This is a new edition of Geoffrey Parker's much-admired illustrated account of how the West, so small and so deficient in natural resources in 1500, had by 1800 come to control over one third of the world. This edition incorporates new material, including a substantial 'Afterwor…
Back in 1992, English football was stuck in the dark ages, emerging from a five-year ban from European competition. The game was physical, bruising and attritional, based on strength over speed, aggression over finesse. It was the era of the midfield general, reducers, big men u…
Military Effectiveness: the Second World War
En undersøgelse og sammenlignende analyse af Storbritanniens, USAs, Frankrigs, Tysklands, Ruslands/Sovjetunionens, Italiens og Japans militære kapacitet under 1. Verdenskrig, Mellemkrigstiden og 2. Verdenskrig.
Military Effectiveness
En undersøgelse og sammenlignende analyse af Storbritanniens, USAs, Frankrigs, Tysklands, Ruslands/Sovjetunionens, Italiens og Japans militære kapacitet under 1. Verdenskrig, Mellemkrigstiden og 2. Verdenskrig.
Amerikansk infanteridivisioner mod tyske panserenheder i tiden juni 1944 til maj 1945. En analyse af otte forskellige slag med eksempler fra det taktiske og operative niveau. Indhold: 1) En sammenlignende vurdering af amerikansk og tysk organisation, våben og kamptaktik. Der fok…
Classical Greek tactics: a cultural history
What determined the choices of the Greeks on the battlefield? Were their tactics defined by unwritten moral rules, or was all considered fair in war? In 'Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History', Roel Konijnendijk re-examines the literary evidence for the battle tactics and …
What determined the choices of the Greeks on the battlefield? Were their tactics defined by unwritten moral rules, or was all considered fair in war? In 'Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History', Roel Konijnendijk re-examines the literary evidence for the battle tactics and …
Classical Greek tactics: a cultural history
What determined the choices of the Greeks on the battlefield? Were their tactics defined by unwritten moral rules, or was all considered fair in war? In 'Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History', Roel Konijnendijk re-examines the literary evidence for the battle tactics and …
Bogen er baseret på tyske kilder - ikke engelske! i modsætning til Latimers bog af samme navn, (0719562031). Indholdet i de to bøger er komplementært, hvorfor begge bøger skal sammenholdes for at gengive et afbalanceret billede af denne hidtil meget berømmede ørkenkrig. Med tysk…
"Les techniques issues de la tradition militaire de "contre-insurrection" et d'action psychologique sont aujourd'hui largement banalisées, y compris dans le management d'entreprise, dans nombre de polices du monde, voire dans des groupes mafieux. Mais on ignore souvent ce qu'ell…
Militærhistorisk og krigshistorisk engelsk opslagsværk fra 1988 om krigshistorien og militærhistorien gennem tiderne, om krige, krigskunst, krigsførelse, våbenudvikling, teknologisk udvikling, m.m. Hovedvægten er lagt på skildringer af nye opfindelser inden for våbenhistorien, u…
