0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
Price
  • R100 - R250 (95)
  • R250 - R500 (1,098)
  • R500+ (2,149)
  • -
Status
Format
Author / Contributor
Publisher

Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900

The Armor of God (Paperback): Matthew Sacra The Armor of God (Paperback)
Matthew Sacra
R711 R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Save R57 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Letters from the Southern Home Front - The American South Responds to the Vietnam War (Paperback): Joseph A. Fry Letters from the Southern Home Front - The American South Responds to the Vietnam War (Paperback)
Joseph A. Fry
R1,159 Discovery Miles 11 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Joseph A. Fry's Letters from the Southern Home Front explores the diversity of public opinion on the Vietnam War within the American South. Fry examines correspondence sent by hundreds of individuals, of differing ages, genders, racial backgrounds, political views, and economic status, reflecting a broad swath of the southern population. These letters, addressed to high-profile political figures and influential newspapers, took up a myriad of war-related issues. Their messages enhance our understanding of the South and the United States as a whole as we continue to grapple with the significance of this devastating and divisive conflict.

Deaths On Cliffhanger - Story About People Survived These Deadly Cliffhangers: Way How People Survived These Deadly... Deaths On Cliffhanger - Story About People Survived These Deadly Cliffhangers: Way How People Survived These Deadly Cliffhangers (Paperback)
Lindsey Revera
R256 Discovery Miles 2 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vietnam Voices (large print edition) - Stories of East Tennesseans Who Served in Vietnam, 1965-1975 (Paperback): Ed Caudill,... Vietnam Voices (large print edition) - Stories of East Tennesseans Who Served in Vietnam, 1965-1975 (Paperback)
Ed Caudill, William Minser, Jim Stovall
R695 Discovery Miles 6 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Postcards Through Hell (Paperback): Alan Chiasson, Edward Ford Postcards Through Hell (Paperback)
Alan Chiasson, Edward Ford
R627 Discovery Miles 6 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mysteries of Haditha - A Memoir (Hardcover): M C Armstrong Mysteries of Haditha - A Memoir (Hardcover)
M C Armstrong
R724 R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Save R418 (58%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Mysteries of Haditha is a war story unlike any other. This riveting and hilarious memoir of M. C. Armstrong's journey into the Iraq War as an embedded journalist pulls no punches and lifts the veil on the lies we tell each other-and the ones we tell ourselves. This is a story about both the strong women in Armstrong's life and his road to true manhood. Armstrong's family was nearly ripped at the seams as he struggled to secure his embed with Navy SEALs in the Al Anbar Province in 2008. Armstrong's searingly honest narrative about his relationship with his father, his fiance, and his friend in the SEAL team takes the reader on a nosedive ride from a historically black college in the American South straight into Baghdad, the burn pits, and the desert beyond the mysterious Haditha dam. Honest and vulnerable, tender but fearless, The Mysteries of Haditha is an incredible coming-of-age story and a unique glimpse into the world of the war on terror.

Secret Missions - Journey Of Extraordinary Soldier's Life Of The U.S. Army Special Forces: Know About Extraordinary... Secret Missions - Journey Of Extraordinary Soldier's Life Of The U.S. Army Special Forces: Know About Extraordinary Soldier'S Life Of Reaper 6 In Vietnam War (Paperback)
Shelton Talty
R352 Discovery Miles 3 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
United States Army Heroes During World War I - 3d Division, A.E.F. (Volume I) (Paperback): C. Douglas Sterner United States Army Heroes During World War I - 3d Division, A.E.F. (Volume I) (Paperback)
C. Douglas Sterner
R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
United States Army Heroes During World War I - 3d Division, A.E.F. (Volume II) (Paperback): C. Douglas Sterner United States Army Heroes During World War I - 3d Division, A.E.F. (Volume II) (Paperback)
C. Douglas Sterner
R806 Discovery Miles 8 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bravery Knows No Bounds (Paperback): Norman Fry Bravery Knows No Bounds (Paperback)
Norman Fry
R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Support for the Fleet - U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy Service Force Ships That Served in Vietnam, 1965-1973 (Paperback):... Support for the Fleet - U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy Service Force Ships That Served in Vietnam, 1965-1973 (Paperback)
David Bruhn
R884 Discovery Miles 8 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
What I wish I had known (Paperback): Laura Wiktorek What I wish I had known (Paperback)
Laura Wiktorek
R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Two Years to Serve - Recollections of a Drafted Marine: Half a Century after the Vietnam War (Paperback): Thomas Elliott Two Years to Serve - Recollections of a Drafted Marine: Half a Century after the Vietnam War (Paperback)
Thomas Elliott
R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
US Army Attack Helicopter Unit Patches (2001-2021) (Paperback): Daniel M Mcclinton US Army Attack Helicopter Unit Patches (2001-2021) (Paperback)
Daniel M Mcclinton
R659 R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Save R38 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Replacement Marines - The Levy to the Twenty-First Century's War on Terror (Paperback): Dathan Byrd Replacement Marines - The Levy to the Twenty-First Century's War on Terror (Paperback)
Dathan Byrd
R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The IDENTITY OF A MAN WHO LOST HIS FATHERLAND and VIETNAM WAR - Witnesses Live Magical Stories That Have Never Been Told... The IDENTITY OF A MAN WHO LOST HIS FATHERLAND and VIETNAM WAR - Witnesses Live Magical Stories That Have Never Been Told (Paperback)
Vienman Van Trong Tran
R869 R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Westmoreland's War - Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnam (Paperback): Gregory A. Daddis Westmoreland's War - Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnam (Paperback)
Gregory A. Daddis
R1,089 Discovery Miles 10 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

General William C. Westmoreland has long been derided for his failed strategy of "attrition" in the Vietnam War. Historians have argued that Westmoreland's strategy placed a premium on high "body counts" through a "big unit war" that relied almost solely on search and destroy missions. Many believe the U.S. Army failed in Vietnam because of Westmoreland's misguided and narrow strategy In a groundbreaking reassessment of American military strategy in Vietnam, Gregory Daddis overturns conventional wisdom and shows how Westmoreland did indeed develop a comprehensive campaign which included counterinsurgency, civic action, and the importance of gaining political support from the South Vietnamese population. Exploring the realities of a large, yet not wholly unconventional environment, Daddis reinterprets the complex political and military battlefields of Vietnam. Without searching for blame, he analyzes how American civil and military leaders developed strategy and how Westmoreland attempted to implement a sweeping strategic vision. Westmoreland's War is a landmark reinterpretation of one of America's most divisive wars, outlining the multiple, interconnected aspects of American military strategy in Vietnam-combat operations, pacification, nation building, and the training of the South Vietnamese armed forces. Daddis offers a critical reassessment of one of the defining moments in American history.

Bravo Troop - A Forward Observer's Vietnam Memoir (Paperback): William Watson Bravo Troop - A Forward Observer's Vietnam Memoir (Paperback)
William Watson
R723 Discovery Miles 7 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During the first half of 1969, Bravo Troop, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division operated northwest of Saigon in the vicinity of Go Dau Ha, fighting in 15 actions on the Cambodian border, in the Boi Loi Woods, the Hobo Woods and Michelin Rubber Plantation and on the outskirts of Tay Ninh City. In that time, Bravo Troop saw 10 percent of its average field strength killed while inflicting much heavier losses on the enemy. This memoir vividly recounts those six months of intense armored cavalry combat in Vietnam through the eyes of an artillery forward observer, highlighting his fire direction techniques and the routines and frustrations of searching for the enemy and chaos of finding him.

Long Slow Target (Paperback): Larry Allen Lindsey Long Slow Target (Paperback)
Larry Allen Lindsey
R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kim Jong-un Biography - Supreme Leader of North Korea- Rise, Rule & Life, Most Famous People in the World History, Learn... Kim Jong-un Biography - Supreme Leader of North Korea- Rise, Rule & Life, Most Famous People in the World History, Learn Mandarin Chinese, Words, Idioms, Easy Sentences, HSK All Levels, Pinyin, English (Paperback)
Qing Qing Jiang
R977 Discovery Miles 9 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
After Vietnam - Legacies of a Lost War (Paperback): Charles E. Neu After Vietnam - Legacies of a Lost War (Paperback)
Charles E. Neu
R688 Discovery Miles 6 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Efforts to understand the impact of the Vietnam War on America began soon after it ended, and they continue to the present day. In "After Vietnam" four distinguished scholars focus on different elements of the war's legacy, while one of the major architects of the conflict, former defense secretary Robert S. McNamara, contributes a final chapter pondering foreign policy issues of the twenty-first century.

In the book's opening chapter, Charles E. Neu explains how the Vietnam War changed Americans' sense of themselves: challenging widely-held national myths, the war brought frustration, disillusionment, and a weakening of Americans' sense of their past and vision for the future. Brian Balogh argues that Vietnam became such a powerful metaphor for turmoil and decline that it obscured other forces that brought about fundamental changes in government and society. George C. Herring examines the postwar American military, which became nearly obsessed with preventing "another Vietnam." Robert K. Brigham explores the effects of the war on the Vietnamese, as aging revolutionary leaders relied on appeals to "revolutionary heroism" to justify the communist party's monopoly on political power. Finally, Robert S. McNamara, aware of the magnitude of his errors and burdened by the war's destructiveness, draws lessons from his experience with the aim of preventing wars in the future.

Stay Mine Forever....Letters From Nam - The Story of Tony and Clellie Jolley (Paperback): Barbara Hollace, Ann Mathews Stay Mine Forever....Letters From Nam - The Story of Tony and Clellie Jolley (Paperback)
Barbara Hollace, Ann Mathews; Denise Jolley
R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
General Walker's Final Battle - Saving Korea (Paperback): Charles M. Province General Walker's Final Battle - Saving Korea (Paperback)
Charles M. Province
R559 Discovery Miles 5 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women, Police and Security - Reforming the Afghan National Police (Paperback): Melissa Adele Jardine Women, Police and Security - Reforming the Afghan National Police (Paperback)
Melissa Adele Jardine
R328 Discovery Miles 3 280 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Making of the Modern Middle East - A Personal History (Paperback): Jeremy Bowen The Making of the Modern Middle East - A Personal History (Paperback)
Jeremy Bowen
R399 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Save R37 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A The Spectator Book of the Year 2022 A New Statesman Book of the Year 2022 'An illuminating and riveting read' - Jonathan Dimbleby Jeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present. In The Making of the Modern Middle East - in part based on his acclaimed podcast, 'Our Man in the Middle East' - Bowen takes us on a journey across the Middle East and through its history. He meets ordinary men and women on the front line, their leaders, whether brutal or benign, and he explores the power games that have so often wreaked devastation on civilian populations as those leaders, whatever their motives, jostle for political, religious and economic control. With his deep understanding of the political, cultural and religious differences between countries as diverse as Erdogan's Turkey, Assad's Syria and Netanyahu's Israel and his long experience of covering events in the region, Bowen offers readers a gripping and invaluable guide to the modern Middle East, how it came to be and what its future might hold.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Business Management For Entrepreneurs
Cecile Nieuwenhuizen Paperback  (1)
R619 Discovery Miles 6 190
Nanocomposite Structures and Dispersions
Ign ac Capek Hardcover R7,113 R4,875 Discovery Miles 48 750
I. C. S. Reference Library: Types of…
International Correspondence Schools Paperback R639 Discovery Miles 6 390
Solid State Astrochemistry
Valerio Pirronello, Jacek Krelowski, … Hardcover R3,030 Discovery Miles 30 300
Teaching Students to Communicate…
Laney Sammons Paperback R844 R728 Discovery Miles 7 280
Educational Networking - A Novel…
Alejandro Pena Ayala Hardcover R2,940 Discovery Miles 29 400
The Philosophy of the Human Voice…
James Rush Paperback R679 Discovery Miles 6 790
Graph Neural Networks: Foundations…
Lingfei Wu, Peng Cui, … Hardcover R3,265 Discovery Miles 32 650
Dwight's Journal of Music; v.3-4, c.2
John Sullivan 1813-1893 Dwight Hardcover R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410
Pearson REVISE Edexcel GCSE History…
Sally Clifford Paperback R302 Discovery Miles 3 020

 

Partners