lessons terror history warfare di carr caleb (117 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.57.

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Some discolour to pages. Same / next day dispatch (Monday - Friday),

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.73.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. In print for 19.95.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. very neat copy internally and externally; unmarked.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition; Second Printing. Slight rubbing and wear to jackets. ; Hardcover, 272 pages in very good condition with very good dustjacket. Slight shelf-wear on jacket edges. 1st edition. A history of warfare against civilians: Why it has always failed and why it will fail again. Examines terrorism through history. ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Thin Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 272 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book is clean and tight without inside markings. Jacket's condition is near fine. In The Lessons of Terror, novelist and military historian Caleb Carr examines terrorism throughout history and the roots of our present crisis and reaches a provocative set of conclusions: the practice of targeting enemy civilians is as old as warfare itself; it has always failed as a military and political tactic; and despite the dramatic increases in its scope and range of weapons, it will continue to fail in the future.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text unmarked. The dust jacket shows some very light handling, in a mylar cover. 12mo. 272pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. As new condition black boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Epilogue: Profit or Preservation?; Selected Bibliography: General Sources; Index and About the Author. 2nd Printing. "In The Lessons of Terror, novelist and military historian Caleb Carr examines terrorism throughout history and the roots of our present crisis and reaches a provocative set of conclusions: the practice of targeting enemy civilians is as old as warfare itself; it has always failed as a military and political tactic; and despite the dramatic increases in its scope and range of weapons, it will continue to fail in the future. International terrorism - the victimization of unarmed civilians in an attempt to affect their support for the government that leads them - is a phrase with which Americans have become all too familiar recently. Yet while at first glance terrorism seems a relatively modern phenomenon, Carr illustrates that it has been a constant of military history. In ancient times, warring armies raped and slaughtered civilians and gratuitously destroyed property, homes, and cities; in the Middle Ages, evangelical Muslims and Christian crusaders spread their faiths by the sword; and in the early modern era, such celebrated kings as Louis XIV revealed a taste for victimizing non-combatants for political purposes. It was during the Civil War that Americans themselves first engaged in "total war," the most egregious of the many euphemisms for the tactics of terror. Under the leadership of such generals as Stonewall Jackson, the forces of the South tried to systematize this horrifying practice; but it fell to a Union general, William Tecumseh Sherman, to achieve that dubious goal. Carr recounts Sherman's declaration of war on every man, woman, and child in the South - a policy that he himself knew was badly flawed, had nothing to do with his military successes (indeed, it hampered them), and brought long-term unrest to the American South by giving birth to the Ku Klux Klan. Carr's exploration of terror reveals its consistently self-defeating nature. Far from prompting submission, Carr argues, terrorism stiffens enemy resolve: for this reason above all, terrorism has never achieved - nor will it ever achieve - long-term success, however physically destructive and psychologically debilitating it may become. With commanding authority and the storyteller's gift for which he is renowned, Caleb Carr provides a critical historical context for understanding terrorist acts today, arguing that terrorism will be eradicated only when it is perceived as a tactic that brings nothing save defeat to its agents." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 7.3 X 5.0 X 1.0 inches; 272 pages.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 7.3 X 5.0 X 1.0 inches; 272 pages.

Audio Book. Condizione: Good. For audiocassettes in the cardboard case printed by Simon & Schuster audio. This is an unabridged edition. Just a bit of shelf wear and scuff to the covers. Tapes are clean reliable and presentable.

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 272pp. Collected essays on terrorists. Bibliography. Index. Bound in black cloth, with illustrated dust jacket.