Nuclear War In The UK (Young Taras)(Pevná vazba)

Nuclear War In The UK (Young Taras)(Pevná vazba)

Battle Stations: War Picture Library (Pratt Hugo)(Pevná vazba)

The first in a major series of new collections bringing the long lost UK war comics of Italian art maestro Hugo Pratt to the public in stunning new editions. Two brothers of differing rank have to make extraordinary sacrifices in the line of the toughest duty. This is a true story of courage under

Philosophy in the Garden (Young Damon)(Pevná vazba)

The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution (Jervis Robert)(Paperback)

Robert Jervis argues here that the possibility of nuclear war has created a revolution in military strategy and international relations. He examines how the potential for nuclear Armageddon has changed the meaning of war, the psychology of statesmanship, and the formulation of military policy by

Minuteman: A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare (Stumpf David)(Pevná vazba)

In Minuteman: A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare, David K. Stumpf demystifies the intercontinental ballistic missile program that was conceived at the end of the Eisenhower administration as a key component of the US nuclear strategy of massive retaliation

Derek Jarman's Garden (Jarman Derek)(Pevná vazba)

Derek Jarman's garden is in the flat expanse of shingle that faces the nuclear power station in Dungeness, Kent. He mixed the flint, shells and driftwood of Dungeness with indigenous and introduced plants. This book is his own record of how this garden evolved, from its beginnings in

Goodnight Mister Tom (Magorian Michelle)(Pevná vazba)

When the Second World War breaks out, young Willie Beech is evacuated to the countryside. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of kind old Tom Oakley. But then his cruel mother summons him back to war-torn London... Will he ever see Mister Tom

Airpower in the War Against Isis (Lambeth Benjamin S.)(Pevná vazba)

Airpower in the War against ISIS chronicles the planning and conduct of Operation Inherent Resolve by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) from August 2014 to mid-2018, with a principal focus on the contributions of U.S. Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT). Benjamin S. Lambeth contends that the war's

Britain's Railways in the Second World War (Foley Michael)(Pevná vazba)

The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. Keeping the trains running through times of conflict was not such a distant memory for the railway companies and their workers but in this second major war of the twentieth century, the task was to prove a

Women in the Peninsular War (Esdaile Charles J.)(Pevná vazba)

In the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808-14, women are well represented-both as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as victims, whether of starvation or of French brutality. In history, however, with its focus on high politics and military operations, they are invisible-a

The Art of War (Tzu Sun)(Pevná vazba)

'Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril.' The Art of War, by the Chinese general and philosopher Sun Tzu, is one of the most influential books of military strategy ever written. More than 2,000 years old, this classic of Chinese philosophy lays out a

Jade War (Lee Fonda)(Pevná vazba)

In Jade War, the sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Jade City, the Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis.On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for control of the capital city and the supply of

City of Beasts (Wang Corrie)(Pevná vazba)

A teenage girl living in a post-nuclear town embarks on a quest to save her brother from the other side of a dividd world in this dystopian adventure novel for fans of Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now.For seventeen years, fees have lived separate from beasts. The division of the sexes has kept their

The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis (Gallagher Gary W.)(Pevná vazba)

In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary W. Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute. He places contemporary understanding of the Civil War,

Radiochemistry and Nuclear Chemistry (Choppin Gregory)(Pevná vazba)

Radiochemistry or nuclear chemistry is the study of radiation from an atomic and molecular perspective, including elemental transformation and reaction effects, as well as physical, health and medical properties. This revised edition of one of the earliest and best-known books on the subject has

First World War, the Universities and the Professions in Australia 1914-1939 (Waghorne James)(Pevná vazba)

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

Life in Jefferson Davis' Navy (Tomblin Barbara B.)(Pevná vazba)

The Civil War is often considered a 'soldiers' war,' but Life in Jefferson Davis' Navy acknowledges the legacy of service of the officers and sailors of the Confederate States Navy. In this full-length study, Barbara Brooks Tomblin addresses every aspect of a Confederate seaman's life, from the

A French GI at Omaha Beach (Jolivet Caroline)(Pevná vazba)

Bernard Dargols was a young Parisian student working in New York when war broke out in 1939. While his family remained in France and was threatened by the Vichy regime's anti-Semitic laws, Bernard decided to enlist in the US Army, convinced that it would be more useful to fight the occupying

Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II (Rosen Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Spad Fighters: The Spad A.2 to XVI in World War I (Wilkins Mark C.)(Pevná vazba)

The First Vietnam War (McHale Shawn F.)(Pevná vazba)

Shawn McHale explores why the communist-led resistance in Vietnam won the anticolonial war against France (1945-54), except in the south. He shows how broad swaths of Vietnamese people were uneasily united in 1945 under the Viet Minh Resistance banner, all opposing the French attempt to reclaim

Ambulance Girls At War (Burrows Deborah)(Pevná vazba)

Young Maisie Halliday has escaped the grinding poverty of the northern town where she was born to live in the glittering world of professional dancing. At the outbreak of the Second World War, she volunteers as an ambulance driver, finding joy both in helping the wounded during the Blitz and also

Bombing the Marshall Islands (Parsons Keith M.)(Paperback)

During the Cold War, the United States conducted atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. The total explosive yield of these tests was 108 megatons, equivalent to the detonation of one Hiroshima bomb per day over nineteen years. These tests, particularly Castle