Category: Warfare

Today`s military strategists and tacticians may be familiar with the writings and teachings of Carl von Clausewitz, but The Strategy Makers: Thoughts on War and Society, 1650-1850 reintroduces readers to the lives and writings of those whose contributions to the study of war and society are just as important. Beginning in the 16th century with Bernardino de Mendza of Spain, this milestone work examines the writings of 16 of the greatest-and largely unacknowledged-military minds of the modern era, concluding in 19th-century Prussia with Rhle von Lilienstern, Clausewitz`s contemporary. In probin...
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A War Nobody Won: The Sino-Vietnam War 1979

By: Col Harjeet Singh

Price: $19.88

Publisher: Pentagon Press: 2015

Seller ID: 108071BV

ISBN: 8182748615

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In early 1979 China invaded Vietnam, in the words of the Chinese leadership; to ?oteach Vietnam a lesson? it would not soon forget. Despite Beijing`s claim of victory, in defence of China`s security the war did not proceed as well as it had expected and the People`s Liberation Army (PLA) performed poorly in the conflict. It was China, not Vietnam, which actually received the lesson. China`s documentation on the war remains classified and the information available is not only fragmentary and biased, but also of questionable truth. There are few English language accounts and much of what exists ...
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'By My Sword and Shield': Traditional Weapons of the Indian Warrior

By: E. Jaiwant Paul

Price: $22.00

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Roli Books: 1995

Seller ID: 022723

ISBN: 8174360123

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

The Armourers of the Rajputs, The Gadi Lohars, Whoes traditional home was Chittor, are today a wandering tribe, once they produced top quality weapons and armour for their masters. After the fall of Chittor to Akbar in 1567, they swore never to return to the citadel till it was freed. In the early 1950's Nehru personally led them back to a free Chittor, but their nomadic habits were too deeply ingrained in them. Printed Pages: 120.
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The Indian Art of War: The Mahabharata Paradigm

By: G.D. Bakshi

Price: $21.50

Publisher: Delhi, India, Sharada Publishing House: 2002

Seller ID: 032219

ISBN: 8185616817

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 176 with figures.
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South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan

By: Itty Abraham (ed.)

Price: $14.13

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Orient BlackSwan: 2010

Seller ID: 033896

ISBN: 8125040560

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

India and Pakistan became independent nations early in the worlds atomic age. Nuclear power and nuclear weapons have been present from the beginning as key features of nationalism and the public sphere in each country. Yet the relationship between nuclear arms and civil society in South Asia is seldom taken into account in conventional security studies. What explains the fascination of Indian and Pakistani elites with nuclear weapons? What accounts for the absence of a mass antinuclear movement in either country? What do people outside New Delhi and Islamabad think of nuclear weapons? In these...
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Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan (Third Edition)

By: J. Samuel Walker

Price: $12.38

Publisher: Dev Publishers & Distributors: 2017

Seller ID: 110175BV

ISBN: 9789381406717

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman?Ts most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the options available for ending the war with Japan. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research--mostly from Japanese archives only recently made available--that provides fresh insight on the strategic considerations that led to dropping the bomb. From the debate about whether to invade or continue the conventi...
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Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and Highroads to Empire 1500-1700

By: J.J.L. Gommans

Price: $156.55

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Manohar: 2002

Seller ID: 036120

ISBN: 0415239885

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 288.
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The Aftermath of War

By: Jean-Paul Sartre

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Kolkata, India, Seagull Books: 2008

Seller ID: 024210

ISBN: 1905422881

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 366.
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The Oxford Companion to Modern Warfare in India: From the Eighteenth Century to Present Times

By: Kaushik Roy

Price: $48.95

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Oxford University Press: 2009

Seller ID: 027592

ISBN: 0195698886

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Indias colonial experience and contemporary geo-strategic significance makes the genesis of modern warfare in the subcontinent crucial to the understanding of international military history. Providing a comprehensive account, this Companion explores the transition in warfare especially focusing on strategy, technology, tactics, and the socio-political impact of modern warfare in the subcontinent from its inception in the 1740s till the present times. Beginning with the study of differences between western and pre-colonial warfare, the modernization of the Indian army, its role during the two ...
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Firearms: A Global History to 1700

By: Kenneth Chase

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press: 2003

Seller ID: 008707

ISBN: 0521822742

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

This book is a history of firearms across the world from the 1100s up to the 1700s, from the time of their invention in China to the time when European firearms had become clearly superior. It asks why it was the Europeans who perfected firearms when it was the Chinese who had invented them, but it answers this question by looking at how firearms were used throughout the world. Early firearms were restricted to infantry and siege warfare, limiting their use outside of Europe and Japan. Steppe and desert nomads imposed a different style of warfare on the Middle East, India, and China - a style ...
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Peace and Bread in Time of War (Nobel Laureate of Peace Laura Jane Addams)

By: Laura Jane Addams

Price: $37.19

Publisher: Global Vision Publishing House: 2002

Seller ID: 38080BV

ISBN: 8187746289

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In her book Peace and Bread in Time of WaraEUR?, Jane Addams has described her efforts for world peace during the First World War and its impacts on common people who are in need of peace and bread. This book has been classified into following chapters: At the Beginning of the Great War; The Neutral Conference Plus the Ford Ship; President Wilson Policies and the Women Peace Party; Bread Rations and Woman Traditions; A Speculation on Bread Labour and War Slogans; After War was Declared; In Europe During the Armistice; The Aftermath of War; A Food Challenge to the League of Nations; In Europe a...
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Handbook of War Studies

By: Manus I. Midlarsky (ed.)

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Boston, USA, Unwin Hyman: 1989

Seller ID: 021755

ISBN: 0044970552

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Printed Pages: 393.
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Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy: Lessons from the Great Empire Builder

By: Partha Bose

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Penguin: 2004

Seller ID: 022880

ISBN: 014303197X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) was arguably the greatest military strategist, tactician and ruler in world history. At the age of 20, he ascended to the throne of his fathers kingdom. By the age of 23 he had defeated Persia, his nations greatest enemy. And by the time of his death, aged 33, his armies had conquered virtually the entire known world, from the shores of the Mediterranean to the foothills of India, including the lands of modern-day Iraq and Afghanistan. Alexanders achievements have inspired and influenced a great number of past and current military, political and business leade...
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Discussions on War and Human Aggression

By: R. Dale Givens & Martin A. Nettleship (Eds)

Price: $201.95

Publisher: Mouton Publishers: 1976

Seller ID: 32666BV

ISBN: 9027977895

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 247.
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Major Defence Operations

By: Ranbir Singh

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Ocean Books Pvt Ltd: 2010

Seller ID: 14131BV

ISBN: 8188322679

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Through this twelve chaptered book The Author highlights the evolution of the Armed Forces through the Wars fought and, more importantly, the lessons which have not been learnt. The book covers the four major wars with Pakistan besides the operations taken for Integration of states a,?o Hyderabad Police Action, Integration of Junagarh and Liberation of Goa, Daman and Diu. It also analyses the blunders of the Sino-Indian Conflict and the Operation Pawan Sri Lankan Odyssey. All the operations covered place on record the historical perspective and a critical analysis with a view to Learn lessons....
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Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865

By: Robert Elgood

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Ahmedabad, India, Mapin Publishing: 2004

Seller ID: 011617

ISBN: 8188204447

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 312 with 342 illustrations including 220 in full colour and 1 map. Slightly bumped corners.
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Select Views of Mysore

By: Robert Home

Price: $22.25

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Asian Educational Services: 2000

Seller ID: 034757

ISBN: 812615123

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

Printed pages: 30 alongwith 29 plates.
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Indian Warfare: An Appraisal of Strategy and Tactics of War in Early Medieval Period

By: S.K. Bhakari

Price: $11.95

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.: 1981

Seller ID: 027502

ISBN: 8121501849

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

India has one of the largest standing professional armies in the world. Yet, the study of warfare in ancient and medieval periods of Indian history had so far never been made from purely professional angle and by a professional. Major (Dr.) S.K. Bhakari presents an altogether new text and theoretical work in the history of warfare in India. Much of the material in this book has been derived from the original sources, sifted and organised to present a panoramic view of the development of strategy and tactics of warfare as known to the Indian soldiers and their mighty contemporaries from the Wes...
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The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu; Foreword By James Clavell

Price: $2.75

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Hodder & Stoughton: 2006

Seller ID: 033017

ISBN: 034093784X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 102.
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Warfare in Ancient India: Organizational and Operational Dimensions

By: Uma Prasad Thapliyal

Price: $25.95

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Manohar: 2010

Seller ID: 032656

ISBN: 8173048428

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 431 with numerous b/w illustrations.
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'If I Die here, Who Will Remember Me?': India and the First World War

By: Vedica Kant; Foreword By Amitav Ghosh

Price: $49.25

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Lustre Press/Roli Books: 2014

Seller ID: 037989

ISBN: 8174369791

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 255 with numerous colour and b/w illustrations.
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Journey to Unknown India

By: Walther Eidlitz

Price: $9.87

Publisher: Mandala Publishing: 1999

Seller ID: 26571BV

ISBN: 1886069220

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

The true story of the spiritual journey of Austrian born Walther Eidlitz from World War II to the Himalayas in search of truth. After an incredible journey of extraordinary events, Eidlitz finds his spiritual master when he becomes imprisoned in a British `alien enemies` camp in Calcutta. Printed Pages: 194.
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Category: Warfare