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A history of weapons and warfare, from the Macedonian sarissa to the atomic bomb. The book describes technological and strategic advances in military science, but also aims to evoke the horror of war and comment on the future of warfare.

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This book examines how the human involvement in naval warfare has developed over the 20th Century and how it is likely to evolve over the first part of the 21st Century.

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This book provides a comprehensive historiographical and bibliographical survey of the Falklands/Malvinas campaign of 1982 as well as the historical and cultural background.

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This reference book by a well-known historian is the very first to give a short history of the development of the field artillery from the Middle Ages to the present, along with biographical profiles of leading figures, and bibliographical essays about the most important writings on the subject.

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Terrorism cannot be treated as a monolithic threat. This book contains cases that shed some light on how we should understand, characterise, and categorise terrorism, and they provide insights into the concepts of political legitimacy, liberal democracy, political culture, and political community.

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Why didn't you try to escape" That was all she said. I had imagined my grandmother telling us how lovely it was to see us at last. I saw again in my mind's eye the barbwire fences and the soldiers with the glistening bayonets

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An action-packed story of the men of the RAAF's No 77 fighter squadron, the only RAAF squadron to take part in the Korean War; initially with propeller driven World War II vintage mustangs which were replaced by meteor jet fighters when the Chinese, with their MiG 15s, entered the war.

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This study explores Archduke Carl's formative military education and experiences by examining the readings that formed the basis of his education and the instructors that exercised an influence over him. It looks at Carl's major works on military strategy and tactics.

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This narrative history of the French Navy in Indochina from 1945 to 1954 draws on recently published French language sources, as well as English sources, to create a detailed, highly readable account of the critical first ten years of the 30-year war in the maritime crossroads of Southeast Asia.

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Based on a discussion of the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972, this book argues that a policy of nonproliferation might slow down the current trend towards worldwide deployment of biological weapons, but is ultimately doomed without a strengthened ban on them.

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Based on a discussion of the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972, this book argues that a policy of nonproliferation might slow down the current trend towards worldwide deployment of biological weapons, but is ultimately doomed without a strengthened ban on them.

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How should NATO's military strategy and force posture in Western Europe be handled given today's changing relations between East and West

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An analysis of one of America's greatest soldiers which refutes the notion that Grant relied only on brute force to achieve his victories, demonstrating instead the mastery of mobility, surprise, judgement, and strategic co-ordination that made Grant the premier Civil War general.

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Gabriel examines 18 ancient army systems, from the armies that advanced the objectives of the Sumer and Akkad empires to the Ottomans. In each instance he examines the organizational structure and weapons employed and the societal culture that produced each army.

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In 1857-8, rebels in northern India recruited tens of thousands of volunteers in a mutiny that threatened to engulf the entire subcontinent. This work explores how the vastly outnumbered British army, with extended lines of supply and reinforcement, could defeat so large a force on its home ground.

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A reconstruction of the lives and deaths of settlers.

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1920s America was at peace at home and abroad but issues facing the nation were highlighted by a series of trials including baseball's Black Sox, Al Capone, John T. Scopes, Sacco and Vanzetti, Leopold and Loeb, and the court martial of Billy Mitchell.

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The brief, successful Gulf War resulted in few casualties, but there were still recognizable pockets of trauma. This study examines the Mental Health Services available in the theater of operations, the preparations made to train the soldiers for the stress of combat, and details of how they coped with the experience of combat.

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Fought primarily by tank units, the war became a story not only of battle strategy and tactics, but also one of human discipline, endurance and sacrifice.

While many historians have chronicled the events of the Yom Kippur War, few have been seasoned by actual combat.

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Moskos Chairman, Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society

William Darryl Henderson maintains that despite highly successful marketing efforts to sell the image of a new quality army to the American public, the Congress, and to the U.S. Army itself, the Army has, in fact, not risen above mediocre performance levels.

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Analyses the role of modern soldiers in the new age of technological warfare, and the stresses they encounter.