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  • Bombing the People

    Giulio Douhet and the Foundations of Air-Power Strategy, 1884–1939

    by Thomas Hippler ...
    Series series Cambridge Military Histories
    Giulio Douhet is generally considered the world's most important air-power theorist and this book offers the first comprehensive account of his air-power concepts. It ranges from 1884 when an air service was first implemented within the Italian military to the outbreak of the Second World War, and explores the evolution and dissemination of Douhet's ideas in an international context. It examines ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Governing from the Skies

    A Global History of Aerial Bombing

    by Thomas Hippler ...
    Translated by David Fernbach ...
    The history of the war from the past one hundred years is a history of bombing“Tripoli, 1 November 1911: I decided that today I would try to drop bombs from the aeroplane … if I succeed I shall be happy to have been the first.”—Italian Lieutenant Giulio GavottiAt its inception, aerial bombardment was a weapon of empire deployed to subdue colonial populations. Soon, during the Second World War, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Managing Performance Abroad

    A New Model for Understanding Expatriate Adjustment

    by Arno Haslberger, Chris Brewster, Thomas Hippler ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development
    In a global economy full of multinational firms, international human resource management (including expatriation, career management, and talent management) is a growing topic in the business and management literature and in universities. A thorough understanding of the adjustment of expatriates to their new environment is critical not only for selection and preparation of potential expatriates, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Paradoxes of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe

    Edited by Thomas Hippler, Miloš Vec ...
    'Peace' is often simplistically assumed to be war's opposite, and as such is not examined closely or critically idealized in the literature of peace studies, its crucial role in the justification of war is often overlooked. Starting from a critical view that the value of 'restoring peace' or 'keeping peace' is, and has been, regularly used as a pretext for military intervention, this book traces ... Read more

    $120.59 USD

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  • Saving Italy

    The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

    by Robert M. Edsel ...
    From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men: "An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italy's…art during World War II." —Tom BrokawWhen Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the ... Read more

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  • The Blitzkrieg Myth

    How Hitler and the Allies Misread the Strategic Realities of World War II

    by John Mosier ...
    Many military tactics during World War II were based on the assumption that new technologies would lead to decisive battlefield victories, demoralization of the enemy by intensive bombing, or even a quick surrender. Political and military leaders, Allies and Axis alike, believed that "blitzkrieg" was the best way to victory. But in The Blitzkrieg Myth, John Mosier argues that this was not the case ... Read more

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  • The Bombers and the Bombed

    Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945

    by Richard Overy ...
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  • Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age

    Edited by Peter Paret, Gordon A. Craig, Felix Gilbert ...
    The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice of war from the Renaissance to the present. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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    Historian Lee Kennett takes on the vital task of detailing the World War I aviator in this complete overview of the first air war, that Richard P. Hallion calls, "A welcome and long overdue addition to the literature of military aviation.""The whole subject of the first air war is like some imperfectly explored country: there are areas that have been crisscrossed by several generations of ... Read more

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  • Italy's Sorrow

    A Year of War, 1944-1945

    by James Holland ...
    In a chilling history, renowned historian James Holland deftly relates Italy's dark forgotten yearsDuring the Second World War, the campaign in Italy was the most destructive fought in Europe - a long, bitter and highly attritional conflict that raged up the country's mountainous leg. For frontline troops, casualty rates at Cassino and along the notorious Gothic Line were as high as they had been ... Read more

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  • The Evolution of Strategy

    Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present

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    Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial 2010 account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political instrument - from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from ... Read more

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