9780233980096 - Opening Rounds de Farrar-Hockley, Anthony (10 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Vg. First Edition. 188 pages. Black binding with silver lettering on spine. 2 maps on endpapers. 5 maps scattered through the book. Minor wear to Dust Jacket at top corner tips and top of spine. Photos of book on request.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Opening Rounds This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.

Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Price clipped, light bumps and shelf wear. Inscribed in blue ink by author across top of title page: "For Major-General Buz Baxter, USAF, a former comrade-in-arms, with the warm wishes of a friend" and signed Anthony Farrar-Hockley. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. 188pp.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. Small bump to base at spine. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 9.53 X 6.54 X 1.02 inches; 240 pages.

Boards. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. In this book, the author highlights those precedents which deserve consideration as the peoples of North America and Western Europe seek to maintain peace by deterrence. He examines the factors which led to the outbreak of war in 1939 - political and military weakness after 1918, the seizure of power by fascist dictators in Germany and Italy, the militarisation of Japan - and demonstrates how, when Britain, France and, ultimately, the United States were obliged to defend themselves, they were beaten and humiliated in the opening rounds of war. He assesses the qualities of the commanders and fighting men involved in campaigns in Norway, the Philippines and Malaya, in terms by no means flattering to those defending these territories. In 1945 the ultimate triumph of the Western democracies in alliance with the Soviet Union - once Hitler's accomplice, later his prey - seemed to promise peace. However, almost at once the Soviet Union began to pick off small nations for incorporation as satellites. For those who find the ensuing development of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and the ongoing arguments about conventional military strength and nuclear arms balance, difficult to follow, the author traces clearly the path to the present situation. He considers how far nuclear weaponry has actually changed strategic options; the constraints which would militate against recourse to nuclear weapons; and the comparability in military terms of earlier campaigns to those which would develop if a third world war were fought out on a conventional basis. Opening Rounds offers a radical reappraisal of thinking on conventional warfare and provides a key to understanding how we have reached our present negotiating position for peace, and to assessing the prospects of its success. Very slight shelf wear to D/J. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).