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The Cambridge History of War: Volume 4, War and the Modern World

Author : Roger Chickering

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 1065 pages

File Size : 16,75 MB

Release : 2012-09-27

Category : History

ISBN : 1316175928

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Volume IV of The Cambridge History of War offers a definitive new account of war in the most destructive period in human history. Opening with the massive conflicts that erupted in the mid nineteenth century in the US, Asia and Europe, leading historians trace the global evolution of warfare through 'the age of mass', 'the age of machine' and 'the age of management'. They explore how industrialization and nationalism fostered vast armies whilst the emergence of mobile warfare and improved communications systems made possible the 'total warfare' of the two World Wars. With military conflict regionalized after 1945 they show how guerrilla and asymmetrical warfare highlighted the limits of the machine and mass as well as the importance of the media in winning 'hearts and minds'. This is a comprehensive guide to every facet of modern war from strategy and operations to its social, cultural, technological and political contexts and legacies.



The Cambridge History of War: Volume 2, War and the Medieval World

Author : David A. Graff

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 854 pages

File Size : 16,73 MB

Release : 2020-10-01

Category : History

ISBN : 1108901190

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Volume II of The Cambridge History of War covers what in Europe is commonly called 'the Middle Ages'. It includes all of the well-known themes of European warfare, from the migrations of the Germanic peoples and the Vikings through the Reconquista, the Crusades and the age of chivalry, to the development of state-controlled gunpowder-wielding armies and the urban militias of the later middle ages; yet its scope is world-wide, ranging across Eurasia and the Americas to trace the interregional connections formed by the great Arab conquests and the expansion of Islam, the migrations of horse nomads such as the Avars and the Turks, the formation of the vast Mongol Empire, and the spread of new technologies – including gunpowder and the earliest firearms – by land and sea.



The Cambridge History of Warfare

Author : Geoffrey Parker

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 605 pages

File Size : 48,7 MB

Release : 2020-06-04

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1107181593

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The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.



The Cambridge History of the Cold War

Author : Melvyn P. Leffler

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 663 pages

File Size : 11,5 MB

Release : 2010-03-25

Category : History

ISBN : 0521837197

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This volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War in the first comprehensive historical reexamination of the period. A team of leading scholars shows how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and sociopolitical environments of the two world wars and interwar period.



The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 2, Politics and Ideology

Author : Richard Bosworth

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 718 pages

File Size : 15,43 MB

Release : 2017-11-23

Category : History

ISBN : 9781108406406

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War is often described as an extension of politics by violent means. With contributions from twenty-eight eminent historians, Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War examines the relationship between ideology and politics in the war's origins, dynamics and consequences. Part I examines the ideologies of the combatants and shows how the war can be understood as a struggle of words, ideas and values with the rival powers expressing divergent claims to justice and controlling news from the front in order to sustain moral and influence international opinion. Part II looks at politics from the perspective of pre-war and wartime diplomacy as well as examining the way in which neutrals were treated and behaved. The volume concludes by assessing the impact of states, politics and ideology on the fate of individuals as occupied and liberated peoples, collaborators and resistors, and as British and French colonial subjects.



The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 3, Civil Society

Author : Jay Winter

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 1388 pages

File Size : 35,21 MB

Release : 2014-01-09

Category : History

ISBN : 1316025543

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Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil society throughout the conflict; that is to say those institutions and practices outside the state through which the war effort was waged. Drawing on 25 years of historical scholarship, it sheds new light on culturally significant issues such as how families and medical authorities adapted to the challenges of war and the shift that occurred in gender roles and behaviour that would subsequently reshape society. Adopting a transnational approach, this volume surveys the war's treatment of populations at risk, including refugees, minorities and internees, to show the full extent of the disaster of war and, with it, the stubborn survival of irrational kindness and the generosity of spirit that persisted amidst the bitterness at the heart of warfare, with all its contradictions and enduring legacies.



The Cambridge History of the Second World War

Author : John Ferris

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 872 pages

File Size : 15,8 MB

Release : 2015-04-23

Category : History

ISBN : 9781107038929

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The military events of the Second World War have been the subject of historical debate from 1945 to the present. It mattered greatly who won, and fighting was the essential determinant of victory or defeat. In Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War a team of twenty-five leading historians offer a comprehensive and authoritative new account of the war's military and strategic history. Part I examines the military cultures and strategic objectives of the eight major powers involved. Part II surveys the course of the war in its key theatres across the world, and assesses why one side or the other prevailed there. Part III considers, in a comparative way, key aspects of military activity, including planning, intelligence, and organisation of troops and matérial, as well as guerrilla fighting and treatment of prisoners of war.



The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare

Author : Geoffrey Parker

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 452 pages

File Size : 33,18 MB

Release : 2008-09-29

Category : History

ISBN : 9780521738064

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Book Description

Now available in a revised and updated version, this book examines Western warfare from antiquity to the present day.



The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 2, Politics and Ideology

Author : Richard Bosworth

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 754 pages

File Size : 25,21 MB

Release : 2015-04-23

Category : History

ISBN : 1316298566

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Book Description

War is often described as an extension of politics by violent means. With contributions from twenty-eight eminent historians, Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War examines the relationship between ideology and politics in the war's origins, dynamics and consequences. Part I examines the ideologies of the combatants and shows how the war can be understood as a struggle of words, ideas and values with the rival powers expressing divergent claims to justice and controlling news from the front in order to sustain moral and influence international opinion. Part II looks at politics from the perspective of pre-war and wartime diplomacy as well as examining the way in which neutrals were treated and behaved. The volume concludes by assessing the impact of states, politics and ideology on the fate of individuals as occupied and liberated peoples, collaborators and resistors, and as British and French colonial subjects.



The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare

Author : Geoffrey Parker

Publisher :

Page : 408 pages

File Size : 11,85 MB

Release : 1995

Category : History

ISBN : 9780521440738

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Book Description

Provides an account of war in the West from antiquity to the present day