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  • Matériel Culture

    The Archaeology of Twentieth-Century Conflict

    Edited by Colleen M. Beck, William Gray Johnson, John Schofield ...
    Series series One World Archaeology
    Matériel culture encompasses the material remains of conflict, from buildings and monuments to artefacts and militia, as well as human remains. This collection of essays, from an international range of contributors, illustrates the diversity in this material record, highlights the difficulties and challenges in preserving, presenting and interpreting it, and above all demonstrates the significant ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • The Direction of War

    Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective

    by Hew Strachan ...
    The wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the blame has been attributed to poor strategy. In both the United States and the United Kingdom, public enquiries and defence think tanks have detected a lack of consistent direction, of effective communication, and of governmental coordination. In this important ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Understanding Modern Warfare

    by David Jordan, James D. Kiras, David J. Lonsdale, Ian Speller, Christopher Tuck, C. Dale Walton ...
    Understanding Modern Warfare has established itself as the leading introduction to the issues, ideas, concepts and context necessary to understand the theory and conduct of warfare in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is an invaluable text for military professionals and students of military history. Key features include: incisive coverage of the debates surrounding contemporary and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Underground Structures of the Cold War

    The World Below

    by Paul Ozorak ...
    "A vivid reminder of the ever-present threat of a global apocalypse that formed the backdrop to the Cold War. This is an excellent book." — History of WarMedieval castles, the defensive systems of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the trenches and bunkers of the First World War, the great citadels of the Second World War—all these have been described in depth. But the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quarterly Essay 2 Appeasing Jakarta

    Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy

    by John Birmingham ...
    Series Book 2 - Quarterly Essay
    In the second Quarterly Essay, John Birmingham takes apart the folly of twenty-five years of Australian policy on East Timor. How did Gough Whitlam and Richard Woolcott in 1975 saddle this country with a policy that was bound to lead to the intervention of 1999? Why were shrewder voices ignored and why did we persist with an unworkable model? Where does this leave us with an Indonesia still ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Special Operations and Strategy

    From World War II to the War on Terrorism

    by James D. Kiras ...
    Series series Strategy and History
    James D. Kiras shows how a number of different special operations, in conjunction with more conventional military actions, achieve and sustain strategic effect(s) over time. In particular, he argues that the root of effective special operations lies in understanding the relationship existing between moral and material attrition at the strategic level. He also presents a theoretical framework for ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Places of Pain and Shame

    Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage'

    Edited by William Logan, Keir Reeves ...
    Series series Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
    Places of Pain and Shame is a cross-cultural study of sites that represent painful and/or shameful episodes in a national or local community’s history, and the ways that government agencies, heritage professionals and the communities themselves seek to remember, commemorate and conserve these cases – or, conversely, choose to forget them.Such episodes and locations include: massacre and genocide ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Not Bad for a Sergeant

    The Memoirs of Barney Danson

    by Barney Danson ...
    Barney Danson began as a twenty-one-year-old sergeant in the Canadian army and rose to the lofty heights of parliamentary secretary to Pierre Trudeau and, eventually, Minister of National Defence. In these positions, he gained insights into previously unknown facts about this remarkable prime minister, and he gives an insider's view of Canadian politicians and world leaders. Danson's own story, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rethinking Military History

    by Jeremy Black ...
    Rethinking Military History is a bold new 'thought book' that reconsiders military history at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The chapters provide a valuable and concise survey of the main themes in the study of military history from 1500 to the present day as Jeremy Black reveals the main trends in the practice and approach to mili ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism

    Edited by Jonathan Hughes, Simon Sadler ...
    Non-Plan explores ways of involving people in the design of their environments - a goal which transgresses political categories of 'right' and 'left'. Attempts to circumvent planning bureaucracy and architectural inertia have ranged from free-market enterprise zones, to self-build housing, and from squatting to sophisticated technologies of prefabrication. Yet all have shared in a desire to let ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Dark Tourism and Place Identity

    Managing and interpreting dark places

    Edited by Leanne White, Elspeth Frew ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    Dark Tourism, including visitation to places such as murder sites, battlefields and cemeteries is a growing phenomenon, as well as an emergent area of scholarly interest. Despite this interest, the intersecting domains of dark tourism and place identity have been largely overlooked in the academic literature and this book aims to fill this void.The three main themes of Visitor Motivation, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Criminology and War

    Transgressing the Borders

    Edited by Sandra Walklate, Ross McGarry ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    It is widely observed that the study of war has been paid limited attention within criminology. This is intellectually curious given that acts of war have occurred persistently throughout history and perpetuate criminal acts, victimisation and human rights violations on a scale unprecedented with domestic levels of crime. However, there are authoritative voices within criminology who have been ... Read more

    $67.99 USD