roeder
From the Diary of an Officer in the First Battalion of Hessian Lifeguards During the Moscow Campaign of 1812-13
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Originally published in 1960, Captain Franz Roeder’s ability to bring to life the rigours in the Hessian Lifeguards during Napoleon’s ill-fated invasion of Russia in 1812-13, together with Helen Roeder’s skilful narrative, make this book one of the most compelling accounts of the sufferings...
Burn the Sea
Flame Warfare, Black Propaganda and the Nazi Plan to Invade England
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
September 1940. Britain is rife with rumors of dead Nazis washed up on the beaches of the southeast coast—their bodies charred as though burnt alive. This book explores the truth behind these rumors and the intriguing story of Operation Lucid—the British plan to create a network of flame barrages...
by Mr David Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
From the creation of the first volunteer paratroop unit shortly after the birth of Israel and of the Israeli Defense Force, this arm of service has been recognized as elite. They have also been the first choice for daring special missions, and it is mainly from their ranks that Israel's Special Forces...
The Dynamics of Coalition Naval Warfare
The Special Relationship at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This book examines the dynamics of coalition naval operations.
Since the end of the Second World War, few nations possess the capacity for large scale, sustained and independent naval operations; and even those that do, such as the USA, often find it economically, militarily and politically...
The Rocky Road to the Great War
The Evolution of Trench Warfare to 1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Nicholas Murray's The Rocky Road to the Great War examines the evolution of field fortification theory and practice between 1877 and 1914. During this period field fortifications became increasingly important, and their construction evolved from primarily above to below ground. The reasons for these...