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“sibylle scheipers”

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  • Negotiating sovereignty and human rights

    International society and the International Criminal Court

    by Sibylle Scheipers ...
    Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society. The author shows how the way in which actors refer to core norms of the international society such as sovereignty and human rights affect the process and outcome of international negotiations.The book ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • On Small War

    Carl von Clausewitz and People's War

    by Sibylle Scheipers ...
    Carl von Clausewitz has long been interpreted as the paradigmatic thinker of major interstate war. This book challenges this assumption by showing that Clausewitz was an ardent analyst of small war and integrated many aspects of his early writings on partisan warfare and people's war into his magnum opus, On War. It reconstructs Clausewitz's intellectual development by placing it in the context ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Prisoners in War

    Edited by Sibylle Scheipers ...
    The issue of prisoners in war is a highly timely topic that has received much attention from both scholars and practitioners since the start of the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and the ensuing legal and political problems concerning detainees in those conflicts. This book analyses these contemporary problems and challenges against the background of their historical development. It ... Read more

    $139.99 CAD

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    The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947

    by Christopher Clark ...
    Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 is a compelling account of a country that played a pivotal role in Europe's fortunes and fundamentally shaped our world.Prussia began as a medieval backwater, but transformed itself into a major European power and the force behind the creation of the German empire, until it was finally ... Read more

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  • The Uses and Abuses of History

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    History can be a very useful tool in understanding why we and those we must deal with think and react in certain ways. But in the wrong hands it can be dangerous and used to foster a sense of grievance or a desire for revenge. Eminent historian Margaret MacMillan is fascinated by the power of history in our thinking. In The Uses and Abuses of History, she points out some of the traps that we can ... Read more

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  • The SS Dirlewanger Brigade

    The History of the Black Hunters

    by Christian Ingrao ...
    Translated by Phoebe Green ...
    The Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler. The first members of the brigade were mostly poachers who were released from prisons and concentration camps and who were believed to have the skills necessary for hunting down and capturing partisan fighters in their camps in the forests of the Eastern Front. Their numbers were soon ... Read more

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  • Soldiers

    German POWs on Fighting, Killing, and Dying

    by Sonke Neitzel, Harald Welzer ...
    On a visit to the British National Archive in 2001, Sonke Neitzel made a remarkable discovery: reams of meticulously transcribed conversations among German POWs that had been covertly recorded and recently declassified. Netizel would later find another collection of transcriptions, twice as extensive, in the National Archive in Washington. These were discoveries that would provide a unique and ... Read more

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  • The Lessons of Terror

    A History of Warfare Against Civilians: Why It Has Always Failed and Why It WillFail Again

    by Caleb Carr ...
    In The Lessons of Terror, novelist and military historian Caleb Carr examines terrorism throughout history and the roots of our present crisis and reaches a provocative set of conclusions: the practice of targeting enemy civilians is as old as warfare itself; it has always failed as a military and political tactic; and despite the dramatic increases in its scope and range of weapons, it will ... Read more

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  • The World's War

    Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

    by David Olusoga ...
    'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our understanding of the Great War' David Lammy'A genuinely groundbreaking piece of research' BBC History'Meticulously researched and beautifully written' Military History MonthlyIn a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War – a multi-racial, multi-national struggle, fought in Africa and ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Kaiser Wilhelm II

    A Life in Power

    by Christopher Clark ...
    King of Prussia, German Emperor, war leader and defeated exile, Kaiser Wilhelm II was one of the most important - and most controversial - figures in the history of twentieth-century Europe. But how much power did he really have?The acclaimed historian Christopher Clark follows Kaiser Wilhelm's political career from his youth at the Hohenzollern court through the turbulent decades of the ... Read more

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  • German Soldiers in the Great War

    Letters and Eyewitness Accounts

    Edited by Bernd Ulrich, Benjamin Ziemann ...
    The first English translation of writings that capture the lives and thoughts of German soldiers fighting in the trenches and on the battlefields of WWI.German Soldiers in the Great War is a vivid selection of firsthand accounts and other wartime documents that shed new light on the experiences of German frontline soldiers during the First World War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions ... Read more

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  • A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900

    by Andrew Roberts ...
    Prize-winning British historian tells the story of the English-speaking peoples in the 20th centuryWinston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples ended in 1900. Andrew Roberts, Wolfson History prizewinner has been inspired by Churchill's example to write the story of the 20th century.Churchill wrote: 'Every nation or group of nations has its own tale to tell. Knowledge of the trials ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD