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  • French Indochina War: Reflections for Strategic Resilience

    Pearl Orient, #1

    de Simon Huston ...
    Series Libro 1 - Pearl Orient
    Pandemics and military catastrophes illustrate systems fragility and impel strategic reflection. The French Indochina War (FIW) from 1946-1954 furnishes insights with resonance for current infectious, climatic, pollution and economic challenges. Four strategic themes structured an analysis of historical literature. The reasons for the French failure in 1954 involved fundamental regime illegitimacy ... Leer más

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  • French Indochina War: Reflections for Strategic Resilience

    Pearl Orient, #1

    de Simon Huston ...
    Series Libro 1 - Pearl Orient
    Military mistakes impel strategic reflection. The French Indochina War (FIW) from 1946-1954 furnishes useful insights with some resonance for current challenges. A combination of pre-exiting conditions, catalysts and operational drivers cause the cathartic 1954 French defeat. Pre-conditions include the illegitimacy of the colonial regime and repression that polarises nationalist sentiment. ... Leer más

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  • Pia Vindex: War and Decolonisation - Crete, Indochina, Algeria, Cameroon

    de Simon Huston ...
    Epic historical fiction focused on the German paratrooper (fallschirmjaeger) and legionary, Ulrich Werner, who fights in World War II and French decolonisation conflicts in Indochina, Algeria and Cameroon. In 1967, a torso washes up on the banks of the Mississippi. Flashback to 1950 - a battalion of Legion paratroops flies over the jungle in Indochina. Ulrich recollects. In Hannover 1940, he ... Leer más

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  • Byzantine Warrior: War in the East, African Adventures and the Italian Debacle

    de Simon Huston ...
    In 527, Vitalian sails to Alexandria to study but, instead, falls in love with an exotic pagan, Passara. Spurned, the young Byzantine noble enlists in the legions. In 530, barbarians swarm across the frozen Danube. The count is captured and enslaved in the Dacian gold mines. The Emperor orders the veteran, Zimarchus, to lead an extraction mission. Free, Vitalian becomes Empress Theodora's personal ... Leer más

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  • Byzantine Warrior: War in the East, African Adventures and the Italian Debacle

    de Simon Huston ...
    In 527AD Justinian is crowned Emperor but sends his young relative, Vitalian, to study in Alexandria. The youth falls in love with the exotic pagan, Passara. Disillusioned with academia, Vitalian enlists in the Legions. Fighting in Syria and the Caucasus transforms the pampered legate into a battle-hardened cavalry officer. In 529, Vitalian arrives on the Danube front but that winter the ... Leer más

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  • Smart Urban Regeneration

    Visions, Institutions and Mechanisms for Real Estate

    Edición de Simon Huston ...
    The role of real estate in our cities is crucial to building sustainable and resilient urban futures. Smart Urban Regeneration brings together institutional, planning and real estate insights into an innovative regeneration framework for academics, students and property professionals.Starting by identifying key urban issues within the historical urban and planning backdrop, the book goes on to ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

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  • Embers of War

    The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam

    de Fredrik Logevall ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED WORKS OF HISTORY IN RECENT YEARSWinner of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians • Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • Finalist for the Cundill Prize in Historical LiteratureNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYTh... ... Leer más

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  • Valley of Death

    The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War

    de Ted Morgan ...
    Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina—and led inexorably to America’s Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Last Valley

    Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam

    de Martin Windrow ...
    "A meticulous and masterly narrative" of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, which doomed the French Empire and led America into Vietnam ( Wall Street Journal ).In December 1953, French paratroopers searching for the elusive Vietnamese army were quickly isolated by their enemy and forced to retreat. They took refuge in their outgunned and desolate jungle base—a small place called Dien Bien Phu.The ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD

  • The First Air War

    1914-1918

    de Lee Kennett ...
    Historian Lee Kennett takes on the vital task of detailing the World War I aviator in this complete overview of the first air war, that Richard P. Hallion calls, "A welcome and long overdue addition to the literature of military aviation.""The whole subject of the first air war is like some imperfectly explored country: there are areas that have been crisscrossed by several generations of ... Leer más

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  • Foreign Planes in the Service of the Luftwaffe

    de Jean-Louis Roba ...
    This pictorial history shows the full extent of captured foreign aircraft used by Nazi Germany during WWII.No air force in the Second World War would make more use of captured planes than the Luftwaffe. With this in mind, military historian Jean-Louis Roba has tracked down hundreds of such aircraft with rare images that illustrate their uses, careers, and eventual fates. Foreign Planes in the ... Leer más

    $8.09 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Victory at Any Cost

    de Cecil B. Currey ...
    Tells the full story of the man who fought three of the worlds great powersand won. Cecil B. Currey makes clear one primary reason why America lost the Vietnam War: Vo Nguyen Giap. He has written the definitive biography of one of historys greatest generals. ... Leer más

    $9.95 USD