Catálogo de libros: Guerra y defensa

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  • Napoleon’s Campaign in Russia 1812
    Achilles Rose
    A different perspective on the annihilation of an armyAll students of the Napoleonic era know that the Emperor marched the ’Grande Army’ of nearly 430,000 men across the Niemen and eastwards into Russia. After the pyrrhic victory of Borodino the French occupied Moscow in the expectation of wintering behind the comfort of its walls in readiness for the reopening of campaigning w...
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    18,93 €

  • Governance and Security as a Unitary Concept
    World leaders have not been able to find solutions to the growing problem of global insecurity associated with failed and failing states in many regions. Governance and Security As A Unitary Concept is the first compilation of contemporary commentaries - from twenty contributing authors on six continents - to examine governance and security together rather than as complementary...
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    65,87 €

  • The Seven Weeks’ War
    H. M. Hozier / HMHozier
    The creation of a new Europe in fire and bloodEurope during the second half of the nineteenth century was in turmoil. Ancient empires sought to hold and consolidate their power, smaller states struggled to forge themselves into new nations and old enmities fanned the fires of conflict. The Seven Weeks War of 1866, the subject of this book, was also known as the Austro-Prussian ...
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    48,68 €

  • The Seven Weeks’ War
    H. M. Hozier / HMHozier
    The creation of a new Europe in fire and bloodEurope during the second half of the nineteenth century was in turmoil. Ancient empires sought to hold and consolidate their power, smaller states struggled to forge themselves into new nations and old enmities fanned the fires of conflict. The Seven Weeks War of 1866, the subject of this book, was also known as the Austro-Prussian ...
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    32,95 €

  • The Swallow
    Ruth Dunbar
    An uncompromising anti-war view of the First World WarThis book, first published in 1919, is indisputably a novel. However, while this fact is made very clear on the title page of the original edition, it is coupled with the tantalising information that the incidents related in these pages and the character of the book’s protagonist, the Texan Richard Byrd, are factual. Further...
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    28,89 €

  • The Swallow
    Ruth Dunbar
    An uncompromising anti-war view of the First World WarThis book, first published in 1919, is indisputably a novel. However, while this fact is made very clear on the title page of the original edition, it is coupled with the tantalising information that the incidents related in these pages and the character of the book’s protagonist, the Texan Richard Byrd, are factual. Further...
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    17,02 €

  • The Way of the Air
    Edgar C. Middleton / Edgar CMiddleton
    The dawn of combat in the airToday everyone is so familiar with aircraft, air travel and the fact that virtually every nation’s defence force includes an aerial component, so it is easy to forget that there are many people still alive whose parents were born before any practical form of working aircraft. The Wright Brothers had achieved sustained heavier than air flight in 1903...
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    28,89 €

  • The Way of the Air
    Edgar C. Middleton / Edgar CMiddleton
    The dawn of combat in the airToday everyone is so familiar with aircraft, air travel and the fact that virtually every nation’s defence force includes an aerial component, so it is easy to forget that there are many people still alive whose parents were born before any practical form of working aircraft. The Wright Brothers had achieved sustained heavier than air flight in 1903...
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    17,02 €

  • Terrorist Rehabilitation and Counter-Radicalisation
    This book seeks to explore the new frontiers in counter-terrorism research, analyses and practice, focusing on the imperative to rehabilitate terrorists. ...
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    79,00 €

  • Asia’s Naval Expansion
    Geoffrey Till
    The navies of China, India and to a lesser extent Japan are expanding rapidly at present. This has the potential to alter the US-dominated naval balance in Asia-Pacific but it also raises a question: are the region’s powers involved in a naval arms race? ...
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    25,89 €

  • War and Migration
    Alessandro Monsutti
    Focusing on the case of the Hazaras, a population from central Afghanistan, this book shows how migration studies and transnationalism are at the heart of theoretical and methodological debates which animate anthropology. ...
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    79,51 €

  • The Air Defense of the United States
    Air Defense Command / Directorate of Historical Services
    First published in 1952, this volume is a history of the evolution of an air defense system in the United States from approximately the end of World War II through June 1951. The decision to include in the present work an account of the pioneer air defense efforts of its predecessors as well as major developments within the Air Defense Command for the first half of 1951 was pro...
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    57,74 €

  • Light, Intense and Accurate  U.S. Eighth Air Force Strategic Fighters versus German Flak in the ETO
    Saffron Walden 65th Fighter Wing / Sam Souci / Willliam D. Thurston / Willliam DThurston
    Published in 1945 by the 65th Fighter Wing, Saffron Walden, 8th U.S. Air Force. This document was written to make and show why certain recommendations may help future air force commanders conserve fighters; this is not a training manual, however. It details the fact that flak was by far the most dangerous weapon the strategic fighter had to face. How it all came about and what ...
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    79,22 €

  • Kennedy, Johnson and NATO
    Andrew Priest
    Kennedy, Johnson and the Defence of NATO is an incisive reassessment of Anglo-American defence relations, which form a crucial part of international security.Andrew Priest closely examines this key relationship by focusing on the so-called Nassau agreement of December 1962. He clearly places Nassau in its context and shows how multi-level collaboration continued between the US ...
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    52,96 €

  • From Boer War to World War
    Spencer Jones
    Volume 35 in the Campaigns and Commanders Series.How fighting the Boer War changed the British Army The British Expeditionary Force at the start of World War I was tiny by the standards of the other belligerent powers. Yet, when deployed to France in 1914, it prevailed against the German army because of its professionalism and tactical skill, strengths developed through hard le...
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    30,84 €

  • The Shadow World
    Andrew Feinstein
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    21,04 €

  • Antimilitarism
    Cynthia Cockburn
    This book investigates the implications of technology on identity in embodied performance; the discussion within it forms a forum of debate exploring the interrelationship of and between identities in performance practices, informed by new technologies. This collection considers how identity is formed, deformed, constructed, deconstructed, blurred and celebrated within diverse ...
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    64,83 €

  • The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan
    Eamon Murphy
    This volume examines the social, and political and economic factors that have contributed to the rise of terrorism in Pakistan, employing an historical and critical terrorism studies perspective. ...
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    281,61 €

  • Space Strategy in the 21st Century
    Eligar Sadeh
    This book offers an overview of space strategy in the 21st century - the purpose of space strategy is to coordinate, integrate, and prioritize space activities across security, commercial, and civil sectors. ...
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    253,95 €

  • Joining the Fray
    Zachary C. Shirkey
    Building on his earlier volume, Is this a Private Fight or Can Anybody Join?, Zachary C. Shirkey looks at how the decision to join a civil war can be intuitively understood as follows: given that remaining neutral was wise when a war began something must change in order for a country to change its beliefs about the benefits of fighting and join the war. This book studies what t...
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    254,58 €

  • Battlefield Archaeology of the English Civil War
    Glenn Foard
    The present book demonstrates how major advances in the understanding of historic battles can be achieved through the application of the techniques of archaeology alongside those of military history, to exploit these neglected sets of evidence. It also provides examples of how results can be improved through the application of scientific expertise, in fields such as ballistics....
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    120,38 €

  • Crucial Coalition
    Kjeld Hald Galster
    In the summer of 2010, a unit of Danish soldiers known as ISAF-10 deployed to Afghanistan under British command. In Helmand Province, they tried to secure a fragile peace while dealing with the challenges of training an often apparently indifferent Afghan police and army, ensuring a functioning collaboration with the British despite insufficient military intelligence and diverg...
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    17,07 €

  • Liberal Internationalism
    Michael Pugh
    Concepts and policies deriving from political and social movements in support of liberal nationalism are hotly debated today. Civil society has actively engaged in controversies over intervention in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Lebanon. Pugh investigates the role of popular liberal internationalism as a social movement in Britain, addressing the use of force ...
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    65,10 €

  • Governance and Security as a Unitary Concept
    Governance and Security as a Unitary Concepteditors Tom Rippon & Graham KempWorld leaders have not been able to find solutions to the growing problem of global insecurity associated with failed and failing states in many regions. Governance and Security As A Unitary Concept is the first compilation of contemporary commentaries - from twenty contributing authors on six continent...
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    44,17 €

  • Unfree in Palestine
    Adah Kay / Nadia Abu-Zahra / Sergio Tischler
    This book reveals the role played by identity documents in Israel’s apartheid policies towards the Palestinians, from the red passes of the 1950s to the orange, green and blue passes of today.The authors chronicle how millions of Palestinians have been denationalised through the bureaucratic tools of census, population registration, blacklisting and a discriminatory legal frame...
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    42,22 €

  • The China Fallacy
    Donald Gross
    American critics who deeply fear a "China threat" have unduly influenced government policy. "China hawks" believe China intends to push the United States out of Asia and dominate the world. Protectionists argue that China threatens American jobs and prosperity. This authoritative work examines why and how the U.S. should stabilize and improve its relations with China. It fir...
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    63,84 €

  • Perception and Reality in the Modern Yugoslav Conflict
    Brendan O’Shea
    In this book, the author has tried bridge the gap between the common perception of the Yugoslav conflict as portrayed in the media and the actual grim reality with which he was dealing as an EU monitor on the ground. Drawing on original material from both UN and ECMM sources, he has identified the true origin of Former Yugoslavia’s wars of dissolution, and critically examines t...
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    52,88 €

  • Mussolini’s Propaganda Abroad
    Manuela Williams
    This is the first major study in English, of Fascist Italy’s overseas propaganda. Using rare Italian and French captured documents, this is also the first investigation into the relationship between Mussolini’s regime and Arab nationalist movements. ...
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    78,62 €

  • The Rise of the Indian Navy
    Harsh V. Pant
    In recent years the Indian Navy has gradually emerged as an indispensable tool of Indian diplomacy, making it imperative for Indian policy-makers and naval thinkers to think anew the role of the nation’s naval forces in Indian strategy. There is a long tradition in India of viewing the maritime dimension of security as central to the nation’s strategic priorities. With India’s ...
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    254,71 €

  • Somali Piracy and Terrorism in the Horn of Africa
    Christopher L. Daniels / Christopher LDaniels
    This book provides readers with a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the spate of piracy and terrorism plaguing the waters of Somalia and the global threat posed by this activity. Contesting the commonly held perception that the piracy and terrorism occurring in Somalia are two separate and unrelated activities, Daniels reveals how the collapse of the Somali state and the c...
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    55,57 €


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