Investment in Blood – The True Cost of Britain′s Afghan War

A follow-up to Losing Small Wars, this book analyses the cost - both financial and human - of Britain's involvement in the Afghanistan war. It piec...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Philip LymberyNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 232 x 192 x 16Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. A Book Sense Pick and Annual Highlight With a New Afterword In less than two decades, large retail chains have become the most powerful corporation...

Reducere. America has already spent close to a trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there are hundreds of billions of bills still due--i...

Reducere. A TALE OF MURDER, THE SS CLALLAM SHIPWRECK, AND THE TRUE COST OF GOLD The 20th Century opens with unbridled growth in the frontier town of Seattle....

George S. Patton is one of the most controversial, celebrated, and popular military leaders in American history, and his accomplishments and victor...

In Search of the True Universe: The Tools, Shaping, and Cost of Cosmological Thought - Martin Harwit

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Amy EdwardsIllustration(s): 18 b-w figures, 1 mapNumber of pages: 384Collection: Berkeley Serie...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. NO PRICE TOO HIGH...On the besieged planet of Northwind, the Highlanders are fighting a tenacious invading force from the Capellan Confederation, l...

Reducere. Goodbye to Ribbons is a historical biography that follows the incredible true story of a remarkable woman growing up in rural Britain in the 1950s....

Connecting the emergence and development of certain dog breeds to both scientific understandings of race and blood as well as Britain's posture in ...

Reducere. Originally printed in very limited numbers in 1995, this book is a companion piece to "The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Af...

Reducere. One of the Last Great Memoirs of the Greatest Generation: A Tennessee Back-Hills Boy Comes of Age on the Battlefields of Nazi GermanyThis memoir is...

Number one Sunday Times bestselling author Chris Carter returns with the latest compulsive, breathless Robert Hunter thriller that follows on from ...

Number one Sunday Times bestselling author Chris Carter returns with the latest compulsive, breathless Robert Hunter thriller that follows on from ...

Number one Sunday Times bestselling author Chris Carter returns with the latest compulsive, breathless Robert Hunter thriller that follows on from ...

Reducere. In this unique history of the "Lost Battalion" of World War I, Alan D. Gaff tells for the first time the story of the 77th Division from the perspe...

This is Stephen Kinzer's dramatic story of the centuries-old power struggle that burst into the headlines in 1979 with the overthrow of the Somoza ...

Reducere. Astrophysicist and scholar Martin Harwit examines how our understanding of the Cosmos advanced rapidly during the twentieth century and identifies ...

The true story of how Britain won the First World War.

Britain at War in Colour showcases 100 of the best rare and original colour images of the Second World War from the IWM photograph collection. Feat...

Reducere. Its mysterious symbols and rituals had been used in secret for centuries before Freemasonry revealed itself in London in 1717. Once known, Freemaso...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles WilsonSoutherners may have abandoned their dream of a political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their c...

Publisher: Walker Books LtdAuthor(s): Michael RosenNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 14Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. Thea Quinn has no idea what she is. All she knows is that her abilities have been a plague upon her life since she was a child. After years of suff...

This highly illustrated book tells the heroic story of the air battle, as well asthe Blitz bombing campaign which followed, through photographs, in...

DescriptionFor centuries, different types of dogs were bred around the world for work, sport, or companionship. But it was not until Victorian time...

A history of the peoples of Britain, in the century and a half between the first Viking raids and the expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954.

National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts...

Reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. In this title, the author's study of the killings and subsequ...

Michael Rosen embarks on a journey into the truth behind the fate of his relatives who disappeared during the Second World War, interspersing this ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The spy novel emerged from the intrigues of the mid-20th centu...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The spy novel emerged from the intrigues of the mid-20th centu...

Reducere. Thea Quinn has no idea what she is. All she knows is that her abilities have been a plague upon her life since she was a child. After years of suff...

High Tea in Mosul. The true story of two Englishwomen in war-torn Iraq - Lynne O'Donnell

'Fascinating' - Margaret AtwoodCan taking the law into your own hands be the right thing to do...

A brutal murder in a small fishing community raises urgent questions of right and wrong, and even the nature of good and evil, in this masterfully ...

Whispers of War: An Afghan Freedom Fighter's Account of the Soviet Invasion is the real-life tale of a young political leader, Masood Khalili. Son ...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a fear of invasion swept North America--particularly the West Coast. Immediate steps needed t...

This book offers a new way of thinking about the causes and consequences of cost overrun to firms and society. It is ideal for academic researchers...

Reducere. THE NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER December, 1943: A badly damaged American bomber struggles to fly over wartime Germany. At the contr...