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• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• File Size : 28,5 Mb
• Release Date : 11 April 2013

The collapse of Western colonial empires in the twenty years after the Second World War led to a series of vicious struggles for power - in Africa, Asia and the

• Publisher : Viking Adult
• File Size : 38,8 Mb
• Release Date : 20 May 2024

A prize-winning historian describes how the collapses in power in the Philippines, the Congo and Iran, among other places, contributed to Cold War tensions and explains how this cemented the

• Publisher : Basic Books
• File Size : 29,7 Mb
• Release Date : 11 March 2014

America's "small wars," "imperial wars," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflicts," have played an essential but little-appreciated role in its growth as a world power. Beginning with

• Publisher : Tales End Press
• File Size : 52,5 Mb
• Release Date : 12 August 2012

This is the original manual for “small wars,” now known variously as guerrilla warfare, asymmetric combat, and low-intensity conflict. It was first published in 1896 as an analysis and how-to guide

• Publisher : Yale University Press
• File Size : 45,6 Mb
• Release Date : 21 February 2017

This new edition of Frank Ledwidge’s eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh

• Publisher : Knopf Canada
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• Release Date : 01 September 2009

Sadie Jones, the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Outcast, returns with an ambitious, richly imagined novel that confirms her place in the literary firmament. A passionate and beautifully

• Publisher : e-artnow
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• Release Date : 03 December 2021

The Small Wars Manual is a manual on tactics and strategies for engaging in certain types of military operations created by the United States Marine Corps. The purpose of this

• Publisher : Anchor
• File Size : 27,9 Mb
• Release Date : 04 April 2017

“One of the most important books of Vietnamese American and Vietnam War literature...Moving, powerful.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer In these pages, Le Ly

• Publisher : Anchor
• File Size : 34,8 Mb
• Release Date : 26 January 2016

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
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• Release Date : 16 July 2019

* HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER: BEST NOVELLA * “[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by