1,691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...

12,684円 This book is about a region on the fringes of empire, which neither Tsarist Russia, nor the Soviet Union, nor in fact the Russian Federation, ever really managed to control. Starting with the nineteenth century, it analyses the state's various strategies to establish its rule over populations hig...

5,955円 Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany provides an in-depth transnational study of power politics, daily life, and social interactions in the Western Zones of occupied Germany during the aftermath of the Second World War. Combining a history from below with a top-down perspective...

5,955円 Cinematic representations of unconventional warfare have received sporadic attention to date. However, this pattern has now begun to change with the rise of insurgency and counter-insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the growing importance of jihadist terrorism in the wake of 9/11. This ground...

885円 The Dieppe raid is the most traumatic day in Canadian Military History. This book examines the raid by comparing it with other amphibious landings. The questions raised by the raid are examined in comparison with battles which used bomber support. Drawing from Official Reports, lessons learned ar...

4,134円 台灣地景的壯闊、細緻與繁複，保存在太平洋戰爭的凝視之中。 「製造戰爭與攝製照片是兩種相疊合的行為。」──蘇珊．桑塔格 觀看即摧毀，航空偵照是現代戰爭的視覺技術投射，喻示著將臨的攻擊；但在情報作戰的前沿、瞄準具的冷酷視角外，鏡頭卻也記錄下珍貴的地理訊息。 交織著彼時天光與死亡風險，在萬千快門中，地理以地...

553円 In July of 1863, the largest battle ever fought on American soil swept through the tiny town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. For three days, 160,000 Union and Confederate troops slaughtered one another in the streets, fields, and forests while the 2,500 residents of this small Pennsylvania town cowe...

1,989円 La historia de los 503 días del arresto de Augusto Pinochet en Londres probablemente sea la más increíble de todas las que constituyen lo que historiadores y analistas han llamado “transición a la democracia”. Amparado por su pasaporte diplomático de senador vitalicio, convaleciente de una operac...

2,387円 La preocupación por los temas de la Araucanía en las últimas décadas ha prescindido en gran medida de la documentación de carácter militar, sea porque los estudiosos han menospreciado el tema bélico o han visto en él solo el aspecto depredatorio. Se la ha utilizado en forma apasionada, sin captar...

1,327円 In the late 1970s, at the age of nineteen, Oiva Angula left his home in Windhoek and went into exile in Angola, where he joined SWAPO’s military wing, PLAN. After working for the movement as a political instructor, he was wrongly branded an apartheid spy and traitor during a series of purges with...

4,368円 During the last decade, 'Hybrid Warfare' has become a novel yet controversial term in academic, political and professional military lexicons, intended to suggest some sort of mix between different military and non-military means and methods of confrontation. Enthusiastic discussion of the notion ...

4,368円 What should states do with the bodies of suicide bombers and other jihadists who die while perpetrating terrorist attacks? This original and unsettling book explores the host of ethical and political questions raised by this dilemma, from (non-)legitimization of the 'enemy' and their cause to the...