National defence
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Admiral Jellicoe
Applin, ArthurDuke Classics 2013Military history buffs will appreciate this exhaustively researched and richly detailed biography of Admiral John Jellicoe, a leader in the British Navy who rose to prominence for...
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Against War
Erasmus, DesideriusDuke Classics 2012Dutch thinker and theologian Desiderius Erasmus played a key role in the development of humanism during the Renaissance and early modern periods. In Against War, Erasmus mounts a s...
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Alexander the Great: Lessons in Strategy
Lonsdale, David J.Taylor & Francis Group 2007 1. editionThis book offers a strategic analysis of one of the most outstanding military careers in history, identifying the most pertinent strategic lessons from the campaigns of Alexander t...
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American Sniper : The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Kyle, Chris; McEwen, Scott; DeFelice, JimHarperCollins 2012The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie. "An amazingly detailed accou...
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American Wife : A Memoir of Love, War, Faith, and Renewal
Kyle, Taya; DeFelice, JimHarperCollins 2015The widow of "American Sniper" Chris Kyle shares their private story: an unforgettable testament to the power of love and faith in the face of war and unimaginable loss—and a movin...
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Andra världskrigets värsta dåraktigheter, katastrofala strategier och felbeslut
Bokförlaget Semic 2022Andra världskriget må ha varit det mest ärorika krig som utkämpats – kampen mot Hitler var nödvändig för demokratin. Men det hindrar inte att kriget var fullt av hårresande misstag...
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Arctic Snow to Dust of Normandy : The Extraordinary Wartime Exploits of a Naval Special Agent
Dalzel-Job, PatrickPen & Sword Books 2003A memoir from the real-life James Bond, who "could ski backward, navigate a midget submarine and undertake the riskiest parachute jumps" (Wired). In 1939, as a young man, Patrick D...
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Armeijan hukatut miljardit : Suomen sotajohdon salaisuudet
Sainio, PenttiInto Kustannus 2016 1. editionSuomen sotajohto on tehnyt miljardien eurojen hankintoja, jotka eivät palvele kotimaan puolustusta vaan enemmänkin Yhdysvaltain ja Naton tarpeita. Onko pieni sisäpiiri harhauttanut...
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The Army Mule : And Other War Sketches
Castle, Henry A.Duke Classics 2012What was military life like in the early twentieth century? That question is answered from a number of unique angles in the collection The Army Mule and Other War Sketches. While m...
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The Balkan Wars : 1912-1913
Schurman, Jacob GouldDuke Classics 2021 3. editionFor many countries in Europe, the early twentieth century was a maelstrom of conflict, as age-old alliances and feuds shifted and realigned in response to modernity, imperialism, c...
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Basic Training For Dummies
Powers, RodWiley 2011The easy way to prepare for basic trainingEach year, thousands of young Americans attempt to enlist in the U.S. Armed Services. A number of factors during a soldier's training coul...
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Biohazard
Alibek, KenRandom House 2008'We thought we had lived through the terror of a nuclear war, but something far more ominous was brewing in the Soviet Union - a biological Armageddon from which no one would escap...
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Bloodlands : Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Snyder, TimothyBasic Books 2012From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center...
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By-Ways of War : The Story of the Filibusters
Roche, James JeffreyDuke Classics 2014Today, the term "filibuster" refers to a tactic used by loquacious lawmakers who seek to prevent a vote by delivering marathon-length speeches. But in the past, the term had a diff...
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Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the Wager
Byron, JohnDuke Classics 2014In 1741, the HMS Wager wrecked in an uninhabited area off the coast of Chile. In the aftermath of the disaster, chaos took hold. One faction of the surviving crew rose up against t...
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Call Sign Chaos : Learning to Lead
Mattis, Jim; West, BingRandom House Publishing Group 2019#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis—the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable...
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The Challenge of K2 : A History of the Savage Mountain
Sale, RichardPen & Sword Books 2011K2 is a legend - one of the most demanding mountaineering challenges in the world and one of the most treacherous. Extreme, unpredictable weather and the acutely difficult climbing...
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The Complete Art of War : Sun Tzu/sun Pin
Sun, Tzu; Sun, PinBasic Books 2007Sun Tzu's Art of War is the most famous, and the most thought-provoking, work of strategy ever written. The profound insights of this book have endured for over two thousand years,...
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Countdown 1945 : The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
Wallace, Chris; Weiss, MitchAvid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster 2020The #1 national bestselling "riveting" (The New York Times), "propulsive" (Time) behind-the-scenes account "that reads like a tense thriller" (The Washington Post) of the 116 days...
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Crescent and Iron Cross
Benson, E. F.Duke Classics 2012Though primarily remembered today as a novelist and playwright, British author E.F. Benson was also an insightful historian and critic who published several volumes of analysis per...