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  • Practical Handbook of Thematic Cartography

    Principles, Methods, and Applications

    by Nicolas Lambert, Christine Zanin ...
    Maps are tools used to understand space, discover territories, communicate information, and explain the results of geographical analysis. This practical handbook is about thematic cartography. With more than 120 colorful amazing illustrations, numerous boxed texts, definitions, and helpful tools, this step-by-step introduction to cartography is both the art of understanding the world and a ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster

    How Globalized Trade Led Britain to Its Worst Defeat of the First World War

    by Nicholas A. Lambert ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in International History
    An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade. In early 1915, the British government ordered the Royal Navy to force a passage of the Dardanelles Straits-the most heavily defended waterway in the world. After the Navy failed to breach Turkish defenses, British and allied ground forces stormed the Gallipoli peninsula but were unable to ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Planning Armageddon

    British Economic Warfare and the First World War

    by Nicholas A. Lambert ...
    Before the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany-economic warfare on an unprecedented scale.This secret strategy called for the state to exploit Britain's effective monopolies in banking, communications, and shipping-the essential infrastructure underpinning global trade-to create a controlled implosion of the world economic ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Neptune Factor

    Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept of Sea Power

    by Nicholas A. Lambert ...
    Winner of the 2024 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval LiteratureThe Neptune Factor is the biography of an idea—the concept of “Sea Power,” a term first coined by Capt. A.T. Mahan and the core thread of his life’s work.  His central argument was that the outcome of rivalries on the seas have decisively shaped the course of modern history. Although Mahan’s scholarship has long been seen as ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Understanding Cyber Conflict

    Fourteen Analogies

    by Ariel E. Levite, George Perkovich, James M. Acton, John Arquilla, Stephen Blank, Dorothy Denning, Bradley J. Strawser, Florian Egloff, Peter D. Feaver0, Kenneth Geers1, Francis J. Gavin2, Emily Goldman3, Michael Warner4, Nicholas Lambert5, Steven E. Miller6, David E. Sanger7, Robert Schmidle Jr.8, Michael Sulmeyer9, Ben Buchanan0 ...
    Cyber weapons and the possibility of cyber conflict—including interference in foreign political campaigns, industrial sabotage, attacks on infrastructure, and combined military campaigns—require policymakers, scholars, and citizens to rethink twenty-first-century warfare. Yet because cyber capabilities are so new and continually developing, there is little agreement about how they will be deployed ... Read more

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  • Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education

    4th EAI International Conference, TIE 2023, Cambridge, UK, September 27-28, 2023, Proceedings

    Edited by David Crawford, Jeremy Foss, Nicholas Lambert, Martin Reed, Jennah Kriebel ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education, TIE 2023, held in Cambridge, UK, in September 2023.The 17 full papers were carefully selected from 44 submissions and cover four areas: international school projects; technology in education; technology for content creation and future content delivery. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Naval Policy Between the Wars, Volume I

    The Period of Anglo-American Antagonism, 1919–1929

    by Stephen Roskill ...
    First published in 1968 and 1976, the two volumes of this work still constitute the only authoritative study of the broad geo-political, economic and strategic factors behind the inter-war development of the Royal Navy and, to a great extent, that of its principal rival, the United States Navy. Roskill conceived the work as a peacetime equivalent of the official naval histories, filling the gap ... Read more

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  • Naval Policy Between the Wars, Volume II

    The Period of Reluctant Rearmament, 1930–1939

    by Stephen Roskill ...
    First published in 1968 and 1976, the two volumes of this work still constitute the only authoritative study of the broad geo-political, economic and strategic factors behind the inter-war development of the Royal Navy and, to a great extent, that of its principal rival, the United States Navy. Roskill conceived the work as a peacetime equivalent of the official naval histories, filling the gap ... Read more

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  • Kitchener's Army

    The Raising of the New Armies, 1914–1916

    by Peter Simkins ...
    Numbering over five million men, Britain's army in the First World War was the biggest in the country's history. Remarkably, nearly half those men who served in it were volunteers. 2,466,719 men enlisted between August 1914 and December 1915, many in response to the appeals of the Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener. How did Britain succeed in creating a mass army, almost from scratch, in the middle of a ... Read more

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  • A Military History of Modern South Africa

    by Ian van der Waag ...
    The story of a century of conflict and change—from the Second Boer War to the anti-apartheid movement and the many battles in between.Twentieth-century South Africa saw continuous, often rapid, and fundamental socioeconomic and political change. The century started with a brief but total war. Less than ten years later, Britain brought the conquered Boer republics and the Cape and Natal colonies ... Read more

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  • Barbed Wire Disease

    British & German Prisoners of War, 1914-19

    by John Yarnall ...
    By the time of the Armistice in 1918, some 6.5 million prisoners of war were held by the belligerents. Little has been written about these prisoners, possibly because the story is not one of unmitigated hardship and cruelty. Nevertheless, hardships did occur and the alleged neglect and ill-treatment of prisoners captured on the Western Front became the subject of major propaganda campaigns in ... Read more

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  • A Nation in Arms

    The British Army in the First World War

    by Ian F. W. Beckett, Keith Simpson ...
    Series series Pen & Sword Select
    The Great War was the first conflict to draw men and women into uniform on a massive scale. From a small regular force of barely 250,000, the British Army rapidly expanded into a national force of over five million. A Nation in Arms brings together original research into the impact of the war on the army as an institution, gives a revealing account of those who served in it and offers fascinating ... Read more

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