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1	War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning more books like this by Chris Hedges A veteran New York Times war correspondent's complex, moving, and thought-provoking reflection on how life is lived most intensely in times of war.. General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers more books like this by Paul M Kennedy About national and international power in the 'modern' or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the five centuries since the formation of the 'new monarchies' in Western Europe. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.38! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society Since A.D. 1000 more books like this by William McNeill In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow--banned by the Church in 1139 as too lethal for Christians ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age more books like this by Peter Paret War cannot be controlled in future without an understanding of its past. These essays analyse war, its strategic characteristics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. see all copies from $7.06! new only from $26.75! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The rise and fall of the great powers : economic change and military conflict from 1500-2000 more books like this by Paul M. Kennedy This study describes how the past 500 years shows that nations which became great powers had to decline as their growth rate slowed and their spending on defence continued to increase and explains how this can be eased or worsened by clever or short-sighted policy decisions. The final chapter looks at the current dilemna of the USA, the USSR, the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.71! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It more books like this by David A Bell As Bell argues in this tour de force of interpretive history, nearly every modern aspect of war took root during the Enlightenment and the French Revolution: conscription, unconditional surrender, total disregard for the rules of combat, mobilization of civilians, guerrilla warfare, and the perverse notion of war fought for the sake of peace. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda more books like this by John Keegan 'No war can be conducted successfully without early and good intelligence,' wrote Marlborough, and from the earliest times commanders have sought knowledge of the enemy, his strengths and weaknesses, his dispositions and intentions. But how much effect, in the 'real time' of a battle or a campaign, can this knowledge have? In this magisterial new ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Vessel of Sadness more books like this by William Woodruff Italy, 1944 - this is the setting of one of the most convincing and quietly magnificent stories about man and war that has ever been written. Here, (distilled from the experiences and observations of one who fought with them in the British infantry unit) is the mood of those who fought and died at Anzio. Their task - to seize the Alban Hills and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.62! \| first editions
9	Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton more books like this by Martin L Van Crevald Why did Napoleon succeed in 1805 but fail in 1812? Were the railways vital to Prussia's victory over France in 1870? Was the famous Schlieffen Plan militarily sound? Could the European half of World War II have been ended in 1944? These are only a few of the questions that form the subject-matter of this meticulously researched, lively book. ... see all copies from $2.69! new only from $16.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Military Innovation Interwar Period more books like this by Williamson Murray (Editor), Allan Reed Millett (Editor) This study of major military innovations in the 1920s and 1930s explores differences in innovating exploitation by the seven major military powers. This volume of comparative essays investigates how and why innovation occurred or did not occur, and explains much of the strategic and operative performance of the Axis and Allies in World War II. see all copies from $13.22! new only from $20.00! \| SVS
11 view cover	The Yard: Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works more books like this by Michael S Sanders (Footnotes by) This dramatic account of the building and launch of the destroyer U.S.S. "Donald Cook" at the century-old Bath Iron Works in Maine, one of the greatest shipyards in the United States, is also the chronicle of the end of an era. Photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords, and a World of Endless Conflict more books like this by William Shawcross The Cold War has been followed by a decade of regional and ethnic conflicts, massacres, and forced exiles. Should America assume the role of peacekeeper and chief humanitarian in a world of endless wars and human disasters? Eminent foreign correspondent William Shawcross has spent much of his career in war zones and has had unrivaled access to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Warfare in the Seventeenth Century more books like this by John Childs In the seventeenth century the art of war underwent a very quiet revolution. Although the weapons changed from the pike to the socket bayonet and the uniformed dress appeared on the battlefield, there was no 'birth of the modern army', but rather a gradual evolution of military techniques and the conduct of war. Improvements in the design of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today more books like this by Max Boot A monumental work of history, this book shows how technological and strategic revolutions have transformed the battlefield--from the Spanish Armada to the War on Terror--and how mastery of these innovations has shaped the rise and fall of nations and empires. 16-page photo insert. see all copies from $4.85! new only from $11.95! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Art of Warfare in the Age of Napoleon more books like this by Gunther Erich Rothenberg Some 12 years ago it was estimated that well over 300,000 works existed on this period and since then several thousand more have appeared. Therefore, it might be reasonably argued that there is little room for another volume. Nonetheless, this vast outpouring of literature has usually dealt with major leaders, specific battles or campaigns, and ... see all copies from $3.77! new only from $16.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The air war 1939-1945 more books like this by R J Overy A new volume in Brassey's Cornerstones of Military History series see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.49! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The social history of the machine gun more books like this by John Ellis A history of the machine gun - from its impact on the conduct of war to its use in gangster films. see all copies from $4.81! new only from $12.34! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Causes of War more books like this by Geoffrey Blainey Based on a survey of international wars fought since 1700 and updated in this edition to include the nuclear era, this work examines the causes of war, arguing that the causes of war and peace are closely related and emphasizing factors such as our understanding of why wars begin and end. In the "Washington Post" J.E.Ambrose judged an earlier ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions
19 view cover	Last Stand: Famous Battles Against the Odds more books like this by Bryan Perrett An analysis of 13 conflicts in which the few stood out against the many, ranging from Napoleonic campaigns to World War II, from the Alamo to Arnhem Bridge, from the Wild West to the Pacific Ocean. Amongst the battles featured are Waterloo, Little Big Horn, Wake Atoll and Rorke's Drift. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.22! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Oxford History of Modern War more books like this by Charles Townshend (Editor) How has war shaped modern society and vice versa? How has it changed between the introduction of firearms and the invention of the atom bomb? How is war waged today? "The Oxford History of Modern War" examines the techniques, technology, and theory of war from the 'military revolution' of the seventeenth century to the present day, with ... see all copies from $6.80! new only from $11.75! \| SVS
21 view cover	War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000 more books like this by Dr. Jeremy Black An attempt to write a global history of warfare in the modern era. Jeremy Black, here presents a wide-ranging account of the nature, purpose and experience of war over the last half millennium. Investigating both land and sea warfare, Black examines weaponry, tactics, strategy and resources as well as the political, social and cultural impact of ... see all copies from $6.25! new only from $23.55! \| first editions
22 view cover	Impossible Victories: Ten Unlikely Battlefield Successes more books like this by Bryan Perrett A follow-up title to the author's previous work, "Last Stand, At All Costs". This volume describes and recounts various occurrences of the phenomena of "impossible victories". Through ten accounts, the reader is taken from the Peninsular War or 1811 to Vietnam in 1967, with colonial action and events from the World Wars also included. Each story ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.98! \| first editions
23 view cover	World War II Airborne Warfare Tactics more books like this by Gordon L Rottman, Peter Dennis (Illustrator) Airborne warfare - the deployment of large numbers of troops by parachute and glider - reached its zenith during World War II - the only war in which its potential prizes ever justified its great costs, material and human. It required wholly new equipment and tactics; offered a new capability - to insert whole divisions behind enemy lines by ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War more books like this by Eliot A Cohen, John Gooch Why do competent armies fail? What made the 1915 British-led invasion of Gallipoli one of the bloodiest catastrophes of the First World War? How did a dozen German U-Boats manage to humiliate the U.S. navy for nine months in 1942, sinking an average of 650,000 tons of shipping monthly? Why was the sophisticated Israeli intelligence service so ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The face of war more books like this by Martha Gellhorn A collection of the author's war journalism, covering her reports on the conflicts in Spain, Finland, China and World War II, with later reports on Vietnam, Israel and Central America. see all copies from $2.34! new only from $32.72! \| first editions

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