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Gardens of War British Cemeteries on the Western Front
ISBN: PB: 9782889153947, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, April 2021
276 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 1919, after five years of brutal conflict, World War I ended. And while the living soldiers returned home, the dead stayed where they had fallen, in war graves throughout Europe. This book takes readers to many of the graveyards that serve as the...
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£65,00
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Sheer Misery Soldiers in Battle in WWII
ISBN: HB: 9780226753140, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 maps
Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear. "I ran into a new problem when we walked", Stewart wrote, "the shorts and I didn't get along. They would c...
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£19,00
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Empire of Defense Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War
ISBN: PB: 9780226632926, ISBN: HB: 9780226632896, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
"Empire of Defense" is nothing less than an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American warfare. Joseph Darda exposes how the post-World War II formation of the Department of Defense and the subsequent Korean War set a c...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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Our Latest Longest War Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan
ISBN: PB: 9780226598567, ISBN: HB: 9780226265650, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
The first rule of warfare is to know one's enemy. The second is to know thyself. More than fifteen years and three quarters of a trillion dollars after the US invasion of Afghanistan, it's clear that the United States followed neither rule well. Amer...
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£20,00
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Guerrilla Marketing Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia
ISBN: PB: 9780226590646, ISBN: HB: 9780226590509, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones
Brand warfare is real".Guerrilla Marketing" details the Colombian government's efforts to transform Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens. Alexander L. Fattal shows how the market has become one of the principal grounds on whi...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare
ISBN: PB: 9780226562285, ISBN: HB: 9780226562148, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Until well into the twentieth century, pack animals were the primary mode of transport for supplying armies in the field. The British Indian Army was no exception. In the late nineteenth century, for example, it forcibly pressed into service thousand...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Confronting Torture Essays on the Ethics, Legality, History, and Psychology of Torture Today
ISBN: PB: 9780226529417, ISBN: HB: 9780226529387, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate. It grips our imagination, in part because torturing someone seems to be an unthinkable breach of humanity – theirs and ours. And...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict Ethical, Legal, and Strategic Implications
ISBN: PB: 9780226478364, ISBN: HB: 9780226258058, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 tables
During the past decade, armed drones have entered the American military arsenal as a core tactic for countering terrorism. When coupled with access to reliable information, they make it possible to deploy lethal force accurately across borders while...
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£20,50
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£36,00
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Making Jet Engines in World War II Britain, Germany, and the United States
ISBN: HB: 9780226388595, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 2 line drawings, 3 tables
Our stories of industrial innovation tend to focus on individual initiative and breakthroughs. With "Making Jet Engines in World War II", Hermione Giffard uses the case of the development of jet engines to offer a different way of understanding techn...
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£34,00
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Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929
ISBN: PB: 9781611688115, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In late summer 1929, a countrywide outbreak of Arab-Jewish-British violence transformed the political landscape of Palestine forever. In contrast with those who point to the wars of 1948 and 1967, historian Hillel Cohen marks these bloody events as y...
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£24,00
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