Investment in Blood. The True Cost of Britain's Afghan War, UK ed., Paperback - Frank Ledwidge

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...

Britain's military involvement in Afghanistan is a contentious subject, yet it is often forgotten that the current conflict is in fact the fourth i...

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A haunting and exquisitely-observed collection of medical vignettes that brilliantly captures the intense drama of the Emergency RoomPublisher: Har...

Real Estate Investment: A Strategic Approach introduces professional and technical approaches to building and managing large real estate portfolios...

DescriptionChosen as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times and the Evening StandardIt could have been a very different story.British and US forces...

In 1839, forces of the British East India Company crossed the Indus to invade Afghanistan on the pretext of reinstating a former king, Shah Soojah,...

This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of m...

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

Aerial warfare has dominated western war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of becoming o...

The remarkable true story behind Britain's only war crimes trialPublisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Neil HansonIllustration(s): 2x8pp colour ...

The remarkable true story behind Britain's only war crimes trialPublisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Neil HansonIllustration(s): 2 x 8pp colou...

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

Storm-333 was the opening move in the Soviet-Afghan War, a special-forces mission to seize Kabul and assassinate Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin. At ...

Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become the richest person in world history. Its dominance has re...

Meteor Boys, one of the ever-popular Boys series. As Britain's first jet fighter, the Gloster Meteor has had a remarkably varied and lengthy life. ...

In Unbound in War?, Sean Richmond examines the influence and interpretation of international law in the use of force by two important but understud...

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 ...

A short, compelling history of Black Britons during the First World War, for readers aged 8 to 12Publisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Stephen...

The true story of the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952-60 in Kenya, told for the first timePublisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): David AndersonIllustra...

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

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...

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...

Publisher: Wood Green The Animals CharityAuthor(s): John GayeNumber of pages: 191Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 197 x 132 x 17Cover type: Paperb...

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...

The TSR2 is one of the greatest "what-if" aircraft of the Cold War, whose cancellation still generates anger and controversy among aviation fans. I...

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

'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 ...

Reducere. In 1936, the British monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era--the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The ...

Publisher: DRA PublishingAuthor(s): David ReynoldsIllustration(s): 300 illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 213 x 306...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The passive res...

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 ...

This in-depth book examines the horrific case of an evil mother who betrayed her daughter, deceived friends and neighbours and wasted huge amounts ...

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 ...