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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “arnold krammer”
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  • War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law

    A Guide to the Issues

    by Arnold Krammer ...
    Series series Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues
    This timely handbook offers an examination of man's history of war crimes and the parallel development of rules of war to prevent them in the future.Kosovo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Darfur, Auschwitz. War crimes have occurred in regions around the world and continue to this day. Although atrocities are as old as war itself, they did not become punishable crimes until the law evolved to define them as ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Hitler in Paris

    How a Photograph Shocked a World at War

    by Don Nardo, Arnold Krammer ...
    Series series Captured World History
    World War II was in its early days when brutal German dictator Adolf Hitler paid a visit to Paris, the capital of France. Only days before, on June 14, 1940, German soldiers had overrun the city, shocking the world. Hitler now viewed the city’s cultural treasures as his own. He posed for a photo in front of the Eiffel Tower, the beloved symbol of France and the country’s free, democratic people. ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Enemy in Our Hands

    America's Treatment of Prisoners of War from the Revolution to the War on Terror

    by Robert C. Doyle ...
    Revelations of abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and the U.S. detention camp at Guantánamo Bay had repercussions extending beyond the worldwide media scandal that ensued. The controversy surrounding photos and descriptions of inhumane treatment of enemy prisoners of war, or EPWs, from the war on terror marked a watershed momentin the study of modern warfare and the treatment of prisoners of war ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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  • How America Got It Right

    The U.S. March to Military and Political Supremacy

    by Bevin Alexander ...
    At last, a historian tells the truth about America’s role in the world—refuting the lies of anti-American propagandists.Left-wing critics—both at home and abroad—relish blasting our country for being the world’s sole superpower, or even an “imperialist” power.But as acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander shows in How America Got It Right, these criticisms are completely off the mark. ... Read more

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  • War and Empire

    The American Way of Life

    by Paul L. Atwood ...
    American history is not often truthfully told. Dispelling the myths that have bolstered national myth making, Paul Atwood attempts to show Americans that their history is one of constant wars of aggression and imperial expansion.From the declaration of Independence to present day, War and Empire takes a panoramic view of US military history, explaining US actions in every major war, from early ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flight of the Eagle

    by Conrad Black ...
    A strategic history of the United States by the bestselling author of biographies of Roosevelt and NixonIn this magisterial new history of the United States, spanning from the New World through the outcome of the 2012 presidential election, acclaimed writer and historian Conrad Black examines the rise of the world's supreme power, its recent decline, and its ultimate strengths andfuture, and the ... Read more

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  • The Uses and Abuses of History

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    History can be a very useful tool in understanding why we and those we must deal with think and react in certain ways. But in the wrong hands it can be dangerous and used to foster a sense of grievance or a desire for revenge. Eminent historian Margaret MacMillan is fascinated by the power of history in our thinking. In The Uses and Abuses of History, she points out some of the traps that we can ... Read more

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  • Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present

    An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present

    by Max Boot ...
    As fitting for the twenty-first century as von Clausewitz’s On War was in its own time, Invisible Armies is a complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages.Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient world—when Alexander the Great discovered that fleet nomads were harder to defeat than massive conventional armies—Max Boot, best-selling author and military advisor in Iraq ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • One Long Night

    A Global History of Concentration Camps

    by Andrea Pitzer ...
    A "masterly" and profoundly moving history of modernity's greatest tragedy: concentration camps ( The New Yorker )For over one hundred years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • Honorable Treachery

    A History of U.S. Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA

    by G.J.A. O'Toole ...
    A "splendidly written, impeccably researched, and perfectly fascinating" look at clandestine operations from colonial times to the Cuban Missile Crisis ( The Washington Post Book World).We've always depended on intelligence gathering to drive foreign policy in peacetime and command decision in war—but that work has often taken place in the shadows. Honorable Treachery fills in these details in our ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Humane

    How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    "[A] brilliant new book . . . Humane provides a powerful intellectual history of the American way of war. It is a bold departure from decades of historiography dominated by interventionist bromides." —Jackson Lears, The New York Review of BooksA prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humaneIn the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or ... Read more

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