(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197814659)
A distinctive collection of essays capturing Lawrence Freedmans insightful analysis across war, strategy, and foreign policy and providing a unique view of the key thinkers that shaped history.One of the worlds foremost sch...Loe edasi...
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2024** **A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORKER** From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of Americas long and ruinous relationship with Saddam Hus...Loe edasi...
The biblical image of David and Goliath captures fittingly the nature of the war that Russia, the world’s largest country by surface area, unleashed on neighboring Ukraine, a country that—while still the largest on the European continent—is almost...Loe edasi...
Truly eye-opening . . . The most accessible and coherent introduction to Chomskys ideas Irish Times The land of the free. The home of the brave. But what has America achieved in the aim of spreading democracy except wreak havoc across...Loe edasi...
Since the late 1970s, anglophone and German military literature has been fascinated by the Wehrmacht‘s command system, especially the practice of Auftragstaktik. There have been many descriptions of the doctrine, and examinations of its historical or...Loe edasi...
Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine came from nowhere? Felshtinsky and Stanchev’s gripping history chronicles Ukraine’s story from its origins to its modern day struggle to ward off Russian interference. A bestseller published after Russia annexed t...Loe edasi...
While the PP and PPK were intended for police work, the Walther P 38 was produced for the Germany military; all three pistols have garnered a formidable international reputation since the 1930s.The innovative Walther PP (Polizeipist...Loe edasi...
The War of the Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1714 to decide who should inherit the Spanish throne, was a conflict on an unprecedented scale, stretching across most of western Europe, the high seas and the Americas. Yet this major subjec...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780750994729)
A book on the Thirty Years War by an established history writer. Early seventeenth-century Europe was a dangerous place. The resulting Thirty Years War was to claim more lives proportionately than either the First or Second World Wars &a...Loe edasi...
This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in and around Japan during WWII.Some of the cruelest deeds of Japans war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in...Loe edasi...
Going beyond the headlines, this title gives an insight into what its like to live through - and try to make sense of - times of intense political unrest. ...Loe edasi...
Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. This memoir tells the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought alongside, and of his own journey from...Loe edasi...
