Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics and Technology (Friedman Norman)(Paperback)

Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics and Technology (Friedman Norman)(Paperback)

The Cold War (Friedman Norman)(Mass Market Paperbound)

Written by a leading American defense analyst, Dr. Norman Friedman, The Compact Guide: The Cold War is supplemented with 60 photographs and documents that allow the reader to witness the events as they unfolded.As present-day political and military hostilities between Russia and the West threaten

Command in War (Van Creveld Martin)(Paperback)

Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems

Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy (Gray Colin S.)(Paperback)

Colin Gray presents an inventive treatise on the nature of strategy, war, and peace, organized around forty maxims. This collection of mini essays will forearm politicians, soldiers, and the attentive general public against many-probably most- fallacies that abound in contemporary debates about

Castles Of Steel - Britain, Germany and the Winning of The Great War at Sea (K Massie Robert)(Paperback / softback)

Fighting Forces of the Second World War: At Sea (Miles John)(Pevná vazba)

A in-depth look at the heroic fighting forces of the Second World

Voices of the Old Sea (Lewis Norman)(Paperback)

After World War II, Norman Lewis returned to Spain and settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now Costa Brava. Voices of the Old Sea describes his three successive summers in that almost medieval community where life revolved around the seasonal sardine catches, Alcade's bar,

British Submarines in the Cold War Era (Friedman Norman)(Pevná vazba)

British Submarines in the Cold War Era shows how a combination of evolving strategic and tactical requirements and new technology produced successive types of submarines. It is based largely on unpublished and previously classified official documentation, and to the extent allowed by security

Complete Croquet: A Guide to Skills, Tactics and Strategy (Hawkins James)(Paperback)

Providing a comprehensive guide for the aspiring and improving croquet player, this overviewdeals with basic skills and outlines how to avoid and eradicate common problems. An in-depth coverage of modern tactics is also presented, focusing on the building blocks of break play andexamining in detail

Fighting in Ukraine: A Photographer at War (Mitchelhill-Green David)(Paperback)

The outcome of the Second World War was decided on the Eastern Front. Denied a swift victory over Stalin s Red Army, Hitler s Wehrmacht found itself in a bloody, protracted struggle from late 1941 that it was ill-prepared to fight. Although many pictorial books have been published on Germany s

Rethinking Holocaust Justice: Essays Across Disciplines (Goda Norman J. W.)(Paperback)

Since the end of World War II, the ongoing efforts aimed at criminal prosecution, restitution, and other forms of justice in the wake of the Holocaust have constituted one of the most significant episodes in the history of human rights and international law. As such, they have attracted sustained

Jackson Pollock: Energy Made Visible (Friedman B. H.)(Paperback)

'Friedman has captured the excitement of the artist at work--the tortuous groping towards an idea and the sense of fulfillment in its ultimate creation. It is, indeed, a definitive biography. It is documented. It is solid. But best of all, it is lively.'--Chicago Tribune Nowhere is the complex and

The Sword of Scotland: 'Our Fighting Jocks' (Leask Anthony)(Paperback)

The story of Scots at war throughout the ages right up to the present

Small Unit Tactics: An Illustrated Manual (Luke Matthew)(Paperback)

Small unit tactics is the art of using Soldiers in squads and platoons to conduct war. These tactics prioritize moving behind enemy lines with little to no footprint while maintaining tight security. Use tactics to destroy the enemy by executing a perfect ambush.Special operations veterans have

The Art of War (Tzu Sun)(Paperback)

The most prestigious and influential book on strategy and dealing with conflict, beautifully translated for clear, accessible reading. In the words of Sun Tzu, 'To win without fighting is best.' This timeless Chinese classic captures the essence of military strategy used in ancient East Asia, with

I Go by Sea, I Go by Land (Travers P. L.)(Paperback)

'James and I stayed on at home and everything was quiet and sunny and we got to thinking the war would never come after all . . . Just when we were so sure nothing would happen, the German plane came over. It came over one night at one o'clock in the morning and the sound was quite different from

Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War (McCurry Stephanie)(Paperback)

Winner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award 'A stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women.'--David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass 'Readers expecting hoop-skirted ladies soothing fevered soldiers' brows will not find them here...Explodes the fiction that men fight

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Friedman George)(Paperback)

China fragments, a new Cold War with Russia, Mexcio challenges U.S., the new great powers Turkey, Poland and Japan. The Next 100 Years is a fascinating, eye-opening and often shocking look at what lies ahead for the U.S. and the world from one of our most incisive futurists. In his

Decoding Greatness - The Hidden Strategy for Achieving Extraordinary Success (Friedman Ron)(Paperback / softback)

In Decoding Greatness, award-winning social psychologist Ron Friedman shows readers how to decode, master and create great ideas to produce novel breakthroughs of their

Fighting Forces of the Second World War: On Land (Miles John C.)(Pevná vazba)

A in-depth look at the heroic fighting forces of the Second World

Animals in the Great War (Moore Lucinda)(Paperback)

Animals in the Great War throws a spotlight on the experience of creatures great and small during the First World War, vividly telling their stories through the incredible archival images of the Mary Evans Picture Library. The enduring public interest in Michael Morpurgos tale of the war horse

Networked, Scaled, and Agile: A Design Strategy for Complex Organizations (Kates Amy)(Paperback)

While technology and geopolitical forces change the face of business today, the patterns and challenges of organizing humans to work together across organization, culture, language and time zone boundaries remain. To face these challenges, all organizations need to be agile, networked and scalable

Techniques, Technology and Civilization (Schlanger Nathan)(Paperback)

Marcel Mauss's writings on techniques and technology are at the forefront of an important anthropological and sociological research tradition, and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study. A selection of Mauss's texts -- including his major

What Is Strategy and Does It Matter? (Whittington Richard (Reader in Strategy at the Said Business School University of Oxford))(Paperback / softback)