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17 produkter
War is Boring: Bored Stiff, Scared to Death in the World's Worst War Zones
Häftad, 2010
346 kr
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War is Boring
Bored Stiff, Scared to Death in the World''s Worst War Zones
E-bok, 2010
82 kr
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Read David Axe''s blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. The war memoir as graphic novel-an utterly unforgettable and highly original look at war in the 21st century. Street battles with spears and arrows in sweltering East Timor. Bone- jarring artillery duels in Afghanistan''s …
Black Space
The Nazi Superweapons That Launched Humanity Into Orbit
Av David Axe
E-bok, 2023
184 kr
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Orbital fortresses poised to fry entire cities with no warning using giant mirrors. Bombers that take off from Earth, punch through the thin border between the atmosphere and vacuum and take advantage of that lofty altitude to speed across the globe on missions of mass destruction. These and other …
Black Space
The Nazi Superweapons That Launched Humanity Into Orbit
Av David Axe
E-bok, 2023
185 kr
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Orbital fortresses poised to fry entire cities with no warning using giant mirrors. Bombers that take off from Earth, punch through the thin border between the atmosphere and vacuum and take advantage of that lofty altitude to speed across the globe on missions of mass destruction. These and other …
Drone War Vietnam
Av David Axe
E-bok, 2021
152 kr
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While the use of drones is now commonplace in modern warfare, it was in its infancy during the Vietnam War, not to mention revolutionary and top secret. Drones would play an important – and today largely unheralded – role in the bloody, two-decade US air war over Vietnam and surrounding countries …
Drone War Vietnam
Av David Axe
E-bok, 2021
152 kr
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While the use of drones is now commonplace in modern warfare, it was in its infancy during the Vietnam War, not to mention revolutionary and top secret. Drones would play an important – and today largely unheralded – role in the bloody, two-decade US air war over Vietnam and surrounding countries …
From a to B
How Logistics Fuels American Power and Prosperity
Av David Axe
Inbunden, 2011
294 kr
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Logistics includes the planning and practice of moving "stuff"—raw materials, tools, finished products, and even people—from one place to another. It carried American settlers over the sparsely populated Great Plains to connect the East Coast to the West Coast and has underpinned our domestic …
Army of God
Joseph Kony's War in Central Africa
Häftad, 2013
207 kr
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Joseph Kony is the most dangerous guerilla leader in modern African history.It started with a visit from spirits. In 1991, Kony claimed that spiritual beings had come to him with instructions: he was to lead his group of rebels, the Lord's Resistance Army, in a series of brutal raids against …
From a to B
How Logistics Fuels American Power and Prosperity
Av David Axe
E-bok, 2012
258 kr
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Logistics includes the planning and practice of moving "stuff"—raw materials, tools, finished products, and even people—from one place to another. It carried American settlers over the sparsely populated Great Plains to connect the East Coast to the West Coast and has underpinned our domestic …
Shadow Wars
Chasing Conflict in an Era of Peace
Av David Axe
E-bok, 2013
322 kr
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Warfare’s evolution, especially since 2001, has irrevocably changed the meaning of war. In the twentieth century-humankind’s bloodiest-231 million people died in armed conflicts. Battlefield deaths since then have been steadily declining, despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and by 2012 less …
'Stan
Häftad, 2018
198 kr
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The 'Stan is a collection of short comics about America's longest war. The tales in this book--based on reporting by David Axe and Kevin Knodell and drawn by artist Blue Delliquanti—are all true and took place in roughly the first decade of the U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan. While the …
Stan
E-bok, 2018
123 kr
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The ''Stan is a collection of short comics about America''s longest war. Individual stories highlight different perspectives--one through the eyes of a Taliban ambassador and others through the eyes of Afghan and U.S. Army soldiers--but every account highlights the human element of war. The tales …
Accidental Candidate
The Rise and Fall of Alvin Greene
Häftad, 2012
210 kr
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In 2010 a 32-year-old, socially awkward, unemployed African-American Army Veteran, who had been kicked out of the service and was living with his father in the South Carolina countryside while facing federal pornography charges, spent a significant portion of his life's savings on the filing fee to …
Army 101
Inside ROTC in a Time of War
Av David Axe
Inbunden, 2007
332 kr
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Axe spent a year interviewing and following the lives of student-cadets and trainers with the USC Gamecock Battalion (""undergrads with guns,"" as he labels them) to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a representative university ROTC program - one of 270 currently in existence. Axe invites us …
Shadow Wars
Chasing Conflict in an Era of Peace
Av David Axe
Inbunden, 2013
363 kr
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Warfare's evolution, especially since 2001, has irrevocably changed the meaning of war. In the twentieth century—humankind's bloodiest—231 million people died in armed conflicts. Battlefield deaths since then have been steadily declining, despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and by 2012 less …
