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In Athena's Camp
RAND Corporation 1997; US$ 9.95The information revolution--which is as much an organizational as a technological revolution--is transforming the nature of conflict across the spectrum: from open warfare, to terrorism, crime, and even radical social activism. The era of massed field armies is passing, because the new information and communications systems are increasing the lethality... more...
Marines on the Beach
Greenwood Publishing Group 2008; US$ 75.00The United States has a long history of sending troops to intervene in other nations. This volume concerns itself with how those decisions are made, and what factors beyond the events occurring in the target country affect the outcome of the decision mak more...
The Wars We Inherit
Temple University Press 2010; US$ 26.95By combining personal memoir and critical analysis, Lori Amy links the violence we live in our homes to the violence that structures our larger culture. The Wars We Inherit brings insights from memory and trauma studies to the story of violence in the author’s own family. In this brave, fascinating and compelling book, Amy... more...
Enduring Military Boredom
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 95.00It is often said that war is 5% horror and 95% boredom. In this sense, military boredom is historically enduring as well as personally enduring for the soldiers who have to endure it. This book contributes to a deeper understanding ? historically, empirically and theoretically ? of the complex phenomenon of boredom in a military context. more...
The Sociology of War and Violence
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 28.00The only textbook to provide a wide-ranging analysis of war and organised violence from a sociological perspective. more...
Why Nations Fight
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 26.00A new explanation of the frequency of war and its specific causes and consequences. more...
Public War, Private Conscience
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 110.00Public War, Private Conscience offers a philosophical reflection on the moral demands made upon us by war, providing a clear and accessible overview of the different ways of thinking about war. Engaging both with contemporary examples and historical ideas about war, the book offers unique analysis of issues relating to terrorism, conscience objection,... more...
Human Face of War
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 120.00Warfare is hugely important. The fates of nations, and even continents, often rests on the outcome of war and thus on how its practitioners consider war. The Human Face of War is a new exploration of military thought. It starts with the observation that much military thought is poorly developed – often incoherent and riddled with paradox.... more...
Under the Sabers
St. Martin's Press 2006; US$ 7.99Under the Sabers is a groundbreaking narrative detailing the complex personal challenges Army wives face, presenting a provocative new look at Army life. Tanya Biank goes beyond the sound bites and photo ops of military life and shows what it is really like to be an Army wife--from hauling furniture off the rental truck by yourself at a new duty... more...
Forgotten Voices of the Somme
Ebury Publishing 2008; US$ 10.671916. The Somme. With over a million casualties, it was the most brutal battle of World War I. It is a clash that even now, over 90 years later, remains seared into the national consciousness, conjuring up images of muddy trenches and young lives tragically wasted. Its first day, July 1st 1916 - on which the British suffered 57,470 casualties,... more...









