Analyzes the critical implications of the French and Indian War in North America that evolved into a global conflict that swept across Europe, Africa, and the East and West Indies and led to the evolution of the British Empire. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
At just over 5 feet in height, Deng would not have been anybody's idea of a military hero. However, it was as a military commissar in the Taihang region during the Civil War against the nationalists that Deng came to prominence.
Humankind has grown complacent, confident in the victories their fleet has won for them through the last thousand years over numerous alien races.
In War and Peace and War, Peter Turchin uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to offer a bold new theory about the course of world history.
Henry Timberlake, The Memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake (London; Printed for the author, 1765), p. 74. 8. David H. Corkran, The Cherokee Frontier.
In his new book, Prit Buttar seeks to correct this imbalance with a magisterial account of the chaos and destruction that reigned when three powerful empires collided.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUSI DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022 'This is a superb book.
gdzie stały szeregi/ Leżą drwa, trupy, sery białe jako śniegi,/ Krwią i mózgiem slamione' (Mickiewicz 2013: 419). On Pan Tadeusz, see pp. 177–8. 'І'рай, коσэарiо, дий, шинкарiо!' (Kobzar, play! Innkeeper pour!) is revised from ...
Gold became synonymous with financial dependability, and following the devastating chaos of World War I, the gold standard came to express the order of the free market system.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa, the Americas, and Asia from the perspective of the military revolution historiographical debate.
Based on primary research, this book opens up new debates on the effects of the Great War in colonial arenas.