Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War, Paperback - Eliot a. Cohen

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Reducere. The orthodoxy regarding the relationship between politicians and military leaders in wartime democracies contends that politicians should declare a...

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Reducere. "Speak softly and carry a big stick" Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the rig...

Reducere. Fear, and man's attempt to master it, is of eternal interest and just as significant today as when Moran, as a young medical officer, went to the t...

A comprehensive and up-to-date study of the combat and logistics vehicles which formed part of the German contingent that fought in the Spanish Civ...

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Everyone Thought Pryor Brice Was a Joke. WHO'S LAUGHING NOW? Sometimes you kill. Sometimes you get killed. But no matter what, everyone dies the fi...

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In National Book Award finalist Endangered, Eliot Schrefer showed a human's first encounter with an ape. Now comes this astonishing story of a fami...

Reducere. The follow-up to the acclaimed title The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories by Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff. In an unass...

Reducere. Renowned psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm examines the causes and effects of people's violent tendencies in The Anatomy of Human De...

Reducere. Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to ...

Using an engaging narrative, this textbook demonstrates how social processes are inherently interconnected by uniquely applying underlying and unif...

Reducere. Inspired by the beloved classic Mr. Popper's Penguins comes a new penguin-tastic adventure written by two-time National Book Award finalist Eliot S...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Sean J. DrakeIllustration(s): 14 b-w photos, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022...

The German Army lost two consecutive wars and the conclusion is often drawn that it simply wasn't able to cope with its opponents. This image is co...

Do you ever feel like you're living in a simulation? Like nothing is real and it doesn't matter? What if you found out you were right? Dog Villain,...

Reducere. This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whe...

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"Taken together. . . . the six stories are a short read well worth the time, and leave ample room for future exploration." -The Korea Herald "A Cit...

Reducere. In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his position, his family and his freedom when he ran afoul of a...

Reducere. Deep in the heart of Tibet, Shan Tao Yun, an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing government Inspector, is caught between the brutal Chines...

Reducere. "The Commentaries on the Gallic War" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar des...

Reducere. When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turne...

The idea of an exceptional America remains controversial. In this dazzlingly comprehensive collection of essays, some of the nation's best scholars...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Anatomy of Melancholy is, quite self-consciously, the book to end all books. The immensely widely read Robert Burton compiled it fro...

Reducere. In Water Touching Stone, the sequel to the internationally acclaimed The Skull Mantra, Shan Tao Yun is cloistered in a remote Tibetan sanctuary whe...

Reducere. For 15-year-old Emma Wilson, everything is changing. Uncomfortable at home and in school, Emma's growing up, and feels isolated from her friends an...

Reducere. This new work explores the meaning and implications of professionalism as a form of social organization. Eliot Freidson formalizes professionalism ...

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...

Reducere. Under one cover, an edited collection of the best works by noted military historians on the importance of military logistics in World War II. *** P...

Reducere. What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers th...

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Reducere. Have you ever wondered what happens during a swipe of a credit card? Every major tech company will become a payments company. Yet, not many people ...

In The Anatomy of Speed renowned expert Bill Parisi breaks down the various components of speed development, delving deep into the physiological me...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Raj PatelNumber of pages: 496Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

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Reducere. What went wrong in Vietnam? Michael Lind casts new light on one of the most contentious episodes in American history in this controversial bestsell...

Detailed graphic account of the three great offensives launched by the Republican People's Army in 1937-38.

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