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By: Michael E. Shay

ISBN: 9780313319112
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Based on nearly four years of research, including original archival material, he fills an important gap in the military history of World War I.

A Grateful Heart is a detailed account of the 103rd Field Hospital Company, 26th (Yankee) Division in World War I.


(Hardback)

By: Harry R. Borowski

ISBN: 9780313222351
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1982
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Michael D. Besch

ISBN: 9780313319099
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This story covers the three main divisions of enlisted training in the US Navy during WWI: the training stations, the reserve training camps, and the advanced or specialty schools, as well as an account of the building of the bases and changes in the curriculum.


(Hardback)

By: David J. Childs

ISBN: 9780313308321
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Reveals the role of the War Office in the production and employment of the World War I tank.


(Hardback)

By: Reuvan Gal

ISBN: 9780313243158
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1986
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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No army in the Middle East has been as written about in English as has Israel's, yet this book actually says something new. Reuven Gal, former chief psychologist of the IDF, looks at the influences on the Israeli soldier and their impact on the IDF's performance.


(Hardback)

By: Kenneth Finlayson

ISBN: 9780313313547
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Faced with severe budgetary constraints, a radically reduced force structure, and a crippling intellectual dogmatism, the American Infantry struggled throughout the interwar years to modernize its doctrine.


(Hardback)

By: L Boykin

ISBN: 9780313253898
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1987
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This wide-ranging collection of essays establishes a historical framework for understanding the evolution and current state of U.S. and Soviet policies toward arms control as it details the course of arms control negotiations between the two superpowers.


(Hardback)

By: William P. Guthrie

ISBN: 9780313320286
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This work is a study of the military aspects of the first half of this important conflict (1618-1635). Each chapter deals with a particular battle, also examining wider questions of strategy, leadership, armaments, organization, logistics, and war finances.


(Hardback)

By: Philip Leon

ISBN: 9780313312229
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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When Oscar Booze entered West Point in 1898, the older cadets decided that he did not conform to their image of what a cadet should be.


(Hardback)

By: Charles R. Shrader

ISBN: 9780313295096
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book describes the logistical systems and requirements of the North Korean People's Army and Chinese Communist forces during the Korean War.


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By: John P. Cann III

ISBN: 9780313301896
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The first comprehensive account in English of how the Portuguese Armed Forces prepared for and conducted a distant counterinsurgency campaign in its African possessions with very limited resources, choosing to stay and fight despite the small odds for success.


(Hardback)

By: Hal M. Friedman

ISBN: 9780313313011
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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As a case study of the Truman Administration's Early Cold War efforts, it explores pre-Containment policy in light of U.S. security concerns vis-a-vis the Pearl Harbor Syndrome.

The American pursuit of a secure Pacific Basin was inconsistent at the time with its foreign policy toward other areas of the world.


(Hardback)

By: Robert L. Eichelberger

ISBN: 9780837162782
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1972
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Roy Jumper

ISBN: 9780313315152
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Senoi Praaq is a Malaysian special forces unit originally created in 1956 by the British colonial authorities to fight communism during the Malayan Emergency.


(Hardback)

By: Marvin Pokrant

ISBN: 9780313310249
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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While interservice rivalries sometimes intruded at higher levels, jointness at the tactical level often led to effective combined-arms operations.

Despite the information revolution and improvements in technology, the Fog of War still obscured the battlefield and affected nearly all decisions.


(Hardback)

By: Janet Manson

ISBN: 9780313268946
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Considers the historical, political, economic, legal and military rationale for the decision to adopt a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare by the United States in December 1941. The author argues that a similar rationale prompted the adoption of this policy by both Germany and the USA.


(Hardback)

By: Jeffery A. Gunsburg

ISBN: 9780313210921
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1979
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Martin Samuels

ISBN: 9780313279591
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Comparing German and British infantry tactics, training and leadership techniques during World War I, this study undercuts traditional views about the reasons for German successes and British failures during the Great War and points to how different value systems affected military prowess.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Mark E. Grotelueschen

ISBN: 9780313311710
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This approach allows for great investigative depth and an opportunity to explore the implementation of doctrinal changes throughout the war.

While accounts of the AEF written in the immediate aftermath of the war praised it as a great fighting machine, most scholars have concluded that the AEF was a flawed combat force.


(Hardback)

By: Colin S. Gray

ISBN: 9780313295102
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The purpose of this book is to show how strategy works, using air power and special operations as case studies, but also addressing sea power, nuclear deterrence and information warfare. It aims to deepen understanding of the nature and working of strategy and strategic effect.


(Hardback)

By: Hubert P. Van Tuyll

ISBN: 9780313266881
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1989
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is truly a landmark volume that will be consulted and read avidly by students and scholars of European and American History, and World War II in particular, as well as those involved with Military History, Soviet Studies, Soviet Economic History, and U.S.-Soviet Relations.


(Paperback)

By: Martin van Creveld

ISBN: 9780313091575
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Analyses the performance of two key parties engaged in fighting during World War II.


(Hardback)

By: Martin van Creveld

ISBN: 9780313233333
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1982
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Steven E. Clemente

ISBN: 9780313280047
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Steven Clemente describes how conservative traditions and artistocratic values were preserved in the selection and training of German army officers prior to World War I despite changing times and the influx of many middle-class recruits into the army.

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