Travel back in time with this visual guide to the history of human conflict, tracing the evolution of technology and tactics from the ancient world to the American Civil War! Combining beautiful nineteenth century engravings, artwork, and diagrams with an engaging and informative modern text, The History of Warfare narrates humankind's timeless capacity for devising new ways of waging war on…
Warfare is a topic on which a seemingly endless number of books are published; this is one which is fully justified. The most obviously outstanding feature of the volume is its scope, with a world-wide range of ancient civilizations covered, from the familiar Greeks and Romans, to Egypt and the Near East, Celts, central Europeans, Olmecs, Aztecs and Incas, and the early armies of China, Japan a…
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States joined World War II. And soon after that, young pilots were recruited for a very secret - and very dangerous - raid on Japan. No one in the armed forces had done anything like this raid before, and none of the volunteers expected to escape with their lives. But this was a war unlike any other before, which called for creative thinking…
Each of the books in Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales has elements of the strange but true and is presented in an engaging, funny format, highlighting the larger-than-life characters that pop up in real history. Big Bad Ironclad! covers the history of the amazing ironclad steam warships used in the Civil War. From the ship’s inventor, who had a history of blowing things up and only 100 days t…
Perang Dunia I (WW1) adalah kontes gladiator terbesar sepanjang sejarah umat manusia yang melibatkan para hegemon Eropa serta koloninya. Vladimir Lenin, sang tokoh komunis Rusia yang dijuluki ‘virus’ oleh para hegemon Eropa menyebut perang ini sebagai ”perangnya bangsawan”, bukan ”perang rakyat”. Pemikirannya yang dilandasi sikap anti kaum ningrat dan prorakyat ini nantinya melahirk…
Sutomo atau Bung Tomo ialah tokoh "pemberontak" termasyhur. Pidato-pidatonya--yang dibuka dan ditutup dengan lagu Tiger Shark karya Peter Hodgkinson asal Inggris--selalu meneriakkan "Allahu Akbar". Sosoknya terekam kuat dalam potret diri yang mengacungkan telunjuk dengan tatapan mata tajam. Lewat Radio Pemberontakan, suara Bung Tomo berapi-api membakar semangat pejuang Republik Indonesia ter…
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