From surviving a horrific terrorist attack in Northern Ireland, to the violence of the Gulf War and an assault course of harrowing experiences in Iraq, Bosnia and Columbia, Major Bill Shaw had seen it all.
This is the story of the Anglo-American amphibious assault and subsequent battle on the Italian west coast at Anzio which was launched in January 1944 in a bold attempt to outflank the formidable German defences known as the 'Gustav Line'.
Lola Carlyle Reveals All is a brilliantly enjoyable rom-com from New York Times bestseller Rachel Gibson - perfect for fans of Jill Shalvis, Jo Watson and Christina Lauren.
A Financial Times book of the year'a first draft of the history of the Obama years' Financial Times full of compelling narrative and telling anecdotes Sunday Times'well-researched and engaging' The Financial Times outstanding Washington Post one of the best reporters working in Washington today Jane Mayer incredibly important timely and deeply revelatory Kai Bird vivid, page-turning Michael BeschlossAs Donald Trump becomes the new American president, we are on the point of a major debate about America s role in the world.
Simon Chase's life is a maze of burner phones, encrypted emails, secret meetings, and weaponry - all devoted to executing missions too sensitive for government acknowledgement.
The Sunday Times bestseller now updated with a new forewordAmong millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret.
When the Korean War broke out in 1950, the Marine Corps was ordered to deploy an air-ground brigade in less than ten days, even though no such brigade existed at the time.
This comprehensive introduction to the study of war and genocide presents a disturbing case that the potential for slaughter is deeply rooted in the political, economic, social and ideological relations of the modern world.
Writings on War collects three of Carl Schmitt's most important and controversial texts, here appearing in English for the first time: The Turn to the Discriminating Concept of War, The Gro raum Order of International Law, and The International Crime of the War of Aggression and the Principle "e;Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege"e;.
In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its partners had been engaging in warrantless mass surveillance, using the internet and cellphone data, and driven by fear of terrorism under the sign of security .
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015One of the most significant and controversial developments in contemporary warfare is the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly referred to as drones.
From Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously reserved for, and assumed appropriate only for men.
As peace operations become the primary mechanism of conflict management used by the UN and regional organizations, understanding their problems and potential is essential for a more secure world.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of women become victims of sexual violence in conflict zones around the world; in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone, approximately 1,100 rapes are reported each month.
In recent years there has been a tendency to intervene in the military, political and economic affairs of failed and failing states and those emerging from violent conflict.
From events at Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II, to the recent trials of Slobodan Milo evi and Saddam Hussein, war crimes trials are an increasingly pervasive feature of the aftermath of conflict.
The trinity of government, military and publics has been drawn together into immediate and unpredictable relationships in a "e;new media ecology"e; that has ushered in new asymmetries in the waging of war and terror.
Paris Book Festival, 1st Place, NonfictionNew York Book Festival, 1st Place, General NonfictionLos Angeles Book Festival, 1st Place, Biography / Autobiography / MemoirHollywood Book Festival, 1st Place, Wild Card categoryAmerican Book Fest Best Book Awards, Finalist, US HistoryScreenCraft Cinematic Book Writing Competition, Quarter FinalistNautilus Book Awards, Silver Award, Journalism and Investigative ReportingNew England Book Festival, 1st Place, NonfictionSan Francisco Book Festival, 1st Place, HistoryFor more than four decades beginning in 1944, the Hanford nuclear weapons facility in southeastern Washington State secretly blanketed much of the Pacific Northwest with low-dose ionizing radiation, the byproduct of plutonium production.
The heart-rending story of the Australians brutally imprisoned in Sandakan, the Japanese POW camp in North Borneo, whose very name came to symbolise cruelty and ill-treatment.
