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  • A TSUNAMI OF LIES CANNOT HIDE THE TRUTH
    G. AMARE
    In the shadowed heart of Africa’s Tigray region of Ethiopia, a dire genocidal war unfolds, shrouded in a 'Tsunami of Lies' that threatens to drown the world’s understanding of the truth. In this unflinching exploration, the book embarks on 'Tigray’s Journey Through Webs of Betrayals, Lies, Deception, and the International Community’s Unresponsiveness,' peeling back layers of de...
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    23,67 €

  • The Clash of Cultures
    Gursimran Singh
    In 1984, the Sikh community - a minority amidst the Hindu majority that dominates the Indian nation-state - faced the most traumatizing of events for any group - complete annihilation. Since its inception, the fundamental Sikh ideas of freedom and equality drew fire from the majority Hindu and Islamic populations in the region. Throughout the history of the Sikh community, the ...
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    15,39 €

  • The Gray Bird of Baghdad
    Stephen Phillip Monteiro
    An Iraqi bioweapons scientist has information vital to US interests. He is being hunted by insurgents and his own government. Stephen Monteiro, an ex-Secret Service agent, is assigned to find him before the bad guys do . . . but the government that assigned Monteiro to the case wants him to fail. Why? And what information, exactly, does the scientist possess? ...
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    14,11 €

  • UN Peace Operations Part VI
    USI of India in past has taken the lead in providing the platform for organising discourse and research in the field of UN peace operations in order to put across an Indian perspective on a few most crucial attributes of the current challenges that face reform of the UN peace operations. To this end, USI (https://usiofindia.org), the oldest think tank of India, in collaboration...
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    17,42 €

  • The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli
    Niccolo Machiavelli
    The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli as an instruction guide for new princes and royals. The general theme of The Prince is of accepting that the aims of princes - such as glory and survival - can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends. ...
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    7,40 €

  • A Thrilling Novel Surgical Strike
    Ish Kumar Gangania
    Had the terrorist attack been confined to Pulwama and the martyrdom of the Indian CRPF, there was no point for me to pen this novel Surgical Strike. But when the political flames began to swallow the nation and its social fabric to exploit the situation, it was obvious for the protagonist Aajivak Babu to be involved in surgical strikes on different fronts. He collides with the...
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    19,91 €

  • How the West Brought War to Ukraine
    Benjamin Abelow
    According to the mainstream Western narrative, Vladimir Putin is an insatiable, Hitler-like expansionist who invaded Ukraine in an unprovoked land grab.That story is incorrect.In reality, the United States and NATO bear much of the responsibility for the Ukraine crisis. Through a series of misguided policies, Washington and its European allies placed Russia in an untenable situ...
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    8,58 €

  • On War
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Translated into English several times as On War. Vom Kriege (German pronunciation: [fɔm ˈkʁiːɡə]) is a book on war and military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife Marie von Brühl in 1832.On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to u...
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    41,30 €

  • Short Timer
    Richard A. Henry
    Short-Timer is a small part of the history of the Vietnam War; America’s longest war where for the first time, men of every ethnic background and color fought together side by side in fully integrated units. It is the story of one individual’s survival in a war where flashing the peace sign was perfectly acceptable, while waving a clinched fist in the air, the Black Power symbo...
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    16,32 €

  • Short Timer
    Richard A. Henry
    Short-Timer is a small part of the history of the Vietnam War; America’s longest war where for the first time, men of every ethnic background and color fought together side by side in fully integrated units. It is the story of one individual’s survival in a war where flashing the peace sign was perfectly acceptable, while waving a clinched fist in the air, the Black Power symbo...
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    26,42 €

  • Small Unit Raids
    Matthew Luke
    Small Unit Raiders utilize advanced tactics known as Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) and Close Quarters Battle (CQB). These tactics prioritize swiftly moving into and out of enemy terrain to destroy, seize, and conduct information warfare.Special Operations Veterans have written from their own experience with real-life examples, the step-by-step tactics that Soldier...
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    46,89 €

  • Small Unit Raids
    Matthew Luke
    This field manual is a 4'x 6', black and white printing of Small Unit Tactics. It is pocket-sized, making it lightweight and easy to carry.Small Unit Raiders utilize advanced tactics known as Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) and Close Quarters Battle (CQB). These tactics prioritize swiftly moving into and out of enemy terrain to destroy, seize, and conduct informati...
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    28,32 €

  • Sustaining Peace in ASEAN and the Asia-Pacific
    In 2016, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly and the UN Security Council respectively adopted resolutions on the review of the UN peacebuilding architecture, and the concept of 'sustaining peace' was formally presented. Since then, the 'sustaining peace' agenda has gradually become the core strategy of the peace cause of the UN. The agenda for sustaining peace emphasizes c...
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    105,87 €

  • On War
    Carl von Clausewitz
    On War (German: Vom Kriege) is a book on war and military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife Marie von Brühl in 1832. It is one of the most important treatises on political-military analysis and strategy ever written, and remains both controversial and influent...
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    27,83 €

  • Cultural Genocide
    Drew Eldridge
    A carefully researched and shocking list of thirteen little-known details concerning residential schools, mass graves and broken treaties in Canada. What happened? Who was involved? Why was it allowed to go on for so long? In Cultural Genocide, Drew Eldridge invites readers to ask all the hard questions as they confront unsettling aspects of Canada’s dark history. ...
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    7,94 €

  • After the Smoke Clears
    Mark J. Allman / Tobias Winright
    While most studies of just war focus on the rationale for going to war and the conduct of the war, this important book examines the period after the conflict. What must be done to restore justice? In the words of the authors, ''’Victory’ is declared by presidents and other leaders, yet all too often no just peace is to be found in the wake of today’s conflicts. . . . After the ...
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    25,66 €

  • After the Smoke Clears
    Mark J. Allman / Tobias Winright
    While most studies of just war focus on the rationale for going to war and the conduct of the war, this important book examines the period after the conflict. What must be done to restore justice? In the words of the authors, ''’Victory’ is declared by presidents and other leaders, yet all too often no just peace is to be found in the wake of today’s conflicts. . . . After the ...
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    38,14 €

  • Paris or the Future of War
    B. H. Liddell HART
    2022 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The foundation of Liddell Hart’s theory of limited war emerged in the 1920s from his conviction that Europe’s military leaders had lost sight of the true objective of war and consequently had mishandled the conduct of the First World War.  Believing th...
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    7,73 €

  • War Letter to Putin
    Piotr Plauszewski
    Author, mainly of essays, texts of conscience and reflections on social issues, Piotr Plauszewski is originally from Kamianets-Podilskyi in Ukraine. He lives and writes in France. This is a translation of his work to make it accessible to a wide audience.  At the start of war in Ukraine he began writing this 'Letter' to Russian President Vladimir Puti...
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    12,95 €

  • Settler Colonialism
    Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
    Settler Colonialism examines the genesis in the USA of the first full-fledged settler state in the world, which went beyond its predecessors in 1492 Iberia and British-colonized Ireland with an economy based on land sales and enslaved African labor, an implementation of the fiscal-military state. Both the liberal and the rightwing versions of the national narrative misrepresent...
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    15,07 €

  • BODY COUNT
    Gideon Polya
    BODY COUNT exposes the horrendous extent of the Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust that has totaled about 1.3 billion since 1950. Peace is the only way, but silence kills and silence is complicity. We can all do something immediately by informing others and through ethical dealings with people, corporations and countries contributing to the continuing Global Avoidable Mortali...
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    31,79 €

  • Elephants, The Grass, and a Teacher
    Chinyere E Egbe
    In this book, Elephants, the Grass, and a Teacher, Dr. Egbe presents a masterful rendition of his experiences during the Nigeria / Biafra War. Though the book is a captivating rendition of Dr. Egbe’s personal and family experiences, it is equally a masterpiece of integrative analysis of personal experiences within a complex conundrum of national events, the history and experien...
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    31,73 €

  • The Certificate of Musters of Shebbear Hundred, 1522
    E.T. Fox
    In 1522 Cardinal Wolsey ordered a survey of every man over the age of 16, together with an assessment of his wealth and the military equipment he owned. Sometimes called the ’Tudor Domesday’ the muster returns of 1522 present a unique insight into the people of Tudor England.Only two muster rolls from Devon have survived to the present day, that of the City of Exeter and the ro...
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    10,85 €

  • Strategia
    Charles S Oliviero
    War fascinates us, but what do we really know about its nature? Strategia is the product of Colonel Oliviero’s decades-long intellectual quest to address this fundamental query. His work offers both the serious student and the casual reader a foundation stone upon which to build a deeper understanding of military thought and theory, and thereby a richer appreciation of mankind’...
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    20,77 €

  • ORIENTE vs OCCIDENTE. La III Guerra Mundial
    Amadeo MARTÍNEZ INGLÉS
    El mundo camina a pasos agigantados hacia un cambio de liderazgo, hacia un cambio en le jefatura global, hacia un nuevo imperio que sustituya al que durante los últimos cien años ha dominado y expandido un poder absoluto sobre la práctica totalidad del planeta Tierra. Pero tamaño cambio político, social, económico y militar no está exento de riesgos (como puso negro sobre blanc...
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    18,00 €

  • 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 €

  • Guns for the Tsar
    Joseph Bradley / Andrei Grishin
    This is a detailed study of the development of the Russian small arms industry. Humiliated in the Crimean War, Russia turned to the United States for help. Using archival sources, Bradley, author of Muzhik and Muscovite: Urbanization in Late Imperial Russia (Univ. of California Pr., 1985), describes the role of famous gunsmiths like Colt, Smith, and Wesson; they provided Russia...
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    40,79 €

  • 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 €


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