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The Falklands War is a story of occupation, fierce air battles, heavy naval losses and bitter encounters between ground forces amidst an inhospitable terrain and unforgiving climate. With complex political machinations and nationalist sentiment at the centre of the conflict, even today the sovereignty of the islands is hotly contested in political circles. For the first time, renowned military historian Gregory Fremont-Barnes has compiled a definitive AZ guide to the British involvement in the Falklands conflict, including personalities, weapons, battles, ships, places, and much more. This accessible yet comprehensive companion to the Falklands War will be a welcome addition to any enthusiasts shelves.

For Britain the nineteenth century began, in military terms, with the global upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars and ended with a modern conflict in which machine-guns and a scorched-earth policy were deployed against the Boers. In between there was a supposed peace, marred only by glorious, if tragic, enterprises in the Crimea, Africa and Afghanistan, against the Zulus, the Boers, the Mahdi and Indian mutineers, providing the battles whose names remain proudly emblazoned on regimental banners: Balaclava, Sevastopol, Alma, Lucknow, Kabul, Khartoum, Omdurman. These are the campaigns, it seems, that forged an Empire unparalleled in size before or since, and built the careers of such military leaders as Garnet Wolseley and Lord Kitchener. They were the source of many Boys Own stories and novels, as well as romantic cinema epics full of dramatic cavalry charges with sabres drawn against hordes of painted savages.

The book covers everything from infantry, artillery, armour, special forces, riverine craft, intelligence, combat support and service units, to weapons and equipment, organisation, command and control, daily life and tours of duty, awards and medals. Films and books, memorials and the legacy of the Vietnam War in the USA and South East Asia are also covered.

The driving force of this world history of war is the linkage between technology, politics and expansion. Jeremy Black takes the reader through history, highlighting the major developments in warfare, tactics, armour and diplomacy which have influenced the way in which wars are fought.

Vasily Vereshchagin (1842 -1904) was a Russian soldier, painter and traveller. He was born to a lesser noble family and sent to the Tsarskoe Selo military academy in 1850, 8 years old. in 1853, 11 years old he joined the Sea Cadet Corps in St Petersburg. He graduated in 1861 but left military service to attend the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts.In 1863 he won a medal from the academy for his Ulysses Slaying the Suitors. In 1864, he went to Paris, 22 years old, where he studied under Jean-Leon Gerome. In 1867 he was invited to accompany General Konstantin Kaufmans expedition to Turkestan. He was granted the rank of ensign. His heroism at the siege of Samarkand from June 2-8, 1868 resulted an award of the Cross of St George (4th class).Having jointed the diplomatic corps, Vereshchagin was posted throughout Central Asia, and his artistic skills matured. In 1871 he set up a studio in Munich and it was here the initial "Turkestan Series" was painted.

The world is currently being kept in suspense by the America First policy. This means that decisions are now being made solely on gut instinct. As a result, long-term trends are being overlooked. For this reason, the book uses ancient trade history to highlight the opportunities offered by the new world.

"Those who wonder how the international community failed so dramatically in Afghanistan need look no further Losing Afghanistan explores the arguments for and against intervention and highlights the difficulty of establishing unity of purpose and effort in such demanding circumstances. Above all, it poses a question: how can we in the West claim we know so much, yet demonstrate in Afghanistan that we understand so little?" General (retd) Sir Jack Deverell OBE, former Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe"A wonderful book of insightful essays on Afghanistan from an outsider lens." Ezatullah Adib, head of research at Integrity Watch Afghanistan and national country representative at the World Association for Public Opinion Research"The strategic question posed by these brilliant essays is: how can the doctrine of liberal intervention be reframed to ensure the West intervenes overseas to manage future humanitarian calamities for reasons beyond just national security?" Brigadier (retd) Justin Hedges OBE***When Taliban forces took Kabul on 15 August 2021, it marked the end of the Western intervention that had begun nearly twenty years earlier with the US-led invasion.The fall of Afghanistan triggered a seismic shock in the West, where US President Joe Biden announced an end to Americas involvement in conflicts overseas. In Afghanistan itself it produced terror for the future for those who had worked with and grown up under the coalition-supported administration.Now, with the country spiralling into economic collapse and famine, Losing Afghanistan is a plea for us to keep our gaze on the plight of the people of Afghanistan and to understand how action and inaction in the West shaped the fate of the nation.Why was Afghanistan lost? Can it be regained? And what happens next? Edited by international development expert Brian Brivati, this collection of twenty-one essays by analysts, politicians, soldiers, commentators and practitioners interspersed with powerful eyewitness testimony from Afghan voices explains what happened in Afghanistan and why, and what the future holds both for its people and for liberal intervention.

Compulsively readable (History), this is the first volume in a series that details the long and violent endeavour of the English to dismember Europes strongest state, a succession of wars that is one of the seminal chapters in European history. Beginning with the funeral of Charles IV of France in 1328, it follows the Hundred Years War up to the surrender of Calais in 1347. It traces the early humiliations and triumphs of Edward III: the campaigns of Sluys, Crecy and Calais, which first made his name as a war leader and the reputation of his subjects as the most brutally effective warriors of their time. Trial by Battle is an account of the events of a pivotal period in both French and British history, from Wolfson History Prize-winning author and historian Jonathan Sumption.A new and immensely impressive history of the war.Daily Telegraph

Un thriller histórico sobre la que pudo haber sido la mayor catástrofe globalEn este nuevo libro, Max Hastings se centra en la crisis de los misiles de Cuba, los trece días de octubre de 1962 que mantuvieron el mundo al borde del abismo nuclear. Hace una nueva aproximacion a este momento historico desde los distintos puntos de vista de lideres nacionales, oficiales rusos, campesinos cubanos, pilotos estadounidenses y desarmadores britanicos, a la vez que aporta entrevistas con testigos visuales, documentos de archivo y diarios, grabaciones en cinta de la Casa Blanca, para ofrecer un retrato aproximado de la Guerra Fria en la Cuba de Fidel Castro, la URSS de Nikita Jrushchov y los Estados Unidos de Kennedy.Mas alla de la historia militar y de la confrontacion, Hastings profundiza en las causas de fondo que propiciaron el conflicto, desde la situacion de la Cuba aliada de Estados Unidos bajo el mando de Batista hasta el regimen de extrema hostilidad hacia los americanos de Castro, pasando por el sentimiento de debilidad de los sovieticos ante los americanos despues de la segunda guerra mundial y su necesidad de reafirmacion en el pulso de la Guerra Fria.La crisis cubana puso de relieve el riesgo nuclear, asi como la dificultad de hacer una buena estrategia ante la incomprension del enemigo. En este sentido, Hastings describe con detalle y de forma innovadora las actitudes y la conducta de rusos, cubanos y estadounidenses, a la vez que analiza el clima de tension que afecto a todo el mundo ante uno de los episodios mas criticos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX.

Este volumen es una reflexión sobre cómo el 23-F, un evento fundamental en la historia española contemporánea y en la Transición, ha ido transformándose en su narrativa, y cómo dicho cambio se ha gestado en la produccion cultural y artistica a lo largo de cuatro decadas.Dividido en ocho capitulos, se analizan novelas, peliculas, series de television, documentales, obras de teatro e instalaciones escultoricas bajo la perspectiva de que obras reaccionan y cuales accionan, entendiendo como obras reactivas aquellas que continuan con el statu quo sin generar perspectivas distintas, frente a las obras activas que posibilitan nuevos enfoques y aproximaciones alternativas con el paso del tiempo.En definitiva, esta edicion es una invitacion a que el/la lector/a revisite las narrativas establecidas sobre el 23-F y asimismo se acerque a otros modos de (re)presentarlo, para tener una experiencia mas completa del acontecimiento y sus implicaciones.

Não obstante esta ser uma instituição recente, se comparada à temporalidade das outras instituições que compõem o Ministério da Defesa no Brasil, a ESG também se caracteriza como uma das mais complex

Who really caused the Reichstag fire on the evening of 27 February 1933? Were the Nazis really to blame? The debate has been going on for over eighty years as to who started the Reichstag fire and, in turn, became the catalyst of the Nazi dictatorship. The Reichstag Fire hopes to shed light on this enduring discussion. Using careful analysis of source material, award-winning journalist Sven Felix Kellerhoff charts the outbreak of the fire, the Reich Cabinets response to the event, Marinus van der Lubbes repeated confession to the crime, and the far-reaching consequences of the fire.

It may come as some surprise that in such a popular area of military history there is no book that focuses on the experience of the Victorian soldier - from recruitment to embarkation, fighting and perhaps returning, perhaps dying - in his own words. Dr Mannings meticulous research in primary sources gives the lie to the received image of the disciplined, redcoated campaigner of Victorian art and literature: for one thing, by the time he arrived at his destination, the coat would have been in rags. The distances covered on march were unbelievable, through desert and disease-ravaged swamp. Lavishly illustrated throughout, all the major Colonial campaigns and most of the minor ones are featured. To understand how what was in reality a tiny standing army controlled the largest empire the world has ever seen, this book is a must.

Gurkhas have served with the British for almost 200 years, first with the army of the East India Company, then with the Indian Army of the Raj, and then in 1947 becoming an integral part of the British Army. This anthology of articles from The Kukri, the Gurkha regimental journals, by J.P. Cross covers much of the past sixty years of their history, taking in the last days of the Second World War and the Indonesian Confrontation in the 1960s, and also gives an insight into the everyday life, culture and beliefs of these renowned soldiers.As a Gurkha officer, J.P. Cross had many unusual experiences in his long career: in 1945, for example, he was attached to a Japanese battalion in Indochina that was fighting for the British against the Viet Minh, and the only photograph taken of this Japanese unit finally laying down its weapons appears in this book. Later, he just managed to resolve a potentially deadly dispute between an offended Gurkha and a visiting South Vietnamese trainee at the Jungle Warfare School. He also describes several seemingly supernatural experiences whilst serving with troops from a culture where such things are firmly believed in.This is a unique anthology of articles drawn from an equally unique military career and a relationship with the Gurkhas that has lasted for over half a century.

For as long as there have been armed forces there have been camp followers the families who move with the military to stay with their men. This book looks at the experiences of just a few of these families, through the eyes of the military wives and their relatives. From the First World War, when many women were fiancees but never wives, through the Second World War and postwar Britain to the present day and twenty-first-century service life, military wives talk about their experiences as never before. What is it really like to be married to a member of Britains Armed Forces? Can you ever be prepared for the reality that awaits you when you say I do and walk down the aisle? From Big Berthas booms, rationing and bomb shelters, to military wives choirs, Afghanistan and marathons, this book celebrates that great British heroine, the military wife.

Bunch of Five is General Sir Frank Kitsons military autobiography. In it this expert in counter insurgency describes his experiences in Kenya 1953-55, Malaya 1957, Muscat and Oman 1958, as well as his peacekeeping activities during two stints in Cyprus, 1963-64 and 1967-68. He wanted to write about Northern Ireland also but at the time of first publication that was too sensitive. Instead, in keeping with the title, he wrote a fifth part summarizing his conclusions in all the zones he had fought in. This fifth part was used by the United States army for a long time on its own Bunch of Five has been out of print for many years with second-hand copies commanding high prices. This reissue will be welcomed.

For centuries, Pakistans North West Frontier has been seen as a lawless wilderness, which more recently has given sanctuary to Osama Bin Laden and other fundamentalist Muslim leaders. This, the first significant book on the territory for 40 years, includes first hand accounts of life and soldiering on the Frontier since the Second World War. It also tells how the British and invaders before and after the Raj, attempted to deal with this unpredictable land of the Pathans. The Savage Border provides an in-depth, highly accessible account of life and conflict on the North-West Frontier, covering not only the century of British rule since 1849, but also events since the creation of Pakistan in 1947. The author addresses key questions including What makes the Pathan so warlike and belligerent to outsiders, from Darius the Great in the 6th century BC to the US Marines in the 21st century AD? and Can these tribesmen ever be brought into societys fold and persuaded to give up their terrorist comrades? The author is a specialist in North West Frontier affairs, who has travelled extensively in Pakistan.

The Battle of the Boyne in 1690 was the culmination of the ferocious struggle between two kings, James II and William III. This book makes use of research and sources, including eyewitness accounts, to analyse the opposing forces, their strategy, tactics and conduct of the war and the reasons for its eventual outcome.

By investigating the sites of historical battlefields, this book shows that an insight can be developed into the minds of those who fought, and into some of our own expectations about war. It reveals differences in landscape type between battlefields from the tenth to nineteenth century in Britain, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal.

A tale of the poor bloody infantry and what we glean of their lot from prehistory right through to World War I. This book compares the life of the soldier across time and cultures. It includes the gr