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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

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Wars of Louis XIV 1667-1714

    by John A. Lynn ...
    Series series Modern Wars In Perspective
    Warfare dominated the long reign of the `Sun-king', Louis XIV. For forty years from 1672, France was continuously at war and had one of the largest armies seen in the West since the fall of imperial Rome. The campaigns secured little territory, but almost bankrupted the country and the consequences for the French monarchy were dramatic - contributing to its eventual downfall. John Lynn examines ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • The French Wars 1667–1714

    The Sun King at war

    by John A Lynn ...
    Series series Guide to...
    Campaigns fought by Louis XIV, the Sun King, shaped the borders of European states, the destinies of royal dynasties, and even the patterns of absolutist government.This compact e-guide book presents an authoritative yet accessible and succinct account of these all-important struggles available today, covering every aspect of the wars from decisions made by the king at his palace at Versailles to ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Feeding Mars

    Logistics In Western Warfare From The Middle Ages To The Present

    by John A Lynn ...
    Mars must be fed. His tools of war demand huge quantities of fodder, fuel, ammunition, and food. All these must be produced, transported, and distributed to contending forces in the field. No one can doubt the importance of feeding Mars in modern warfare, and it takes no great effort to recognize that it has always been a major aspect of large scal ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Leaving the Fight

    Surrender, Prisoners of War, and Detainees in Western Warfare

    by John A. Lynn II ...
    Series series Cambridge Military Histories
    Surrender in warfare has determined the fate of governments, states, and nations. It has reduced powerful commanders to powerless captives and inflicted submission, degradation, and even death on common soldiers held as prisoners of war. It has also led to civilian detainees being grossly mistreated and murdered. However, surrender, prisoners of war, and detainees have rarely been addressed as ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Another Kind of War

    The Nature and History of Terrorism

    by John A. Lynn ...
    An accessible and comprehensive history of terrorism from ancient times to the presentIn the years since 9/11, there has been a massive surge in interest surrounding the study of terrorism. This volume applies distinguished military historian John Lynn’s lifetime of research and teaching experience to this difficult topic. As a form of violence that implies the threat of future violence, terrorism ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Bayonets Of The Republic

    Motivation And Tactics In The Army Of Revolutionary France, 179194

    by John A Lynn ...
    The Bayonets of the Republic challenges the view of the French revolutionary army as an unskilled but fiercely patriotic fighting force that won simply by overwhelming its enemies with bayonet assaults. Skillfully combining traditional and new military history, Lynn demonstrates that French combat effectiveness encompassed far more than mere patriotism or frenzied charges.Lynn focuses on the Armee ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

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    by Howard Zinn ...
    Howard Zinn began work on his first book for his friends at Seven Stories Press in 1996, a big volume collecting all his shorter writings organized by subject. The themes he chose reflected his lifelong concerns: war, history, law, class, means and ends, and race. Throughout his life Zinn had returned again and again to these subjects, continually probing and questioning yet rarely reversing his ... Read more

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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 Myth of the Great War

    A New Military History of World War I

    by John Mosier ...
    "A compelling and novel reassessment of World War I military history" ( Kirkus Reviews )"There is much in the work I really admire, not least its brilliant recasting of the traditional military narrative." —Niall Ferguson, author of The Pity of WarBased on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Wester... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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 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

    $8.99 CAD

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