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3 Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Vintage, 2007; Lawrence Wright, The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State, Knopf, 2016. 4 Peter Tomsen, The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, ...
Bibliographical essay: p. [243]-250.
Civilization has long sought to limit the violence and ugliness of war. This book traces the recent history of these efforts, and explores important contemporary issues in the area. Geoffrey...
Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one integrated, ...
Thomas G. Paterson and J. Garry Clifford, America Ascendant US Foreign Relations since 1939 (D. C. Heath & Co., Lexington, 1995), 34. 2. M. J. Hogan, The Marshall Plan. America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe 1947–1952 ...
War in Peace: An Analysis of Warfare Since 1945
Thoroughly revised to include 25 conflicts not covered in the previous edition, as well as expanded and updated information on previous coverage, this illustrated reference presents descriptions and analyses of more than 170 significant ...
Great Powers, Small Wars employs several large databases to identify basic characteristics and variables of wars between enemies of disproportionate power.
War in Peace: Conventional and Guerrilla Warfare Since 1945
This book will therefore be of interest for those interested in history, but also political and military decision makers, and followers of current political and military affairs.