Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)The world's most influential treatise on strategy"e;The Art of War"e; is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC and is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu.
Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)The world's most influential treatise on strategy"e;The Art of War"e; is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC and is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu.
Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)The world's most influential treatise on strategyThe Art of War' is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC and is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu.
Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)The world's most influential treatise on strategyThe Art of War' is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC and is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu.
Wer knappe, klare und anschauliche Informationen über die Geschichte der deutschen Marinen von der Bundesflotte von 1848 bis zur heutigen Deutschen Marine sucht, wird hier mit Sicherheit fündig.
La Flomar avanzaba decidida hacia el que era su objetivo militar, «la ocupación territorial de las islas para, por su parte, otras fuerzas atacar a lo largo de la frontera».
La estrategia bélica explicada a través de metáforas y eficaces ejemplos, convierte a El arte de la guerra en uno de los más vigorosos libros de psicología aplicada jamás escrito.
El volumen que presentamos a continuación bajo el titulo de Escritos Militares es una compilación de dos importantes trabajos en el periodo de la guerra de resistencia contra los Estados Unidos: Guerra de Liberación (1971) y Armar a las masas revolucionarias, construir el ejército popular (1972).
El pensamiento del general chino Sun Tzu ha influido en la obra de Maquiavelo, fue decisivo en los planes militares de Napoleón, modeló las ideas políticas de Mao Tse Tung y se apoya en estos dos preceptos: Todo el arte de la guerra se basa en el engaño.
'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday'Chock full of memorable characters and written with all the drama and pace of a Robert Harris thriller' Rowland White, author of MosquitoSummer 1939.
What does it take to go from growing up in a Mississippi housing project to becoming a master sergeant and a celebrity chef serving in the White House under four United States presidents?
A groundbreaking book that gathers key wartime intelligence reportsDuring the Second World War, three prominent members of the Frankfurt School-Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer-worked as intelligence analysts for the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime forerunner of the CIA.
THE COMPELLING ACCOUNT FROM THE FRONT LINES OF THE WAR IN UKRAINEFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE PETERSON LITERARY PRIZEA revelatory eyewitness account of Russia s invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian resistance by Pulitzer Prize finalist Yaroslav Trofimov, the chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.
Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing, pondering, and disclosing.
The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government.
Als scharfer Beobachter der Aufstände im Nahen Osten seit dem Arabischen Frühling wagt der renommierte Politikwissenschaftler Marc Lynch starke Thesen: Es gibt keinen Weg zurück zu den alten autokratischen Systemen.
Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill's internment of some of the most gifted Jewish refugee writers, professors, artists, and painters of their generation in a camp on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea.
From the harsh realities of basic training to post-war chaos in Iraq and knife-edge tension in Northern Ireland, Squaddie takes us to a place not advertised in army recruitment brochures.
Die militärische Rüstungsbürokratie zwischen Niederlage des Deutschen Kaiserreiches und ›Totalem Krieg‹ der NS-Diktatur – in dieses Spannungsverhältnis begibt sich der Autor.
Die andere Seite des Krieges – Gespräche mit den Soldaten des SechstagekriegsNach dem Sechstagekrieg von 1967 initiierte Avraham Shapira zusammen mit Amos Oz das wohl einflussreichste israelische Buch: „Gespräche mit israelischen Soldaten“.
Die außergewöhnliche Lebensgeschichte von Argyris Sfountouris, der das von deutschen Soldaten verübte Massaker von Distomo 1944 überlebte und seitdem für Gerechtigkeit und Ausgleich kämpft.
"e;In searching the history of our own country, when it stood together as a united nation, waging just war, we find England, our mother country, whose language we speak, arrayed against us.
En este estudio sobre las cárceles de Lima entre 1850 y 1935, Carlos Aguirre reconstruye las influencias sociales, culturales y doctrinales detrás de las formas en que se trataba a los delincuentes, la implementación –parcial y llena de contradicciones– de proyectos de reforma carcelaria, y las estrategias desplegadas por los reclusos para enfrentar la experiencia de la prisión.
'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday Telegraph (Five-Star Review)'Philps' book vindicates the value of truth' Washington Post'Philps has an eye for detail and a heart for those left behind' The Times'A tale of intrigue and suppression' New York Times'A compelling and often horrifying tale of moral degradation and occasional heroism superbly told' Economist'An engaging and insightful account of foreign correspondents living in the Moscow landmark during the Second World War' History TodayReporters.
The Battle of the Atlantic, Canadas longest continuous military engagement of the Second World War, lasted 2,074 days, claiming the lives of more than 4,000 men and women in the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian merchant navy The years 2019 to 2025 mark the eightieth anniversary of the longest battle of the Second World War, the Battle of the Atlantic.
Set in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this romantic tale unfolds against a background of political unrest and tenant agitation in Ireland.
