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“daniel coetzee”

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  • Philosophers of War

    The Evolution of History's Greatest Military Thinkers [2 volumes]

    Edited by Daniel Coetzee, Lee W. Eysturlid ...
    This user-friendly reference systematically covers the entire intellectual history of strategy and war, in all cultures and all times.Each culture has had its Machiavelli, its Sun Tzu; its own Mohammed-like or Napoleonic figure. This encyclopedia ranges across the world to provide entries on every significant military and strategic thinker in human history as well as a number of military cultures, ... Read more

    $136.89 CAD

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  • War: How Conflict Shaped Us

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED for the 2021 Lionel Gelber PrizeThoughtful and brilliant insights into the very nature of war--from the ancient Greeks to modern times--from world-renowned historian Margaret MacMillan.War--its imprint in our lives and our memories--is all around us, from the metaphors we use to the names on our maps. As books, movies, and television series show, we are drawn to the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Battle 100

    The Stories Behind History's Most Influential Battles

    by Michael Lee Lanning ...
    A single day in the heat of armed conflict can shape the future of the world. Throughout history, individual battles have inspired the birth of nations, the devastation of cultures and the triumph of revolutions. Yet while some battles rise up as the cornerstones of history, others fade in our cultural memory, forgotten as minor skirmishes. Why is this so? What makes a battle "important" ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • War

    The New Edition

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    A revised edition of Dyer’s classic book, widely regarded as one of the most compelling analyses of the history of armed conflict.“War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of the innovations that occurred between nine and eleven thousand years ago when the first civilized societies were coming into being. What has been invented can be ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Second World Wars

    How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won

    by Victor Davis Hanson ...
    A comprehensive account of World War II by America’s preeminent military historian and author of The Dying Citizen**.****“Breathtakingly magisterial.” —**Wall Street JournalWorld War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • How Wars Are Won

    The 13 Rules of War from Ancient Greece to the War on Terror

    by Bevin Alexander ...
    Even as we head into twenty-first-century warfare, thirteen time-tested rules for waging war remain relevant.Both timely and timeless, How Wars Are Won illuminates the thirteen essential rules for success on the battlefield that have evolved from ancient times until the present day. Acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander’s incisive and vivid analyses of famous battles throughout the ages ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • War Made New

    Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today

    by Max Boot ...
    A monumental, groundbreaking work, now in paperback, that shows how technological and strategic revolutions have transformed the battlefieldCombining gripping narrative history with wide-ranging analysis, War Made New focuses on four "revolutions" in military affairs and describes how inventions ranging from gunpowder to GPS-guided air strikes have remade the field of battle—and shaped the rise ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Shortest History of War

    From Hunter-Gatherers to Nuclear Superpowers — A Retelling for Our Times

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    War has changed, but we have not. From our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the rival nuclear powers of today, whenever resources have been contested, we’ve gone to battle. Acclaimed historian Gwynne Dyer illuminates our many martial clashes in this brisk account, tracing warfare from prehistory to the world’s first cities — and on to the thousand-year “classical age” of combat, which ended when the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

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  • Battle

    A History Of Combat And Culture

    by John A Lynn ...
    Battle: A History of Combat and Culture spans the globe and the centuries to explore the way ideas shape the conduct of warfare. Drawing its examples from Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and America, John A. Lynn challenges the belief that technology has been the dominant influence on combat from ancient times to the present day. In battle, ideas can be more far more important than ... Read more

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  • What If?

    The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

    Edited by Robert Cowley ...
    Series series What If Essays
    If history took a different turn, where would we be today?What If? by Robert Cowley explores the fascinating concept of alternate history through a collection of thought-provoking essays. Delve into the minds of renowned historians as they ponder the monumental events of the past and dare to ask, what if things had gone differently?From the war between the Ottomans and the Romans and the fall of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

    Edited by Peter Paret, Gordon A. Craig, Felix Gilbert ...
    The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice of war from the Renaissance to the present. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • The Changing Face of War

    Combat from the Marne to Iraq

    by Martin van Creveld ...
    One of the most influential experts on military history and strategy has now written his magnum opus, an original and provocative account of the past hundred years of global conflict. The Changing Face of War is the book that reveals the path that led to the impasse in Iraq, why powerful standing armies are now helpless against ill-equipped insurgents, and how the security of sovereign nations may ... Read more

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