Catálogo de libros: Guerra y defensa

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  • Mutiny Memoirs
    A. R. D. Mackenzie
    The Sepoy Mutiny was a violent and very bloody uprising against British rule in India in 1857. It is also known by other names: the Indian Mutiny, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, or the Indian Revolt of 1857. Begun in Meerut by Indian troops (sepoys) in the service of the British East India Company, it spread to Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, and Lucknow. Mutiny Memoirs by A. R. D. Macken...
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    32,61 €

  • The Battle for Leyte Gulf
    C. Vann Woodward
    The Battle for Leyte Gulf was the greatest naval battle of the Second World War and the largest engagement ever fought on the high seas. It was composed of four separate yet closely interrelated actions, each of which involved forces comparable in size with those engaged in any previous battle of the Pacific War. The four battles, two of them fought simultaneously, were joined ...
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    18,91 €

  • Wilful Blindness
    Sam Cooper
    This extensive second edition provides readers with a whole new Chapter titles Intelligence March 2022(17 ,500 +) The new and compelling insights focust on the nexus of infiltration operations of not only China but that of Russia and Iran. Agents whose goal is to undermine the very democracy we hold dear. Politicians and business elite including former Ambassador to Canada, Do...
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    26,95 €

  • BEYOND COVID-19
    NIHAN POTAS & SUAY SEFIKA SULE ERCETIN
    While humanity continues to grapple with COVID-19 and its ramifications, Beyond COVID-19: Multidisciplinary Approaches and Outcomes on Diverse Fields provides a unique opportunity to foresee the repercussions of the pandemic across a range of fields through the lens of chaos and complexity theory. This book takes COVID-19 as a holistic event, providing an interesting analysis o...
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    144,88 €

  • The Final Struggle
    Ian Easton
    'The Final Struggle shows, using the regime’s own words, how Beijing’s aspirations aren’t regional-they’re global, with grave implications not only for democracy, but for the centuries-old principle of national sovereignty.'-Matt PottingerThe Chinese government has a sinister secret. And it’s hiding in plain sight. Drawing from internal military documents and never-before-seen ...
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    24,72 €

  • Something Rotten
    Jim Storr
    ’Something Rotten’ points out logical and practical problems with organisations and processes. It challenges the reader as to why such problems exist and persist. It suggests abandoning much overt process; building up human expertise; relying on fewer but better-trained people; and deciding and acting much faster. ...
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    72,43 €

  • The Battle of the Huertgen Forest
    Charles Brown MacDonald
    In September 1944, three months after the invasion of Normandy, the Allied armies prepared to push the German forces back into their homeland. Just south of the city of Aachen, elements of the U.S. First Army began an advance through the imposing Huertgen Forest. Instead of retreating, as the Allied command anticipated, the German troops prepared an elaborate defense of Huertge...
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    39,69 €

  • THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO ABYSSINIA
    Captain Henry M. Hozier
    This account of the 1867/68 campaign is by an officer of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, one of the regiments involved, and in the introduction he states clearly that his aim has everywhere been impartiality; his object truth. He begins with a brief but informative historical background to the country of Abyssinia, going back to the earliest days and leading up to the reasons for the d...
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    36,88 €

  • THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO ABYSSINIA
    Captain Henry M. Hozier
    This account of the 1867/68 campaign is by an officer of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, one of the regiments involved, and in the introduction he states clearly that his aim has everywhere been impartiality; his object truth. He begins with a brief but informative historical background to the country of Abyssinia, going back to the earliest days and leading up to the reasons for the d...
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    24,71 €

  • Walls Without Cinema
    Larrie Dudenhoeffer
    This volume closely examines the near-ubiquitous images of state security walls, domes, and other such defense enclosures flashing across movie screens since 2006, the year of the ratification of George W. Bush’s Secure Fence Act. This study shows that many of the films of this era enable us to imaginatively test the effects of these security mechanisms on citizens, immigrants,...
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    51,06 €

  • The Holocaust
    Eve Grimm / Paul Bartrop
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    140,99 €

  • SINGAPORE SYNTHESIS, THE
    RAVI MENON
    Ravi Menon is the Institute of Policy Studies’ 9th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of his four IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered in July 2021, and includes highlights of his question-and-answer segments with our virtual audience.Mr Menon examines how Singapore will come under pressure from four tectonic shifts altering the global lan...
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    58,47 €

  • SINGAPORE SYNTHESIS, THE
    RAVI MENON
    Ravi Menon is the Institute of Policy Studies’ 9th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of his four IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered in July 2021, and includes highlights of his question-and-answer segments with our virtual audience.Mr Menon examines how Singapore will come under pressure from four tectonic shifts altering the global lan...
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    35,24 €

  • HISTORIES of 251 DIVISIONS of the GERMAN ARMY WHICH PARTICIPATED IN THE WAR (1914-1918).
    US War Dept 1920.
    Compiled with truly Teutonic thoroughness by the US Intelligence Department in 1920, and drawn from the intelligence reports of all Allied nations, this is a record of the changing German war machine year by year during the course of the Great War. Indispensable to the serious historian of the conflict, it is a dense and detailed volume, written in clear, non-nonsense language....
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    70,15 €

  • Polearms of Paulus Hector Mair
    Brian Hunt / David James Knight
    The Comprehensive Guide to Combat with Renaissance Polearm WeaponryCenturies ago in Medieval Europe conflicts were often settled by dueling with handheld armaments other than swords. Such staff weaponry also proved useful in battle, and a variety of techniques for using them effectively developed and evolved over time. German fencing master Paulus Hector Mair (1517-1579) summar...
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    44,01 €

  • Polearms of Paulus Hector Mair
    Brian Hunt / David James Knight
    The Comprehensive Guide to Combat with Renaissance Polearm WeaponryCenturies ago in Medieval Europe conflicts were often settled by dueling with handheld armaments other than swords. Such staff weaponry also proved useful in battle, and a variety of techniques for using them effectively developed and evolved over time. German fencing master Paulus Hector Mair (1517-1579) summar...
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    55,00 €

  • Something Rotten
    Jim Storr
    ’Something Rotten’ points out logical and practical problems with organisations and processes. It challenges the reader as to why such problems exist and persist. It suggests abandoning much overt process; building up human expertise; relying on fewer but better-trained people; and deciding and acting much faster. ...
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    33,37 €

  • Betrayed Armenia
    Diana Agabeg Apcar
    Diana Abgar (or Apcar; 17 October 1859 - 8 July 1937) was a diaspora Armenian writer and humanitarian, who was appointed Honorary Consul to Japan of the short-lived First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920). She is the first Armenian woman diplomat and one of the first women to have ever been appointed in any diplomatic post in the twentieth century.When the Republic of Armenia gai...
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    19,09 €

  • Betrayed Armenia
    Diana Agabeg Apcar
    Diana Abgar (or Apcar; 17 October 1859 - 8 July 1937) was a diaspora Armenian writer and humanitarian, who was appointed Honorary Consul to Japan of the short-lived First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920). She is the first Armenian woman diplomat and one of the first women to have ever been appointed in any diplomatic post in the twentieth century.When the Republic of Armenia gai...
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    28,42 €

  • Mad King Robin
    James Vella-Bardon
    'Vella-Bardon has what it takes to become a literary giant' - Yorkshire Evening PostA historical thriller, a gripping tale that you will not put aside until it is finished. Scotland, 1306 - after slaying his lifelong rival to the throne in a chapel, Robert the Bruce is crowned king of Scotland at Scone. Yet even his own wife and countrymen laugh at his foolishness, calling him ...
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    8,39 €

  • Russian Grand Strategy in the era of global power competition
    Andrew Monaghan
    This book offers a nuanced and detailed examination of two of the most important current debates about contemporary Russia’s international activity: is Moscow acting strategically or opportunistically, and should this be understood in regional or global terms? ...
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    157,50 €

  • Russian Grand Strategy in the era of global power competition
    Andrew Monaghan
    This book offers a nuanced and detailed examination of two of the most important current debates about contemporary Russia’s international activity: is Moscow acting strategically or opportunistically, and should this be understood in regional or global terms? ...
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    44,44 €

  • BRITAIN UNDER SHELLFIRE
    Frank Illingworth
    The town of Dover was in the crosshairs for much of the war; this work covers the time when a cross-channel invasion of the British Isles was a very real threat. The narrative focuses in anecdotal style on the effect the long-range German bombardment had on the civilian population.By September 1940, nine German batteries had been established on the French coast facing Dover, an...
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    14,97 €

  • Cybersecurity Crisis Management and Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic
    The COVID-19 pandemic has forced organizations and individuals to embrace new practices such as social distancing and remote working. During these unprecedented times, many have increasingly relied on the internet for work, shopping, and healthcare. However, while the world focuses on the health and economic threats posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, cyber criminals are capitalizi...
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    314,56 €

  • Cybersecurity Crisis Management and Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic
    The COVID-19 pandemic has forced organizations and individuals to embrace new practices such as social distancing and remote working. During these unprecedented times, many have increasingly relied on the internet for work, shopping, and healthcare. However, while the world focuses on the health and economic threats posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, cyber criminals are capitalizi...
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    242,17 €

  • Middle-Power Responses to China’s BRI and America’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
    Middle-Power Responses to China’s BRI and America’s Indo-Pacific Strategy brings together an international, multidisciplinary group of leading experts to contribute a well-rounded, multifaceted view of the transformation that is currently taking place in the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific. ...
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    142,83 €

  • STEN AND BREN GUNS
    Anon
    Illustrated with good clear line drawings this 1942 weapon guide tells the soldier how to use the Sten & Bren effectively against the enemy. ...
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    12,26 €

  • GERMAN MINES AND TRAPS
    The War Office
    Mid-1940 War Office manual with details of German mines, both the Teller and S-mine (Bouncing Betty) are covered, with techniques for disarming. Good clear full-page line drawings give both practical and technical information.Highly recommended because of the illustrations, which show how these devices worked and the components.  ...
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    13,16 €

  • PERFECT IMBALANCE
    UNA ALEKSANDRA BERZINA-CERENKOVA
    Perfect Imbalance seeks to answer one of the most important outstanding questions in twenty-first century politics: how close are Putin’s Russia and Xi’s China?Written by a scholar fluent in both Chinese and Russian, this book examines the current China-Russia partnership from several perspectives. First, what Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and their respective foreign policy estab...
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    81,36 €

  • Kerala
    T.M. Thomas Isaac
    ’There is no alternative (TINA)’ has been the slogan of the neoliberals ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The counter-slogan has been, ’Another world is possible’. Here is the story of the ongoing struggles to build ’another world’ in Kerala, India.The neoliberal imperative is to ’maximize growth at any cost’. Kerala has embarked upon an alternative - to optimize gro...
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    14,36 €


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