Military category: 34701 books
by Ray Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
From Churchill to Sitting Bull, and from Agincourt to the Khyber Pass, history is rich in rousing rhetoric, inspiring quotations and heroic speeches from the most celebrated military leaders, writers and observers. Whether applauding great victories or standing firm against the horrors and injustices...
Battle Tactics of the Western Front
The British Army`s Art of Attack, 1916-18
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1994
Historians have portrayed British participation in World War I as a series of tragic debacles, with lines of men mown down by machine guns, with untried new military technology, and incompetent generals who threw their troops into improvised and unsuccessful attacks. In this book a renowned military...
Bitter Sweet
A Veteran of Foreign Wars Story of John J. Pickney and Woodrow Duhon
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
The reality of war is bittersweet. With war come both the bitter memories of the pain that conflict causes and the sweet rewards that having courage and respect for your country can bestow. Without courage and faith, no rewards are forthcoming. In Bitter Sweet, author Barbara A. Tyler recounts the...
by Tom Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Military campaigns, pivotal battles and extraordinary leaders have collectively shaped the course of history and in this fascinating book, author Tom Quinn examines some of the most remarkable campaigns, incidents and characters from the earliest recorded histories to the second Gulf war. These strange...
Overseas Basing of U.S. Military Forces
An Assessment of Relative Costs and Strategic Benefits
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This independent assessment is a comprehensive study of the strategic benefits, risks, and costs of U.S. military presence overseas. The report provides policymakers a way to evaluate the range of strategic benefits and costs that follow from revising the U.S. overseas military presence by characterizing...
by Andrius Genys
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2014
This e-book is a reference guide on modern mine resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles. These military machines are in service with a number of countries around the world. This e-book provides photos and basic information with specifications. Also it contains information about some prototypes...
by Ethan S. Rafuse
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
The generalship of Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy's greatest commander, has long fascinated students of the American Civil War. In assessing Lee and his military career, historians have faced the great challenge of explaining how a man who achieved extraordinary battlefield success in 1862–1863...
The Enemy in Our Hands
America's Treatment of Prisoners of War from the Revolution to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Revelations of abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and the U.S. detention camp at Guantánamo Bay had repercussions extending beyond the worldwide media scandal that ensued. The controversy surrounding photos and descriptions of inhumane treatment of enemy prisoners of war, or EPWs, from the war...
The History of American Military
From the American Revolution to the Global War on Terrorism (Complete Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The story of the United States Army is always growing and changing. Historians constantly seek to reinterpret the past while accumulating new facts as America's Army continues to be challenged...
Private Military and Security Contractors
Controlling the Corporate Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Private Military and Security Contractors (PMSCs) a multinational team of scholars and experts address a developing phenomenon: controlling the use of privatized force by states in international politics. Robust analyses of the evolving, multi-layered tapestry of formal and informal mechanisms of...
by Istvan Gyarmati; Theodor Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2002
Beginning with the landslide political changes in Europe in the early 1990s, politicians and military planners started to contemplate the possible effects on military postures. Most countries, however, did not enforce plans for post-Cold War reform because they lacked political will and money, their...
Soldiers in Revolt
Army Mutinies in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Soldiers in Revolt examines the understudied phenomenon of military mutinies in Africa. Through interviews with former mutineers in Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, and The Gambia, the book provides a unique and intimate perspective on those who take the risky decision to revolt. This view from the lower...
The Last Great Safari
East Africa in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
In The Last Great Safari: East Africa in World War I, military historian Corey W. Reigel explores a fascinating and misunderstood theater of operations in the history of the First World War. Unprepared for the Great War, colonial units combined modern industrial weapons and equipment with traditional...
Africa
Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
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Since 1961 the Adelphi Papers have provided some of the most informed accounts of international and strategic relations. Produced by the world renowned International Institute of Strategic Studies, each paper provides a short account of a subject of topical interest by a leading...