At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media atte…
Self-described war nerd Gary Brecher knows he's not alone, that there's a legion of fat, lonely Americans, stuck in stupid, paper-pushing desk jobs, who get off on reading about war because they hate their lives. But Brecher writes about war, too. War Nerd collects his most opin…
"Part war commentator, part angry humorist, War Nerd Gary Brecher inveighs against pieties of all stripes - Liberian generals, Dick Cheney, U.N. peacekeepers, the neo-cons. and the massive incompetence of military powers. A provocative free thinker, he finds much to admire in th…
In the tradition of previous books such as Politics of Fear and Culture of Fear, Furedi again gives a perceptive and original account of some of the dominant cultural, political and intellectual trends that have moulded the modern world. He shows that the Second World War fatall…
That the conflicts unleashed by Great War did not end in 1918 is well known. World War II and the Cold War clearly constitute key moments in the drama that began in August 1914. This book argues that the battle of ideas which crystallised during the course of the Great War conti…
[Here]. Furedi argues that the battle of ideas which crystallised during the course of the Great War continue to the present, and claims that the disputes about lifestyles and identity - the Culture Wars of today - are only the latest expressions of a century-long conflict. ..."…
That the conflicts unleashed by Great War did not end in 1918 is well known. World War II and the Cold War clearly constitute key moments in the drama that began in August 1914. This book argues that the battle of ideas which crystallised during the course of the Great War conti…
"Although war is terrible and brutal, history shows that it has been a great driver of human progress. So argues political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg in this incisive, well-researched study of the benefits to civilization derived from armed conflict. Ginsberg makes a convincing…
