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ABC-CLIO General William Maxwell and the New Jersey Continentals
Book SynopsisThe first biography of one of George Washington's most able and controversial generals examines the military career of William Maxwell from British army commissary to commander of the New Jersey Continental troops in major northern battles and campaigns and numerous confrontations with British incursionary forces into New Jersey.Table of ContentsPreface Illustrations The Early Years Michilimackinac Rebel in Arms Canadian Counteroffensive From Ticonderoga to Morristown "Nest of American Hornets" "Damned Bitch of a General" Flight from Victory Valley Forge Monmouth and Northeastern New Jersey Civil and Military Discord "Expedition Against the Savages" Stressful Interlude New Jersey Triumph "Pure and Disinterested Principles" A Veteran's Return Abbreviations Notes Bibliography of Unpublished Sources
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Hachette Books The Kill Chain
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl The Security Dilemma
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Nuclear Command and Control in NATO Nuclear Weapons Operations and the Strategy of Flexible Response
Book SynopsisFor more than forty years NATO premised its defence on credible nuclear deterrence. By using case-studies of US, British, French and NATO nuclear weapons operations and empirical evidence from Cold War crises it provides an analysis of NATO's experience and offers insights for the present day.Table of ContentsList of Figures - Acknowledgements - List of Acronyms - Introduction -Political Control of Nuclear Weapons in NATO - Nuclear Command and Control in NATO - US Nuclear Command and Control in NATO - Command and Control of British Nuclear Forces - French Nuclear Command and Control - Political Decision-Making in Crisis and War - Conclusions - References - Bibliography - Index
£85.49
Palgrave Macmillan The Role of Amphibious Warfare in British Defence Policy 194556 Cormorant security studies series
Book SynopsisAcknowledgements Introduction Amphibious Renaissance The Torch of Combined Operations Cinderella of the Services Operational Capabilities and Lost Opportunities Amphibious Equipment Amphibious Ambassadors and Vertical Envelopment Operation Musketeer Epilogue Appendices Bibliography IndexTrade Review'In his meticulously researched book Ian Speller tells us why between 1945 and 1956, in a throw-back to pre-Second World War thinking, amphibious warfare was the orphan of British strategy, despite stunning successes such as the Allied landings in Normandy. This book is a must for anyone with a serious interest in British Defence Policy.' - Julian Thompson, Major General 'Ian Speller is the leading expert on Britain's amphibious capabilities in the post Second World War era and has produced an excellent and comprehensive survey of their evolution in the period 1945-1956. He explains in a critical but balanced manner why this key maritime warfare area suffered from the neglect that was reflect in the problems in forming an effective amphibious force for the Suez landings. The book, which contains much that is new and original, should be essential reading for students of British naval policy and British defence policy as a whole.' - Eric Grove, Centre for Security Studies, University of HullTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Amphibious Renaissance The Torch of Combined Operations Cinderella of the Services Operational Capabilities and Lost Opportunities Amphibious Equipment Amphibious Ambassadors and Vertical Envelopment Operation Musketeer Epilogue Appendices Bibliography Index
£85.49
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Burning Shores The Inside the Battle for the New Libya
Book SynopsisA riveting, beautifully crafted account of Libya after Qadhafi
£15.11
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Crazy Horse and Custer
Book SynopsisThe full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose. On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army soldiers rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer of the Seventh Cavalry. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both had become leaders in their societies at very early ages; both had been stripped of power, and in disgrace had worked to earn back the respect of their people. And to both of them, the unspoiled grandeur of the Great Plains of North America was an irresistible challenge. Their parallel lives would pave the way, in a manner unknown to either, for
£17.09
Taylor & Francis Ltd European Union Peacebuilding and Policing
Book SynopsisThis new book provides an in-depth analysis of the projects of improvement carried out by the civilian peacebuilding missions in Bosnia and Macedonia, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault to make the case that the EUâs (self-) image as a model peacebuilder conceals another side of the European Security and Defence Policy. The authors explore the double-sided nature of peacebuilding missions, on the one hand, as a way to pacify, democratize, humanize and improve life in societies emerging from crisis or violence and, on the other hand, as a kind of political pastorate that limits the range of acceptable heterogeneity by refashioning, repositioning and reorganizing subjects in line with transcendentalized notions of good governance. The authors develop a limited reform agenda for how EU police missions can fold an agonistic generosity more deeply into their civilizing ethos in order to ensure they have a light expatriate footprint in their host countries. The prescriptive parTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Power and Governmentality 3. The EU’s Peace Support Agenda: The Development of ESDP Policy Machinery, Capabilities and Styles of Thought 4. The EUPM in Bosnia 5. EUPOL Proxima in Macedonia 6. Power/Knowledge in ESDP Police Aid 7. Towards Peacebuilding Lite: A Limited Reform Agenda for ESDP Police Missions 8. Conclusion
£176.17
Taylor & Francis Ltd Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Book SynopsisThere is a widely held belief in the imminent probability of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists against civilian targets. This edited volume critically assesses the suggestion that one safeguard against this possibility would be to strengthen existing international prohibitions against state- level acquisition of such weapons. A glimpse of the possible potential of terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction has been seen through the actions of the Tokyo Aum group, and through the use of chlorine by insurgents in Iraq. However, the extent of the real threat posed is as yet unclear, and safeguarding against it in developing countries will not be easy. This book assembles specialists in each category of WMD in order to examine the potential of expanding the three classical' arms control treaties in order to combat the threat posed by smaller terrorist groups, and draws conclusions as to the strengths and weaknesses of tTable of ContentsIntroduction General 1. Material Dangers Bellany 2. Manufacturing the Means of Apocalypse: Aum Shinrikyo and the Acquisition of Weapons of Mass Destruction Reader Chemical and Biological 3. Chemical and Biological Terrorism and Multilateral Conventions Spiers 4. The Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention: Confronting the Threat of International Terrorism Feakes 5. The Status of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in Relation to the Prevention of Bioterrorism Sims 6. Verification under the Chemical Weapons Convention Manley Nuclear 7. Francis: The Diversion of Nuclear Materials for Terrorist Use 8. Arms Control, Game Theory and the Twenty-First Century Kilgour
£181.72
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Evolution of Strategic Thought
Book SynopsisThe Adelphi Papers monograph series is the International Institute for Strategic Studies' principal contribution to policy-relevant, original academic research. Collected on the occasion of the Institute's 50th anniversary, the twelve Adelphi Papers in this volume represent some of the finest examples of writing on strategic issues. They offer insights into the changing security landscape of the past half-century and glimpses of some of the most significant security events and trends of our times, from the Cold War nuclear arms race, through the oil crisis of 1973, to the contemporary challenge of asymmetric war in Iraq and Afghanistan.Trade Review'The Evolution of Strategic Thought is an excellent collection. It is recommended for all those with an interest in the development of Western strategic thought over the last half century.' - Comparative Strategy, Oct 2010, 29, p385Table of ContentsIntroduction Patrick M. Cronin 1. Evolution of NATO Alastair Buchan (Adelphi Paper 1, 1961) 2. Controlled Response and Strategic Warfare T.C. Schelling (Adelphi Paper 19, 1965) 3. The Control of Proliferation: Three Views Solly Zuckerman, Alva Myrdal and Lester B. Pearson (Adelphi Paper 29, 1966) 4. Israel and the Arab World: The Crisis of 1967 Michael Howard and Robert Hunter (Adelphi Paper 41, 1967) 5. The Asian Balance of Power: A Comparison with European Precedents Coral Bell (Adelphi Paper 44, 1968) 6. Change and Security in Europe Pierre Hassner (Adelphi Paper 49, 1968) 7. Urban Guerrilla Warfare Robert Moss (Adelphi Paper 79, 1971) 8. Oil and Influence: The Oil Weapon Examined Hanns Maull (Adelphi Paper 117, 1975) 9. The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better Kenneth N. Waltz (Adelphi Paper 171, 1981) 10. Intervention and Regional Security Neil Macfarlane (Adelphi Paper 196, 1985) 11. Humanitarian Action in War Adam Roberts (Adelphi Paper 305, 1996) 12. The Transformation of Strategic Affairs Lawrence Freedman (Adelphi Paper 379, 2006)
£209.53
Penguin Random House LLC Silent Warrior The Marine Snipers Vietnam Story Continues
Trade ReviewPraise for Silent Warrior“Will thrill buffs and servicemen alike.”—Publishers Weekly
£21.47
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare The Triumph of the West Cambridge Illustrated Histories
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Random House USA Inc Helmet for My Pillow
Book Synopsis“A grand and epic prose poem . . . The purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being who—somehow—survived.”—Tom HanksSee Robert Leckie's story in the HBO miniseries The PacificHere is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his odyssey, from basic training on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the war’s fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu, Leckie spares no detail of the horrors and sacrifices of war, painting an unvarnished portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and often die in the defense of their country. From the live-for-today rowdiness of marines on leave to the terrors of jungle warfare against an enemy determined to fight to the last man, Leckie describes what war is really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Woven throughout are Leckie’s hard-won, eloquent, and thoroughly unsentimental meditations on the meaning of war and why we fight. Unparalleled in its immediacy and accuracy, Helmet for My Pillow will leave no reader untouched. This is a book that brings you as close to the mud, the blood, and the experience of war as it is safe to come.
£17.00
Atlas Publishing and Media Company Chinas Vision of Victory
£18.11
iUniverse Mike Force
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iUniverse Ben Drew The Katzenjammer Ace
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iUniverse Whispering DeathTuag Nco Ntsoov Our Journey with the Hmong in the Secret War for Laos Lub caij peb thiab Hmoob koom tes ua ntsug rog ntsiag to nyob Los Tsuas teb
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Africa World Books Pty Ltd THE BIRTH OF STATES SUCCESSFUL AND FAILED SECESSIONS
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Simon & Schuster O Jerusalem
Book SynopsisAn account of the bitter 1948 dispute between the Arabs and Jews over Jerusalem, highlights the role of the British as well as prominent individuals in the struggle.
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Armed With Cameras
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Daniel McDonald Johnson Savannah Augusta Brier Creek Samuel Elbert and his resistance against the conquest of Georgia
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Draft 19401973
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Arming Against Hitler
Book SynopsisIn May-June 1940 the Germans demolished the French Army, inflicting more than 300,000 French casualties, including more than 120,000 dead. While many historians have focused on France's failure to avoid this catastrophe, Kiesling is the first to show why the French had good reason to trust that their prewar defense policies, military doctrine, and combat forces would preserve the nation.
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A H STOCKWELL LTD Down in the Dugouts
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Xlibris Corporation POW
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Xlibris Corporation Tales of an American Soldier From KP to Seeing His Former Nazi Leaders in the Dock at Nuremberg
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