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by Angus Konstam
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
From the end of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th, most Western powers maintained a naval presence in China. These gunboats protected traders and missionaries, safeguarded national interests, and patrolled Chinese rivers in search of pirates. It was a wild, lawless time in China...
All American, All the Way
A Combat History of the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II: From Market Garden to Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
On Sunday, September 17, 1944, the 82nd Airborne Division jumped into history with the First Allied Airborne Army in a daring daylight parachute and glider-borne assault to capture key bridges at the start of Operation Market Garden. Following weeks of heavy combat in Holland, the All Americans (the...
Legions in Crisis
The Transformation of the Roman Soldier - 192 to 284
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
The Roman Empire stumbled and almost fell in the 3rd century AD, weighed down by civil war, usurpers, invasion, plague and inflation. Rome teetered on the brink of disaster. Legions in Crisis looks at the crippling body blows inflicted on the Roman Empire during this 3rd century trauma. In particular...
Gunsmoke Over the Atlantic
First Naval Actions of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began when shots were fired on an unfinished fort in Charleston Harbor. From that thunderous opening salvo, the naval battles to control the Atlantic coast that followed–daring, savage, and often deadly–were not only crucial in determining the outcome of the war...
Iron Dawn
The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
“An utterly absorbing account of one of history’s most momentous battles” (Forbes) that not only changed the Civil War but the future of all sea power—from acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who “writes with verve and a keen eye” (The New York Times Book Review).
No single...
by Stephen Wentworth Roskill
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Comprehensive, detailed, beautifully written, this is the last volume of the superb history of the naval war 1939 to 1945. This volume is mostly focused on the battles in the Pacific, Okinawa, Leyte Gulf, the Battle of the Bismarck, but it also covers the final surrenders in the Atlantic.
The...
Operation Neptune 1944
D-Day’s Seaborne Armada
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
The story of Operation Neptune was, of course, more than just a tale of planning, building and logistics. It had action a-plenty and the emotive tales of bravery, ingenuity and determination by the crews of the ships involved brought credit to the naval traditions of the Allied nations. Battleships,...
by Abram N. Shulsky; Gary J. Schmitt
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
A thoroughly updated revision of the first comprehensive overview of intelligence designed for both the student and the general reader, Silent Warfare is an insiders guide to a shadowy, often misunderstood world. Leading intelligence scholars Abram N. Shulsky and Gary J. Schmitt clearly explain such...
Generalship
Its Diseases and Their Cure
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
Major-General J.F.C. Fuller has been called “the most brilliant, most stimulating, and most arrogant and aggravating military writer of the twentieth century.” This book helped end his military career, for in it he presents a devastating critique of the decline of Western military thought, and...
The Three Kingdoms, Volume 1: The Sacred Oath
The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
This exciting new translation with footnotes is more readable than past versions and will appeal to modern readers.
The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty when China...
The Three Kingdoms, Volume 3: Welcome The Tiger
The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
This exciting new translation with footnotes is more readable than past versions and will appeal to modern readers.
The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han Dynasty when China...
by Nicolas Lewkowicz
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The book analyses the role of the German Question in the origins of the Cold War. The work evaluates the transformation which occurred in Germany and the post-war international order due to the inter-Allied work on denazification. The author analyses the Rationalist aspects of superpower interaction,...
L'Art militaire des Chinois
Recueil d'anciens traités sur la guerre, composés avant l'ère chrétienne, par différents généraux et traduits par le père Amiot.
Language: French
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Parmi les ouvrages militaires composés par les Chinois, il y en a six auxquels ils donnent le nom de King ou de classiques, ce sont ceux sur lesquels tout militaire doit subir un examen.
Le P. Amiot n'a traduit que les trois premiers de ces ouvrages. Il a envoyé le Sun-tse et l'Ou-tse en...
by Sun Tzu, Nicolas Machiavel, Carl von Clausewitz
Language: French
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: July 19, 2018
**** Cet ebook possède une mise en page optimisée pour la lecture numérique ****
Cette édition spéciale propose trois traités philosophiques incontournables sur les thèmes conjoints de la Guerre et de la Stratégie :
- « L’Art de la Guerre » de Sun Tzu
- « L’Art de la...