War & defence operations books

Presents accounts of narrow escapes executed by oppressed individuals and groups while illuminating social issues...  Read More >>

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Offers an analysis of the Vietnam War as experienced by the Vietnamese peasantry. This book shows how peasants,...  Read More >>

Perhaps the best known of all American five-star generals, Douglas MacArthur established his military reputation...  Read More >>

Abraham Lincoln was the greatest writer of the Civil War as wellas its greatest political leader. His clear, beautiful,...  Read More >>

This book considers the implications of deploying missile defenses, primarily nationwide missile defenses or NMD,...  Read More >>

A unique examination of twenty-two days in 1941, when critical battles in Africa, Russia, and the Pacific determined...  Read More >>

During the Great War a German publisher produced a number of photographic books that are of considerable interest...  Read More >>

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At dawn on Friday 1 September 1939 the Germans launched their land, sea and air assault on Poland. The world became...  Read More >>

Draws on first-hand accounts and archival material from both sides of an important yet little known battle, the...  Read More >>

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In October 2005 an international naval conference was held at Portsmouth and well-known historians and naval officers...  Read More >>

In the Tet Offensive of 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces launched a massive countrywide attack on South...  Read More >>

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This book consists of extracts from key documents, along with commentary and further reading, on the ‘Great Patriotic...  Read More >>

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Examines and evaluates institution building and security sector reform in conflict states. This title does so through...  Read More >>