著者:James Gannon
出版社: Potomac Books Inc.
発売日: 2012年02月23日
Since the United Nations adopted the principle of self-determination in 1945, great powers have found that military strength is no guarantee of success in small wars fought against insurgents who us……続きを見る
This book traces the relations between the organization of violence and social and political order from ancient Rome to early modern Europe. Following the work of Michel Foucault, the author studies……続きを見る
Providing original insights into Chinese military history, Nicola Di Cosmo gives an annotated translation of the only known military diary in pre-modern Chinese history, providing fresh and extensiv……続きを見る
This volume is the first English-language work to focus specifically on South America in the context of peace operations.
The region of South America has been undergoing significant changes recently……続きを見る
This is two books in one. THE KING OF PRUSSIA'S MILITARY INSTRUCTION TO HIS GENERALS and PARTICULAR INSTRUCTION OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA TO THE OFFICERS OF HIS ARMY, AND ESPECIALLY THOSE OF THE CAVALR……続きを見る
著者:Elizabeth Schmidt
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa from 1956 to 2010, during the periods of decolonisation and the Cold War, as well as during the p……続きを見る
著者:Hilari Raguer
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2007年05月07日
Now available in English for the first time, Gunpowder and Incense (translated from the Spanish La Pólvora y el Incienso) chronicles the role of the Church in Spanish politics, looking in particular……続きを見る
著者:Peter Ratcliffe
出版社: Michael O' Mara Books
発売日: 2012年07月26日
A fast-paced, dramatic, funny and occasionally disturbing account of Peter Ratcliffe's 25-year career in the SAS. It is laced with first-hand descriptions of ferocious and bloody fighting, sudden de……続きを見る
著者:Wayne H. Bowen
出版社: University of Missouri Press
発売日: 2011年11月01日
In the mid-1800s, Spain experienced economic growth, political stabilization, and military revival, and the country began to sense that it again could be a great global power. In addition to its des……続きを見る
This new collection of essays, from leading British and Canadian scholars, presents an excellent insight into the strategic thinking of the British Empire.
It defines the main areas of the strategic……続きを見る
著者:Chris Masters
出版社: Allen & Unwin
発売日: 2012年11月01日
Chris Masters, the country's foremost investigative journalist, turns his penetrating gaze on the modern Australian soldier. Moving away from our ongoing fascination with Anzac story, he looks at th……続きを見る
著者:Ben Sherman
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
A conscientious objector who served as a medic during the Vietnam War offers an unflinching, compelling account of his experiences on the battlefield, describing his work with the injured and dying ……続きを見る
First Published in 2004. This new book traces the changing relationship between Russia and NATO through the prism of conventional arms control, and focuses on the negotiation, implementation and ada……続きを見る
Beyond Combat investigates how the Vietnam War both reinforced and challenged the gender roles that were key components of American Cold War ideology. Refocusing attention onto women and gender pain……続きを見る
著者:Isabel George
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2010年01月21日
Five incredible true stories of canine bravery in wartime.
For as long as dogs have lived alongside man, they have saved their lives in wartime with their bravery, loyalty and companionship. From th……続きを見る
This new handbook provides an introduction to current sociological and behavioral research on the effects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan represent two of the m……続きを見る
Dubliner Graham Dale, an IT specialist living in Texas, was working as a volunteer with a fire department when he heard that an airplane had hit the World Trade Centre in New York. As the tragic eve……続きを見る
So says Fox News military analyst Colonel David Hunt in a book that cuts like a buzz saw through the half-measures and half-truths, the dangerous timidity, and the outright stupidity thatーif left u……続きを見る
著者:Max Hastings
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2012年03月22日
**'A brilliant tour-de-force' - *Times Literary Supplement
Bomber Command* is acclaimed historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of one of the most controversial struggles of the Second World ……続きを見る
著者:Craig Taylor
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Craig Taylor's study examines the wide-ranging French debates on the martial ideals of chivalry and knighthood during the period of the Hundred Years War (1337–1453). Faced by stunning military disa……続きを見る
著者:Ronald Clark
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2011年10月28日
War Winners is afully illustrated description of the impact of science and technology on war from the days of the American Civil War to Vietnam. The rise of the machine-gun and the attempts to count……続きを見る
In the early 1990s a number of violent civil wars and large-scale ethnic crises shocked the world. In Rwanda, Bosnia, Chechnya and elsewhere atrocities were committed that led to hundreds of thousan……続きを見る
These five volumes concern one of the most important institutions in human history, the military, and the interactions of that institution with the greater society. Military systems serve nations; t……続きを見る
著者:Sean Byrne
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2010年10月18日
This book examines the role of economic aid in the management and resolution of protracted ethnic conflicts, focusing on the case study of Northern Ireland.
The book describes the results of a study……続きを見る
著者:Mark McCrum
出版社: Little, Brown Book Group
発売日: 2011年09月01日
In April 2011, four soldiers - each a hero of recent conflicts who suffered devastating injuries in the line of duty - set out on a challenge that even an able-bodied athlete would balk at. A two-hu……続きを見る
Kenneth Younger was the number two man in the Foreign Office during the final period of the Attlee government, a crucial point in post-war history. Now, his papers have been collected for the first ……続きを見る
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Nowhere else in just one edition will you find such complete……続きを見る
著者:Shawna M. Quinn
出版社: Goose Lane Editions and the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society
発売日: 2012年06月22日
Through ear-splitting, thunderous explosions and fearful eerie flashes in the distance, the nurses of the Canadian Army Nursing Service in World War I waited for the inevitable arrival of wounded so……続きを見る
The Making of Peace represents a fascinating contribution to the study of war: namely, the difficulties that statesmen have confronted in attempting to put back together the pieces after a major con……続きを見る