Category: War

By Tom Philpott

ISBN-10: 0393344568

ISBN-13: 9780393344561

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Now hailed as a vintage, essentially the most unforgettable and heartbreaking books ever written in regards to the Vietnam War.Glory Denied—the harrowing tale of America's longest-held POW, the wrenching agonies confronted by way of his family members, and the bigger tale of a kingdom divided—returns to Norton a decade after its much-heralded ebook. Excerpted within the New Yorker and later made into an opera, it's the heroic tale of Floyd "Jim" Thompson, captured in March 1964, who grew to become the longest-held prisoner of conflict in American historical past. Tom Philpott juxtaposes Thompson's catch, torture, and a number of get away makes an attempt with the rigors of his younger spouse, Alyce, who, feeling trapped, made offerings that perpetually tied her destiny to the conflict she despised. "One of the main sincere books ever written approximately Vietnam" (Oliver Stone), Glory Denied calls for that we reconsider the definition of a real American hero.

By Anthony Pagden

Spanning and a part millennia, Anthony Pagden’s spell binding Worlds at struggle delves deep into the roots of the “clash of civilizations” among East and West that has continually been a conflict over principles, and whose matters have by no means been extra urgent.

Worlds At warfare starts off within the historical global, the place Greece observed its struggle opposed to the Persian Empire as one among freedom and slavery, among monarchy and democracy, among individuality and the worship of fellows as gods. the following, richly rendered, are the an important conflict of Marathon, thought of the turning element of Greek and ecu heritage; the heroic try out by means of the Greeks to show the Persians again at Thermopylae; and Salamis, one of many maximum naval battles of all time, which placed an finish to the Persian possibility forever.

From there Pagden’s tale sweeps to Rome, which created the fashionable strategies of citizenship and the rule of thumb of legislation. Rome’s leaders believed these they conquered to be unfastened, whereas some of the peoples of the East continued in seeing their matters as estate. Pagden dramatizes the start of Christianity within the East and its use within the West as an device of presidency, environment the level for what might develop into, and has remained, an international conflict of the secular opposed to the sacred. Then Islam, before everything ridiculed in Christian Europe, drives Pope city II to release the Crusades, which rework the connection among East and West into one among competing spiritual beliefs.

Modern instances convey a primary global conflict, which between its many murky goals seeks to revamp the Muslim global by way of strength. In our personal period, Muslims now locate themselves in unwelcoming Western societies, whereas the West seeks to implement democracy and its personal secular values via career within the East. Pagden ends on a cautionary be aware, caution that terrorism and conflict will proceed so long as sacred and secular stay stressed within the minds of so many.

Eye-opening and compulsively readable, Worlds at battle is a beautiful paintings of background and a triumph of recent scholarship. it really is absolute to turn into the definitive paintings at the purposes at the back of the age-old and nonetheless escalating fight that, greater than the other, has come to outline the trendy world–a ebook for somebody looking to understand why “we got here to be the way in which we are."

By Ralph Donald

ISBN-10: 0810881144

ISBN-13: 9780810881143

ISBN-10: 0810881152

ISBN-13: 9780810881150

By Alessandro Barbero

ISBN-10: 0802714536

ISBN-13: 9780802714534

At Waterloo, a few 70,000 males less than Napoleon and an equivalent quantity below Wellington confronted each other in a gigantic and bloody fight. in any case, as John Keegan notes, contemporaries felt that Napoleon's defeat had "reversed the tide of ecu history." Even one hundred ninety years later, the identify Waterloo resounds.

Italian historian Alessandro Barbero's majestic new account stands except earlier British and French histories by way of giving voice to all of the nationalities that took half. Invoking the thoughts of British, French, and Prussian infantrymen, Barbero meticulously re-creates the clash because it spread out, from normal Reille's early afternoon attack at the chateau of Hougoumont, to the determined final cost of Napoleon's Imperial defend as night settled in. From privates to generals, Barbero recounts person miracles and tragedies, moments of braveness and foolhardiness, skillfully mixing them into the bigger narrative of the battle's awesome ebb and circulation. One is left with indelible photos: cavalry fees opposed to squaddies shaped in squares; the hand-to-hand wrestle round farmhouses; unending cannon balls and smoke. And, eventually, a robust appreciation of the inevitability and futility of conflict.

To be released at the a hundred and ninetieth anniversary of Waterloo, The conflict is a masterpiece of army historical past.

By Yves Guyot

ISBN-10: 0548005389

ISBN-13: 9780548005385

This is often an OCR variation with no illustrations or index. it could possibly have quite a few typos or lacking textual content. notwithstanding, buyers can obtain a loose scanned replica of the unique infrequent ebook from GeneralBooksClub.com. you can even preview excerpts from the booklet there. dealers also are entitled to a loose trial club within the basic Books membership the place they could choose between greater than one million books for free of charge. unique released by way of: The Macmillan corporation in 1910 in 352 pages; Description: A translation of the author's Sophismes socialistes et faits ?conomiques, Paris, 1908.; matters: Communism; Socialism; Political technology / normal; Political technology / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism;

By Jon E. Lewis

ISBN-10: 1849019339

ISBN-13: 9781849019330

SAS: The Autobiography is the tale of the world's most famed unique forces regiment by means of those that actually realize it - the soldiers and officials themselves. From the dirt of the wartime barren region and raids on harboured Luftwaffe airplane to sniping al-Qaeda within the a ways mountains of Afghanistan, SAS: The Autobiography takes the reader on a excessive adrenaline background of the regiment which concurrently lifts the shroud of poser from the regiment's operations.

By Prof. Dr. Albrecht Beutelspacher (auth.)

ISBN-10: 3834800295

ISBN-13: 9783834800299

ISBN-10: 3834894486

ISBN-13: 9783834894489

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By Svante E. Cornell

ISBN-10: 0765625083

ISBN-13: 9780765625083

In the summertime of 2008, a clash that seemed to have started within the breakaway Georgian territory of South Ossetia quickly escalated to develop into the main major difficulty in ecu safeguard in a decade. the consequences of the Russian-Georgian struggle might be understood another way reckoning on one's narrative of what transpired and viewpoint at the broader context. This ebook is designed to provide the proof in regards to the occasions of August 2008 besides entire insurance of the history to these occasions. It brings jointly a wealth of workmanship at the South Caucasus and Russian international coverage, with contributions through Russian, Georgian, eu, and American specialists at the area

By Richard A. Gabriel

ISBN-10: 1612344216

ISBN-13: 9781612344218

During the last 5 centuries, the advance of contemporary guns and struggle has created a completely new set of demanding situations for practitioners within the box of army medication. Between Flesh and Steel strains the old improvement of army medication from the center a long time to fashionable instances. army historian Richard A. Gabriel specializes in 3 key parts: the adjustments in battle and guns whose elevated killing strength significantly replaced the clinical demanding situations that conflict surgeons confronted in facing casualties, developments in clinical innovations that elevated the effectiveness of army treatment, and adjustments that at last led to the institution of army therapy procedure nowa days. Others themes contain the increase of the army physician, the discovery of anesthesia, and the emergence of such severe disciplines as army psychiatry and bacteriology. The procedure is chronological—century by means of century and warfare through conflict, together with Iraq and Afghanistan—and cross-cultural in that it examines advancements in all the significant armies of the West: British, French, Russian, German, and American. Between Flesh and Steel is the main finished ebook out there concerning the evolution of contemporary army drugs.