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  • Le mura di Bergamo e l’esercito veneto fra 500 e 600
    Luca Stefano Cristini
    Correva l'Anno del Signore 1590. Così scriveva un soddisfatto e pago Alvise Grimani, l'allora comandante veneto della piazza di Bergamo, al termine dei lavori di realizzazione degli oltre cinque chilometri di mura porte e bastioni : 'La città è tutta serrata con baluardi e i suoi membri quasi tutti terrapienati, compite le piazze, i parapetti e le traverse per coprirsi ...
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    36,31 €

  • Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war vol.17
    Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov / Mark Conrad
    This volume is related to the Russian Army during the zar Alexander I era, and are about the Guard cavalry regiments (part 1). Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology dev...
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    40,78 €

  • Armed Robotic Systems Emergence
    Robert j. Bunker / Robert jBunker
    The fielding of armed robotic systems--droids and drones that are teleoperated, semi-autonomous, and even autonomous--has been slowly but surely transitioning from pure science fiction into military reality on the battlefields of the early 21st century. These systems currently have no artificial intelligence (AI) whatsoever and, in most cases, are simply operated by soldiers (a...
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    8,64 €

  • Otto Skorzeny
    Massimiliano Afiero
    Quella di Otto Skorzeny è sicuramente una delle figure più controverse ed interessanti della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, alla quale molti storici hanno dedicato articoli e libri, per esaltare o denigrare le sue azioni che nel bene o nel male furono comunque straordinarie: la liberazione del Duce sul Gran Sasso, l'operazione 'Panzerfaust' nell'ottobre del 1944, l'operaz...
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    28,71 €

  • Sebastopol to Dagenham
    Thomas Basil Fanshawe
    'Sebastopol appears to be a succession of forts which the Russians are strengthening every day. A great number of the men are sick of the whole concern. No one looks forward to another winter out here with any degree of satisfaction'.Captain Thomas Basil Fanshawe served with the 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment at Sebastopol during the Crimean War. The letters h...
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    23,05 €

  • The Price They Paid
    Michael Putzel
    The Price They Paid is the stunning and dramatic true story of a legendary helicopter commander in Vietnam and the flight crews that followed him into the most intensive helicopter warfare ever-and how that brutal experience has changed their lives in the forty years since the war ended. ...
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    11,07 €

  • Death in the Baltic
    Cathryn J Prince
    January 1945: the outcome of World War II has been determined. The Third Reich is in free fall as the Russians close in from the east. Berlin plans an eleventh-hour exodus for the German civilians trapped in the Red Army’s way. More than 10,000 women, children, sick, and elderly pack aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a former cruise ship. Soon after the ship leaves port, three Sovie...
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    16,52 €

  • Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee
    Earl J. Hess / Earl JHess
    Earl J.Hess’s study of armies and fortifications turns to the 1864 Overland Campaign to cover battles from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor. Drawing on meticulous research in primary sources and careful examination of battlefields at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Bermuda Hundred, and Cold Harbor, , Hess analyzes Union and Confederate movements and tactics and the new w...
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    50,89 €

  • Operation Dark Heart
    ANTHONY SHAFFER
    The newly revised book keeps the national interests secure, but this highly qualified warrior’s story is still intact. Shaffer’s assessment of successes and failures in Afghanistan remains dramatic, shocking, and crucial reading for anyone concerned about the outcome of the war. ...
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    17,18 €

  • SNIPER ONE
    DAN MILLS
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    18,71 €

  • A Terrible Revenge
    Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
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    24,93 €

  • Marble Man
    Thomas Lawrence Connelly
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    30,99 €

  • The Greatest Test of Courage
    Ronda Hassig
    Edward Mack had everything: a wife, a newborn son, and his dream job. But as a West Point graduate stationed in the Philippines, his life changed forever on December 7, 1941. Not long after, he would survive the Bataan Death March, Camps O’Donnell and Cabanatuan. At Cabanatuan, he headed an underground operation to get food and medicine for his fellow prisoners. His final desti...
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    11,87 €

  • Похождения бравого солдата Швейка
    Карел Ванек / Ярослав Гашек
    Перед вами эпический роман Ярослава Гашека – «Похождения бравого солдата Швейка» – настоящее сокровище мировой литературы. Действие романа разворачивается во время Первой мировой войны, на территории доживающей последние годы Австро-Венгерской империи. Произведение описывает события происходящие с Йозефом Швейком – отставным солдатом, с началом войны вновь призванного на службу...
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    24,72 €

  • Renatus' Kayak
    Rozanne Enerson Junker
    Woody Belsheim had one question when he gave his niece, Rozanne Enerson Junker, a miniature sealskin kayak made for him in 1944 by Inuit hunter Renatus Tuglavina: Would it be possible for you to find out what happened to Renatus...and to his daughter, Harriot?Woody had seldom spoken about his World War II service when he and six other G.I.s manned a secret American weather stat...
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    14,59 €

  • Tin Can Treason
    Terry Nardone
    Tin Can Treason is a recollection of my combat tour aboard a destroyer, USS Bordelon (DD881), commissioned in 1945. She had a crew of over 350 men on a 30 foot wide and 300 foot long ship. We traveled about 30,000 nautical miles, from Charleston, South Carolina to the Vietnam coast and back. While aboard I wrote in a daily diary and this book is the culmination of many attempts...
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    9,53 €

  • Yes Sir, Yes Sir, 3 Bags Full!
    Jerry Hall
    The events that take place in this story are real. It is a personal account of what happened physically and emotionally to a handful of Air Force pilots from spring 1968 through the fall of 1970. Millions of dollars were spent teaching us to kill; not one penny was allocated to teaching us to cope. Therefore, we unknowingly created our own mentality and our own morality that al...
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    12,50 €

  • The Axis Forces 4
    Massimiliano Afiero
    Book magazine dedicated to the German, Italian and Japanese armed forces and their allies during WW2.In this issue. The battle of Narva 1944, The japan in war, The Italian Alpine Division Monterosa of RSI. Eastern Volunteer insignia. Heinrich Sonne. Knight Cross Holder. ...
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    12,71 €

  • Terrorist Training Camps in Iran
    NCRI- U.S. Representative Office / NCRI- U.SRepresentative Office
    The book details how  Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps trains foreign fighters in 15 various camps in Iran to export terrorism. The IRGC has created a large directorate within its extraterritorial arm, the Quds Force, in order to expand its training of foreign mercenaries as part of the strategy to step up its meddling abroad in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Afghanistan and el...
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    23,24 €

  • The Death of the ’Dukes’
    Cyril Ford / Graham Sargeant / Scott Flaving
    A Story of Valour and The Sacrifices Made by a Battalion of the Old Contemptibles”. The Complete Analysis of an Original Battalion of the British Expeditionary Force - August 1914 to May 1915 (Including the WWI Letters of Lt R H Owen) by Graham Sargeant with Bob Sargeant, Cyril Ford & Scott Flaving with a Foreword by Maj Gen Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter KCVO, OBE, DL.PART I - Lt Rowl...
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    105,90 €

  • Frecce Nere
    Pierluigi Romeo di Colloredo Mels
    Dell’impiego in linea del Corpo Truppe Volontarie, inviato da Mussolini in aiuto ai nazionalisti di Franco a partire dal 1936, la storiografia e la pubblicistica corrente concentri la propria attenzione su un periodo di un mese, sino al marzo del 1937, quando avvenne la battaglia di Guadalajara, enfatizzando l’unico insuccesso del C.T.V. (presentato comunemente come una sconfit...
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    33,56 €

  • The Soldier That Wagged Her Tail
    Dolores N Morris
    World War II sits in our collective memory as the 'Good War': the one where the sides were clear and the sacrifices great. Literature and film have produced very few images of a certain group of heroic soldiers who died on foreign beaches, fields and jungles. The African American soldier, in segregated units, fought and died on those battlefields, and for the most part, their c...
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    11,85 €

  • War Memory and Popular Culture
    This collection of essays investigates such diverse vehicles for war commemoration as poems, battlefield tours, souvenirs, books, films, architectural structures, comics, websites, and video games. Drawing on essayists from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Israel and the United States, this work explores the evolution from traditional to contemporary forms of war commemorat...
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    42,91 €

  • Commanding the Stars
    Michael VanPutte
    In Commanding the Stars, military strategist and scholar Michael A. VanPutte reveals how the imagined worlds of science fiction can illuminate the timeless realities of war. This work fuses classical military theory with speculative vision, arguing that science fiction serves as a laboratory where strategy’s eternal questions meet tomorrow’s technologies and moral dilemmas.From...
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    15,00 €

  • Bên Kia Bến Đỗ
    Vinh Quyen Tang
    English: ’Bên Kia Bến Đỗ’ traces the lives of five Vietnamese women through nearly three decades of war, colonization, and national upheaval. Blending history with fading oral legends, the novel explores the enduring resilience of women across the French colonial period, Japanese occupation, and the country’s eventual division. From reflections on Emperor Gia Long’s legacy to t...
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    13,40 €

  • VOICES OF THE PACIFIC-Large Print Edition
    Matthew Rozell
    LARGE PRINT EDITION: The telephone rings on the hospital floor, and they tell you it is your mother, the phone call you have been dreading. You’ve lost part of your face to a Japanese sniper on Okinawa, and after many surgeries, the doctor has finally told you that at 19, you will never see again. The pain and shock are one thing. But now you have to tell her, from 5000 miles a...
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    30,60 €

  • SILHOUETTES OF AEROPLANES AND AIRSHIPS 1916
    Anon
    This official War Office manual, issued in July 1916, was produced to assist troops in identifying aircraft operating over the front and to reduce incidents of friendly fire. It includes photographs, silhouettes, and national markings of British, French, Belgian, and German aircraft and airships. The manual’s principal instruction-'Troops should on no account fire on an aeropla...
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    19,81 €

  • Europäische Aufrüstung
    Lutz Unterseher
    Die Reaktion der europäischen NATO-Mitglieder auf den Druck der USA, substanziell aufzurüsten, wird systematischer Kritik unterzogen und die Bedrohung nüchtern analysiert. Umrissen werden die Konturen einer von militärischen Statusallüren befreiten Bundeswehr, die in einer nationale Streitkräfte ersetzenden, von der Europäischen Union getragenen Armee aufgehen kann. Diese wird ...
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    22,33 €

  • The Craziest Stories of World War 2
    Auke de Haan / Jennifer Joseph / Skriuwer.com
    World War 2 produced some of the most improbable events in modern history. Alongside the familiar grand strategies and famous battles, the war was full of bizarre accidents, unlikely heroes, spectacular failures, and moments of pure absurdity. This book collects the stories that rarely make it into the standard histories but are completely true.From soldiers who kept fighting f...
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    13,46 €

  • Bridge from Saigon
    Hoangmai H. Pham
    As a young Vietnamese refugee, Hoangmai Pham suddenly lost her sense of safety and belonging when her family fled Saigon at the end of the war. But her later success in navigating life in America as a physician and health policy leader at the top of her profession paradoxically triggered a psychological unraveling during middle age. This unusual memoir depicts her struggle i...
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    42,62 €


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