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by Bevin Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
“The world’s most fascinating battles and how they were won or lost, according to the Chinese sage.”—Kirkus Reviews
Imagine if Robert E. Lee had withdrawn to higher ground at Gettysburg instead of sending Pickett uphill against the entrenched Union line. Or if Napoléon, at Waterloo,...
Hit the Target
Eight Men who Led The Eighth Air Force to Victory over the Luftwaffe
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
**Selected for the Chief of Staff of the Air Force Reading List
From Bill Yenne, author of the military histories Big Week and Aces High, comes the stirring true story of the Eighth Air Force in World War II.**
Less than a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army formed...
The Canaris Conspiracy
The Secret Resistance to Hitler in the German Army
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
July 20, 1944. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg carried a time bomb in a briefcase into a conference with Adolf Hitler. After wedging the briefcase directly in front of Hitler under a table, Stauffenberg took his leave. Only ill luck and divine providence could have caused what happened next; a junior...
The Life and Military Carrier of General Robert E. Lee
Lee's Early Life, Military Carrier (Battles of the Chickahominy, Manassas, Chancellorsville & Gettysburg), Lee's Last Campaigns and Last Days, the Funeral & Tributes to General Lee
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Life and Military Carrier of General Robert E. Lee" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This book explores the incredible life of the legendary General Robert E. Lee, one of the most prominent figures...
Double-Cross System
The Incredible Story of How Nazi Spies Were Turned into Double Agents
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
The classic account of how British intelligence penetrated and practically operated Nazi Germany’s spy network within the British Isles
With great imagination, care, and precise coordination, the British were able to identify Nazi agents, induce many to defect, and supply completely false...
by Piers Platt
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Firearms technology dominates the modern day battlefield, but how did the earliest guns affect battles in the Middle Ages? From their earliest incarnations in the 14th Century – which were as much a danger to their operator as they were to the enemy – to the muskets and breech-loading rifles of...
Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits
How Masters of Irregular Warfare Have Shaped Our World
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Insurgent, Raiders and Bandits explores the history of irregular warfare over the past 250 years through the lives and campaigns ofFrom w the greatest masters of this mode of conflict. The book not only tells their stories, but shapes an alternate history of the world as seen through the eyes of those...
Wellington's Masterpiece
The Battle and Campaign of Salamanca
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
The Peninsular war was not only one of the great periods in British military history, it was also a war in which guerillas exerted a major influence, and as such, has continued relevance today. Salamanca established Wellington as one of the great military commanders of any age and it is one of the...
Forward into Battle
Fighting Tactics from Waterloo to the Near Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The first edition (1981) took a critical look at the accepted wisdom of historians who interpreted battlefield events primarily by reference to firepower. It showed that Wellington's infantry had won by their mobility rather than their musketry, that the bayonet did not become obsolete in the nineteenth...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
How many more American lives will be lost before we accept the fact that we live in a multi-cultural world where not everyone thinks like we do? It is imperative that intelligence systems...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. In light of the pervasive nature of real-time global news, the perceptions as delivered via the media and other emerging communication mediums are increasingly influencing foreign and domestic...
We Know All About You
The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
We Know All About You shows how bulk spying came of age in the nineteenth century, and supplies the first overarching narrative and interpretation of what has happened since, covering the agencies, programs, personalities, technology, leaks, criticisms and reform. Concentrating on America and Britain,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Bringing together leading contributors in the field, this new volume analyzes how victory and defeat in modern war can be understood and explained.
It does so by confronting two inter-related research problems: the nature of victory and defeat in modern war and the explanations of victory and...
India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad
The Covert War in Kashmir, 1947-2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad explores the history of jihadist violence in Kashmir, and argues that the violent conflict which exploded after 1990 was not a historical discontinuity, but, rather, an escalation of what was by then a five-decade old secret war.
Praveen Swami addresses...