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Paulus Hector Mair's Ars Athletica Volume I

Longsword

AvPaulus Hector Mair,Jeffrey L. Forgeng

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

2 145 kr

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To those who study the physical culture of arms in medieval Europe, the German Fechtbücher—treatises on combat arts—are among the most important surviving documentary sources: no other region in Europe produced such an extensive body of writings on the techniques of medieval combat. Among these, the massive compendia commissioned by the scholar-swordsman Paulus Hector Mair (1517-1579) stand out as uniquely ambitious and monumental. The text survives in three manuscript copies, each consisting of two volumes, with each manuscript running to approximately 1200 pages. They include about 17 weapon-forms, from two-handed sword to rapier, armoured combat to sickle and scythe; each form consists of anywhere from 8 to 136 lavishly illustrated techniques, in many cases followed by one or more seminal texts on the form.The combination of text and image in the illustrated techniques offers obvious advantages to the understanding of a physical practice, and Mair is unique among the German masters in systematically giving instructions to both combatants, so that as one learns how to perform a technique, they also learn how to counter it. Lastly, one of the most important features of the Ars Athletica is the Latin translation, which serves as something of a Rosetta stone for interpreting the vocabulary of these long-lost martial arts. In this series, Jeffrey Forgeng, translator of the equally seminal Fechtbücher of Joachim Meyer and Hans Lecküchner, has brought together a team of translator-practitioners to tackle Mair’s opus. Over a decade of work has gone into transcribing, translating and annotating the Ars Athletica (Treatise on the Martial Arts) presenting both the original German and Latin, as well as a modern English translation.Volume One of this series presents the Longsword, which was the traditional centrepiece of the German medieval tradition and provides the core instruction through which all other weapons of the tradition can be understood. In three languages and full-colour illustrations, readers will find a complete curriculum of cuts, thrusts, disarms and grapples; even using the sword as a short spear, which forms the foundation for armoured combat—the subject of a later volume.

Del 6 - Studies in Labour History

Soldiers as Workers

Class, employment, conflict and the nineteenth-century military

AvNick Mansfield

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

1 929 kr

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The book outlines how class is single most important factor in understanding the British army in the period of industrialisation. It challenges the 'ruffians officered by gentlemen' theory of most military histories and demonstrates how service in the ranks was not confined to ‘the scum of the earth’ but included a cross section of ‘respectable’ working class men.Common soldiers represent a huge unstudied occupational group. They worked as artisans, servants and dealers, displaying pre-enlistment working class attitudes and evidencing low level class conflict in numerous ways. Soldiers continued as members of the working class after discharge, with military service forming one phase of their careers and overall life experience. After training, most common soldiers had time on their hands and were allowed to work at a wide variety of jobs, analysed here for the first time. Many serving soldiers continued to work as regimental tradesmen, or skilled artificers. Others worked as officers’ servants or were allowed to run small businesses, providing goods and services to their comrades. Some, especially the Non Commissioned Officers who actually ran the army, forged extraordinary careers which surpassed any opportunities in civilian life. All the soldiers studied retained much of their working class way of life. This was evidenced in a contract culture similar to that of the civilian trade unions. Within disciplined boundaries, army life resulted in all sorts of low level class conflict. The book explores these by covering drinking, desertion, feigned illness, self harm, strikes and go-slows. It further describes mutinies, back chat, looting, fraternisation, foreign service, suicide and even the shooting of unpopular officers.

Paulus Hector Mair's Ars Athletica Volume 2

Dusack

AvPaulus Hector Mair,Jeffrey L. Forgeng

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

1 435 kr

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To those who study the physical culture of arms in medieval Europe, the German Fechtbücher—treatises on combat arts—are among the most important surviving documentary sources: no other region in Europe produced such an extensive body of writings on the techniques of medieval combat. Among these, the massive compendia commissioned by the scholar-swordsman Paulus Hector Mair (1517-1579) stand out as uniquely ambitious and monumental. The text survives in three manuscript copies, each consisting of two volumes, with each manuscript running to approximately 1200 pages. They include about 17 weapon-forms, from two-handed sword to rapier, armoured combat to sickle and scythe; each form consists of anywhere from 8 to 136 lavishly illustrated techniques, in many cases followed by one or more seminal texts on the form.The combination of text and image in the illustrated techniques offers obvious advantages to the understanding of a physical practice, and Mair is unique among the German masters in systematically giving instructions to both combatants, so that as one learns how to perform a technique, they also learn how to counter it. Lastly, one of the most important features of the Ars Athletica is the Latin translation, which serves as something of a Rosetta stone for interpreting the vocabulary of these long-lost martial arts. In this series, Jeffrey Forgeng, translator of the equally seminal Fechtbücher of Joachim Meyer and Hans Lecküchner, has brought together a team of translator-practitioners to tackle Mair’s opus. Over a decade of work has gone into transcribing, translating and annotating the Ars Athletica (Treatise on the Martial Arts) presenting both the original German and Latin, as well as a modern English translation.Volume Two of this series presents the Dusack, a sporting version of the older Langesmesser (long-knife) a single-edged utility sword characteristic of the German-speaking areas of Europe. Made sometimes of wood, sometimes of leather, occasionally of steel, the Dusack was the training weapon for all single-handed swords. Mair’s Dusack sequences represent one of the earliest surviving treatises on this weapon; the section ends with his redactions of some of the most famous Messer texts of the previous century.

Åklagaren : mannen som drog nazisterna inför rätta

AvJack Fairweather

Inbunden, Svenska, 2026

279 kr

"En enastående bok om en enastående man" – The Telegraph

"Fairweather lyckas kombinera gedigen faktainsamling med lättillgänglig prosa" – Svenska Dagbladet

"i alla avseenden imponerande" – Göteborgs-Posten

"Utomordentligt engagerande" – BTJ

När Nürnbergrättegångarna avslutades 1946 dömdes flera av historiens största nazistförbrytare till döden. Men även efter rättegången förblev hundratusentals kollaboratörer på fri fot. Det ville Fritz Bauer, åklagare och homosexuell jude från Tyskland, ändra på.

Efter att ha levt i exil i Danmark och Sverige återvände Bauer till hemlandet efter kriget, fast besluten att tvinga sina landsmän att konfrontera sin mörka historia.

I denna välresearchade bok berättar journalisten och författaren Jack Fairweather historien om åklagaren Bauers juridiska strid med nazistiska krigsförbrytare – något som även kom att bli en strid mot ett Tyskland som bestämt sig för att begrava det förflutna. Det är berättelsen om en man som satte sig själv åt sidan i kampen för rättvisa, i ett försök att få förövarna av Förintelsen avslöjade och ställda inför rätta – inklusive en av huvudarkitekterna bakom Auschwitz, Adolf Eichmann.

Med utgångspunkt i nyligen avklassificerade historiska dokument och exklusiva intervjuer med nyckelpersoner erbjuder Fairweather en unik inblick i efterkrigstidens Västtyskland.

Åklagaren är ett svidande porträtt av en nation som reste sig ur fascismens ruiner, och berättelsen om en man som ägnade sitt liv åt att få sitt folk – och världen – att möta sanningen.

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T-72 Main Battle Tank

AvJames Kinnear,Stephen Sewell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

417 kr

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A highly illustrated study of the T-72 main battle tank and variants, detailing its history from the Cold War Soviet Army through to the current War in Ukraine. The T-72 is one of the most recognisable tanks in the world. Produced in large quantities, it has seen service in numerous Middle Eastern and African conflicts, as well as the War in Yugoslavia and the current conflict in Ukraine. In this new study, respected Russian armour experts James Kinnear and Stephen “Cookie” Sewell tell the full story behind this iconic tank using extensive primary source material from Russian archives, much of which is appearing in English for the first time.The T-72 was originally developed in the late 1960s as a cheaper alternative to the recently introduced T-64 Main Battle Tank and entered service with the Soviet Army in 1974, becoming the most common tank used by the Warsaw Pact from the 1970s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, with over 22,000 built for both domestic use and export.This new study contains over 300 photos detailing the history of the vehicle, as well as tables and data covering the weapons and systems used. It also covers related vehicles and systems such as artillery systems, engineer vehicles, bridge launchers, and recovery vehicles, as well as the unique heavy infantry support vehicles.

Armored Forces of Russia and the Soviet Union

Tanks and Armored Vehicles (An Illustrated Guide, 1919-2025)

AvVictor Schunkow

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

576 kr

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A detailed guide to the tanks and armored vehicles of Russia and Soviet Union, including hundreds of historical images along with color profiles.

Vem är du när kriget kommer? : mental handlingsberedskap och psykologiska strategier

AvDavid Bergman

Häftad, Svenska, 2025

263 kr

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Den största utmaningen i katastrofer, kriser och krig är att få det civila samhället att fortsätta fungera. Det genomsnittliga kriget varar i drygt tre år och det är inga andra än vi som kommer att hålla i gång samhället under den tiden. Vi behöver därför kunna fortsätta göra vad vi gör varje dag.

Ett krig kommer inte nödvändigtvis att ändra den roll du har. Men det kommer att innebära större påfrestningar och ökade krav på dig, både yrkesmässigt och privat. Frågan vem du är när kriget kommer handlar om hur du behöver vara som person för att bättre kunna möta dessa ökade påfrestningar.

Det är mänskligt att söka enkla svar på komplexa problem, men den här boken kommer inte att vara någon Ikea-manual eller checklista för exakt hur du ska agera i alla situationer. Den kommer dock att avliva seglivade myter och ge dig värdefull kunskap som gör de faktiska påfrestningarna mer hanterbara.

David Bergman är överstelöjtnant, doktor i psykologi och forskare vid Försvarshögskolan. Han har tidigare givit ut Stridens psykologi – Konsten att döda och överleva och fyra thrillers som utspelar sig i militär miljö.

Sagt om boken:

”Boken riktar sig till en bred publik – både till den som vill förstå hur samhället påverkas av kriser och till den som söker konkreta strategier för att hantera extrema situationer. Sammanfattningsvis är det en aktuell och insiktsfull bok som lyfter fram vikten av psykologisk motståndskraft i kris.”Ida Larsson, BTJ-häftet nr 6, 2025

Question 7

AvRichard Flanagan

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

129 kr

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**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize**From one kiss comes a chain reaction – a masterpiece of memoir from the winner of the Baillie Gifford and the Booker prize‘Extraordinary’ Sarah Perry‘Masterpiece’ Colm Tóibín‘Wholly original. I absolutely loved it’ David Nicholls‘A brilliant, brilliant book’ James RebanksBy way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair, through 1930s nuclear physics, to Flanagan’s father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima, this chain of events culminates in a young man finding himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die…‘The strangest and most beautiful memoir I’ve ever read. Magnificent' Tim Winton‘Flanagan’s finest book... A brilliant meditation on the past of one man and the history that coalesced in his existence’ Guardian‘Flanagan’s portrayal of his quiet, brave father and his loving, resilient mother is exquisite…masterful’ Daily Telegraph‘Intimate, beautiful, unsparing and profound' Anna Funder

Team of Teams

New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

AvGeneral Stanley McChrystal,David Silvermanm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

131 kr

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What if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization?When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq in 2003, he quickly realized that conventional military tactics were failing. The allied forces had a huge advantage in numbers, equipment and training - but none of the enemy's speed and flexibility.McChrystal and his colleagues discarded a century of conventional wisdom to create a 'team of teams' that combined extremely transparent communication with decentralized decision-making authority. Faster, flatter and more flexible, the task force beat back al-Qaeda.In this powerful book, McChrystal and his colleagues show how the challenges they faced in Iraq can be relevant to any leader. Through compelling examples, the authors demonstrate that the 'team of teams' strategy has worked everywhere from hospital emergency rooms to NASA and has the potential to transform organizations large and small.'A bold argument that leaders can help teams become greater than the sum of their parts' Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit'An indispensable guide to organizational change' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs

Kärnvapenkrig : ett scenario

AvAnnie Jacobsen

Inbunden, Svenska, 2024

309 kr

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72 minuter. Så lång tid tar det från den första upptäckten av ett avfyrat nordkoreanskt kärnvapen med slutmål Washington DC till dess att stora delar av civilisationen ligger i ruiner. Vapnet som skulle innebära slutet på de stora världskrigen har utvecklats till ett monster bortom mänsklig kontroll. Den ömsesidiga terrorbalansen är så pass skör att allt kan raseras av ett missförstånd, eller en enda impulsiv statschef.

Här erbjuds en unik inblick i det kärnvapenmilitära etablissemanget. Den amerikanska journalisten Annie Jacobsen har utforskat teknologierna, säkerhetssystemen, planerna och riskerna. Minut för minut skildrar hon det potentiella händelseförlopp som inga världsledare vill tala öppet om – men som när som helst kan bli verklighet.

Annie Jacobsen är journalist och pulitzerprisnominerad författare till en rad uppmärksammade böcker. Kärnvapenkrig har blivit en omdiskuterad bästsäljare i USA.

Med förord av Martin Kragh.

Se kvinnorna se kriget : dagbok om krig och rättvisa

AvViktoria Amelina

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

234 kr

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»Jag har sällan läst något så moget om ett pågående krig. Att läsa Amelinas bok känns som en blixt som lyser upp ditt hjärta.« Sofi Oksanen

Viktoria Amelina var en ung, framstående författare, aktiv på landets litterära scen och mamma till en tioårig pojke när Rysslands fullskaliga invasion av Ukraina den 24 februari 2022 ställde allt på ända. Snabbt sadlade hon om till utredare av krigsförbrytelser. Hon reste runt i nyligen befriade områden, fotograferade ruinerna av skolor och kulturcenter och spelade in de överlevandes vittnesmål. Samtidigt började idén till en bok ta form: en samling reportage om ukrainska kvinnor som dokumenterar krigsbrott.

Den 27 juni 2023 stannade hon till i Kramatorsk för att äta middag på en pizzeria i den hårt drabbade Donetskregionen, när en rysk kryssningsmissil slog ned. Amelina skadades allvarligt och avled fyra dagar senare, bara 37 år gammal. Hon lämnade efter sig en enastående skildring av krigets vardag och motståndets pris.

Viktoria Amelina (1986-2023) Ukrainsk författare, poet och krigsbrottsutredare, känd för sina prisbelönta romaner och essäer om krig, mänskliga rättigheter och det ukrainska samhället. Amelina började sin karriär som IT-specialist innan hon övergick till att skriva böcker och snabbt etablerade sig som en av den moderna ukrainska litteraturens viktigaste röster.

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Warship 2026

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

473 kr

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The 2026 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual featuring original research on the history, development and service of the world's warships.For nearly 50 years, Warship has been providing scholars and enthusiasts with new information on the history of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, Warship combines original research, new book reviews, warship notes, an image gallery and much more, maintaining the impressive standards of scholarship and research with which the annual has become synonymous. Detailed and accurate information is the hallmark of all the articles, which are fully supported by plans, data tables, and photographs, many previously unpublished.This year's annual includes feature articles on the French 450-tonne destroyers of the early 20th century, the Soviet Novik-class destroyers, the Italian carrier Falco/Sparviero; a chronological account and assessment of Royal Navy carrier battle damage during World War II; a comparison of the US, British and Canadian escort naval construction programmes in the summer of 1942; and the next part of Warship's ground-breaking coverage of early German destroyers.

Principles of International Criminal Law

AvGerhard Werle,Florian Jeßberger

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

867 kr

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Principles of International Criminal Law is one of the most influential textbooks in the field of international criminal justice. This fourth edition builds on the highly-successful work of the previous editions, setting out the general principles governing international crimes as well as the fundamentals of both substantive and procedural international criminal law. It provides a detailed understanding of the sources and evolution of international criminal law, demonstrating how it has developed, and how its application has changed. The book assesses in detail the four key international crimes as defined by the statute of the International Criminal Court: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. The new edition revises and updates the work with developments in international criminal justice since 2014. It includes substantial new material on critical perspectives on international criminal justice, the fragmentation of international criminal law, new war crimes of prohibited means of warfare, and the prosecution of crimes committed in Syria and Northern Iraq.The book retains its highly-acclaimed systematic approach and consistent methodology, making it essential reading for both students and scholars of international criminal law, as well as practitioners and judges working in the field.

Sherman

The M4 Tank in World War II

AvMichel Esteve

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

421 kr

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The Medium Tank, M4, better known to the British as the Sherman, was the most widely used medium tank by the United States and western Allies in World War II. Reliable, relatively cheap to produce, and easy to maintain, thousands were distributed to the British Commonwealth and the Soviet Union by the Lend-Lease program. It first saw combat in North Africa, where it outclassed lighter German and Italian tanks. By 1944 the M4 was outgunned by the German heavy tanks, but it still contributed to the fight when deployed in numbers and supported by artillery and fighter-bombers.A detailed insight into the development and deployment of the M4, this book covers the design and construction of the chassis, turret, engine, armaments and munitions and differences between the variants of the M4. It covers the difficulties facing the crews who fought in this legendary tank, exploring the training they received and the different combat methods perfected by the Allies, including landing from an landing craft, maneuvering in the bocage of Normandy, and fighting in the snow.Fully illustrated with hundreds of contemporary and modern photographs and detailed diagrams, this complete account provides all the technical details of the construction of the M4, its maintenance and repair, and the logistics required to support it in combat.Whether you are a collector, modeler or simply passionate about military history, this book will provide you with an unparalleled insight into the M4.

Unbroken

AvLaura Hillenbrand

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

157 kr

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The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie.THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERIn 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant survives. Louise Zamperini had already transformed himself from child delinquent to prodigious athlete, running in the Berlin Olympics. Now he must embark on one of the Second World War’s most extraordinary odysseys. Zamperini faces thousands of miles of open ocean on a failing raft. Beyond like only greater trials, in Japan’s prisoner-of-war camps.Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini’s destiny, whether triumph or tragedy, depends on the strength of his will …Now a major motion picture, directed by Angelina Jolie and starring Jack O’ Connell.

World War II Snipers

The Men, Their Guns, Their Stories

AvGary Yee

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

407 kr

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Thousands of volumes have been published about World War II but relatively little attention has been given to the sniper. Drawing from memoirs, government documents and interviews, this Casemate Illustrated title incorporates eyewitness accounts to weave a comprehensive narrative of snipers in World War II. While certain common traits were shared among belligerents, each had its unique methodology for selecting and training snipers and, as casualties were high, their replacements. Drawn from hunters, competitive shooters, natural marksmen, outdoorsmen, city dwellers, farmers and veteran soldiers, they fought to assert local battlefield dominance and instill among their enemy a paralyzing fear. Sometimes admired and other times reviled by their own comrades because of the retaliation they drew, they were always too few in number. Their battlefield role, their victories and their defeats are retold here from neglected or forgotten sources. The scope of World War II Snipers is extensive, with three chapters each on the major theatres of the war including Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the Pacific. These are supported by a lengthy chapter on the sniper rifles used by the snipers and their equipment. Finally, the last chapter discusses many overlooked or ignored subjects not raised by other researchers and provides much food for thought. The bibliography is a valuable resource to future researchers and writers. For the long-range rifle shooter and today's snipers, the lessons of the past are as relevant today as they were when learned and practiced in World War II.

Abyss

World on the Brink, the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

AvMax Hastings

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

119 kr

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A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ‘the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis’ Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. Max Hastings’s graphic new history tells the story from the viewpoints of national leaders, Russian officers, Cuban peasants, American pilots and British disarmers. Max Hastings deploys his accustomed blend of eye-witness interviews, archive documents and diaries, White House tape recordings, top-down analysis, first to paint word-portraits of the Cold War experiences of Fidel Castro’s Cuba, Nikita Khrushchev’s Russia and Kennedy’s America; then to describe the nail-biting Thirteen Days in which Armageddon beckoned.Hastings began researching this book believing that he was exploring a past event from twentieth century history. He is as shocked as are millions of us around the world, to discover that the rape of Ukraine gives this narrative a hitherto unimaginable twenty-first century immediacy. We may be witnessing the onset of a new Cold War between nuclear-armed superpowers.To contend with today’s threat, which Hastings fears will prove enduring, it is critical to understand how, sixty years ago, the world survived its last glimpse into the abyss. Only by fearing the worst, he argues, can our leaders hope to secure the survival of the planet.

De dömda i Nürnberg : ett ögonvittne berättar

AvAirey Neave

Inbunden, Svenska, 2023

229 kr

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Till exempel beskriver författaren Göring som en utlevad romersk kejsare , Hess som en spökgestalt som ömsom teg, ömsom talade för mycket, han förmedlar sina intryck av Alfred Rosenberg, den ideologiske översteprästen som Hitler föraktade, och av sadisten framför andra, Julius Streicher.

Neave ger också livfulla porträtt av domarna, åklagarna och försvarsadvokaterna och enligt honom var inte rättegången segrarnas rättvisa utan en ärlig, tålmodig och nödvändig undersökning av några av de grövsta brotten i historien.

Airey Neave (1916 1979), var en brittisk politiker för Tories. Neave avlade juridisk examen vid Oxford. Han deltog i andra världskriget och sårades i samband med försvaret av Calais i maj 1940. Efter nära två år i tysk krigsfångenskap lyckades han rymma. Han tjänstgjorde som åklagarbiträde vid Nu rnbergprocessen 1945 1946 och träffade och samtalade med samtliga åtalade.

Krigets vägar : två år som volontär i Ukraina

AvJonas M

Inbunden, Svenska, 2024

243 kr

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Detta är en strålande reportagebok om ett krig som kommer att definiera vår tid! Peter Englund

Osminkat och angeläget från krigets verklighet. Lars Wilderäng

Av allt jag sett och läst om kriget är denna text kanske den som drabbar mig hårdast ... David Björklund, BTJ (Betyg 4 av 5)

Som alla andra tog Jonas M del av nyheterna om Rysslands fullskaliga invasion av Ukraina den 24 februari 2022. Under hans uppväxt hade ett kommande krig med Ryssland alltid funnits med i beräkningen. Nu hade det blivit verklighet men också personligt. Jonas hade tränat i 20 år för detta inom den svenska Försvarsmakten. Hans anfader, som kämpade mot ryssen under Karl XII:s ryska fälttåg, tillfångatogs efter nederlaget vid Poltava 1709.

Men hur skulle han bäst kunna hjälpa till? Han införskaffade en Nissan Navara, lackade den militärgrön och fyllde den med taktisk utrustning och sjukvårdsmateriel, som han sedan körde ner till Ukraina. Väl på plats levererade han både bilen och all packning. Detta blev början på en enastående volontärinsats: Fram till i dag har Jonas kört ner över 40 gånger med mer än 50 fullastade fordon direkt till de stridande förbanden vid fronten, som inte bara slåss för sin egen frihet utan också för vår. Han har med egna ögon fått bevittna hur kriget har förändrats på de olika fronterna under två års tid.

För att citera överstelöjtnant Joakim Paasikivi: Jonas visar med sitt personliga exempel och med dem som ser till att samla in pengar och hjälpa till på andra sätt att alla kan göra något.

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Del 151 - Duel

Beaufighter vs German Flak Ships

North Sea and Mediterranean 1941–45

AvMatthew Willis

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

185 kr

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An illustrated study of RAF Coastal Command’s deployment of the Beaufighter against German supply lines in 1941 and the long-running ‘arms race’ with Kriegsmarine Flak ships that followed.Crucial German shipping lines faced a new threat in 1941 when RAF Coastal Command debuted the iconic long-range Beaufighter. The aircraft and its subsequent Mk VIC and Mk X versions gave the Allies a tough, relatively fast and very hard-hitting platform for air attack on German convoys, and so it became essential for the Kriegsmarine to fit ever-heavier anti-aircraft batteries to its escort vessels, and even to develop specialist Flak vessels. In this compelling study, naval aviation historian Matthew Willis chronicles the little-explored arms race that saw RAF Coastal Command and the Kriegsmarine engaged in a fierce battle of one-upmanship until war’s end. New artwork, rare archive photography and contemporary records of Beaufighter operations add depth to fascinating historical accounts, including the actions of the famous North Coates Strike Wing against shipping in the North Sea and the exploits of Beaufighter units tasked with severing Rommel’s all-important supply lines.

Precision Rifle Marksmanship: The Fundamentals - A Marine Sniper's Guide to Long Range Shooting

A Marine Sniper's Guide to Long Range Shooting

AvFrank Galli

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

228 kr

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Bargaining over the Bomb

The Successes and Failures of Nuclear Negotiations

AvWilliam Spaniel

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

322 kr

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Can nuclear agreements like the Iran deal work? This book develops formal bargaining models to show that they can over time, despite apparent incentives to cheat. Existing theories of nuclear proliferation fail to account for the impact of bargaining on the process. William Spaniel explores how credible agreements exist in which rival states make concessions to convince rising states not to proliferate and argues in support of nuclear negotiations as effective counter-proliferation tools. This book proves not only the existence of settlements but also the robustness of the inefficiency puzzle. In addition to examining existing agreements, the model used by Spaniel serves as a baseline for modeling other concerns about nuclear weapons.

Achtung Panzer!

AvHeinz Guderian

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

119 kr

This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible for German armoured supremacy in the early years of the Second World War. Published in 1937, the result of 15 years of careful study since his days on the German General Staff in the First World War, Achtung Panzer! argues how vital the proper use of tanks and supporting armoured vehicles would be in the conduct of a future war. When that war came, just two years later, he proved it, leading his Panzers with distinction in the Polish, French and Russian campaigns. Panzer warfare had come of age, exactly as he had forecast.This first English translation of Heinz Guderian's classic book - used as a textbook by Panzer officers in the war - has an introduction and extensive background notes by the modern English historian Paul Harris.

G.I. Collector's Guide

U.S. Army Service Forces Catalog, European Theater of Operations: Volume 1

AvHenri-Paul Enjames

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

577 kr

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In World War II, the U.S. Army not only supplied its soldiers with the most modern equipment and uniforms, suitable for any combat situation, but went as far as providing them with their favourite drinks or candy bars. A comprehensive reference book bringing together all the equipment issued to American soldiers in the European Theater of Operations, 1943–45. Each item is presented with its catalog numbers, described in detail and fully depicted in photographs. Graphics and diagrams offer additional information and context. There are chapters on everything from uniform, insignia, and small arms issued to the individual, through crew-served weapons, rations, tents, to sports and recreation equipment. There is full coverage of the specialist items issued to Airborne, Armored, and Mountain troops, engineers, signallers, Military Police, medics, chaplains and female personnel. From the chewing gum included in K rations through to artillery-laying equipment, mess trays to portable altars and field harmoniums, this photographic reference gives a unique insight into the world of the U.S. Army in World War II. As a complete catalogue with high-quality photographs, this book is invaluable to both family historians researching grandpa's kit found in the attic and to assist collectors in their quest to find authentic items among the reproductions that flood the modern market.

Confronting Evil

Assessing the Worst of the Worst

AvBill O'Reilly,Josh Hammer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

333 kr

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The concept of evil is universal, ancient, and ever present today. The biblical book of Genesis clearly defines it when Cain kills his brother Abel out of jealousy. Evil is a choice to make another suffer. As long as human beings have walked, evil has been close by.Confronting Evil recounts the deeds of the worst people in history: Genghis Khan. The Roman Emperor Caligula. Henry VIII. The collective evil of the 19th century slave traders and the 20th century robber barons. Stalin. Hitler. Mao. The Ayatollah Khomeini. Putin. The Mexican drug cartels. Collectively, these warlords, tyrants, businessmen, and criminals are directly responsible for the death and misery of hundreds of millions of people.By telling what they did and why they did it, Confronting Evil explains the struggle between good and evil--a choice every person in the Judeo-Christian tradition is compelled to make. But many defer. We avoid the life decision. We look away. It's easier.Prepare yourself to read the consequences of that inaction. As John Stuart Mill said in his inaugural address to the University of St. Andrews in 1867: “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”

Nuclear War

A Scenario

AvAnnie Jacobsen

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

122 kr

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The Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat exploration of what would happen in the event of nuclear war, perfect for readers of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.Nuclear war begins with a blip on a radar screen.This is a minute-by-minute account of what comes next.It has to be read to be believed.'A stomach-clenching, multi-perspective, ticking-clock, geopolitical thriller' Forbes'Dangerously plausible – and it reads like a thriller' Sunday Times'These are scenes straight out of Dr Strangelove' TelegraphThere is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war.Until now, no one outside official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the Pentagon. Second by second and minute by minute, these are the real-life protocols that choreograph the end of civilization.Decisions that affect hundreds of millions of lives need to be made within six minutes, based on partial information, in the knowledge that once launched, nothing is capable of halting the destruction.Based on dozens of new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons, been privy to the response plans, and taken responsibility for crucial decisions, this is the only account of what a nuclear exchange would look like.Nuclear War is at once a compulsive non-fiction thriller and a powerful argument that we must rid ourselves of these world-ending weapons for ever.'This terrifying book is a must-read for every world leader' Mother Jones'At once methodical and vivid' The Economist'Tells a terrifying story in a devastatingly straightforward way' Guardian* A New York Times bestseller (March 2024) and a Sunday Times bestseller (April 2024). Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024, the UK's premier annual prize for non-fiction books.

Plutonium Files

America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War

AvEileen Welsome

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

504 kr

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Panzer Ace

The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy

AvRichard Freiherr Von Rosen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

299 kr

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Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly-decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. His memoirs, richly illustrated with contemporary photographs, including key confrontations of World War II. After serving as a gunlayer on a Pz.Mk.III during Barbarossa, he led a Company of Tigers at Kursk, later a company of King Tiger panzers at Normandy and in late 1944 commanded a battle group (12 King Tigers and a flak Company) against the Russians in Hungary in the rank of junior, later senior lieutenant (from November 1944, his final rank.) ?? Only 489 of these King Tiger tanks were ever built. They were the most powerful heavy tanks to see service, and only one kind of shell could penetrate their armour at a reasonable distance. Every effort had to be made to retrieve any of them bogged down or otherwise immobilized, which led to many towing adventures. The author has a fine memory and eye for detail, his account is easy to read and not technical, and adds very substantially to the knowledge of how the German Panzer Arm operated in the Second World War.

Sjöman, legionär, legosoldat : svensk soldat i fem krig, från Jugoslavien till Irak

AvRoland Strandberg

Pocket, Svenska, 2019

89 kr

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Roland Strandberg har levt ett i det närmaste ofattbart fartfyllt liv. Han har hotats med kpist i det forna Östtyskland. Som ung sjöman klättrade han i skeppsmaster i full storm. Han har blivit jagad av hajar och rymt från franska främlingslegionen. Senare i livet har Strandberg vaktat krigsförbrytare i Haag, skyddat Storbritanniens dåvarande premiärminister Gordon Brown i Afghanistan och varit verksam som FN-soldat i Libanon och Bosnien. Under Natobefäl arbetade han i Kosovo och Afghanistan och senare som livvakt i Irak. Han har varit med om såväl eldstrider, granatbeskjutningar och bombanfall. Strandberg har bevittnat flyktingkatastrofer, avstyrt upplopp och räddat liv. Sjöman, legionär, legosoldat ger en unik inblick i krigets verklighet. Ögonvittnesskildringar av det här slaget är ovanliga, särskilt sådana skrivna av svenskar till en svensk publik. Boken är rikt illustrerad med privata fotografier från händelsernas centrum och ett digert kartmaterial. Ta chansen att följa med på en resa som börjar i de småländska skogarna och slutar i en irakisk öken.

ROLAND STRANDBERG är född 1964 och uppvuxen i Småland. Efter värnplikten gick han till sjöss vid 20 års ålder och har sedan dess tillbringat större delen av sitt vuxna liv i krigsområden. Han är idag verksam som livvakt.

"han är en mycket underhållande historieberättare" Soldat & Teknik

"Han har språket [...] ledigt och funktionellt, berättelsen flyter på." Jönköpings-Posten

"Författaren är en god berättare och har sinne för att lyfta fram dramatiska och även komiska situationer. [ ] En inblick i livet i oroshärdar i vår nutid, som de flesta inte har någon insyn i. Läsaren kommer nära de konkreta situationerna. Läsvärd och spännande!" Ölandsbladet

"Strandbergs bok är intressant som en biografisk skildring av en man som är plikttrogen och orädd och har en brinnande lust att lära sig saker. Sjöman, legionär, legosoldat är dessutom pedagogiskt upplagd med kartor över de platser som beskrivs. Den innehåller också en mängd privata fotografier som härrör från de platser och händelser som beskrivs i texten." Dast Magazine

Light Panzers

AvThomas Anderson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

485 kr

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This highly illustrated new study tells the full story of the German light Panzers in World War II.The light Panzers that equipped the first Panzer divisions were originally intended as training or stopgap machines, suitable only until the arrival of the better-armed and -armoured PzKpfw III and PzKpfw IV. However, despite their limitations, they ended up playing key roles in the victorious campaigns waged by the German Army from 1939 to 1942.This highly illustrated title describes the development and organizational history of the PzKpfw I, introduced in 1934, and the PzKpfw II, introduced in 1936. It explains how the annexation of German-speaking Sudetenland in 1938 and, subsequently, of Czechoslovakia itself delivered an unexpected bonus for the Panzerwaffe in the form of two Czech Army light tanks, introduced into German service as the PzKpfw 35(t) and PzKpfw 38(t). It goes on to cover the considerable operational service of these tanks in Poland, France and the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. From late 1941 onwards, they were withdrawn from front-line service but the chassis were used until the end of the war for self-propelled artillery and tank destroyers.German armour expert Thomas Anderson draws on archival material, after-action reports and rare photographs in this comprehensive study of the German light Panzers that played a key role in the early years of World War II.