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The Wars of the Bruces

2012-08-25 History
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Release : 2012-08-25
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Wars of the Bruces by : Colm McNamee

Download or read book The Wars of the Bruces written by Colm McNamee. This book was released on 2012-08-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bruces of fourteenth-century Scotland were formidable and enthusiastic warriors. Whilst much has been written about events as they happened in Scotland during the chaotic years of the first part of the fourteenth century, England's war with Robert the Bruce profoundly affected the whole of the British Isles. Scottish raiders struck deep into the heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire; Robert's younger brother, Edward Bruce, was proclaimed King of Ireland and came close to subduing the country; the Isle of Man was captured and a Welsh sea-port was raided; and in the North Sea Scots allied with German and Flemish pirates to cripple England's vital wool trade and disrupt its war effort. Packed with detail and written with a strong and involving narrative thread, this is the first book to link up the various theatres of war and discuss the effect of the wars of the Bruces outside Scotland.

The Spoils of War

2016-09-27 Political Science
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Release : 2016-09-27
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis The Spoils of War by : Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Download or read book The Spoils of War written by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. This book was released on 2016-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's striking how many of the presidents Americans venerate--Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy, to name a few--oversaw some of the republic's bloodiest years. Perhaps it's because they looked out for important political causes. Or maybe they just looked out for themselves. This ... book puts some of America's greatest leaders under the microscope, [positing that] their calls for war, usually remembered as brave and noble, were in fact selfish and convenient"--

Robert the Bruce's Irish Wars

2001 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2001
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Robert the Bruce's Irish Wars by : Seán Duffy

Download or read book Robert the Bruce's Irish Wars written by Seán Duffy. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert the Bruce's Invasion of Ireland

War Stars

2008 Fiction
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Release : 2008
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 514/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis War Stars by : Howard Bruce Franklin

Download or read book War Stars written by Howard Bruce Franklin. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new and expanded edition of an already classic work, H. Bruce Franklin brings the epic story of the superweapon and the American imagination into the ominous twenty-first century, demonstrating its continuing importance both to comprehending our current predicament and to finding ways to escape from it. Sweeping through two centuries of American culture and military history, Franklin traces the evolution of superweapons from Robert Fulton's eighteenth-century submarine through the strategic bomber, atomic bomb, and Star Wars to a twenty-first century dominated by "weapons of mass destruction," real and imagined. Interweaving culture, science, technology, and history, he shows how and why the American pursuit of the ultimate defensive weapon -- guaranteed to end all war and bring universal triumph to American ideals -- has led our nation and the world into an epoch of terror and endless war.

The Korean War

2011-07-12 History
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Release : 2011-07-12
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Korean War by : Bruce Cumings

Download or read book The Korean War written by Bruce Cumings. This book was released on 2011-07-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Bruce Cumings reveals the war as it was actually fought. He describes its origin as a civil war, preordained long before the first shots were fired in June 1950 by lingering fury over Japan’s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. Cumings then shares the neglected history of America’s post–World War II occupation of Korea, reveals untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, and tells of the United States officially entering the action on the side of the South, exposing as never before the appalling massacres and atrocities committed on all sides. Elegantly written and blisteringly honest, The Korean War is, like the war it illuminates, brief, devastating, and essential.

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