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Erik Odegard The company fortress
military engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795
"The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to early modern European expansion? Was European fortification design as important for early modern expansion as has been argued? This book takes on these questions by studying the system of fortifications built and maintained by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in present-day India and Sri Lanka. It uncovers...
Engels | 292 pagina's | Leiden University Press, Leiden | 2020
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Thomas Leahy The intelligence war against the IRA
In deze diepgaande studie over het hele conflict evalueert Thomas Leahy de successen en mislukkingen van de Britse inlichtingenactiviteiten tegen de IRA, van het gebruik van agenten en informanten tot speciale eenheden, bewaking en elektronische inlichtingen. Aan de hand van nieuw interviewmateriaal naast memoires en Iers en Brits archiefmateriaal, suggereert hij dat de IRA niet tot vrede werd gedwongen door de Britse inlichtingendienst.
Non-fictie
Engels | 343 pagina's | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge | 2020
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Dan Kaszeta Toxic
a history of nerve agents, from Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia
Non-fictie
Engels | 379 pagina's | Hurst & Company, London | 2020
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Ankit Panda Kim Jong Un and the bomb
survival and deterrence in North Korea
Engels | 393 pagina's | Hurst & Company, London | 2020
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Francis J. Gavin Nuclear weapons and American grand strategy
Engels | 300 pagina's | Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C. | 2020
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Scott Jasper Russian cyber operations
coding the boundaries of conflict
Engels | 214 pagina's | Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC | 2020
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Jonathan Schneer The Lockhart plot
love, betrayal, assassination and counter-revolution in Lenin's Russia
Engels | 340 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom | 2020
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