From a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author, an unflinching and close-up look at war: its intoxicating allure, its gruesome realities, and the grander truths it exposes about humanity “A brilliant,...

Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2014-04-08

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The invasion has begun. In this gripping book, Jonathan Mayo gives a blow by blow account of the events of D-Day, revealing what happened to the people swept up in this crucial moment in history. From soldiers, French villagers and journalists, to schoolchildren and...

Editeur : Short Books
Parution : 2014-04-03
Collection : Minute By Minute
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At times, even his admirers seemed unsure of what to do with General Douglas MacArthur. Imperious, headstrong, and vain, MacArthur matched an undeniable military genius with a massive ego and a rebellious streak that often seemed to destine him for the dustbin of...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2014-04-01

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Post-heroism is often perceived as one of the main aspects of change in the character of war, a phenomenon prevalent in western societies. According to this view, demographic and cultural changes in the west have severely decreased the tolerance for casualties in war....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-04-01

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Explosive SAS action in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan.The command came: 'Stop those vehicles!'It was like a red rag to a bull. Instantly streams of 7.62 mm tracer and 50 mm calibre machine gun rounds arced across the night sky and smashed into the bus and truck.Elite...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2014-03-25
Collection : Hachette Military Collection
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On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2014-03-25

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Irish Officers in the British forces, 1922-45 looks at the reasons why youngIrish people took the king's commission, including the family tradition, the school influence and the employment motive. It explores their subsequent experiences in the forces and the responses...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-03-25

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Argentina is famous for its ties with fascism as well as its welcoming of Nazi war criminals after World War II. At mid-century, it was the home of Peronism. It was also the birthplace of the Dirty War and one of Latin America's most criminal dictatorships in the 1970s...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-03-21

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A vivid and original account of warfare in the Middle Ages and the cruelty and atrocity that accompanied it.Sean McGlynn investigates the reality of medieval warfare. For all the talk of chivalry, medieval warfare routinely involved acts which we would consider war...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2014-03-20

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'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard HolmesStuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old, unblooded, fresh from a public-school background and Officer Cadet...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2014-03-20

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>A COMPANION TO JOHN F. KENNEDY A COMPANION TO JOHN F. KENNEDY “Marc J. Selverstone has compiled an indispensable volume of essays on John F. Kennedy and his presidency, written by a stellar cast of scholars. What stands out in sharp relief in this wide-ranging and...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2014-03-14
Collection : Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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The provocative bestseller explaining the decline of power in the twenty-first century -- in government, business, and beyond.br> Power is shifting -- from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2014-03-11

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In the Mediterranean, this most fought-over region in the world, the figures of potentates and conquerors appear god-like: Thutmosis, Leonidas, Xerxes, Pyrrhus, Hannibal, Caesar and Vercingetorix. Ancient history, from Pharaonic Egypt and the Shahs of Persia, to the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-03-06

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There are instances of heroic deeds that had no immediate witness, such as the Scholls's attempt in 1943 to raise their nation's conscience, suppressed by Hitler's propaganda machine. The Canadian physicist Dr. Slotin acted in 1946; but since 'the bomb' was supposed to...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-03-06

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There is no shortage of stories when it comes to battles. Some were decided by genius, but many more by a quirk of fate, when that thin balance which separates success from disaster lay in a minor decision or a trivial incident that tipped the scales. The thrust of a...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-03-06

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The six-month battle for Monte Cassino was Britain's bitterest and bloodiest encounter with the German army on any front in World War Two.At the beginning of 1944 Italy was the western Allies' only active front against Nazi-controlled Europe, and their only route to the...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2014-03-06

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A History of the First World War in 100 Objects narrates the causes, progress and outcome of the First World War by telling the stories behind 100 items of material evidence of that cataclysmic and shattering conflict.From weapons that created carnage to affectionate...

Editeur : Cassell
Parution : 2014-03-03

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Enjoy this free sampler of the full ebook. Read full entries for three of the 100 objects, selected from different points during the war. A History of the First World War in 100 Objects narrates the causes, progress and outcome of the First World War by telling the...

Editeur : Cassell Illustrated
Parution : 2014-03-03

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Here is an annotated, scholarly, multilingual edition of the only lengthy text personally written by Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture: the memoirs he wrote shortly before his death in the French prison of Fort de Joux. The translation is based on an original...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-02-28

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Far more than an anthology, FOR KING AND COUNTRY is Brian MacArthur's attempt to write a history of the First World War by drawing on the writings of those who were present at the events they describe. Those writings will be drawn from a broad range of sources: from,...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2014-02-27

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