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  • On the Wings of War and Peace

    The RCAF during the Early Cold War

    Edited by Randall Wakelam, William March, Peter Rayls ...
    Bringing together leading researchers on Canadian air power, On the Wings of War and Peace captures the history of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) during the first decades of the Cold War – a period which marked the zenith of air force accomplishments in peacetime Canada. The volume covers topics that go beyond straightforward flying operations, examining policies that drove operational needs ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Educating Air Forces

    Global Perspectives on Airpower Learning

    Edited by Randall Wakelam, David Varey ...
    Series series Aviation & Air Power
    Compared to armies and navies, which have existed as professional fighting services for centuries, the technology that makes air forces possible is much newer. As a result, these services have had to quickly develop methods of preparing aviators to operate in conditions ranging from peace or routine security to full-scale war. The first book to address the history and scope of air power ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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  • The Bombers and the Bombed

    Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945

    by Richard Overy ...
    The ultimate history of the Allied bombing campaigns in World War IITechnology shapes the nature of all wars, and the Second World War hinged on a most unpredictable weapon: the bomb. Day and night, Britain and the United States unleashed massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize occupied Europe, destroying its cities. The grisly consequences call into question how “moral” a war the Allies ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Casting Light on the Shadows

    Canadian Perspectives on Special Operations Forces

    Edited by Colonel Bernd Horn, Tony Balasevicius ...
    Special Operations Forces (SOF) have never been an integral element of Canada's military capability. Although units have existed periodically throughout the country's history, they have always been in the shadows. However, the terrorist attack in the United States on September 11, 2001, changed that. In the aftermath of 9/11, SOF became the force of choice. Casting Light on the Shadows consists of ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Command

    Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell

    Edited by Harry S. Laver, Jeffrey J. Matthews ...
    Series series American Warriors Series
    What essential leadership lessons do we learn by distilling the actions and ideas of great military commanders such as George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Colin Powell? That is the fundamental question underlying The Art of Command: Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell. The book illustrates that great leaders become great through conscious effort—a commitment not ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Understanding Modern Warfare

    by David Jordan, James D. Kiras, David J. Lonsdale, Ian Speller, Christopher Tuck, C. Dale Walton ...
    Understanding Modern Warfare has established itself as the leading introduction to the issues, ideas, concepts and context necessary to understand the theory and conduct of warfare in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is an invaluable text for military professionals and students of military history. Key features include: incisive coverage of the debates surrounding contemporary and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Canadians Under Fire

    by Robert Engen ...
    Infantrymen have been the sledgehammer of land warfare throughout the twentieth century but precisely how they fought at the tactical level has been difficult to determine. American historian S.L.A. Marshall for instance famously claimed that most Allied soldiers would not fight at all even when their lives were at stake. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • War and Technology

    by Jeremy Black ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    "[A] scholarly overview of military technology throughout history—starting roughly in the 15th century and extending into the future . . . insightful."— Publishers WeeklyIn this engaging book, Jeremy Black argues that technology neither acts as an independent variable nor operates without major limitations. This includes its capacity to obtain end results, as technology's impact is far from simple ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Special Operations and Strategy

    From World War II to the War on Terrorism

    by James D. Kiras ...
    Series series Strategy and History
    James D. Kiras shows how a number of different special operations, in conjunction with more conventional military actions, achieve and sustain strategic effect(s) over time. In particular, he argues that the root of effective special operations lies in understanding the relationship existing between moral and material attrition at the strategic level. He also presents a theoretical framework for ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare

    The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945

    by Tami Biddle ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American ideas about "strategic" bombing were formed and implemented. It argues that ideas about bombing civilian targets rested on--and gained validity from--widespread but substantially erroneous assumptions about the nature of modern industrial societies and their vulnerability to aerial bombardment. These ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Eyes All Over the Sky

    Aerial Reconnaissance in the First World War

    by James Streckfuss ...
    The impact of the unsung heroes of WWI—"a must for any aviation enthusiast to further complement work on aerial reconnaissance in modern warfare" ( Roads to the Great War),Beyond the heroic deeds of the fighter pilots and bombers of World War I, the real value of military aviation lay elsewhere; aerial reconnaissance, observation, and photography impacted the fighting in many ways, but little has ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Military Innovation in the Interwar Period

    Edited by Williamson R. Murray, Allan R. Millett ...
    In 1914, the armies and navies that faced each other were alike right down to the strengths of their companies and battalions and the designs of their battleships and cruisers. Differences were of degree rather than essence. During the interwar period, however, the armed forces grew increasingly asymmetrical, developing different approaches to the same problems. This study of major military ... Read more

    $51.69 USD