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A distinguished military historian tells the dramatic story of six defining battles in world history.
Every battle is different. Each takes place in a different context-the war, the campaign, the weapons. However, battles across the centuries, whether fought with spears and swords or advanced technology, have much in common. Fighting is, after all, an intensely human affair, human nature doesn't change. So why were certain battles fought as they...
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A single day in the heat of armed conflict can shape the future of the world. Throughout history, individual battles have inspired the birth of nations, the devastation of cultures and the triumph of revolutions. Yet while some battles rise up as the cornerstones of history, others fade in our cultural memory, forgotten as minor skirmishes. Why is this so? What makes a battle 'important'? Celebrated veteran and military expert Michael Lee Lanning...
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Orford Ness was so secret a place that most people have never heard of it. The role it played in inventing and testing weapons over the course of the twentieth century was far more significant and much longer than that of Bletchley Park. Nestled on a remote part of the Suffolk coast, Orford Ness operated for over eighty years as a highly classified research and testing site for the British military, the Atomic Weapons Reserach Establishment and, at...
44) Elephants of War
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In Elephants of War, author Anas Hamshari presents a fascinating and comprehensive exploration of the extraordinary history of war elephants. From their earliest origins to modern times, this engaging work takes readers on a bolting and gripping journey through the paramount role these colossal creatures played, particularly during the grandeur of pre-modern times.With scholarly rigor and elegant, absorbing prose, Hamshari unveils the intriguing evolution...
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Estrategia es un libro mítico, un clásico inencontrable en España, que inspiró a insignes militares y fue lectura de cabecera de Kennedy durante la crisis de los misiles de Cuba en 1962. Uno de los más importantes tratados militares de todos los tiempos, a la altura de El arte de la guerra de Sun-Tzu o De la guerra de Von Clausewitz. En esta obra Liddell Hart -bautizado por los militares israelíes como "el capitán que enseñó a generales",...
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Great battles mark history's turning points, occurring as they do where cultures and ideologies clash. While some battles have been won by the superior force, others have been won by a sheer dogged refusal to surrender in the face of overwhelming odds. Superior weaponry has sometimes brought victory, as at Plassey, while the superior generalship of a Napoleon, a Wellington, or a Marlborough has won the day on other occasions. All the great battles...
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The fascinating story of the spy plane SR-71 Blackbird-the fastest manned aircraft in the history of aviation. The SR-71 Blackbird, the famed "spy" jet, was deliberately designed to be the world's fastest and highest-flying aircraft-and its success has never been approached since.
It was conceived in the late 1950s by Lockheed Martin's highly secret 'Skunk Works' team under one of the most (possibly the most) brilliant aero designers of all time,...
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xvi, 510 pages : map (black and white) ; 25 cm
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"By early December 1941, war and genocide had changed Europe beyond recognition. Nazi Germany had occupied most of the continent and opened concentration camps, while millions of soldiers had died on the front. In Asia, the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War had turned mainland China into a battleground and the Pacific Islands into an armed camp. Still, these far-off conflicts were not yet inextricably linked, and the greatest power the world...
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Profiles of 16 decisive struggles from ancient and modern times. Gripping accounts range from Alexander the Great's overthrow of the Persian empire in the 4th century BC to World War II's Battle of Midway. Pratt depicts the circumstances leading up to the decisive clashes, the personalities involved, and the historically important aftermath. 27 maps.
50) The Art of War
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Written after 1513's "The Prince," Niccolo Machiavelli's war treatise, "The Art of War", is a dazzling array of war tactics and strategies based on the military strength of the Romans. Machiavelli wrote "The Art of War" as a dialogue between a group of young men in the Florentine republic. The main narrator, Lord Fabrizio Colonna, is the voice of knowledge and wisdom. The others ask questions about military tactics, and Fabrizio gives them advice...
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4 videodiscs (approximately 452 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Tracks the citizen soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard as they come face to face with the horrors of war. Never before has a unit of soldiers been followed from the beginning to the end of their deployment at war.
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This collection includes seven of the most famous military texts of ancient China. Highlighted by Sun Tzu's the Art of War, this new translation brings to light several texts that display an understanding of strategy and warfare that still has relevance millennia after their original publication. From the 11th-century AD onward, these texts became required reading for Chinese military officers.
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Jehan Morel, experimentado soldado y estudioso de la ciencia militar, expone el intrigante mundo de la guerra de guerrilla y contraguerrilla en este libro absorbente. Basándose en su pericia y experiencia de primera mano en la Indochina francesa y África Central, ha creado un manual parcialmente práctico y un examen en parte histórico de los principales movimientos geopolíticos contemporáneos.
Usando una lupa distintiva no occidental, analiza...
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Este diálogo entre el Hagakure y El arte de la guerra nos invita a reflexionar sobre la forma en que Japón y China han condensado su saber sobre la figura del guerrero y las diversas formas en que uno debe conducirse por la vida para alcanzar sus objetivos. Veremos que estos textos poseen muchos puntos en común, pero me gustaría remarcar primero que para estos pueblos el guerrero es, ante todo, un héroe. En su origen griego, la palabra "héroe"...
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Staff Sergeant Melvin Morris is an honored veteran of the Vietnam War. He served almost 30 years in the United States Army and was even part of a Special Forces Group. Brave and excelling at his career in the military, Morris would do two tours of duty in Vietnam before retiring in 1985.
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First published in 1911, this vintage book contains an fascinating account of how British cavalry was influenced by German practices and techniques at the turn of the twentieth century.
Contents include: "Introductory", "Sir John French on", "The Arme Blanche", "The British Theory of The Arme Blanche", "Cavalry In Combat", "Tactics Against The Various Arms", "The Fight Of The Independent Cavalry", "Tactics Against The Various Arms", "The Fight Of...
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A comprehensive guide for the ultimate guardians of American freedom-the U.S. soldier.
The Soldier's Guide applies to every soldier in the Army-active, reserve, and National Guard-in every rank and specialty. It condenses important information from a number of U.S. Army regulations, field manuals, and other publications into one crucial volume. This manual describes the soldier's role in the Army and the soldier's obligations. Other subject areas...
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Extrait : "Tel ces médailles qui, sous la patine des siècles, accusent un profil à jamais orgueilleux et viril, Un Tel, malgré les épuisements et les fièvres, garde le visage de ses vingt ans. Il est la parfaite image d'une époque inquiète, le souple sujet d'une race sportive et spirituelle."
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Caesar portrayed his invasion of Gaul as being a defensive pre-emptive action. Most historians agree that the wars were, fought primarily to boost Caesar's political career and to pay off his massive debts. Even so, Gaul was extremely important to Rome, as they had been, attacked many times by the Gauls. Conquering Gaul allowed Rome to secure the natural border of the river Rhine. Caesar painstakingly describes his military campaign, and this is still...
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Extrait : "1. Les lois sont les rapports nécessaires qui dérivent de la nature des choses. (Montesquieu.) 2. La science est la classification des notions positives et des lois fournies par l'observation, l'expérience et le raisonnement. (Fontenelle.) 3. Il n'est presque aucun objet saisi par les sens don’t la réflexion n'ait fait une science."
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