Oldham david g (50 risultati)

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Walking in Their Footsteps: D-Day and the Ground They Fought On. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. We are The Mods. Book.

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Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 234 pages. 6.00x0.49x9.00 inches. In Stock.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Two great powers bleed each other dry in a war neither can win. A third, patient, watches from the mountain.A logistician counts the shells and realises his country is being hollowed out from the inside - not by the enemy it is fighting, but by the one it has never thought to fear. A mother in a wartime grain store keeps a secret notebook, recording a pattern no one else will name. A diplomat spends forty years building the trust of nations he intends to betray. An intelligence analyst finds a date buried in a column of figures - the date the world changes - and spends three years trying to make someone act before it arrives.Four people. Four countries. One slow, patient, devastating design.None of them can see the others. All of them can see the same thing: somewhere beyond the war everyone is watching, a patient power sits on the high ground, spending nothing, committing nothing, waiting for the two great rivals to exhaust each other completely. When they do, it will descend into what the bleeding has left. And the war the whole world thought it understood will turn out to have been the preparation for a different war entirely.A novel about the geometry of power - who spends, who waits, and who inherits the wreckage.Watching Tigers Fight is a geopolitical thriller told through four rotating perspectives: the soldier who sees his country being spent, the mother who witnesses the design from below, the diplomat who believes mass destruction is mercy, and the analyst whose warnings are heard, admired, and never acted upon.It is about the people who see catastrophe coming and cannot make anyone listen. The people who arrange catastrophe and cannot stop believing it is kindness. And the terrible discovery that the brave thing and the right thing and the futile thing can be the same thing.Set in a fully fictional world with no real-world nations, Watching Tigers Fight draws on the logic of Sun Tzu, the patience of grand strategy, and the human cost of geopolitical calculation. The title comes from the ancient Chinese proverb ????? - sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.No nations in this book are real. The pattern is.Perfect for readers of Elliot Ackerman, 2034, Ghost Fleet, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and anyone who has ever wondered what happens when patience itself becomes a weapon.…

Softcover/Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware, Lieferung aus Deutschland. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 346.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The beaches are still there. The sand still shifts with every tide. But the men who crossed them are almost gone, and the stories they carried are fading with them.Walking in Their Footsteps is the D-Day history for readers who want more than maps and manoeuvre tables. Written by a British author who lives less than an hour from the Normandy beaches, it is a book shaped by decades of walking the actual ground, talking to the people who remember, and standing in the places where everything changed on the morning of 6 June 1944.This is not a book that competes with Antony Beevor or Cornelius Ryan. It occupies a different register entirely: ground-level, human, and intimate. Where the great histories survey the campaign from above, Walking in Their Footsteps begins from a named place the author has personally walked, and asks what it felt like to be there. The result is something rarer than analysis: genuine proximity to events that reshaped the world.What You Will Find InsideThe book is dedicated to Harry Billinge MBE, a D-Day veteran who devoted the last decades of his life to ensuring that nobody forgot. His presence runs through these pages as a reminder of what living memory means, and what we lose when it is gone.Walking in Their Footsteps also pairs with a GPS-guided companion app giving access to more than one hundred named sites, making it the only D-Day title that extends from the page directly to the ground beneath your feet.Who This Book Is ForIf you have read Beevor, Ambrose, or Max Hastings and found yourself wanting something warmer, closer, and more personal, this is the book you were looking for. If you are planning a trip to Normandy and want a companion that goes beyond the tour buses and the standard itineraries, Walking in Their Footsteps will transform what you see. If you carry an inherited memory, a grandfather's silence, a photograph with no caption, you will find context and humanity here that no regimental history can provide.This is history for people who believe that the ground remembers, even when we struggle to. It is for the battlefield pilgrim, the curious traveller, the family searching for meaning in a name on a headstone, and every reader who has ever stood somewhere significant and felt the weight of what happened there pressing up through the earth.Walking in Their Footsteps is the most personal, immediate, and human guide to the D-Day beaches and the Normandy campaign ever written by someone who actually lives among them. Read it before you go. Read it when you return. Read it because the obligation of remembrance belongs to all of us now. D-Day and the Battle of Normandy told from inside the landscape where it happened. Every chapter begins with the author on the ground in present-day Normandy, then steps back to tell the story of what took place on that spot. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Twenty-one miles stand between civilisation and catastrophe. CHOKE reveals the geography the world's most powerful nations are desperate to control.It begins at 03:47 on a Tuesday morning. On the bridge of the Doha Star, a captain watches his AIS screen in silence as, one by one, every ship signal in the Strait of Hormuz disappears. Within seventy-two hours, London underwriters have withdrawn war-risk cover for the entire Persian Gulf. Within a week, oil prices have doubled. Within a month, the cascading consequences are being felt at petrol stations in California, in emergency cabinet sessions in Tokyo, and in desperate diplomatic calls from Islamabad to Riyadh. The strait has not been closed by a navy. It has been closed by geography, and by the cold arithmetic of asymmetric warfare.This is the world David G. Oldham maps in CHOKE, a work of rigorous geopolitical analysis that opens with a viscerally dramatised near-future scenario before pulling back to reveal the strategic logic that makes such a crisis not merely possible, but probable. Drawing on military history, energy economics, and investigative journalism, Oldham demonstrates that the great chokepoints of the modern world, narrow waterways, undersea cables, semiconductor fabrication plants, and rare-earth supply chains, are multiplying in number and increasing in fragility, not declining.From the Persian commanders who understood the tactical genius of Thermopylae to the Ottoman sultans who taxed European trade through the Dardanelles, the logic of chokepoint control is as old as recorded strategy. What has changed is the cost of disruption. A twenty-thousand-pound drone forcing a two-million-pound interception. A handful of Houthi missiles rerouting the entire global container fleet around the Cape of Good Hope. The geography has not become less relevant in the digital age. It has become more dangerous.CHOKE moves beyond the familiar maritime straits, Hormuz, Suez, Malacca, the Bosphorus, to chart the new generation of chokepoints reshaping twenty-first-century power. The Taiwan Strait is not merely a flashpoint between two governments; it is the single passage through which the world's most advanced semiconductors must travel. The handful of undersea cable landing stations that carry ninety-five per cent of global internet traffic are as strategically significant as any naval base. The rare-earth processing facilities concentrated in a single country represent a chokehold on the green energy transition itself. Geography, Oldham argues, is not a constraint that technology is dissolving. It is a constraint that technology is multiplying.Written for readers who want to understand the world as it actually works rather than as politicians describe it, CHOKE combines the narrative immediacy of crisis journalism with the analytical depth of grand strategy writing. No specialist knowledge is required, only the willingness to follow an argument wherever the evidence leads, including to some deeply uncomfortable conclusions about the vulnerability of the systems that sustain modern life.If the map is fighting back, this is the book that explains how, and what comes next.Fans of Tim Marshall's Prisoners of Geography, Robert Kaplan's The Revenge of Geography, and Peter Zeihan's geopolitical writing will find in CHOKE the most urgent and immediately relevant contribution to the genre since the Houthi disruptions of the Red Sea demonstrated, in real time, that chokepoint vulnerability is not a thought experiment. It is the defining strategic reality of our age. Twenty-one miles. One closed strait. Global catastrophe. CHOKE by David G. Oldham maps the narrow waterways, cables, and supply chains This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. We are the Mods: The Story of a Generation That Refused to Be OrdinaryThey were the children of bomb sites and utility furniture, born into a country that had survived the war but never quite recovered from it. Their parents demanded quiet and gratitude. They offered neither. Instead, they spent their wages on Italian cloth and American records, on the cut of a lapel and the pulse of a bassline, and in doing so they built something that no one who lived through it has ever entirely left behind.We are the Mods is the definitive cultural history of one of Britain's most extraordinary youth movements, tracing its full arc from the jazz-lit coffee bars of the 1950s through the peak years of the mid-1960s, the skinhead divergence, the Northern Soul underground, the electric 1979 revival, Britpop, and into the twenty-first century gatherings where the rooms still fill and the music still plays. David G. Oldham brings to this story both the authority of deep research and the honesty of a writer who understands that the things we love must be capable of bearing scrutiny.This is not a hagiography. We are the Mods holds simultaneously the culture's genuine achievements and its significant moral failures. The Mod movement built a sophisticated working-class aesthetic out of nothing but taste and determination, yet it appropriated Black American and Caribbean music with a debt it rarely acknowledged. It created spaces of astonishing vitality for young people, yet marginalised the women without whom it could not have existed. It began in the dream of meritocracy and ended, for some, in the violence of the far right. Oldham examines all of it, unflinchingly and without prurience, because the only history worth reading is one that tells the truth.Entire chapters are devoted to the overlooked dimensions of the story: the female Mods who shaped the look and kept the faith; the Black music foundations that made everything else possible; the myths and the memories that both preserve and distort. The writing is literary, warm, and precise, combining the narrative momentum of the best popular history with the analytical seriousness of subcultural studies at its most rigorous.At its heart, We are the Mods is a meditation on something permanent. The Mod impulse was never only about fashion or music. It was a refusal, a conviction that ordinary life deserves more attention than it typically receives, that beauty and distinction are not luxuries reserved for those born to them, and that belonging to something larger than yourself, something made of shared taste and shared feeling, is one of the most serious things a person can do. That conviction has not aged. The pursuit continues.Readers who have carried their own version of this story, through the scooter runs and the all-nighters, through the record shops and the tailors, through the revivals and the reunions, will find here not nostalgia but recognition. And readers coming to this world for the first time will find one of the most compelling arguments ever made for why subcultures matter, how they survive, and what they cost.Essential reading for fans of Jon Savage's England's Dreaming, Simon Reynolds's Rip It Up and Start Again, and anyone who has ever used style, music, or belonging to say: I am more than what I was born into. A definitive critically honest history of British Mod culture from 1950s coffee bars to twenty-first-century revivals, music fashion, race, class This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Two great powers bleed each other dry in a war neither can win. A third, patient, watches from the mountain.A logistician counts the shells and realises his country is being hollowed out from the inside - not by the enemy it is fighting, but by the one it has never thought to fear. A mother in a wartime grain store keeps a secret notebook, recording a pattern no one else will name. A diplomat spends forty years building the trust of nations he intends to betray. An intelligence analyst finds a date buried in a column of figures - the date the world changes - and spends three years trying to make someone act before it arrives.Four people. Four countries. One slow, patient, devastating design.None of them can see the others. All of them can see the same thing: somewhere beyond the war everyone is watching, a patient power sits on the high ground, spending nothing, committing nothing, waiting for the two great rivals to exhaust each other completely. When they do, it will descend into what the bleeding has left. And the war the whole world thought it understood will turn out to have been the preparation for a different war entirely.A novel about the geometry of power - who spends, who waits, and who inherits the wreckage.Watching Tigers Fight is a geopolitical thriller told through four rotating perspectives: the soldier who sees his country being spent, the mother who witnesses the design from below, the diplomat who believes mass destruction is mercy, and the analyst whose warnings are heard, admired, and never acted upon.It is about the people who see catastrophe coming and cannot make anyone listen. The people who arrange catastrophe and cannot stop believing it is kindness. And the terrible discovery that the brave thing and the right thing and the futile thing can be the same thing.Set in a fully fictional world with no real-world nations, Watching Tigers Fight draws on the logic of Sun Tzu, the patience of grand strategy, and the human cost of geopolitical calculation. The title comes from the ancient Chinese proverb - sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.No nations in this book are real. The pattern is.Perfect for readers of Elliot Ackerman, 2034, Ghost Fleet, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and anyone who has ever wondered what happens when patience itself becomes a weapon. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.