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Post-War Japan As a Sea Power - Imperial Legacy, Wartime Experience and the Making of a Navy by Alessio Patalano; Jeremy Black (Series edited by)
Category: Military | Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Military History Ser.
In Post-war Japan as a Sea Power, Alessio Patalano incorporates new, exclusive source material to develop an innovative approach to the study of post-war Japan as a military power. This archival-based history of Asia's most advanced navy, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF), looks beyond th ...Show more
Strategy and the Second World War - How the War Was Won, and Lost by Jeremy Black
Category: Military
A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor; and Germany declared war on the United States.In this timely ...Show more
Studying History by Jeremy Black
Category: Reference | Series: Palgrave Study Guides
Reflects the changing nature of the discipline of history. This book includes different forms of history, including popular and TV histories. It offers advice on writing essays and dissertations and preparing for exams.
The Battle of Waterloo : A New History by Jeremy Black
Category: History
This is a masterly and concise reinterpretation of one of the seminal events in modern history, by one of the world's foremost military historians. The battle on Sunday 18th June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium was to be Napoleon's greatest triumph - but it ended in one of the greatest military upsets of a ...Show more
The British Abroad by Jeremy Black (Professor of History, University of Exeter)
Category: History
Travel for pleasure developed greatly in the 18th century, and here Jeremy Black examines travel on the Continent, the so-called "Grand Tour". He considers not only the standard destinations of France and Italy but also the Low Countries, Germany, Switzerland and the Balkans. The modes of transport are ...Show more
The Seventy Great Battles in History by Jeremy Black
Category: Fiction
In The Seventy Great Battles of All Time, an international team of military historians reconstructs and analyses the seventy decisive battles that shaped world history - from Cannae to Agincourt, Waterloo to Gettysburg, Stalingrad to the Tet offensive. Organised chronologically into seven parts, the boo ...Show more
The World of James Bond - The Lives and Times Of 007 by Jeremy Black
Category: TV / FILM | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The most current and insightful look at the politics and culture of the Bond world as the last Daniel Craig movie hits theaters. This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the political context of the Bond books and films. Jeremy Black offers a historian's interpretation ...Show more
Tools of War: The Weapons That Changed the World by Jeremy Black
Category: History
Tools of War recounts, chronologically, the stories of 50 of the most significant advances in military technology. From the long bow to the atomic bomb author Jeremy Black discusses the specific engagements or campaigns where each weapon had most effect, providing the reader with a course in military hi ...Show more
War Since 1900: History, Strategy, Weaponry by Jeremy Black
Category: History
In this wide-ranging survey, a team of top international historians examines the cataclysmic conflicts that have shaped the modern world. Beginning with the Boer War, the expert contributors analyse the horror and drama of two world wars, the civil wars of the 1920s and 1930s, the Cold War, wars of deco ...Show more
War and the New Disorder in the 21st Century by Jeremy Black
Category: LGBTQI | Series: Continuum Compact S.
The second edition of Jeremy Black's War has been completely revised in the light of recent events in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jeremy Black's book prophetically explores the realities of war in a globalized world where growing prosperity can increase the likelihood of conflict and American power is like ...Show more
Warfare in the Eighteenth Century by Jeremy Black
Category: Military | Series: Cassell History of Warfare Ser.
This volume covers all the major conflicts of the 18th century. In the west, this includes the Wars of European Succession, the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. In the east, it covers China's conquests of Mongolia, Sinkiang and Tibet, Russia's advances against Islam in the Balkans ...Show more