Causes of War and the Spread of Peace. But Will War Rebound?, Hardback - Azar Gat

The causes of war - why people fight - is one of the big questions of human existence. Azar Gat's book, ranging from the beginning of prehistory to...

Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, this reader assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of internati...

Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressAuthor(s): Justus D. DoeneckeIllustration(s): 47 b&w illustrations, 4 mapsNumber of pages: 560Publication ...

Utilizing hitherto untapped archival sources, Azar Gat overturns recent historiographical trends in the study of British and German armour developm...

Publisher: Clairview BooksAuthor(s): Gore VidalNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2002Dimensions: 218 x 138 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softback...

'A fascinating collection of military stories ... The sort of book that can be picked up at intervals ... [but] once tasted, is hard to put down' W...

Reducere. American discussions of the Vietnam War tend to gloss over the period from 1972 to the final North Vietnamese offensive in 1975. But on the battlef...

A beautiful, illustrated exploration of European burial sites and memorials from the First and Second World Wars

A powerful and poignant memoir of survival and resistance by the critically acclaimed author of She Would Be King, about her family's dramatic esca...

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Publisher: HalsgroveAuthor(s): David ParkerIllustration(s): Black and white photographsNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 221 x ...

Reducere. Apaches at War and Peace is the story of the Chiricahua Apaches on the northern frontier of New Spain from 1750 to 1858, especially those within th...

The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'.

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Christopher BlattmanNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 149 x 223 x 40Cover type: Hardback...

Reducere. In one of the most detailed and powerfully argued books published on American intervention in Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall examines the last great una...

Reducere. Like Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Peter Turchin in War and Peace and War uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to make a highly or...

Michael Bennett offers the first global history of the spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, focusing on the experience of smallpox, th...

Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.Illustrations: 8 Plates, black and white

Written by leading scholars in the field, Causes of War provides the first comprehensive analysis of the leading theories relating to the origins o...

Reducere. DescriptionEmbracing an argument-based model for teaching history, the Debating American History series encourages students to participate in a con...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Tim SebastianNumber of pages: 352Collection: The Cold War CollectionPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 131 x 196 x 28Cov...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Andrew ImbrieIllustration(s): 8 figuresNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 235 x 30Cover...

Reducere. Major General Smedley D Butler was a military hero of the first rank, the winner of two Medals of Honour, a true 'fighting marine' whose courage an...

Reducere. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee have never before been paired as they are here. In Crucible of Command, William C. Davis, one of America's preem...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lien-Hang T. NguyenWhile most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanizatio...

The Peace Protestors, A History of Modern-Day War Resistance covers the realities of resistance and how different movements have shaped British his...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Jeffrey S. ReznickNumber of pages: 226Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles B. DewCharles Dew's Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of...

Reissued with a new preface by the author, The Paraguayan War is an engrossing and comprehensive account of the origins and early campaigns of the ...

DescriptionThis is the second volume of a projected five-volume series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day, written by a le...

The definitive three-volume history that FDR did not live to write: the story of World War II from his perspective, showing his mastery of strategy...

Reducere. After a U.S. Army doctor, David Wilsey, helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp in the spring of 1945, he worried he might never be the same....

Reducere. Since 9/11, why have we won smashing battlefield victories only to botch nearly everything that comes next? In the opening phases of war in Afghani...

DescriptionPraise for In Peace and War""A comprehensive, balanced, and compelling history of a first-class educational institution, and of the comp...

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