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  • Tiger 131
    Bruce Oliver Newsome
    The forgotten battle for Gueriat el Atach, Tunisia, 23-24 April 1943, is much greater in scale, space, and forces - and heroism - than would be suggested by the well-worn photographs of Tiger 131, sitting alone on a hill top, after capture.Tiger 131 of the 504th Heavy Tank Battalion was the first running Tiger to be exploited by Western intelligence, and is the only Tiger runni...
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    25,24 €

  • The First Tank War
    Bruce Oliver Newsome
    The proposed mechanical solutions to the stalemate of the Great War (1914-1918) included big-wheel landships, wheeled bridge-pushers, trench-straddling personnel carriers, self-propelled artillery, and machine-gun carriers. The preferred acquisition was named 'tank,' but even the tank remained contested, between different weights, armaments, types of mobility, and protection le...
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  • Sir Basil Liddell Hart
    Bruce Newsome / Bruce Oliver Newsome
    The first unofficial biography of Sir Basil Liddell Hart (1895-1970). Nobody had more influence on Anglophone military thought over the last 100 years. He was born in the reign of Victoria, came of age in the year before the Great War, and wrote doctrine from the year after. In 1925 (when he was still 29 years of age), the rising Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), desp...
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  • Sir Basil Liddell Hart and Tanks
    Bruce Oliver Newsome
    Sir Basil Liddell Hart (1895-1970) is the strongest influence on Anglophone military thought. From the 1920s, he influenced doctrine, force structure, and acquisitions. By the 1950s, he was the official historian of Britain’s tank arm, and the self-declared inventor of Blitzkrieg. He died in 1970, a knight of the realm, feted as the greatest expert on tanks in the world.Liddell...
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  • A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management
    Bruce Oliver Newsome
    A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management is the first textbook to combine both security management and risk management. Its concepts and skills can be applied in all domains: business, public administration, public safety, criminology, computing, sports, tourism, agriculture, healthcare, education, intelligence, policing, and international relations.  This secon...
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    66,15 €

  • The Rise and Fall of Western Tanks, 1939-1955
    Bruce Oliver Newsome
    THE RISE AND FALL OF WESTERN TANKS tells the story of how the wealthiest, most industrialized, and most democratic states led the world in tanks during the Great War, but lost their lead by the Second World War. THIS SECOND VOLUME asks whether Western states caught up during that war - or even during the first decade of the Cold War. You can read what the developers and users s...
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    26,67 €

  • The Rise and Fall of Western Tanks, 1855-1939
    Bruce Oliver Newsome
    THE RISE AND FALL OF WESTERN TANKS tells the story of how the wealthiest, most industrialized, and most democratic states led the world in tanks from the Great War through the 1920s, but lost their lead in the 1930s. The Soviet Union and Germany (incorporating Czechoslovakia) built the largest tank forces, reverse-engineered Western tanks, and innovated for themselves. AS THIS ...
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    26,66 €

  • Countering New(est) Terrorism
    Bruce Oliver Newsome / James W. Stewart
    How should we analyze and assess new terrorist behaviors? What are the particular risks and challenges from new terrorism? Should we negotiate with terrorists, and, if so, how? When should we use force against terrorists? Countering New(est) Terrorism: Hostage-Taking, Kidnapping, and Active Violence-Assessing, Negotiating, and Assaulting < ...
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    117,14 €

  • The Dark Side of Sunshine
    Bruce Oliver Newsome
    Would you dumb down to fit in?​​ Simon escapes the ridiculous Riverside University of London by exchanging with its American partner - the University of Sunshine Bayside, only to wake up to the wokest of woke colleges. Virtues are punished as vices, conformity trumps originality, and minds are melded - one falsehood at a time. Being good at his job is his first mistake. In elec...
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    31,78 €

  • The Dark Side of Sunshine
    Bruce Oliver Newsome
    Would you dumb down to fit in?​​ Simon escapes the ridiculous Riverside University of London by exchanging with its American partner – the University of Sunshine Bayside, only to wake up to the wokest of woke colleges. Virtues are punished as vices, conformity trumps originality, and minds are melded – one falsehood at a time. Being good at his job is his first mistake. In elec...
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    15,77 €

  • Countering New(est) Terrorism
    Bruce Oliver Newsome / James W. Stewart
    How should we analyze and assess new terrorist behaviors? What are the particular risks and challenges from new terrorism? Should we negotiate with terrorists, and, if so, how? When should we use force against terrorists? Countering New(est) Terrorism: Hostage-Taking, Kidnapping, and Active Violence-Assessing, Negotiating, and Assaulting improves our knowledge of new terrorist ...
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    267,29 €