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61) Medieval combat: a fifteenth-century illustrated manual of swordfighting and close-quarter combat
Author
Publisher
Greenhill Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"Medieval Combat makes one of the most influential and lavishly drawn fencing manuals of the Middle Ages available in English for the first time. The authentic fifteenth-century techniques of master of arms Hans Talhoffer are illustrated in detail, presenting not only a unique historic record but also a visual guide for modern practitioners." "Talhoffer's professional fencing manual of 1467 illustrates the intricacies of the medieval art of fighting,...
62) Medieval warfare
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"This informative and entertaining military history series features an in-depth look at three key events in the history of medieval warfare."
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"War in Europe is an overview of war and military development in Europe since 1450, bringing together the work of a renowned historian of modern European and military history in a single authoritative volume. Beginning with the impact of the Reformation and continuing up to the present day, Jeremy Black discusses the following key themes: long-term military developments, notably in the way war is waged and battle conducted; the relationship between...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world. "Ricks does a tremendous job of putting the reader inside the hearts and souls of the young men and women who risked so much to change America . . . Riveting." ―Charles Kaiser, The Guardian In Waging a Good War,...
66) The Pentagon's brain: an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top-secret military research agency
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since its inception in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has grown to become the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science research and development agency. Created by President Eisenhower to prevent another Sputnik, and to focus primarily on defensive programs against nuclear weapons, the agency--and its imagination and scope--has expanded enormously with each passing year....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An influential Army officer traces the Gulf War experiences that shaped his perspectives on the changing nature of conventional combat and his views about terrorism, citing his role in co-authoring the military's new counterinsurgency field manual.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Conventional wisdom holds that the South's defeat was inevitable. Yet military historian Alexander's new look at the Civil War documents how a Confederate victory could have come about--and how close it came to happening. Moving beyond theoretical conjectures to explore actual plans that Confederate generals proposed and the tactics ultimately adopted in the war's key battles, he shows why there is nothing inevitable about military victory, even for...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan at the end of 2014, it signaled the end of the longest conflict in the nation's history. Yet we are still at war--no longer with other states, but with a host of new enemies, from nihilistic terrorists and narco-traffickers to transnational criminal cartels, lone wolf assassins, and modern-day pirates. Standing against these foes is a tight-knit fraternity of soldiers, cops, lawyers, and spies. Together,...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A riveting tour through the ages to the moments where the future course of civilization hung in the balance, as two top military historians make the case for the twenty most crucial battles of all time-a must read for armchair generals and all lovers of history
Author
Series
Leavenworth papers volume no. 2
Publisher
Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Author
Series
Defense horizons volume no. 66
Publisher
Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Castles may conjure up a romantic fairy tale world; however, in real life, during the Middle Ages, castles were fortresses, providing shelter and protection for the lord as well as for the peasants who lived on his land. For an army, a lord depended on young soldiers in armor called knights who spent years at the castle learning the skills of warfare"--
78) War and warfare
Author
Series
Publisher
Sharpe Focus
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Publisher
Director, Force Transformation, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"A new [Dept. of Defense] publication explaining the importance of network-centric warfare. According to DoD officials, the term broadly describes the combination of emerging tactics, techniques and procedures that a networked force can use to create a decisive warfighting advantage. It's one of DoD's major initiatives to transform the military."--Defenselink press release.
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