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Instruments of War: Weapons and Technologies That Have Changed History
ISBN: 9781440836541 / Angielski / Twarda / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In war, the weapons and technologies employed have direct effects on how battles are waged. When new weapons are introduced, they can dramatically alter the outcomes of warfare--and consequently change the course of history itself. This reference work provides a fascinating overview of the major weapon systems and military technologies that have had a major impact on world history. Addressing weapons as crude as the club used by primitive man to the high-tech weapons of today such as unmanned drones, "Instruments of War: Weapons and Technologies That Have Changed History" offers nearly... In war, the weapons and technologies employed have direct effects on how battles are waged. When new weapons are introduced, they can dramatically ... |
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641,34 zł |
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The Battle of Anzio
ISBN: 9781497637337 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Battle of Anzio was among the most bloody of the World War II conflicts. T. R. Fehrenbach's accurate account stunningly depicts the reality of the Allied forces' fight for survival on an Italian beach as they stormed what Winston Churchill called the soft underbelly of the Axis powers. In one of the turning points of the war, the allies clung to a narrow strip of sand while German planes swooped in from above and artillery shells and mortar fire pounded them on the ground. This is a true and dramatic account of the battle from the perspective of a soldier and military historian, told with...
The Battle of Anzio was among the most bloody of the World War II conflicts. T. R. Fehrenbach's accurate account stunningly depicts the reality of the...
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79,76 zł |
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The Eu and Military Operations: A Comparative Analysis
ISBN: 9781138922679 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a comparative study which aims to answer the question: under what circumstances does the EU undertake military operations? Since 2003, the EU has carried out six military operations. What accounts for this historic development? The EU and Military Operations examines the dynamics behind the EUs collective use of force and situates the EU in the context of a global division of labour with regard to military crisis management. It centres on the study of two main cases of EU military operations: the non-case when an operation was planned in the Lebanon war 2006 but... This book is a comparative study which aims to answer the question: under what circumstances does the EU undertake military operations? Sin... |
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225,98 zł |
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The History of the War in Afghanistan: First Afghan War 1838-41
ISBN: 9781784532499 / Angielski / Twarda / 1496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir John Kaye s three volumes remain the first substantive account of the war in Afghanistan. Eschewing the generality of other writers of the time, such as Mill and Elphinstone, Kaye instead makes use of extensive primary source material, including government records and the private papers and correspondence of many of the drama s key figures. The result is an outstanding work, whose original assessment retains a power and insight that remain relevant to the modern day. With an extensive new introduction by Benjamin Hopkins, Associate Professor of History and International Relations, George...
Sir John Kaye s three volumes remain the first substantive account of the war in Afghanistan. Eschewing the generality of other writers of the time, s...
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2054,85 zł |
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The Powell Doctrine and Us Foreign Policy
ISBN: 9781472425652 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Vietnam War is one of the longest and most controversial in US history. This book seeks to explore what lessons the US military took from that conflict as to how and when it was appropriate for the United States to use the enormous military force at its disposal and how these lessons have come to influence and shape US foreign policy in subsequent decades. In particular this book will focus on the evolution of the so called 'Powell Doctrine' and the intellectual climate that lead to it. The book will do this by examining a series of case studies from the mid-1970s to the present war in...
The Vietnam War is one of the longest and most controversial in US history. This book seeks to explore what lessons the US military took from that con...
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744,88 zł |
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Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece
ISBN: 9780691168456 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
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135,19 zł |
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The Art of War (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
ISBN: 9789176372357 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE ART OF WAR (Chinese: pinyin: S nz b ngf ) is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician, and kindred to the Realpolitik of his time, termed in China as Legalism. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly thought of as a definitive work on military strategy and tactics. It has been the most famous and influential of China's Seven Military Classics, and "for the last two thousand years it remained the most important military treatise in Asia, where even the...
THE ART OF WAR (Chinese: pinyin: S nz b ngf ) is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategi...
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23,52 zł |
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Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex
ISBN: 9781498520867 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex is the first book to examine how nonhuman animals are used for war by military forces. Each chapter delves deeply into modes of nonhuman animal exploitation: as weapons, test subjects, and transportation, and as casualties of war leading to homelessness, starvation, and death. With leading scholar-activists writing each chapter, this is an important text in the fields of peace studies and critical animal studies. This is a must read for anyone interested in ending war and fostering peace and justice.
Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex is the first book to examine how nonhuman animals are used for war by military for...
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237,93 zł |
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Targeting the Third Reich: Air Intelligence and the Allied Bombing Campaigns
ISBN: 9780700621446 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Air Force Historical Foundation Award When large formations of Allied four-engine bombers finally flew over Europe, it marked the beginning of the end for the Third Reich. Their relentless hammering of Germany--totaling more than 1.4 million missions--took out oil refineries, industries, and transportation infrastructures vital to the Reich's war effort. While other accounts have focused on operational details, this is the first book to reveal the crucial role of air intelligence in these dramatic campaigns. Robert Ehlers reexamines these bombings through the lens of...
Air Force Historical Foundation Award When large formations of Allied four-engine bombers finally flew over Europe, it marked the...
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241,44 zł |
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Ballistic Missile Defence and Us National Security Policy: Normalisation and Acceptance After the Cold War
ISBN: 9781138940277 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the transformation in US thinking about the role of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) in national security policy since the end of the Cold War. The evolution of the BMD debate after the Cold War has been complex, complicated and punctuated. As this book shows, the debate and subsequent policy choices would often appear to reflect neither the particular requirements of the international system for US security at any given time, nor indeed the current capabilities of BMD technology. Ballistic Missile Defence and US National Security Policy traces the... This book examines the transformation in US thinking about the role of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) in national security policy since the end of... |
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246,53 zł |
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Psychological Warfare
ISBN: 9781511767644 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable p...
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57,29 zł |
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The Eu, Strategy and Security Policy: Regional and Strategic Challenges
ISBN: 9781138899483 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited collection is a timely and in-depth analysis of the EU s efforts to bring coherency and strategy to its security policy actions. Despite a special European Council summit in December 2013 on defence, it is generally acknowledged that fifteen years since its inception the EU s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has yet to acquire a clear sense of purpose. This book investigates those areas where the EU has established actorness in the security and defence field and asks whether they might constitute the elements of an emergent more coherent EU strategy on security.... This edited collection is a timely and in-depth analysis of the EU s efforts to bring coherency and strategy to its security policy actions. Des... |
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770,57 zł |
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A History of Firearms: From Earliest Times to 1914
ISBN: 9781138923379 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amply illustrated with pen & ink drawings, and including a glossary of key terms, this volume, originally published in 1955, traces the history of firearms and the pioneers who made that history, step by step, to the fringe of a complex modern science.
Amply illustrated with pen & ink drawings, and including a glossary of key terms, this volume, originally published in 1955, traces the history of ... |
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205,43 zł |
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Frederick the Great: A Military Life
ISBN: 9781138924659 / Angielski / Twarda / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For tactical and strategic ingenuity, for daring and ruthless determination and the capacity to inspire troops, Frederick the Great was without equal. In this detailed life of Old Fritz, Christopher Duffy, who has written widely on the army of Frederick and on the armies of his adversaries, Austria and Russia, has produced a definitive account of his military genius. "
For tactical and strategic ingenuity, for daring and ruthless determination and the capacity to inspire troops, Frederick the Great was without equ... |
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667,83 zł |
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Sun Tzu on The Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World
ISBN: 9781511586887 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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35,28 zł |
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Us Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy: Truman, Secret Warfare and the Cia, 1945-53
ISBN: 9781138873476 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on recently declassified documents, this book provides the first examination of the Truman Administration s decision to employ covert operations in the Cold War. Although covert operations were an integral part of America s arsenal during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the majority of these operations were ill conceived, unrealistic and ultimately doomed to failure. In this volume, the author looks at three central questions: Why were these types of operations adopted? Why were they conducted in such a haphazard manner? And, why, once it became clear that they were not working,... Based on recently declassified documents, this book provides the first examination of the Truman Administration s decision to employ covert operati... |
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256,81 zł |
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Torch: North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory
ISBN: 9781612518237 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. World War II had many superlatives, but none like Operation Torch--a series of simultaneous amphibious landings, audacious commando and paratroop assaults, and the Atlantic's biggest naval battle, fought across a two thousand mile span of coastline in French North Africa. The risk was enormous, the scale breathtaking, the preparations rushed, the training inadequate, and the ramifications profound.
Torch was the first combined Allied offensive and key to how the Second World War unfolded politically and militarily. Nonetheless, historians have treated the subject lightly, perhaps... World War II had many superlatives, but none like Operation Torch--a series of simultaneous amphibious landings, audacious commando and paratroop assa...
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281,19 zł |
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Violence and the State
ISBN: 9780719097027 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In providing a counterweight to the notion that political violence has irrevocably changed in a globalised world, Violence and the state offers an original and innovative way in which to understand political violence across a range of discipline areas. It explores the complex relationship between the state and its continued use of violence through a variety of historical and contemporary case studies, including the Napoleonic Wars, Nazi and Soviet 'eliticide', the consolidation of authority in modern China, post-Soviet Russia, and international criminal tribunals. It also looks at...
In providing a counterweight to the notion that political violence has irrevocably changed in a globalised world, Violence and the state offers an ori...
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486,68 zł |
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Transformation in Defence Logistics: Trends and Pointers
ISBN: 9788187966692 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides the trends and pointers in the contemporary logistics management in the armed forces of various countries as well as the best business practices obtaining in the civil sector logistics.
This book provides the trends and pointers in the contemporary logistics management in the armed forces of various countries as well as the best busin...
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338,69 zł |
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Air-Mech-Strike: Asymmetric Maneuver Warfare for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781681623627 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book outlines how to reorganize the U.S. Army into a fully 2 and 3-Dimensional maneuver capable, ground force with terrain-agile, armored fighting vehicles sized to rapidly deploy by fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft to the scene of world conflicts and strike at the heart of freedom's enemies. The plan to build the Army into Air-Mech-Strike Forces, exploiting emerging information-age technologies, as well as America's supremacy in aircraft and helicopter delivery systems---at the lowest cost to the taxpayers, is described in detail. These Army warfighting organizations, using existing...
This book outlines how to reorganize the U.S. Army into a fully 2 and 3-Dimensional maneuver capable, ground force with terrain-agile, armored fightin...
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146,79 zł |