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Douglas Porch
Counterinsurgency
€ 46,19
Counterinsurgency has staked its claim in the new century as the new American way of war. Yet, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have revived a historical debate about the costs - monetary, political and moral - of operations designed to eliminate insurgents and build nations.
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The Portuguese Armed Forces and the Revolution
€ 53,64
This book, first published in 1977, traces the origins of the left-wing Portuguese army rebellion of 1974 that overthrew the 50-year-old authoritarian regime of Prime Ministers Salazar and Caetano to the traditional political independence of the armed forces, their increasingly strained relations with the regime, and finally to the colonial wars which brought professional discontent to boiling point.
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Defeat and Division
€ 46,30
A definitive new account of France in World War II exploring the country's collapse in 1940, the rise of Charles de Gaulle's Free French, the occupation, and culminating in the November 1942 invasion of French North Africa.
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Army and Revolution
€ 53,64
This book, first published in 1974, analyses the problems and mechanics of the Revolutionary movement in the army during and after the French Revolution.
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Douglas (Naval Postgraduate School Porch
Douglas Porch
Resistance and Liberation
€ 41,46
Emerging from the debâcle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power and resuscitate its global influence. Douglas Porch charts the dynamics of la France libre, Vichy collaboration, and the swelling resistance to the Axis occupation from the campaigns in Tunisia and Italy to Liberation.
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Douglas Porch€ 53,64
Douglas (Naval Postgraduate School Porch€ 41,46