2,867円 A recently retired Israeli Air Force general and its second-highest-scoring fighter ace, Iftach Spector is one of Israel’s living legends. He was the leader of the flight that attacked the USS Liberty in 1967. After the 1967 and 1973 wars, in which he commanded a squadron of fighter-bombers, he r...

335円 A Soldier’s Journey Through Life The reader joins the author in his ‘Journey through Life’ around 1935, as perceived by a child of five and six following him through the simple ways of life in the Western UP villages, then to Delhi of yore and the small towns of the province. The culture shock of...

1,243円 For the first time in trade paperback-a classic memoir of Navy SEALs in action. In gripping prose, Captain Robert A. Gormly tells about his days as a leader in the Navy SEALs- taking readers into the night, into the water, and into battle on some of the most hair-raising missions ever assigned. T...

2,811円 On July 2, 1863, the second day of fighting at Gettysburg, Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, in a controversial interpretation of his orders, advanced his men beyond the established Union line, exposing his flanks to a potentially devastating Confederate attack. Shortly after being reprimanded by his ...

2,022円 **In his final book, completed just before his death, Edward W. Said offers impassioned pleas for the beleaguered Palestinian cause. “These searing essays refract the reality of terrible years through a mind with extraordinary understanding, compassion, insight, and deep knowledge.” ーNoam Chomsk...

7,960円 This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotor...

2,122円 The story of the decimation of the Royal Flying Corps over Arras in 1917 As the Allies embarked upon the Battle of Arras, they desperately needed accurate aerial reconnaissance photographs. But by this point the Royal Flying Club were flying obsolete planes. The new German Albatros scouts massive...

2,399円 Каждый новый день бросает нам новые вызовы, нам приходится сталкиваться с новыми ситуациями, некоторые из которых могут привести в замешательство даже “видавших виды”. Чтобы ситуация не обернулась против вас и, более того, чтобы получать от любой ситуации максимум возможного - необходимо принимат...

3,100円 As a British infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles Emile Simpson completed three tours of Southern Afghanistan. Drawing on that experience, and on a range of revealing case studies ranging from Nepal to Borneo, War From The Ground Up offers a distinctive perspective on contemporary armed co...

447円 This edition features • a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index CONTENTS (abridged list) CHAPTER I. CAUSES OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR. CHAPTER II. THE BOHEMIAN REVOLUTION. CHAPTER III. IMPERIALIST VICTORIES IN BOHEMIA AND THE PALATINATE ... CHAPTER IX. THE DEATH OF WALLENSTEI...

2,811円 What if, on September 11, 1814, the United States had lost the close-run battle that Winston Churchill called the “most decisive” of the War of 1812? With a victory at Plattsburgh, would the British have eventually been able to regain control of their former colonies? Only one fleeting moment on ...

650円 This study examines the changes implemented in the course of NATO's self-imposed process of transformation during the 1990s in order to determine whether they improved NATO's ability to respond to the types of crises the Allies expected to face in the post-Cold War security environment. Years of ...