ilość książek w kategorii: 265
The A to Z of the Persian Gulf War 1990 - 1991
ISBN: 9780810855014 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contrary to many assessments that immediately followed the end of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, that war was neither short nor decisive. The 1991 conflict was the dramatic manifestation of long-standing antagonisms among the principal participants, and its results continue to have a profound effect on the region, a fact that can be seen most clearly in the current U.S.-occupation of Iraq. It is therefore important to determine, on the diplomatic side, just how the war got started, how it was fought, and whether the dramatic ground campaign should have exceeded the mere hundred hours it lasted in...
Contrary to many assessments that immediately followed the end of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, that war was neither short nor decisive. The 1991 conflic...
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336,98 zł |
Triumph of the Image: The Media's War in the Persian Gulf, a Global Perspective
ISBN: 9780813316109 / Angielski / Miękka / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The triumph of image over reality and reason is the theme of this book. New communication technologies have made possible the transportation of images and words in real time to hundreds of millions of people around the world. We thought we witnessed the Gulf War as we sat, mesmerized by the imagery. But the studies from the many countries assembled for this book suggest that it was not the war in the Persian Gulf that we witnessed but rather imagery orchestrated to convey a sense of triumph and thus to achieve results that reality and reason could never have achieved.The book offers...
The triumph of image over reality and reason is the theme of this book. New communication technologies have made possible the transportation of images...
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218,27 zł |
At War in the Gulf: A Chronology
ISBN: 9780890965078 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, unleashed a conflict that had both diplomatic and military fronts. Using contemporary accounts and recently released military documents, Col. Arthur H. Blair, USA (Ret.), traces both fronts as they developed day by day. Efforts to avoid war, coalition formation, mobilization of public support, military build-up in a foreign desert--all of these aspects of Desert Shield are presented in clear detail. Then, from the beginning of the air war through the final ground assault, Blair recounts troop movements, tactics, munitions, and casualties leading...
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, unleashed a conflict that had both diplomatic and military fronts. Using contemporary accounts and rec...
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76,40 zł |
Heart of the Storm: The Genesis of the Air Campaign Against Iraq
ISBN: 9780898758221 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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52,86 zł |
Baghdad Diaries: A Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile
ISBN: 9781400075256 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this often moving, sometimes wry account of life in Baghdad during the first war on Iraq and in exile in the years following, Iraqi-born, British-educated artist Nuha al-Radi shows us the effects of war on ordinary people. She recounts the day-to-day realities of living in a city under siege, where food has to be consumed or thrown out because there is no way to preserve it, where eventually people cannot sleep until the nightly bombing commences, where packs of stray dogs roam the streets (and provide her own dog Salvi with a harem) and rats invade homes. Through it all, al-Radi works at...
In this often moving, sometimes wry account of life in Baghdad during the first war on Iraq and in exile in the years following, Iraqi-born, British-e...
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85,89 zł |
The Future of Air Power in the Aftermath of the Gulf War
ISBN: 9781410200747 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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67,29 zł |
Eyes Over Mogadishu
ISBN: 9781413413557 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The goal of the book is to educate those who would like to know what Somalia was to those who served there. Most of the veterans of operations there have quietly moved on with their lives after receiving little recognition for their service, while most in the general public only remember the negative aspects of what happened on a single day, 3 October 1993, forgetting the courage shown on that day, and the service of those who came before and after. Eyes Over Mogadishu brings the reader through the whole experience, from preparing for movement, deploying to Mogadishu, and then the return home.
The goal of the book is to educate those who would like to know what Somalia was to those who served there. Most of the veterans of operations there h...
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90,14 zł |
Certain Victory: The U.S. Army in the Gulf War
ISBN: 9781574881363 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The official U.S. Army account of Army performance in the Gulf War, Certain Victory was originally published by the Office of the Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, in 1993. Brig. Gen. Scales, who headed the Army's Desert Storm Study Project, offers a highly readable and abundantly illustrated chronicle.
The official U.S. Army account of Army performance in the Gulf War, Certain Victory was originally published by the Office of the Chief of Staf...
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107,15 zł |
Tip of the Spear: U.S. Marine Light Armor in the Gulf War
ISBN: 9781591144984 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Selected for the Marine Commandant's Reading List when first published in hardcover, this book offers a vivid, firsthand account of Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War. A U.S. Marine sergeant in Alpha Company of the 1st Light Armored Vehicle Battalion (LAV), Michaels provides a revealing look at what it was like to endure and prevail in ground combat at the platoon and company level. Readers are given an opportunity to look inside the battalion as it battles a savage environment and a host of tactical snafus while pushing forward at the tip of the spear to help liberate Kuwait City...
Selected for the Marine Commandant's Reading List when first published in hardcover, this book offers a vivid, firsthand account of Operation Desert S...
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117,32 zł |
Out of the Storm
ISBN: 9781598002553 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Fasten your seatbelts, Bubba, you're going to Saudi Arabia." Thus began a four-year, family adventure for the author and her family when her husband's military assignment took them to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This story gives the perspective of adjusting to a new culture, experiencing the changes of Desert Shield, and surviving the days and nights of Desert Storm. This story is presented through the journal lenses of the author, her sister and her mother.
"Fasten your seatbelts, Bubba, you're going to Saudi Arabia." Thus began a four-year, family adventure for the author and her family when her husband'...
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81,39 zł |
Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War
ISBN: 9781931641289 / Angielski / Miękka / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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178,62 zł |
Operation Desert Storm
ISBN: 9781931641296 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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153,06 zł |
The Gulf War Chronicles: A Military History of the First War with Iraq
ISBN: 9781605280066 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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89,97 zł |
The Mother of All Battles: Saddam Hussein's Strategic Plan for the Persian Gulf War
ISBN: 9781591149422 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Events in this story of the -Mother of All Battles, - as Saddam designated the 1991 war, are drawn from primary Iraqi sources, including government documents, video and audiotapes, maps, and photographs captured by U.S. forces in 2003 from the regime's archives and never intended for outsiders' eyes. The book is part of an official U.S. Joint Forces Command research project to examine contemporary warfare from the point of view of the adversary's archives and senior leader interviews. Its purpose is to stimulate thoughtful analyses of currently accepted lessons of the first Gulf War. While...
Events in this story of the -Mother of All Battles, - as Saddam designated the 1991 war, are drawn from primary Iraqi sources, including government do...
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137,42 zł |
Encyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War
ISBN: 9780786441037 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between January 17 and February 28, 1991, an international military coalition sanctioned by the United Nations and led by the United States defeated Iraqi army and forced it to withdraw from occupied Kuwait, in what is known as the Persian Gulf War. This is a reference work to the people, places, and events in the Persian Gulf War.
Between January 17 and February 28, 1991, an international military coalition sanctioned by the United Nations and led by the United States defeated I...
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246,49 zł |
The 1,000 Hour War: Communication in the Gulf
ISBN: 9780313287473 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The 1,000 Hour War" was marked by unprecedented speed and force. This book adopts the view that the telecommunications technologies responsible for guiding smart bombs and Patriot missiles to their targets were the same marvels responsible for transmitting to news agencies around the world information about the progress of the war. "The 1,000 Hour War "was a unique case of military action in that it owed both its prosecution and its coverage specifically to satellites, computers, cellular telephones, microwave relay stations, and a myriad of similar technologies.
"The 1,000 Hour War" was marked by unprecedented speed and force. This book adopts the view that the telecommunications technologies responsible fo... |
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577,47 zł |
Warrior's Rage: The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting
ISBN: 9781591145059 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On 26 February 1991, cavalry troops of -Cougar Squadron, - the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, charged out of a sandstorm during Operation Desert Storm and caught Iraq's Republican Guard Corps in the open desert along the North-South grid line of a military map referred to as the -73 Easting.- Taken by surprise, the defending Iraqi armor brigade was swept away in salvos of American tank and missile fire in what became the U.S. Army's largest tank battle since World War II. Douglas Macgregor, the man who trained and led Cougar Squadron into battle, recounts two stories. One...
On 26 February 1991, cavalry troops of -Cougar Squadron, - the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, charged out of a sandstorm during Ope...
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181,45 zł |
Yes I Can
ISBN: 9781413465310 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The true definition of the word 'War" per various defining sources is: 'A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties." And a true definition of the word 'Nurse" per various defining sources is: 'A person educated and trained to care for the sick or disabled." I chose to become a part of the second definition. My main being in life besides that of a family member is to help another human being to become well or to assist them to gain the ability to care for themselves doing their disabling times. Never would I have thought that my career would...
The true definition of the word 'War" per various defining sources is: 'A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, s...
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94,44 zł |
Gulf War and Health: Volume 2: Insecticides and Solvents
ISBN: 9780309113892 / Angielski / Miękka / 616 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gulf War and Health, Volume 2, is the second in a series of congressionally-mandated studies by the Institute of Medicine that provides a comprehensive assessment of the available scientific literature on potential health effects of exposure to certain biological, chemical, and environmental agents associated with the Gulf War. In this second study, the committee evaluated the published, peer-reviewed literature on exposure to insecticides and solvents thought to have been present during the 1990-1991 war. Because little information exists on actual exposure levels a " a... Gulf War and Health, Volume 2, is the second in a series of congressionally-mandated studies by the Institute of Medicine that provides a c... |
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646,68 zł |
War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars
ISBN: 9781416549031 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. War of Necessity, War of Choice--part history, part memoir--provides invaluable insight into some of the most important recent events in the world. It also provides a much needed compass for how the United States can apply the lessons learned from the two Iraq wars so that it is better positioned to put into practice what worked and to avoid repeating what so clearly did not. Indeed, in a new preface to this paperback edition, Haass argues that Afghanistan has become a war of choice. "Doing more militarily may not result in lasting improvements in the security situation that are...
War of Necessity, War of Choice--part history, part memoir--provides invaluable insight into some of the most important recent events in the wo...
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81,55 zł |