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This Book Explores The Promises And Limitations Of Holding Individuals Accountable For Violations Of International Human Rights And Humanitarian Law. It Ana...

A thought-provoking and original reassessment of World War II, from Britain's leading military historian Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to reca...

The SAS are the most feared and respected elite fighting force in the modern military world. But what about the 'Originals', the soldiers who turned an outl...

Explores the complicated connection between air superiority and victory by focusing on the use of air forces at the operational level in a theater of warCat...

Text: English, German (translation)Categories: History MilitaryWorld War II

FLYBOYS is the true story of young American airmen who were shot down over Chichi Jima. Eight of these young men were captured by Japanese troops and taken...

the Award-winning Pbs Series Spawned This Book, Which Is Filled With Evocative Photographs And Essays From Some Of The Nation's Leading Civil War Historian...

The first volume of Shelby Foote's tremendous narrative of the Civil War was greeted enthusiastically by critics and readers alike (see back of jacket for ...

This mammoth volume is the definitive illustrated history of RCAF during WWII. This book traces the RCAF's progression from an ill-prepared air force in 193...

‘The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian stands up. The swine had pretended to be dead when our in...

The Russo-turkish War Was One Of The Most Decisive Conflicts Of The 18th Century. In This Book, Brian Davies Offers A Thorough Survey Of The War And Explain...

Damien Lewis Has Spent Twenty Years Reporting From Conflict Zones Around The World. Zero Six Bravo--a Sunday Times Number One Bestseller--tells The Story Of...

The Author Examines The Great Naval Battle Of Trafalgar, Fought Between The British And Franco-spanish Fleets In 1805, And Uses It To Examine Our Idea Of He...

Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust – A Moving Account of Jewish Girls' Extraordinary Resilience and Courage by Clothes Hi...

In 1939 Poland, Antonina Abi Ski (portrayed By Two-time Academy Award Nominee Jessica Chastain) And Her Husband, Dr. Jan Abi Ski (johan Heldenbergh), Have T...

Written with honesty and humour, There It Is brings us Les Brown’s compelling, grunt’s-eye view of his tour in the Vietnam War. In the raw language of ...

Michael M. Yoshitsu. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [109]-113.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & GovernmentPolitical Science

Since the end of World War Two, the use of nuclear weapons has been America's-and the world's-worst nightmare. But they have never actually been used, des...

In this gripping account a boy and his mother are wrenched from their tranquil lives to forge a path through the storm of war and the rubble of its afterma...

When Winston Spencer Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Imperial Britain stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power. Yet within a few years, the Empir...

“This lively, provocative study challenges the widely held belief that the Japanese did not intend to invade the Hawaiian Islands.” ―Choice“A disqui...

The Russo-japanese War And The Peace Conference That Followed It At Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Marked A Turning Point In The History Of Both Participants An...

The anti-Vietnam War movement marked the first time in American history that record numbers marched and protested to an antiwar tune-on college campuses, i...

No single event since World War II has marked this country’s foreign policy and national image as deeply as did the war in Vietnam. Vietnam and America is...

This Work Analyzes Events Surrounding The Yokohama Incident (1942-1945), Which Led To The Arrest Of Dozens Of Journalists And Researchers In Japan During Th...

Since Operation Desert Storm Against Iraq, Few Have Questioned The Notion That Countries Sometimes Go To War For Control Of Natural Resources. However, This...

Between them, husband and wife authors Beevor and Cooper have written a number of nonfiction works; both were appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et de...

Battle Of Gettysburg Maps -- Union Brigades -- Corps (reynolds, Doubleday, Newton) -- 1st Division (wadsworth) -- 1st Brigade (meredith) -- 2nd Brigade (cut...

Only now can the full scope of the war in the Pacific be fully understood. Historian Ronald Spector, drawing on newly declassified intelligence files, an ...

"Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew’s flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground.” —USA T...

Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America’s preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. I...

this Book Has Been Long Needed: A Concise, Complete And Dispassionate Survey Of The Vietnam War.... Best Of All, The No-nonsense Approach Answers Question...

Explore the unprecedented nature of modern Total War as First World War outlines the origins, experiences, and legacies of World War I throughout and beyond...

In 1947 Douglas Kinnard sent out an extensive questionnaire to the 173 Army generals who had managed the war in Vietnam. A surprising sixty-seven percent of...

Deterrence remains a primary doctrine for dealing with the threat of nuclear weapons in the 21st century. The author reviews the history of nuclear deterr...

The World War II intelligence exploits of William Stephenson-the mysterious man known simply as "Intrepid" who is said to be the real-life model for Ian Fle...

Full Tents And Empty Cathedrals -- Oriental Wisdom -- Enlightenment Values. Ian Buruma. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Religion & Spiri...

Not since the Roman Empire has any nation had as much economic, cultural, and military power as the United States does today. Yet, as has become all too ev...

Deliverance From A Debate -- Why We Went It -- Why We Stayed In -- Why We Withdrew -- Whose Immorality? Norman Podhoretz. Includes Bibliographical Reference...

This volume in the Problems in European Civilization series is a collection of scholarly essays and primary sources focusing on the legacy of World War I. F...

In this fascinating new interpretation of Cold War history, John Lewis Gaddis focuses on how the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get thr...

Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe’s account of the li...

selected As One Of Usa Today’s 100 Best Spiritual Books Of The Century, This Astonishing Autobiography Tells The Gripping, Heroic Story Of The Early Life ...

Joachim Fest ; Translated From The German By Margot Bettauer Dembo. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [175]-181) And Index.Categories: Biographies &am...

This book, published to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of VE Day, is a graphic account of the storming and taking of Hitler's Festung Europa (?Fortress ...

On Easter Morning 1972 Marine Captain John Ripley, The Sole U.s. Adviser To The Tough Third Battalion Of The South Vietnamese Marines, Braved Intense Enemy ...

Traces the development of the atomic bomb from Leo Szilard's concept through the drama of the race to build a workable device to the dropping of the bomb on...

Why does the United States go to war? America has a long tradition of justifying war as the defense of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the...