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“george j stein”

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  • Benelux Security Cooperation

    A New European Defense Community?

    by George J. Stein ...
    This book is an exploration of the security and defense policies of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg with the specific goal of discovering opportunities for greater Benelux security cooperation which could serve as the foundation of a European Defense Community. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014 is a serious contemplation of what it means to engage in major world conflicts, and the price we pay when we do.The First World War was Canada's baptism of fire, or at least the only one that people now remember. (Montrealers in 1776 or Torontonians in 1814 would have taken a different view.) From 1914 to 1918, after a century of peace, Canadians were ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A Military History of Canada

    by Desmond Morton ...
    Updated to 2007, including Canada’s war on terrorism.Is Canada really “a peaceable kingdom” with “an unmilitary people”? Nonsense, says Desmond Morton. This is a country that has been shaped, divided, and transformed by war — there is no greater influence in Canadian history, recent or remote.From the shrewd tactics of Canada’s First Nations to our troubled involvement in Somalia, from the Plains ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Utility of Force

    by Rupert Smith ...
    From a highly decorated general, a brilliant new way of understanding war and its role in the twenty-first century.Drawing on his vast experience as a commander during the first Gulf War, and in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Northern Ireland, General Rupert Smith gives us a probing analysis of modern war. He demonstrates why today’s conflicts must be understood as intertwined political and military events, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Library of Congress World War II Companion

    Edited by David M. Kennedy ...
    An indispensable reference on World War II produced by the Library of Congress and edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David M. Kennedy. With hundreds of illustrations and quotations from contemporary documents, this will be the most authoritative popular reference on World War II.The noted historian John Keegan called World War II "the largest single event in human history." More than ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern War

    Edited by Charles Townshend ...
    How has war shaped modern society and vice versa? How has it changed over the centuries between the introduction of firearms and the invention of the atom bomb? How is war waged today? This excitingly illustrated book examines the techniques, technology, and theory of warfare from the `military revolution' of the seventeenth century to the present day. The expert contributors explore major ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Ten Decisions

    Canada’s Best, Worst, and Most Far-Reaching Decisions of the Second World War

    by Larry D. Rose ...
    In the chaos of the Second World War, Canada faced cruel choices, both on the battlefield and in the world of politics. Of all these life-and-death choices, ten stand above the others in their importance, their agonizing stakes, and the impact they have on the country to this day. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Second World War:A Short History

    A Short History

    by R. A. C. Parker ...
    The Second World War is a compact but comprehensive and absorbing history of the war. It examines the causes of the war, how it was won and lost, and its far-reaching consequences for humanity. In tracing the key events of both the European and the Far Eastern wars, R. A. C. Parker outlines clearly the strategies of the participants, the economies and societies that underlay them, and the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Treaty of Versailles

    A Concise History

    by Michael S. Neiberg ...
    Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treaty as a mediocre compromise, creating a precarious order in Europe and abroad and destined to fall short of ensuring lasting peace. At the time, observers read the treaty through competing lenses: a ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Seizing Power

    The Strategic Logic of Military Coups

    by Naunihal Singh ...
    How coups happen and why half of them fail.While coups drive a majority of regime changes and are responsible for the overthrow of many democratic governments, there has been very little empirical work on the subject. Seizing Power develops a new theory of coup dynamics and outcomes, drawing on 300 hours of interviews with coup participants and an original dataset of 471 coup attempts worldwide ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • A Nation in Conflict

    Canada and the Two World Wars

    by Andrew Iarocci, Jeffrey Keshen ...
    Series series Themes in Canadian History
    The First and Second World Wars were two of the most momentous events of the twentieth century. In Canada, they claimed 110,000 lives and altered both the country’s domestic life and its international position. A Nation in Conflict is a concise, comparative overview of the Canadian national experience in the two world wars that transformed the nation and its people.With each chapter, military ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Great War and the Making of the Modern World

    by Jeremy Black ...
    This new work demonstrates how the outcome of the First World War has formed the modern world we live in today. The First World War was the Great War for its leading participants. In revisiting the events of 1914-1918 a century on, Jeremy Black considers how we now look at the impact of the conflict across the globe and how it came to be World War I in our consciousness. For millions, both ... Read more

    $21.39 USD