In "The Good Soldier Svejk," celebrated Czech writer and anarchist Jaroslav Hasek combined dazzling wordplay and piercing satire in a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of w...
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On April 23, 1943, the seventy-man crew of the USS Grenadier scrambled to save their submarinemdash;and themselvesmdash;after a Japanese aerial torpedo sent it crashing to the ocean floor...
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In the early morning hours of October 24, 1944, the legendary U.S. Navy submarine Tang was hit by one of its own faulty torpedoes. The survivors of the explosion struggled to stay alive o...
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What happened when millions of British servicemen were demobbed -demobilized-after World War II? Most had been absent for years, and the joy of arrival was often clouded with ambivalence,...
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In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super-race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive "walkers" cover the pl...
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Buy General Albert C Wedemeyer by John J. Mclaughlin in Hardcover for the low price of 21.96. Find this product in Biography & Autobiography > Military.
When confronted with a persistent foreign policy problem that threatens U.S. interests, and that cannot be adequately addressed through economic or political pressure, American policymake...
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"Counting the Days is the story of six prisoners of war imprisoned by both sides during the conflict the Japanese called the ""Pacific War."" As in all wars, the prisoners were civilians...
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Nearly one hundred thousand German Jews fought in World War I, and some twelve thousand of these soldiers lost their lives in battle. This book focuses on the multifaceted ways in which t...
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This memoir illuminates key aspects of the war experience: the enthusiasm for fighting, tensions with officers, tedium with regard to noncombatant work, the variety of trench experience...
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This DVD outlines the history of the world's greatest airships--from the pioneering efforts of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin to the career of the Hindenburg's sister ship the Graf Zeppelin...
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Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war's devastations had become clear? Were its leaders 'simple-minded,' 'below-average' individu...
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In this lucid and cogently-argued book, Christine Hallett explores the nature of the practices developed by nurses and their volunteer-assistants during the First World War.She argues tha...
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Everywhere stealing, lying and killing are considered wrong. But in some contexts, in war for example, these codes can differ. Robert Hinde argues that understanding the evolutionary orig...
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Narrowly escaping a massacre by the Hammer that destroys his Federated Worlds heavy cruiser Ishaq and a fleet of merchant ships, Junior Lieutenant Michael Helfort and the other remnants o...
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Now in paperback?the ?amazing?( James Bradley, New York Times bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers ) never-before-told story of the greatest escape of the Second World War. In 1944 ...
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In The Costs of War, Richard Falk brings together some of his recent essays, published and unpublished, examining the impact that the Iraq War has had and will have on international law...
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Williams reveals the central role of African American soldiers in World War I and how they, along with race activists and ordinary citizens alike, committed to fighting for democracy at h...
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This book offers a unique perspective for understanding how and why the Second World War in Europe ended as it did--and why Germany, in attacking the Soviet Union, came far closer to winn...
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This book provides a theoretically guided and historically sensitive account of the geopolitical relations of medieval Latin Christendom. It does this by developing a theoretically inform...
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Taking readers on a figurative trip through time and a literal journey across America, "Man of War" details an ordinary guy's attempt to relearn history by experiencing it. Embedding with...
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