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Battle : a visual journey through 5,000 years of combat / by Grant, R. G.;: Subjects: Battles.; Military history.; War.;; © c2005., DK Pub.,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
World War II map by map.: Library Bound Incorporated; Subjects: HISTORY; HISTORY / Military / World War II;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The War of 1812 against the States : heroes of a great Canadian victory / by Crump, Jennifer.;: Includes bibliographical references.Relates the stalwart defence of Canada against the American invasion through the stories of men and women involved in the conflict.; © 2003., Altitude,; Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
War : how conflict shaped us / by MacMillan, Margaret,1943-author.;: Includes bibliographical references and index."War, the instinct to fight, is inherent in human nature; peace is the aberration in history. War has shaped humanity, its institutions, its states, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war. War is an uncomfortable and challenging subject not least because it brings out the most vile and the noblest aspects of humanity. Margaret MacMillan looks at the ways in which war has shaped human history and how, in turn, changes in political organization, technology, or ideologies have affected how and why we fight. The book considers such much-debated and controversial issues as when war first started; whether human nature dooms us to fight each other; why war has been described as the most organized of all human activities and how it has forced us to become still more organized; how warriors are made and why are they almost always men; and how we try to control war. Drawing on lessons from a sweep of history, from classical history to modern warfare, and from all parts of the globe, MacMillan reveals the many faces of war--the way it shapes our past, our future, our views of the world, and our very conception of ourselves"--; Subjects: War and society.; War;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
War! What is it good for? : conflict and the progress of civilization from primates to robots / by Morris, Ian,1960-;: Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-471), Internet addresses and index.LSC; Subjects: War and civilization.; War.; Military history.;; © c2014., Farrar, Straus and Giroux,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Battle : a visual journey through 5,000 years of combat / by Grant, R. G.;: Subjects: Military history; Battles; War;; © 2005., DK Pub.,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
War : from ancient Egypt to Iraq / by David, Saul,1966-;: LSC; Subjects: War; Military art and science; War and civilization.;; © 2009., DK Pub.,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Soldiers : great stories of war and peace / by Hastings, Max,compiler,editor,writer of introduction.;: Includes bibliographical references and index.A collection of the most extraordinary stories of war, courage, tragedy, strategy and survival. Soldiers is a collection of the very best stories about soldiers, brought together by historian Max Hastings. In his almost sixty years of military study and his work in the midst of modern conflicts as a foreign correspondent, these are the stories that left a mark. In these pages you will find heroes and cowards; triumphs, tragedies and comedies. It illustrates, mostly through people's own words, what it's been like to fight in wars, to live and die as a warrior, from Greek and Roman times through to today's Iraq and Afghanistan. The characters include the Black Prince and Cromwell, Wellington at Waterloo, Siegfried Sassoon at the Somme, George Orwell in the Spanish Civil War and Evelyn Waugh as a commando. But there are also Americans, Frenchmen, Israelis, Russians, not to mention the women warriors of Dahomey, Queen Boudicca and the women who serve today in the US Marines. There are more than 300 stories in all, and an astounding variety of soldiers' experiences through the ages. Many have been responsible for wonderful achievements but a few, also, for dreadful crimes. Some relate horrors, while others tell terrific jokes. In modern writing, we hear from the titans of historical writing with Ben Macintyre and Anthony Beevor. This is a book that might make you feel as grateful that whatever the troubles of our own times, we are spared the mud and blood and anguish, if also the moments of glory, that the soldiers in these pages bring so vividly to life.; Subjects: Armed Forces; Battles; Civil war; Military history.; Soldiers; War; Women soldiers;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI

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