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Hardcover. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this volume argues that although the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars are often understood as laying the foundations for total war, many eyewitnesses continued to draw upon older interpretative frameworks to make sense of the armed struggle and attendant political and social upheaval. Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; HBWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230249172
- ISBN
- 9780230249172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.95
€ 62.95
Hardback. Raoul Wallenberg is remembered for his humanitarian activity on behalf of the Hungarian Jews at the end of World War II, and as the Swedish diplomat who disappeared into the Soviet Gulag in 1945. This book examines how thirty-one Wallenberg monuments, in twelve countries on five continents commemorate the man. Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts. Num Pages: 443 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AMGD; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 443
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222380
- ISBN
- 9780230222380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.28
€ 121.28
Hardcover. British children were mobilised for total war in 1914-18. It dominated their school experience and they enjoyed it as a source of entertainment. Their support was believed to be vital for Britain's present and future but their participation was motivated by a desire to remain connected to their absent fathers and brothers. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221758
- ISBN
- 9780230221758
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Hardback. Examines Franco's relations with Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War, this book makes use of two major sources: the German Admiralty's archives, stunning in their evidence of Franco's support; and the Spanish press, operating under a totalitarian regime and yearning for an Axis victory to the bitter end. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202894
- ISBN
- 9780230202894
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.79
€ 62.79
paperback. This detailed reference guide, based on a vast amount of source data, traces every known detail of Hitler's career, with extensive quotation both from Hitler's own speeches and writings and from those of his contemporaries. This second edition features an enlarged and updated bibliography and introduction. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BGH; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202849
- ISBN
- 9780230202849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.38
€ 51.38
Hardback. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114104
- ISBN
- 9780230114104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.10
€ 63.10
Hardback. This book examines the social and cultural consequences of a war normally looked at for its role in the story of Italian unification - the convergence of French, Austrian, and Piedmont-Sardinian armies in northern Italy in 1859, referred to in Italy as the "Second War for Independence." Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108134
- ISBN
- 9780230108134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.67
€ 62.67
Hardcover. This volume offers the first comprehensive history of the Security Section of the Special Operations Executive and its relationship with MI5 during the Second World War. The book makes extensive use of recently declassified files in order to examine the development of liaison between the two organizations. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBWQ; JWKF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2006th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230002418
- ISBN
- 9780230002418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.08
€ 150.08
Hardback. The Revolutionary Years, 1775-1789, reveals how the nation's leaders asserted power during the fourteen crucial years from the Revolution's first shots at Lexington in April 1775 to the adoption of the Constitution in 1789. Num Pages: 174 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBWF; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597976749
- ISBN
- 9781597976749
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.39
€ 30.99
€ 27.39
Public Opinion and International Intervention: Lessons from the Iraq W...
. Ed(S): Sobel, Richard; Furia, Peter; Barret...
paperback. Rarely has a foreign policy event spawned such interest in international public opinion as has the Iraq War. Editor(s): Sobel, Richard; Furia, Peter; Barrett, Bethany. Num Pages: 322 pages, tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JMC; HBWS5; JPS; JPVK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Potomac Books United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597974936
- ISBN
- 9781597974936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.54
€ 32.99
€ 29.54
hardcover. This one-volume anthology provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that air power has played in military conflicts over the past century. Num Pages: 522 pages, 27 B&W. BIC Classification: HBW; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 42. Weight in Grams: 918.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Potomac Books, Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 522
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781597974400
- ISBN
- 9781597974400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 48.70
€ 54.99
€ 48.70
Hardback. As the bloodshed in Iraq intensified in 2005, Afghanistan quickly faded from the nation's front pages to become the "other war," supposedly going well and largely ignored. In fact, the insurgency in Afghanistan was about to break out with renewed force, the drug problem was worsening, and international coordination was losing focus. Num Pages: 256 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLX; HBWS4; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597974271
- ISBN
- 9781597974271
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.79
€ 30.79
Hardback. On October 23, 1983, nearly simultaneous suicide truck bombings killed 241 U.S. peacekeepers in their barracks at the Beirut International Airport (BIA) and 58 French paratroopers at their headquarters two miles north of BIA. In this long-awaited book, the Marine Corps commander of the U.S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 b&w photos, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 3JJPN; HBLW3; HBW; JPWL; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597974257
- ISBN
- 9781597974257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.22
€ 43.22
Hardback. In New York City in 1939, neither eighteen-year-old Jack "Jake" Jacobson nor his comrade Murray "Duke" Davison had any intention of joining the military. Their sights were set on playing club dates in what Duke called the "upholstered sewers" of Manhattan. Num Pages: 292 pages, 16 b+w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597972857
- ISBN
- 9781597972857
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.29
€ 27.99
€ 26.29
hardcover. From 1917 to 1920 the Woman's Land Army (WLA) brought thousands of city workers, society women, artists, business professionals, and college students into rural America to take over the farm work after men were called to wartime service. Num Pages: 352 pages, 64 b&w photos, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBWN; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Potomac Books, Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781597972734
- ISBN
- 9781597972734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 28.58
€ 30.99
€ 28.58
Hardback. Walking through Arlington National Cemetery is an experience like no other. A quiet sense of respect persists, and the beauty is overwhelming. It is the final resting place of thousands of our nation's war heroes, with more added every day in poignant and moving ceremonies. Robert C. Num Pages: 200 pages, 250 full colour photographs. BIC Classification: HBW; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 939.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597972727
- ISBN
- 9781597972727
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 34.19
€ 35.99
€ 34.19
Paperback. The books in the Essential Bibliographies series include an essay by a noted scholar on the important historiographical issues and a pertinent bibliography for a particular period or theme in military history. Series: Essential Bibliographies Series. Num Pages: 122 pages. BIC Classification: GBCR; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 131 x 9. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 122
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597972468
- ISBN
- 9781597972468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.94
€ 15.99
€ 14.94
paperback. It is only in the past two decades that scholars have breached the language barrier in Germany, Austria, and Russia, permitting a comprehensive reexamination of the Napoleonic Wars. Series: Essential Bibliography Series. Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: GBCR; HBWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 125 x 10. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Potomac Books, Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597972093
- ISBN
- 9781597972093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.98
€ 15.99
€ 14.98
paperback. Presents a study of unconventional warfare in American military history. This book includes: guerrilla fighting during the American Civil War; wars between the United States and Native Americans; the Philippine Insurrection; the campaign against Mexico's Pancho Villa; and, US occupations of the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nicaragua. Num Pages: 308 pages, 6 b&w photos, 7 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBW; JWDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc. United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597971560
- ISBN
- 9781597971560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.74
€ 21.74
paperback. What distinguishes Richard F. Miller's "A Carrier at War" is its focus on individual officers and sailors and shipboard morale as distinct from the usual "bomb and bullet" reporting. The USS Kitty Hawk's mission paralleled the tortuous course of events leading up to the Iraq War. Num Pages: 272 pages, 29 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLX; HBW; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Potomac Books, Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781597970471
- ISBN
- 9781597970471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.36
€ 18.99
€ 18.36