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  • Sustaining Peace in ASEAN and the Asia-Pacific
    In 2016, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly and the UN Security Council respectively adopted resolutions on the review of the UN peacebuilding architecture, and the concept of 'sustaining peace' was formally presented. Since then, the 'sustaining peace' agenda has gradually become the core strategy of the peace cause of the UN. The agenda for sustaining peace emphasizes c...
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    105,87 €

  • On War
    Carl von Clausewitz
    On War (German: Vom Kriege) is a book on war and military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife Marie von Brühl in 1832. It is one of the most important treatises on political-military analysis and strategy ever written, and remains both controversial and influent...
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    27,83 €

  • Cultural Genocide
    Drew Eldridge
    A carefully researched and shocking list of thirteen little-known details concerning residential schools, mass graves and broken treaties in Canada. What happened? Who was involved? Why was it allowed to go on for so long? In Cultural Genocide, Drew Eldridge invites readers to ask all the hard questions as they confront unsettling aspects of Canada’s dark history. ...
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    7,94 €

  • After the Smoke Clears
    Mark J. Allman / Tobias Winright
    While most studies of just war focus on the rationale for going to war and the conduct of the war, this important book examines the period after the conflict. What must be done to restore justice? In the words of the authors, ''’Victory’ is declared by presidents and other leaders, yet all too often no just peace is to be found in the wake of today’s conflicts. . . . After the ...
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    25,66 €

  • After the Smoke Clears
    Mark J. Allman / Tobias Winright
    While most studies of just war focus on the rationale for going to war and the conduct of the war, this important book examines the period after the conflict. What must be done to restore justice? In the words of the authors, ''’Victory’ is declared by presidents and other leaders, yet all too often no just peace is to be found in the wake of today’s conflicts. . . . After the ...
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    38,14 €

  • Paris or the Future of War
    B. H. Liddell HART
    2022 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The foundation of Liddell Hart’s theory of limited war emerged in the 1920s from his conviction that Europe’s military leaders had lost sight of the true objective of war and consequently had mishandled the conduct of the First World War.  Believing th...
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    7,73 €

  • War Letter to Putin
    Piotr Plauszewski
    Author, mainly of essays, texts of conscience and reflections on social issues, Piotr Plauszewski is originally from Kamianets-Podilskyi in Ukraine. He lives and writes in France. This is a translation of his work to make it accessible to a wide audience.  At the start of war in Ukraine he began writing this 'Letter' to Russian President Vladimir Puti...
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    12,95 €

  • Settler Colonialism
    Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
    Settler Colonialism examines the genesis in the USA of the first full-fledged settler state in the world, which went beyond its predecessors in 1492 Iberia and British-colonized Ireland with an economy based on land sales and enslaved African labor, an implementation of the fiscal-military state. Both the liberal and the rightwing versions of the national narrative misrepresent...
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    15,07 €

  • BODY COUNT
    Gideon Polya
    BODY COUNT exposes the horrendous extent of the Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust that has totaled about 1.3 billion since 1950. Peace is the only way, but silence kills and silence is complicity. We can all do something immediately by informing others and through ethical dealings with people, corporations and countries contributing to the continuing Global Avoidable Mortali...
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    31,79 €

  • Elephants, The Grass, and a Teacher
    Chinyere E Egbe
    In this book, Elephants, the Grass, and a Teacher, Dr. Egbe presents a masterful rendition of his experiences during the Nigeria / Biafra War. Though the book is a captivating rendition of Dr. Egbe’s personal and family experiences, it is equally a masterpiece of integrative analysis of personal experiences within a complex conundrum of national events, the history and experien...
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    31,73 €

  • The Certificate of Musters of Shebbear Hundred, 1522
    E.T. Fox
    In 1522 Cardinal Wolsey ordered a survey of every man over the age of 16, together with an assessment of his wealth and the military equipment he owned. Sometimes called the ’Tudor Domesday’ the muster returns of 1522 present a unique insight into the people of Tudor England.Only two muster rolls from Devon have survived to the present day, that of the City of Exeter and the ro...
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    10,85 €

  • Strategia
    Charles S Oliviero
    War fascinates us, but what do we really know about its nature? Strategia is the product of Colonel Oliviero’s decades-long intellectual quest to address this fundamental query. His work offers both the serious student and the casual reader a foundation stone upon which to build a deeper understanding of military thought and theory, and thereby a richer appreciation of mankind’...
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    20,77 €

  • ORIENTE vs OCCIDENTE. La III Guerra Mundial
    Amadeo MARTÍNEZ INGLÉS
    El mundo camina a pasos agigantados hacia un cambio de liderazgo, hacia un cambio en le jefatura global, hacia un nuevo imperio que sustituya al que durante los últimos cien años ha dominado y expandido un poder absoluto sobre la práctica totalidad del planeta Tierra. Pero tamaño cambio político, social, económico y militar no está exento de riesgos (como puso negro sobre blanc...
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    18,00 €

  • Mutiny Memoirs
    A. R. D. Mackenzie
    The Sepoy Mutiny was a violent and very bloody uprising against British rule in India in 1857. It is also known by other names: the Indian Mutiny, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, or the Indian Revolt of 1857. Begun in Meerut by Indian troops (sepoys) in the service of the British East India Company, it spread to Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, and Lucknow. Mutiny Memoirs by A. R. D. Macken...
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    32,61 €

  • The Battle for Leyte Gulf
    C. Vann Woodward
    The Battle for Leyte Gulf was the greatest naval battle of the Second World War and the largest engagement ever fought on the high seas. It was composed of four separate yet closely interrelated actions, each of which involved forces comparable in size with those engaged in any previous battle of the Pacific War. The four battles, two of them fought simultaneously, were joined ...
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    18,91 €

  • Guns for the Tsar
    Joseph Bradley / Andrei Grishin
    This is a detailed study of the development of the Russian small arms industry. Humiliated in the Crimean War, Russia turned to the United States for help. Using archival sources, Bradley, author of Muzhik and Muscovite: Urbanization in Late Imperial Russia (Univ. of California Pr., 1985), describes the role of famous gunsmiths like Colt, Smith, and Wesson; they provided Russia...
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    40,79 €

  • Wilful Blindness
    Sam Cooper
    This extensive second edition provides readers with a whole new Chapter titles Intelligence March 2022(17 ,500 +) The new and compelling insights focust on the nexus of infiltration operations of not only China but that of Russia and Iran. Agents whose goal is to undermine the very democracy we hold dear. Politicians and business elite including former Ambassador to Canada, Do...
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    26,95 €

  • The Final Struggle
    Ian Easton
    'The Final Struggle shows, using the regime’s own words, how Beijing’s aspirations aren’t regional-they’re global, with grave implications not only for democracy, but for the centuries-old principle of national sovereignty.'-Matt PottingerThe Chinese government has a sinister secret. And it’s hiding in plain sight. Drawing from internal military documents and never-before-seen ...
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    24,72 €

  • Something Rotten
    Jim Storr
    ’Something Rotten’ points out logical and practical problems with organisations and processes. It challenges the reader as to why such problems exist and persist. It suggests abandoning much overt process; building up human expertise; relying on fewer but better-trained people; and deciding and acting much faster. ...
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    72,43 €

  • The Battle of the Huertgen Forest
    Charles Brown MacDonald
    In September 1944, three months after the invasion of Normandy, the Allied armies prepared to push the German forces back into their homeland. Just south of the city of Aachen, elements of the U.S. First Army began an advance through the imposing Huertgen Forest. Instead of retreating, as the Allied command anticipated, the German troops prepared an elaborate defense of Huertge...
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    39,69 €

  • THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO ABYSSINIA
    Captain Henry M. Hozier
    This account of the 1867/68 campaign is by an officer of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, one of the regiments involved, and in the introduction he states clearly that his aim has everywhere been impartiality; his object truth. He begins with a brief but informative historical background to the country of Abyssinia, going back to the earliest days and leading up to the reasons for the d...
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    36,88 €

  • THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO ABYSSINIA
    Captain Henry M. Hozier
    This account of the 1867/68 campaign is by an officer of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, one of the regiments involved, and in the introduction he states clearly that his aim has everywhere been impartiality; his object truth. He begins with a brief but informative historical background to the country of Abyssinia, going back to the earliest days and leading up to the reasons for the d...
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    24,71 €

  • Beyond COVID-19
    While humanity continues to grapple with COVID-19 and its ramifications, Beyond COVID-19: Multidisciplinary Approaches and Outcomes on Diverse Fields provides a unique opportunity to foresee the repercussions of the pandemic across a range of fields through the lens of chaos and complexity theory. This book takes COVID-19 as a holistic event, providing an interesting analysis o...
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    144,88 €

  • Walls Without Cinema
    Larrie Dudenhoeffer
    This volume closely examines the near-ubiquitous images of state security walls, domes, and other such defense enclosures flashing across movie screens since 2006, the year of the ratification of George W. Bush’s Secure Fence Act. This study shows that many of the films of this era enable us to imaginatively test the effects of these security mechanisms on citizens, immigrants,...
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    51,06 €

  • The Holocaust
    Eve Grimm / Paul Bartrop
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    140,99 €

  • Polearms of Paulus Hector Mair
    Brian Hunt / David James Knight
    The Comprehensive Guide to Combat with Renaissance Polearm WeaponryCenturies ago in Medieval Europe conflicts were often settled by dueling with handheld armaments other than swords. Such staff weaponry also proved useful in battle, and a variety of techniques for using them effectively developed and evolved over time. German fencing master Paulus Hector Mair (1517-1579) summar...
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    55,00 €

  • HISTORIES of 251 DIVISIONS of the GERMAN ARMY WHICH PARTICIPATED IN THE WAR (1914-1918).
    US War Dept 1920.
    Compiled with truly Teutonic thoroughness by the US Intelligence Department in 1920, and drawn from the intelligence reports of all Allied nations, this is a record of the changing German war machine year by year during the course of the Great War. Indispensable to the serious historian of the conflict, it is a dense and detailed volume, written in clear, non-nonsense language....
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    70,15 €

  • Polearms of Paulus Hector Mair
    Brian Hunt / David James Knight
    The Comprehensive Guide to Combat with Renaissance Polearm WeaponryCenturies ago in Medieval Europe conflicts were often settled by dueling with handheld armaments other than swords. Such staff weaponry also proved useful in battle, and a variety of techniques for using them effectively developed and evolved over time. German fencing master Paulus Hector Mair (1517-1579) summar...
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    44,01 €

  • Something Rotten
    Jim Storr
    ’Something Rotten’ points out logical and practical problems with organisations and processes. It challenges the reader as to why such problems exist and persist. It suggests abandoning much overt process; building up human expertise; relying on fewer but better-trained people; and deciding and acting much faster. ...
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    33,37 €

  • Betrayed Armenia
    Diana Agabeg Apcar
    Diana Abgar (or Apcar; 17 October 1859 - 8 July 1937) was a diaspora Armenian writer and humanitarian, who was appointed Honorary Consul to Japan of the short-lived First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920). She is the first Armenian woman diplomat and one of the first women to have ever been appointed in any diplomatic post in the twentieth century.When the Republic of Armenia gai...
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    19,09 €


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