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  • Military Humanitarianism

    Aid Operations and Armed Forces

    Modifié par Brian Drohan, Margot Tudor ...
    While interconnections between humanitarian actors and military operations are a pervasive feature of contemporary conflicts around the globe today, Military Humanitarianism challenges the idea that these interactions are a recent phenomenon. Instead, this volume offers an alternative interpretation to the traditional framing of military actors as a homogenous group and humanitarian actors as ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Paths of Innovation in Warfare

    From the Twelfth Century to the Present

    Innovation shapes wars, and twelve studies by former faculty members of West Point’s United States Military Academy examine specific cases of past and present military innovation. The complex, competitive, and dynamic environment that defines war drives combatants to seek solutions to potentially lethal problems. As some solutions prove effective, gain traction, and win emulation, they follow a ... En savoir plus

    $158.99 CAD

  • Brutality in an Age of Human Rights

    Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire

    par Brian Drohan ...
    In Brutality in an Age of Human Rights**, Brian Drohan demonstrates that British officials' choices concerning counterinsurgency methods have long been deeply influenced or even redirected by the work of human rights activists.** To reveal how that influence was manifested by military policies and practices, Drohan examines three British counterinsurgency campaigns—Cyprus (1955–1959), Aden (1963 ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

  • Imjin River 1951

    Last stand of the 'Glorious Glosters'

    Collections Livre 328 - Campaign
    A highly illustrated study of the battle of the Imjin River in Korea, a heroic defense by the US and UK forces against overwhelming Chinese numbers.After China's November 1950 intervention in the war and the subsequent battle of the Chosin Reservoir, UN forces faced a new onslaught in the spring of 1951 with over 350,000 veteran troops attacking along the Imjin River. The US 3rd Infantry Division ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

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  • 21 Speeches That Shaped Our World

    The people and ideas that changed the way we think

    par Chris Abbott ...
    In this fascinating book, Chris Abbott, a leading political analyst, takes a close look at 21 key speeches which have shaped the world today. He examines the power of the arguments embedded in these speeches to inspire people to achieve great things, or do great harm.Abbott draws upon his political expertise to explain how our current understanding of the world is rooted in pivotal moments of ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Return of History

    Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century

    par Jennifer Welsh ...
    Collections Livre 2016 - The CBC Massey Lectures
    In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics.In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History, ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Legacy of Violence

    A History of the British Empire

    par Caroline Elkins ...
    From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globeSprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $17.99 CAD Maintenant $14.99 CAD

  • Bismarck

    The Epic Chase

    par Jim Crossley ...
    When the German Battleship Bismarck was commissioned in 1940 she was one of the fastest and most powerful ships afloat. To the Royal Navy and the security of Allied shipping in the Atlantic she posed an enormous threat she must be destroyed. When she broke out into the Atlantic in 1941, some of Britains most powerful ships were sent to pursue and sink her. The first encounter proved disastrous for ... En savoir plus

    $12.79 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Civil Resistance

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    par Erica Chenoweth ...
    Collections series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    A sweeping overview of civil resistance movements around the world that explains what they are, how they work, why they are often effective, and why they can fail. Civil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety of coordinated methods (strikes, protests, demonstrations, boycotts, and many other tactics) to prosecute a conflict without directly harming or ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • The History Thieves

    Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation

    par Ian Cobain ...
    **'As British official records are still "going missing", the significance of Cobain's work only increases' David Olusoga'In an astonishing book, the writer Ian Cobain reveals the mass destruction of records and archives, and the false memory it has left us with' Andrew Marr**In 1889, the first Official Secrets Act was passed. Since then a culture of secrecy has flourished. As successive ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Run The Gauntlet

    The Channel Dash 1942

    par Ken Ford ...
    Collections Livre 28 - Raid
    In February 1942, three of the major ships of the German surface fleet – the battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen – stormed out of the harbour at Brest on a dramatic voyage back to Germany.Passing through the straights of Dover, the ships faced everything the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy could throw at them. In a dramatic running fight, the ships ... En savoir plus

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  • The Sinking of the Bismarck

    The famous war correspondent delivers an edge-of-your seat account of the naval chase and battle to take out one of Hitler's most powerful warships.The Bismarck wasn't just any warship. Its guns were much stronger and more accurate than any others in its day—meaning it could easily sink enemy ships without getting in range of their fire. It was one of Hitler's most powerful weapons, and the Allied ... En savoir plus

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