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Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns
Contemporary Military Strategy and the Global War on Terror offers
an in-depth analysis of US/UK military strategy in Afghanistan and
Iraq from 2001 to the present day. It explores the development of
contemporary military strategy in the West in the modern age before
interrogating its application in the Global War on Terror. The book
provides detailed insights into the formulation of military plans
by political and military elites in the United States and United
Kingdom for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Alastair Finlan highlights the challenges posed by each of these
unique theatres of operation, the nature of the diverse enemies
faced by coalition forces, and the shortcomings in strategic
thinking about these campaigns. This fresh perspective on strategy
in the West and how it has been applied in recent military
campaigns facilitates a deep understanding of how wars have been
and will be fought. Including key terms, concepts and discussion
questions for each chapter, Contemporary Military Strategy and the
Global War on Terror is a crucial text in strategic studies, and
required reading for anyone interested in the new realities of
transnational terrorism and twenty-first century warfare.
"Holocaust Remembrance Between the National and the Transnational"
provides a key study of the remembrance of the Jewish Catastrophe
and the Nazi-era past in the world arena. It uses a range of
primary documentation from the restitution conferences, speeches
and presentations made at the Stockholm International Forum of 2000
(SIF 2000), a global event and an attempt to mark a defining moment
in the inter-cultural construction of the political and
institutional memory of the Holocaust in the USA, Europe and
Israel. Containing oral history interviews with British delegates
to the conference and contemporary press reports, this book
explores the inter-relationships between global and national
Holocaust remembrances.The causes, consequences and 'cosmopolitan'
intellectual context for understanding the SIF 2000 are discussed
in great detail. Larissa Allwork examines this seminal moment in
efforts to globally promote the important, if ever controversial,
topics of Holocaust remembrance, worldwide Genocide prevention and
the commemoration of the Nazi past. Providing a balanced assessment
of the Stockholm Project, this book is an important study for those
interested in the remembrance of the Holocaust and the Third Reich,
as well as the recent global direction in memory studies.""
For six decades, John Knoepfle has been writing poems, and he's
still going strong. Knoepfle writes love poems, among the best we
have, of the joys, loneliness, danger and the infinite
transformations of marriage. He writes narrative poems, surreal,
sardonic and magical about astronauts on the moon or an angry
farmer and a prophetic owl. He recovers the stories of folks who
never made it into the history books. Always he has a respect for
the spoken word and lays his lines out on the page so that you too
can hear it. And a spiritual force runs through his books like the
slow and powerful rivers of the Midwest he inhabits. Both moving
and humorous, Knoepfle's autobiography shows us how by hard work
and lucky accident he came to be the poet he is.
Margarete Susman was among the great Jewish women philosophers of
the twentieth century, and largely unknown to many today. This book
presents, for the first time in English, six of her important
essays along with an introduction about her life and work.
Carefully selected and edited by Elisa Klapheck, these essays give
the English-speaking reader a taste of Susman's religious-political
mode of thought, her originality, and her importance as Jewish
thinker. Susman's writing on exile, return, and the revolutionary
impact of Judaism on humanity, illuminate enhance our understanding
of other Jewish philosophers of her time: Martin Buber, Franz
Rosenzweig, and Ernst Bloch (all of them her friends). Her work is
in particularly fitting company when read alongside Jewish
religious-political and political thinkers such as Bertha
Pappenheim, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Gertrud Stein.
Initially a poet, Susman became a follower of the Jewish
Renaissance movement, secular Messianism, and the German Revolution
of 1918. This collection of essays shows how Susman's work speaks
not only to her own time between the two World Wars but to the
present day.
A fine author's view of the Great Somme Offensive
For many years there were few more highly regarded histories of
the momentous Battle of the Somme, 1916, than that written by John
Buchan, the renowned author of 'The Thirty Nine Steps, '
'Greenmantle, ' 'Huntingtower' and many others. In both his fiction
and non-fiction Buchan had the ability to craft a fine narrative in
an easy going, economic style. Today Buchan is far less well-known
for his non-fiction than for his fiction and that, perhaps, is
inevitable. Nevertheless, he was responsible for a very substantial
multi-volume history of the First World War which his consummate
skill as a writer has ensured remains readable, often quoted and
relevant. There were several versions of Buchan's 'Battle of the
Somme' published during and soon after the First World War,
sometimes in several volumes each dealing with different phases of
the battle. This unique, never before in print, Leonaur Original,
brings together all the text and all the illustrations and
photographs from those various editions to create, what we believe
to be the definitive version of the book. Fought over a period of
nearly five months, between July and November of 1916, the Battle
of the Somme became one of the defining battles, both of world
history and the First World War. Over 1,000,000 men were killed or
wounded in the course of the fighting which has made it, because of
its inconclusive outcome, emblematic of the lives wasted during the
war and of the implied incompetence of military commanders
throughout the conflict.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
"Al Ataque" is an excellent book that describes the preparation a
bomb group goes through before being deployed overseas as well as
the problems of shipping some five thousand men and supplies along
with some eighty B-24 aircraft from a stateside base to a foreign
country. The book then details the establishment of Torretta Field
that was used by the 461st for the duration of the war in Europe.
The 461st Bomb Group flew two hundred and twenty-three combat
missions between April 1944 and April 1945. Each of these is
described in the book. Personal experiences of veterans who were
actually part of the 461st are included.
Despite the wealth of historical literature on the Second World
War, the subject of religion and churches in occupied Europe has
been undervalued - until now. This critical European history is
unique in delivering a rich and detailed analysis of churches and
religion during the Second World War, looking at the Christian
religions of occupied Europe: Catholicism, Lutheranism, Calvinism,
and Orthodoxy. The authors engage with key themes such as relations
between religious institutions and the occupying forces; religion
as a key factor in national identity and resistance; theological
answers to the Fascist and National Socialist ideologies,
especially in terms of the persecution of the Jews; Christians as
bystanders or protectors in the Holocaust; and religious life
during the war. Churches and Religion in the Second World War will
be of great value to students and scholars of European history, the
Second World War and religion and theology.
The war for colonial Africa
This very substantial book, written by the two South African
official correspondents on the campaign, narrates the expedition in
1914-15 which led to the conquest of German South-West Africa (the
region now known as Namibia). One author accompanied the Northern
Army and the other, the Southern Army. During the 19th century the
great powers of Europe raced to establish themselves in all corners
of the globe for colonisation, trade and political influence. In
the 'great scramble for Africa, ' the British and German empires
had established themselves, by degrees, in the east and west of the
continent. In the years before the outbreak of the First World War
these colonies existed, more or less, in harmony but once
hostilities erupted German and British settlers found themselves
living in very close proximity to hostile forces. The British had
the advantage of numbers since colonisation had long been a policy,
though the Germans compensated for this measure with the abilities
of their military commanders and the expertise and quality of their
European and locally raised troops. (South Africa itself entered
the fray, its forces led by commanders who a little over a decade
earlier had led the Boer burghers in their attempts to form a
nation independent of the British Empire.) This campaign of
mobility was fought in the searing heat of a desert region and was
often a 'tip and run affair' as mounted troops traversed huge
tracts of inhospitable terrain. Those interested in the First World
War often find it's 'side-show' theatres fascinating because they
differed so completely from the war of stalemate and attrition on
the Western Front. This is a very thorough and comprehensive book
written by competent authors who experienced the campaign at first
hand and were well qualified to record both their personal
impressions and an informed overview of the events they witnessed.
This edition of the text is liberally enhanced by the inclusion of
many photographs taken on the campaign.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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