Author: Jon Evans
Publisher: St. Martin’s Minotaur
Keywords: armies, invisible
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-06-26
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0312368674
ISBN-13: 9780312368678

From the mines of remote India, to the streets of Paris and the lights of Las Vegas, Danielle Leaf is pursued by a terrible secret.Danielle came to India to find herself. Then she agreed to deliver a passport for her ex-boyfriend, legendary computer hacker Keiran Kell. It seemed like a simple favor for a friend - until she was abducted by thugs and imprisoned in a nightmarish cell.She is soon joined by another captive: Laurent, a Foreign Legionnaire turned international activist. Their daring escape is only the beginning. Now Danielle has been drawn into a war between a transnational mining co

Author: Hew Stracha
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: war, conduct, armies, european
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1988-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0415078636
ISBN-13: 9780415078634

Discussing the key issues of modern warfare, Hew Strachan’s work examines the theory and practice of land warfare in Europe since 1700. Looking at warfare in the context of social and political change, Dr. Strachan interprets his subject matter as widely as possible, and European Armies and the Conduct of War considers the roles of air power and the impact of the United States on European military developments. Through the eyes of the major theorists of the day, European Armies examines: * how the social and political influences which shape armies, also mould the attitude of those armies t

Author: Evelio Rosero
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, armies
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0811218643
ISBN-13: 9780811218641

An elderly retired teacher is caught up in drug wars which slowly destroy his small town. Ismail, the profesor, is a retired teacher in a small Colombian town where he passes the days pretending to pick oranges while spying on his neighbor Geraldina as she lies naked in the shade of a ceiba tree on a red floral quilt. The garden burns with sunlight; the macaws laugh sweetly. Otilia, Ismail’s wife, is ashamed of his peeping and suggests that he pay a visit to Father Albornoz. Instead, Ismail wanders the town visiting old friends, plagued by a tangle of secret memories: Where have

Author: Ronald Haycock
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN)
Keywords: insurgency, armies, regular
Published: 1979-10
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0847662004
ISBN-13: 9780847662005

Author: Richard A. Gabriel
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: antiquity, armies
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2002-11-30
List price: $88.95
ISBN-10: 0275978095
ISBN-13: 9780275978099

Gabriel examines 18 ancient army systems, examining the organizational structure and weapons employed and the degree to which cultural values and imperatives shaped the form and application of military force. The tactical doctrines and specific operational capabilities of each army are analyzed to explain how certain technical limitations and societal/cultural imperatives affected the operational capabilities of ancient armies. Cross-cultural and cross-historical connections ground the analysis in the larger historical context of the ancient world.

Author: Ian Heath
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: men, armies, byzantine
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1979-07-05
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0850453062
ISBN-13: 9780850453065

The Byzantines had a remarkably sophisticated approach to politics and military strategy. Unlike most of their contemporaries, they learnt very early in their history that winning a battle did not necessarily win a war, and they frequently bought off their enemies with treaties and bribes rather than squander men and matériel in potentially fruitless campaigns. The Byzantine army of the 10th and early 11th centuries, at the height of its power and efficiency, was the best-organised, best-trained, best-equipped and highest-paid in the known world. This splendid book by Ian Heath examines the B

Author: Nigel Thomas
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: elite, armies, nato
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1987
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0850458226
ISBN-13: 9780850458220

The defeat of Hitler on 8 May 1945 left Western Europe militarily vulnerable and economically exhausted. Not so the Soviet Union, which had since 1940 annexed 180,000 square miles of Eastern Europe, occupied a further 390,000 square miles, and now seemed poised to advance still further westwards with its six-million strong forces. The increasing Soviet threat brought forth demands for a permanent Western Military alliance, and on 4 April 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington DC. This volume by Nigel Thomas explores the history, organisation and uniforms of NATO armies as the