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Fallen Soldiers
Oxford University Press, USA 1990; US$ 19.99At the outbreak of the First World War, an entire generation of young men charged into battle for what they believed was a glorious cause. Over the next four years, that cause claimed the lives of some 13 million soldiers--more than twice the number killed in all the major wars from 1790 to 1914. But despite this devastating toll, the memory of the... more...
Arthur H. Westing
Springer 2012; US$ 39.99Since the 1960s the environment has become an issue of increasing public concern in North America and elsewhere. Triggered by the Second Indochina War (Vietnam Conflict) of 1961-1975, and further encouraged by the International Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, the environmental impact of war emerged and grew as a topic... more...
The Nature of War
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 45.00For over 12,000 years human beings have warred, slaughtering each other with persistence and brutality. From spear point to thermonuclear ordnance, human ingenuity has had a serious downside. In the 20th century alone, wars claimed more than 90 million lives. Yet war's origins, meaning, and evolution over the millennium remain to this day a mystery.... more...
The African American Soldier
Kensington Publishing Corp. 2004; US$ 14.99For more than two hundred years African Americans have fought for their own personal freedom as well as that of their fellow Americans. Blacks contributed to the success of the revolution that gained the country, but not its slaves, their independence. Blacks played a significant role in preserving the union in the Civil War and securing their... more...
The Cambridge Companion to War Writing
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 25.00This 2009 Companion covers British and American war writing from Beowulf to Don DeLillo. more...
Alliance Formation in Civil Wars
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 76.00This book argues power balances, rather than shared identities, explain why warring Afghan groups aligned with and double-crossed each other. more...
The Gamble of War
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 90.00This book analyzes the justification of preventive war in contemporary asymmetrical international relations. It focuses on the most crucial aspect of prevention: uncertainty. It builds a new framework where the role of luck?whether military, political, moral, or normative?is a corrective to the traditional approaches of the just war tradition. more...
Army Life in a Black Regiment
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95The author, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, recounts the adventures of the First Carolina Volunteers, a black regiment mustered into the Army of the United States during the Civil War. Colonel Higginson was convinced that these eight hundred men could drill and perform as well as the best of the white regiments. Transformed from slaves into soldiers, many... more...
War and Society in the Greek World
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95The role of warfare is central to our understanding of the ancient Greek world. In this book and the companion work, War and Society in the Roman World , the wider social context of war is explored. This volume examines its impact on Greek society from Homeric times to the age of Alexander and his successors and discusses the significance of the causes... more...
Why Wars Widen
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 198.00This work explains how wars are most likely to escalate when the effects of warfare are limited. The author demonstrates that total wars during the modern era were very violent and were far less likely to spread, yet the cost of warfare is falling making future conflicts more likely to spread. more...









