The Changing Face of Britain
Author | : Kenneth Bird |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kenneth Bird |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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Author | : C J (Colin) Barr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1990 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Leslie Gardiner |
Publisher | : Michael Joseph |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Author | : Anthony Tucker-Jones |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2018-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 075099021X |
Can air power alone win a war? That has been the question since the Second World War. Air attacks failed miserably in Vietnam: Operation Linebacker had little effect, while bombing Hanoi just increased hatred for America – yet air strikes in both Iraq and Libya helped bring about regime changes. No-fly zones may have worked in the Balkans, but they might as well not have been there for Saddam Hussein's Iraq. From the Luftwaffe's massed attack on Britain to NATO's interventions in Libya, aerial warfare has changed almost beyond recognition. The piston engine has been replaced by the jet, and in some cases the pilot has been completely replaced by the microchip. Carpet bombing is now a global positioning system and laser pinpointed strikes using precision-guided munitions. Whereas a bomber's greatest enemies were once fighters and flak, the threats have now morphed into smart missiles from half a world away. In this compelling study, celebrated defence expert Anthony Tucker-Jones charts the remarkable evolution of aerial warfare from 1940 to the present day.
Author | : Fougasse |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : English wit and humor, Pictorial |
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Author | : Christopher Trent |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martin van Creveld |
Publisher | : Presidio Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2008-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030749439X |
One of the most influential experts on military history and strategy has now written his magnum opus, an original and provocative account of the past hundred years of global conflict. The Changing Face of War is the book that reveals the path that led to the impasse in Iraq, why powerful standing armies are now helpless against ill-equipped insurgents, and how the security of sovereign nations may be maintained in the future. While paying close attention to the unpredictable human element, Martin van Creveld takes us on a journey from the last century’s clashes of massive armies to today’s short, high-tech, lopsided skirmishes and frustrating quagmires. Here is the world as it was in 1900, controlled by a handful of “great powers,” mostly European, with the memories of eighteenth-century wars still fresh. Armies were still led by officers riding on horses, messages conveyed by hand, drum, and bugle. As the telegraph, telephone, and radio revolutionized communications, big-gun battleships like the British Dreadnought, the tank, and the airplane altered warfare. Van Creveld paints a powerful portrait of World War I, in which armies would be counted in the millions, casualties–such as those in the cataclysmic battle of the Marne–would become staggering, and deadly new weapons, such as poison gas, would be introduced. Ultimately, Germany’s plans to outmaneuver her enemies to victory came to naught as the battle lines ossified and the winners proved to be those who could produce the most weapons and provide the most soldiers. The Changing Face of War then propels us to the even greater global carnage of World War II. Innovations in armored warfare and airpower, along with technological breakthroughs from radar to the atom bomb, transformed war from simple slaughter to a complex event requiring new expertise–all in the service of savagery, from Pearl Harbor to Dachau to Hiroshima. The further development of nuclear weapons during the Cold War shifts nations from fighting wars to deterring them: The number of active troops shrinks and the influence of the military declines as civilian think tanks set policy and volunteer forces “decouple” the idea of defense from the world of everyday people. War today, van Crevald tells us, is a mix of the ancient and the advanced, as state-of-the-art armies fail to defeat small groups of crudely outfitted guerrilla and terrorists, a pattern that began with Britain’s exit from India and culminating in American misadventures in Vietnam and Iraq, examples of what the author calls a “long, almost unbroken record of failure.” How to learn from the recent past to reshape the military for this new challenge–how to still save, in a sense, the free world–is the ultimate lesson of this big, bold, and cautionary work. The Changing Face of War is sure to become the standard source on this essential subject.
Author | : United States. Department of Transportation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Electronic government information |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brian Harrison |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 681 |
Release | : 2009-03-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198204760 |
An impressively detailed but also unusually wide-ranging analysis of post-war Britain in the 1950s and 60s, covering everything from international relations to family life, the countryside to manufacturing, religion to race, cultural life to political structures.
Author | : Marcia Foley |
Publisher | : Nelson Thornes |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780748726172 |
Substantially revised to incorporate the contents of the 1995 Revised Order and its major implications for geography teaching. Includes two brand new chapters on the growing early years sector and OFSTED inspections. A whole range of different ways to organise the geography curriculum is discussed, with examples. The resources sections have been updated and expanded.