This is an analysis of the nature of one of the most prevalent forms of political violence at the end of the millennium. Those who have made history by recourse to the power of the gun include: the IRA; the Euroterrorists; the pilgrims of the Holy Jihad and the Algerian fundamentalists; the Palestinian fedayeen; Mao and Che, Begin, Kenyatta and Giap.
This is an analysis of the nature of one of the most prevalent forms of political violence at the end of the millennium. Those who have made history b...
This is an analysis of the nature of one of the most prevalent forms of political violence at the end of the millennium. Those who have made history by recourse to the power of the gun include: the IRA; the Euroterrorists; the pilgrims of the Holy Jihad and the Algerian fundamentalists; the Palestinian fedayeen; Mao and Che, Begin, Kenyatta and Giap.
This is an analysis of the nature of one of the most prevalent forms of political violence at the end of the millennium. Those who have made history b...
This study is based on thousands of interviews over 35 years with the leaders and members of the Republican movement and the IRA itself, as well as the Irish, British and Americans involved in the Troubles. Not unmindful of the unfolding of history, nor the relevance of events, the focus of this study is on the workings of an organization involved in armed struggle.
This study is based on thousands of interviews over 35 years with the leaders and members of the Republican movement and the IRA itself, as well as th...
This study is based on thousands of interviews over 35 years with the leaders and members of the Republican movement and the IRA itself, as well as the Irish, British and Americans involved in the Troubles. Not unmindful of the unfolding of history, nor the relevance of events, the focus of this study is on the workings of an organization involved in armed struggle.
This study is based on thousands of interviews over 35 years with the leaders and members of the Republican movement and the IRA itself, as well as th...
Cheating and deception are terms often used but rarely defined. They summon up unpleasant connotations; even those deeply involved with cheating and deception rationalize why they have been driven to it. Particularly for Americans and much of Western civilization, official cheating, government duplicity, cheating as policy, and conscious, contrived deception, are all unacceptable except as a last resort in response to threat of extinction. As a distasteful tool, deception is rarely used to achieve national interests, unless in relation to the deployment of military force. As an area of...
Cheating and deception are terms often used but rarely defined. They summon up unpleasant connotations; even those deeply involved with cheating a...
Assassination as a political act has a long history, predating the murder of Julius Caesar and continuing into our own time. The murder of the mighty has long fascinated artists and rebels but only rarely has it been studied in a scholarly manner. In Assassin, J. Bowyer Bell combines existing historical evidence with years of personal interviews with terrorists in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. The result is an incisive study of that enigmatic figure, the revolutionary killer.
As Bell makes clear, the motives of the actors, and effectiveness of assassination, vary widely...
Assassination as a political act has a long history, predating the murder of Julius Caesar and continuing into our own time. The murder of the mig...
J. Bowyer Bell's Beseiged is built on the premise that as long as men have constructed walls, other men have tried to scale them. From ancient Jericho and Joshua's trumpet to London and the onslaught of the Luftwaffe, people have always devised cunning weapons, with all the skills at their command, to breach such barriers and invade the camps and fortifi ed places of their enemies.
J. Bowyer Bell's Beseiged is built on the premise that as long as men have constructed walls, other men have tried to scale them. From ancient Jericho...
For centuries international order has been troubled by small wars, insurrections, and revolts--low intensity conflicts. With the implosion of the Soviet empire many thought such violence could be eradicated through the growth of democracy, open societies, and increased productivity and education. Instead the world remains filled with turmoil, pogroms, famine, civil war, rebellion, and terror, often instigated by armed and dangerous zealots. To Americans such killers seem alien and inexplicable, fanatics without reason, beyond the reach of conventional containment or retaliation. J. Bowyer...
For centuries international order has been troubled by small wars, insurrections, and revolts--low intensity conflicts. With the implosion of the Sovi...
"An academic expert on terrorism and author of a previous book about the Mideast (Th e Long War, 1969) has written a unique anecdotal narrative about the 'Revisionist'Zionist underground, the Irgun and LEHI. Bell, who interviewed many paramilitary veterans, calls himself a 'small-r revisionist' in seeking to present their activity free of 'orthodox' depreciation or normal aversion to terrorism; instead, he views them sympathetically as counterparts of the Irish Revolutionary Army. After they united in rejecting the dominant concept of mere self-defense against the Arabs in the late 1930s, a...
"An academic expert on terrorism and author of a previous book about the Mideast (Th e Long War, 1969) has written a unique anecdotal narrative about ...
The Secret Army is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army. It is an absorbing account of a movement that has had a profound effect on the shaping of the modern Irish state. The secret army in the service of the invisible Republic has had a powerful effect on Irish events over the past twenty-five years. These hidden corridors of power interest Bell and inspired him to spend more time with the IRA than many volunteers spend in it. This book is the culmination of twenty-five years of work and tens of thousands of hours of interviews. Bell's unique access to the leadership...
The Secret Army is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army. It is an absorbing account of a movement that has had a profound effe...
