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The British Army 1815-1914

The British Army 1815-1914

This collection of essays examines the evolution of the British Army during the century-long Pax Britannica from the time Wellington considered its soldiers 'the scum of the earth' to the height of the imperial epoch when they were highly-respected 'soldiers of the Queen'. The British Army during this period was a microcosm and reflection of the larger British society. As a result this study of the British Army focuses on its character and composition its officers and men efforts to improve its efficiency and effectiveness and its role and performance on active service while an instrument of British Government policy. | The British Army 1815-1914

GBP 11.99
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The Nigerian Army 1956-1966

The Nigerian Army 1956-1966

Originally published in 1971 this book is an account of the development of the Nigerian Army in the critical ten years spanning independence. It describes the transformation of a despised colonial defence force into a Nigerian army with a popularly recognized reputation. On the eve of the first military coup the Army stood at the pinnacle of popular esteem. It had been modernized and expanded had served with distinction in the Congo and elsewhere and all its officers were Nigerian. The first half of the book traces the stages of this transformation and reveals the difficulties which had to be overcome. The second part examines the increasing tension and political manoeuvring which exploded into the military coups of 1966. | The Nigerian Army 1956-1966

GBP 70.00
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The Secret Army The IRA

The Secret Army The IRA

The Secret Army is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army. It is an absorbing account of a movement that has had a profound effect on the shaping of the modern Irish state. The secret army in the service of the invisible Republic has had a powerful effect on Irish events over the past twenty-five years. These hidden corridors of power interest Bell and inspired him to spend more time with the IRA than many volunteers spend in it. This book is the culmination of twenty-five years of work and tens of thousands of hours of interviews. Bell's unique access to the leadership of the republican movement and his contacts with all involved British politicians Irish politicians policemen arms smugglers and others committed or opposed to the IRA explain why The Secret Army is the book on the subject. This edition represents a complete revision and includes vast quantities of new information. Bell's book gives us vital insight into our times as well as Irish history. This edition of The Secret Army contains six new chapters that bring the history of this clandestine organization up to date. They are: The First Decade The Nature of the Long War 1979-1980; Unconventional Conflict The Hunger Strikes January 1980-October 3 1981; The Protracted Struggle September 1981-January 1984; War Politics and the Split January 1984-December 1986; The Troubles as Institution 1987-1990: and The Armed Struggle Transformed 1991-1996 The End Game. In his new introduction Bell reflects on his decades of research the experiences he has had and the people he has met during his extensive visits to Ireland. | The Secret Army The IRA

GBP 145.00
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The North Korean Army History Structure Daily Life

The North Korean Army History Structure Daily Life

This book focuses on the Korean People’s Army (KPA) - the armed forces of North Korea - covering its history structural organisation and lives of the soldiers and officers within its ranks. Utilising extensive Korean English Russian and Chinese language sources as well as multiple interviews with people who have served in the KPA this book provides an illuminating insight into the experience of KPA personnel. It presents fascinating and detailed examples of everyday life in the KPA such as the systems of discipline and reprimands the experience of women in the army typical salaries and daily food allowances. The book also succinctly traces the history of the KPA from its foundation under the guidance of the Soviet Union and the experiences of the Korean War through to the current iteration under Kim Jong-un. This pioneering work will be of huge interest to students and scholars of North Korea the Cold War Military Studies and Communism. | The North Korean Army History Structure Daily Life

GBP 130.00
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The Victoran Army and the Staff College 1854-1914

The Victoran Army and the Staff College 1854-1914

A pioneering work in British military history originally published in 1972 this book is both scholarly and entertaining. Although the book concentrates on a single institution it illuminates a much wider area of social and intellectual change. For the Army the importance of the change was enormous: in 1854 there was neither a Staff College nor a General Staff and professional education and training were largely despised by the officers: by 1914 the College could justly be described as ‘a school of thought’ while the officers it had trained were coming to dominate the highest posts in Commands and on the General Staff. | The Victoran Army and the Staff College 1854-1914

GBP 42.99
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Outpatient Nutrition Care: GI Metabolic and Home Nutrition Support Practical Guidelines for Assessment and Management

Outpatient Nutrition Care: GI Metabolic and Home Nutrition Support Practical Guidelines for Assessment and Management

As the number of patients receiving home care nutrition support increases proper assessment and management of this therapy is crucial and clinicians need to practice at an advanced level. This second edition provides practical nutrition care information for professionals working with individuals outside of the hospital including registered dietitians nurses pharmacists and physicians. It covers screening assessing and treating malnutrition; outpatient nutrition care in diabetes cardiovascular disease gastrointestinal disease and home enteral and parenteral nutrition. Each chapter describes the disease process as well as the management of the disease or therapy. Key Features Presents practical information on proper nutrition care of individuals in the outpatient setting and those receiving home nutrition support New information on GI tests and procedures; gastroparesis/pancreatitis parenteral lipids and bariatric surgery Expanded chapter on short bowel syndrome and malabsorptive disorders Additional information on feeding options including an overview of oral oral supplements and enteral and parenteral nutrition Teaches the user additional information on disease processes as well as the management of the disease or therapy | Outpatient Nutrition Care: GI Metabolic and Home Nutrition Support Practical Guidelines for Assessment and Management

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The Child Soldiers of Africa's Red Army The Role of Social Process and Routinised Violence in South Sudan's Military

The Child Soldiers of Africa's Red Army The Role of Social Process and Routinised Violence in South Sudan's Military

This book examines the role of social process and routinised violence in the use of underaged soldiers in the country now known as South Sudan during the twenty-one-year civil war between Sudan’s northern and southern regions. Drawing on accounts of South Sudanese who as children and teenagers were part of the Red Army—the youth wing of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA)—the book sheds light on the organised nature of the exploitation of children and youth by senior adult figures within the movement. The book also includes interviews with several of the original Red Army commanders all of whom went on to hold senior positions within the military and government of South Sudan. The author chronicles the cultural transformation experienced by members of the Red Army and considers whether an analysis of the processes involved in what was then Africa’s longest civil war can aid our understanding of South Sudan’s more recent descent into ethnicised conflict. As such it will appeal to scholars of sociology anthropology and political science with interests in ethnography conflict and the military exploitation of children. | The Child Soldiers of Africa's Red Army The Role of Social Process and Routinised Violence in South Sudan's Military

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Women Families and the British Army 1700–1880

Women Families and the British Army 1700–1880

This series concentrates on women and the soldiers in the ranks whose lives they shared assembling a wide body of evidence of their romantic entanglements and domestic concerns. The new military history of recent decades has demanded a broadening of the source base beyond elite accounts or those that concentrate solely on battlefield experiences. Armies did not operate in isolation and men’s family ties influenced the course of events in a variety of ways. Campfollowing women and children occupied a liminal space in campaign life. Those who travelled on the strength of the army received rations in return for providing services such as laundry and nursing but they could also be grouped with prostitutes and condemned as a ‘burden’ by officers. Parents wives and offspring left behind at home remained in soldiers’ thoughts despite an army culture aimed at replacing kin with regimental ties. Soldiers’ families’ suffering both on the march and back in Britain attracted public attention at key points in this period as well. This series provides for the first time in one place a wide body of texts relating to common soldiers’ personal lives: the women with whom they became involved their children and the families who cared for them. It brings hitherto unpublished material into print for the first time and resurrects accounts that have not been in wide circulation since the nineteenth century. The collection combines the observations of officers government officials and others with memoirs and letters from men in the ranks and from the women themselves. It draws extensively on press accounts especially in the nineteenth century. It also demonstrates the value of using literary depictions alongside the letters diaries memoirs and war office papers that form the traditional source base of military historians. This fifth volume covers The Crimean War (1854-56). | Women Families and the British Army 1700–1880

GBP 170.00
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Women Families and the British Army 1700–1880 Vol 4

Women Families and the British Army 1700–1880 Vol 4

This series concentrates on women and the soldiers in the ranks whose lives they shared assembling a wide body of evidence of their romantic entanglements and domestic concerns. The new military history of recent decades has demanded a broadening of the source base beyond elite accounts or those that concentrate solely on battlefield experiences. Armies did not operate in isolation and men’s family ties influenced the course of events in a variety of ways. Campfollowing women and children occupied a liminal space in campaign life. Those who travelled on the strength of the army received rations in return for providing services such as laundry and nursing but they could also be grouped with prostitutes and condemned as a ‘burden’ by officers. Parents wives and offspring left behind at home remained in soldiers’ thoughts despite an army culture aimed at replacing kin with regimental ties. Soldiers’ families’ suffering both on the march and back in Britain attracted public attention at key points in this period as well. This series provides for the first time in one place a wide body of texts relating to common soldiers’ personal lives: the women with whom they became involved their children and the families who cared for them. It brings hitherto unpublished material into print for the first time and resurrects accounts that have not been in wide circulation since the nineteenth century. The collection combines the observations of officers government officials and others with memoirs and letters from men in the ranks and from the women themselves. It draws extensively on press accounts especially in the nineteenth century. It also demonstrates the value of using literary depictions alongside the letters diaries memoirs and war office papers that form the traditional source base of military historians. This fourth volume covers the period from the Treaty of Paris to the Declaration of War in 1854. | Women Families and the British Army 1700–1880 Vol 4

GBP 170.00
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The Glycemic Index Applications in Practice

The Glycemic Index Applications in Practice

In 1981 David Jenkins Thomas Wolever and colleagues introduced the concept of the glycemic index (GI) to differentiate carbohydrates based on the rate of blood glucose rise following their consumption. Although GI was first used in diet therapy for diabetes research evidence has accumulated since then to thousands of publications from all over the world with applications for prevention and/or management of many diseases as well as effects on physiological states and exercise. The Glycemic Index: Applications in Practice has gathered together in an unbiased and critical way all the evidence and research on GI including diabetes cardiovascular disease cancer obesity polycystic ovary syndrome pregnancy outcomes sports performance eye health and cognitive functioning. It provides a detailed explanation on how to correctly measure a food’s GI how the GI of food products can be altered as well as the use and misuse of GI labelling around the globe. The contributors are either pioneers or experts in the area of GI from all around the globe including Australia Canada Europe and the United States. The book is a valuable source of information for healthcare professionals of various disciplines nutritionists dietitians food scientists medical doctors sports scientists psychologists public health (nutrition) policy makers and students in these fields as well as an important addition to university libraries. | The Glycemic Index Applications in Practice

GBP 44.99
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Tracing Japanese Leftist Political Activism (1957 – 2017) The Boomerang Flying Transnational

Tracing Japanese Leftist Political Activism (1957 – 2017) The Boomerang Flying Transnational

Tracing Japanese Leftist Political Activism (1957–2017) tells the story of the Japanese Red Army (JRA) a militant left-wing group founded in 1971 which was involved in numerous terrorist attacks. It traces the origins of the group in the Japanese New Left in the 1960s and looks at Red Army groups of the early 1970s in Japan such as the Red Army Faction and the United Red Army which became infamous for murdering its own members. The book also examines the JRA's trans- and international links with other militant groups including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine as well as the networks of intellectuals and fellow activists who supported them. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of terrorism radicalism and Japanese social history. | Tracing Japanese Leftist Political Activism (1957 – 2017) The Boomerang Flying Transnational

GBP 34.99
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The Soldier in Modern Society

The Soldier in Modern Society

During the few years prior to publication there had been a growing interest not only in the organisation and efficiency of the British Army but also in its role in modern British society and the place of soldiering as a significant career. The time was therefore ripe for a book such as this which looks objectively at the position of our Army whilst at the same time showing the actual experience of a Regular soldier. Originally published in 1972 Colonel Baynes’s book was largely written during a year’s Defence Fellowship at Edinburgh University in 1968-9 where he worked under Professor John Erickson in the Higher Defence Studies sections of the Department of Politics. He begins by examining the ways in which armies can be used and then turns to more specific issues connected with the employment of the British Army in the modern world. He summarises what the British Army has accomplished since 1945 and how its strength has varied and follows with a chapter on the cost of maintaining it. The core of the book revolves around three basic questions. First what in the 1970s does British society really think about its Army and what sort of army does it want? Second how can soldiers be kept keen and efficient in a period of prolonged peace? And third who will join the Army in the coming years what will their conditions of service be like and what are their career opportunities? Some of Colonel Baynes’s solutions to these problems are likely to be unpopular with traditionalists although he is by no means an iconoclast and has a deep affection for and belief in his own profession. At the time this book was strongly recommended to all with an interest in the security of this country and the future of its armed forces: both those serving in them and civilians. | The Soldier in Modern Society

GBP 27.99
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The Chinese Military System An Organizational Study Of The Chinese People's Liberation Armysecond Edition Revised And Updated

The Chinese Military System An Organizational Study Of The Chinese People's Liberation Armysecond Edition Revised And Updated

To understand the Chinese military and thereby the dynamics of China’s peacetime army one must understand its organizational system. To that end Harvey Nelsen has written a book that examines in detail the entire organization of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Dr. Nelsen studies the PLA from top to bottom. Throughout he challenges the widely held theory that military politics in China are largely determined by personal relations among officers and that the PLA is more a civic-action army than are most military organizations. Important as a purely military study this book is valuable also for the light it sheds on the whole of Chinese bureaucratic politics. This second edition has been revised to reflect changes that have occurred since the death of Chairman Mao as well as to incorporate new information about the Chinese military and political system during Mao’s reign. | The Chinese Military System An Organizational Study Of The Chinese People's Liberation Armysecond Edition Revised And Updated

GBP 39.99
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Atlas of Diagnostic Endoscopy 3E

Atlas of Diagnostic Endoscopy 3E

This book is a compilation of endoscopic images of the upper gastrointestinal tract. The 3rd edition is enriched with high-resolution digital images highlighting the classification and staging of endoscopically relevant diseases. Serial documentation of diseases and procedures like corrosive injury variceal obliteration peptic ulcer etc. provides a complete informative and interesting perspective. Rare conditions like Dieulafoy’s disease and Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) have been extensively discussed along with common diseases of the GI tract. This book outlines the technique and interpretation of endoscopic images proving to be a helpful guide to endoscopy practitioners. Key FeaturesExplores various GI tract diseases through coloured high resolution clinical photographs. Serves as a useful reckoner for trainee endoscopists and practitioners pursuing gastroenterology or gastrointestinal endoscopy. The text is updated with tables flowcharts classifications and international treatment guidelines. | Atlas of Diagnostic Endoscopy 3E

GBP 44.99
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The Chronicle of a People's War: The Military and Strategic History of the Cambodian Civil War 1979–1991

The Chronicle of a People's War: The Military and Strategic History of the Cambodian Civil War 1979–1991

The Chronicle of a People's War: The Military and Strategic History of the Cambodian Civil War 1979–1991 narrates the military and strategic history of the Cambodian Civil War especially the People’s Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) from when it deposed the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in 1979 until the political settlement in 1991. The PRK survived in the face of a fierce insurgency due to three factors: an appealing and reasonably well-implemented political program extensive political indoctrination and the use of a hybrid army. In this hybrid organization the PRK relied on both its professional conventional army and the militia-like territorial army. This latter type was lightly equipped and most soldiers were not professional. Yet the militia made up for these weaknesses with its intimate knowledge of the local terrain and its political affinity with the local people. These two advantages are keys to victory in the context of counterinsurgency warfare. The narrative and critical analysis is driven by extensive interviews and primary source archives that have never been accessed before by any scholar including interviews with former veterans (battalion commanders brigade commanders division commanders commanders of provincial military commands commanders of military regions and deputy chiefs of staff) articles in the People’s Army from 1979 to 1991 battlefield footage battlefield video reports newsreel propaganda video and official publications of the Cambodian Institute of Military History.

GBP 51.99
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The Wald Report The Decline Of Israeli National Security Since 1967

The Wald Report The Decline Of Israeli National Security Since 1967

It took only fifteen years for an army once known for its agility and operational brilliance to turn into a clumsy bureaucratic labyrinth according to Colonel Emanuel Wald's report to Israeli Chief of Staff Moshe Levi. Not surprisingly Wald's conclusions greatly embarrassed Israeli political and military leaders as news of the report circulated t | The Wald Report The Decline Of Israeli National Security Since 1967

GBP 130.00
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Contemporary China

Contemporary China

This book first published in 1977 sets out two models of administration and participation used in Communist China one worked out by the CCP during the war against Japan and one imported from the Soviet Union in the 1950s. These models have given rise to different policy positions studied here and the models provide a framework within which to examine the nature and structure of the CCP state structures the army rural and urban policy and the incorporation of national minorities. | Contemporary China

GBP 31.99
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Paid Patriotism? The Debate over Veterans' Benefits

Paid Patriotism? The Debate over Veterans' Benefits

What does a nation owe its military veterans? Gratitude esteem land grants medical care pensions higher education? Or is serving in the armed forces of one’s country an obligation to be undertaken without any expectation of compensation? If veterans are to receive government aid should a distinction be made between those who served in wartime or faced enemy fire and those who saw neither war nor combat? These questions have been answered in varying ways by the American people and their elected representatives since the Revolutionary War. Paid Patriotism? explores the genesis and growth of soldiers’ pensions throughout the nineteenth century the Bonus experiment after the First World War the passage and consequences of the GI Bill of Rights the growth of the nation’s system of veterans’ hospitals the evolution of veterans’ programs during the Cold War and Vietnam the post-9/11 GI Bill and contemporary scandals and reform efforts within the veterans’ bureaucracy from its promotion to a cabinet department to wrongdoing in the Veterans Health Administration. James T. Bennett examines the complex and politically charged history and heated present-day debate of what the late columnist William Safire called the “most sacred cow” in Washington: the veterans’ bureaucracy. In the end the United States and its citizens owe veterans a debt. But how has and how should that debt be honored—and at what cost? | Paid Patriotism? The Debate over Veterans' Benefits

GBP 36.99
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