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The Changing Face of War: Combat from the Marne to Iraq
Martin Van Creveld

Presidio Press, 2008

One of the most influential experts on military history and strategy has now written his magnum opus, an original and provocative account of the past hundred years of global conflict. The Changing Face of War is the book that reveals the path that led to the impasse in Iraq, why powerful standing armies are now helpless against ill-equipped insurgents, and how the security of sovereign nations may be maintained in the future. While paying close ...

The Face of War

4 reviews
Martha Gellhorn

Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994

A 20th Century chronicler
Martha Gellhorn has two books of journalism out, one called The View From the Ground,and this book, The Face of War. She has covered everything from the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s through to the American invasion of Panama in the eighties. She refused to believe in "that objectivity crap" and wrote what she saw. She was that curious product that only America produces: the unaligned ...

The Faces of World War II
Max Hastings

Cassell Illustrated, 2008

Paying tribute to all who fought and died, this chronologically structured collection of photographs covers all the major events of the Second World War?from the blitzkrieg to the Battle of Britain, from the invasion of Poland to Pearl Harbor. Many of the images capture harrowing combat scenes of conflict, brutality, suffering, and slaughter, but these pictures also include poignant and uplifting scenes of civilians, nurses, and doctors fighting ...

The War to Oust Saddam Hussein: Just War and the New Face of Conflict
James Turner Johnson

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005

This is the first and only book to provide a moral analysis of the war in Iraq and its implications for the future of the war and peacemaking. The War to Oust Saddam hussein addresses the key questions most people are asking today: What should be the standard for pre-emptive uses of military force? What of the other arguments offered for the need to remove Saddam Hussein and restructure Iraq? What is to be said for the furture of fruitful ...

The Changing Face of War: Lessons of Combat, from the Marne to Iraq

13 reviews
Martin Van Creveld

Presidio Press, 2007

The Changing Face of War, Lessons of Combat from Marne to Iraq
Presents a concise summary of tactics, strategies, weapons, and personnel employed by various countries and groups to fight conflicts around the world over the past 300 years or so. Well written, easily understandable, and comes across as very objective, although not diplomatic in judging past or current effectiveness of various militaries and governments. This should be must reading for every ...

The Faces of World War I: The Great War in Words and Pictures

3 reviews
Max Arthur

Cassell Illustrated, 2007

Images of the War to End All Wars!
British military historian Max Arthur presents a largely visual guide to World War I in this hefty 2007 volume from England's Octopus Publishing. Arthur, author of various books on the Great War, selected over 240 photographs from the Imperial War Museum, Corbis, Getty Images and other collections to create this look back at that long-ago conflict. FACES OF WORLD WAR I's photographic coverage ...

Private Sector, Public Wars: Contractors in Combat - Afghanistan, Iraq, and Future Conflicts (The Changing ...
James Jay Carafano

Praeger Security International General Interest-Cloth, 2008

Contractors are big business and a big part of war, with businesses taking upon themselves many tasks previously designated to the armed forces. By 2007, there were over 100,000 individuals working on U.S. contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan-versus about 160,000 U.S. combat troops. By some estimates, contractors account for some 40 percent of the costs of running operations. This important work examines how that came to be, as well as answering a ...

The Face of Mercy: A Photographic History of Medicine at War

2 reviews
Matthew Naythons

Random House, 1993

War from the Eyes and Hearts of Medical Workers
THE FACE OF MERCY: A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF MEDICINE AT WAR is a powerful compendium of images and responses to the hungry monster of war that still stalks this sadly ignorant planet. For those who need to evaluate the madness and destruction of war unchanged since the beginning of time, this volume forces us to SEE via photographs taken from the time the camera was invented to the present: ...

The Face of Naval Battle: The Human Experience of Modern War at Sea

Allen & Unwin, 2004

Examining how naval warfare has developed and unfolded during the past century, this collection of essays blends the importance of individual acts of maritime valor and ingenuity with concise explanations of pivotal naval battles to arrive at a vivid picture of how naval war has taken its current shape. Emphasizing the multidimensional nature of modern nautical combat, this book investigates the ways in which technological advances have changed ...

The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century

9 reviews
Bruce D. Berkowitz

Free Press, 2007

The Two Faces Of The Book
At the risk of being repetitive, I too will comment on the fact that the title of the book and the dust jacket description seem to be two to three steps removed from the actual writings of the author. Now it could be that I had an unfair expectation, but I expected the book to focus more on how the military uses the new technology available to it to fight wars. I was looking for detailed ...

Faces of Courage: Young Heroes of World War II
Sally M. Rogow

Granville Island Publishing, 2008

Faces of Courage is an inspiring compilation of twelve stories of courageous teenagers from all across Europe who resisted the Nazis. There is Kirsten, a Danish girl who helped save a group of Jewish children from the Nazis. Jacob, a young Pole, survived the Holocaust by concealing his Jewish identity and working in a German armament factory. Jacques Lusseyran, a blind French boy, organized a student resistance group called the Volunteers of ...

Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories

1 review
Ronald S. Coddington

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004

Every Picture Tells a Story
Even casual readers about the U.S. Civil War have seen the haunting images of young soldiers staring stiffly into the camera for posterity. About to embark into a war of unimagined horror, few of their particular stories were preserved or documented. "Faces of the Civil War" takes those personal mementos and visiting cards as a hook to pull the reader into many previously untold stories. This ...

War in the Age of Technology: Myriad Faces of Modern Armed Conflict

1 review
Geoffrey Jensen, Andrew Wiest

NYU Press, 2001

lots of bang for the buck
The title is a little misleading, since some of the chapters are not directly related to technology per se. But there are some really good pieces in this volume, e.g. Paddy Griffith on weapons technology, Sean McKnight on Iraq (especially worth reading now!), Michael Orr on the Soviet/Russian army that screwed up in Afghanistan and is trying to get its act together now in Chechnya, and Brian ...

THE NEW FACE OF WAR: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century by Bruce Berkowitz (2003 Hardcover in dust ...
Bruce Berkowitz

The Free Press, 2003

THE NEW FACE OF WAR: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century by Bruce Berkowitz (2003 Hardcover in dust jacket The Free Press 255 pages including Index)

The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War 1914-1918

1 review
Trevor Wilson

Polity Press, 1989

Uneven in quality
First of all, the author was born in New Zealand, so why he is called an Australian I do not know. The book pays very little attention to the Dominions--it is written strictly from a British viewpoint and examines exhaustively events in Britain druing the war, as well as all aspects of the war which relate to England. There are more than 150 pages of text which follow the account of the ...

The Future of War: The Face of 21st-Century Warfare

3 reviews
Marc Cerasini

Alpha, 2002

A fascinating overview of what is ahead for warfare techno
If one counted the number of people throughout history that have perished in wars, the number would be very small if compared to the total number of people who have not. Therefore, the impact of war has been minimal in this respect, eliminating of course consideration of the devastating psychological and economic impact that wars bring to human cultures (even if they do not directly participate ...

The Faces of Irish Civil War Soldiers

1 review
Joanna M. McDonald

Stackpole Books, 1999

A great picture book in need of a qualified editor
"The Faces of Irish Civil War Soldiers" is a rather slim volume containing the photographs of about 200 soldiers,both yanks and rebels,whose common denominator is thier irish heritage...As a picture book the volume is not bad,although it might have helpled if the printing were not done on the cheap,as was the case here..A picture book ought NOT present its pictures as if they are all the result ...

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