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    This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish ... Leer más

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  • Classic Military Treatises: Sun Tzus The Art of War, Machiavellis The Prince, and Clausewitzs On War (Illustrated Edition)

    Military treatises have long fascinated readers, even those who are not professional military men, and people in other fields have long sought to apply the lessons learned in military treatises to other walks of life. Among the worlds military treatises, without question two of the most famous and influential are Sun Tzus The Art of War and Carl von Clausewitzs On War, written over 2,000 years ... Leer más

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  • Mercenaries

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  • The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

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    The mighty struggle for the Somme sector of the Western Front in the second half of 1916 has come to be remembered for the dreadful toll of casualties inflicted on Britain's 'New Armies' by the German defenders on the first day of the offensive, 1 July.The battle continued, however, throughout the autumn and only came to a close in the bitter cold of mid-November. The British plan relied on the ... Leer más

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  • Classic Military Treatises: Sun Tzus The Art of War and Clausewitzs On War (Illustrated Edition)

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    On the major European and Russian fronts throughout World War II, the challenge of crossing rivers under fire was absolutely central to any advance.The Panzers that crossed the Meuse at Sedan in May 1940 cut the French Army in two. The Wehrmacht's ability to cross the great rivers of the western USSR was vital to the lightning advances of Operation Barbarossa in 1941, and in 1943–45 the Red Army ... Leer más

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  • Sun Tzu and the Art of Modern Warfare

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  • Men of War

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