Titres dans Armes et guerre

One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction From 2024 The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience In this vividly...

Estrategia es un libro mítico, un clásico inencontrable en España, que inspiró a insignes militares y fue lectura de cabecera de Kennedy durante la crisis de los misiles de Cuba en 1962. Uno de los más importantes tratados militares de todos los tiempos, a la altura de El arte de la guerra de Sun-Tzu o De la guerra de Von Clausewitz.

Il genio tormentato del Progetto Manhattan affronta il dilemma morale definitivo che stravolgerà la storia bellica. Questa biografia storica esplora la tensione tra ambizione scientifica e la devastazione geopolitica della Seconda guerra mondiale. Un ascolto drammatico, ideale per chi desidera...

Vivez le premier véritable conflit planétaire de l'Histoire militaire et comprenez les rouages géopolitiques mondiaux. Idéal pour enrichir votre culture générale lors de vos trajets quotidiens, ce récit immersif vous transporte instantanément au dix-huitième siècle. Assistez au...

From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war—and several presidents’ actions in nuclear crises—from Truman to Trump. Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of...

A newly discovered firsthand account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath from one of the survivors—a lost classic that brings unprecedented immediacy to our understanding of this world-changing event. The whole city was covered with dark clouds, and conflagrations were breaking out in...

General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name The Manhattan Project. As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious, expensive engineering feat in history, it was General Groves who hired Oppenheimer (with knowledge of his left-wing past), planned facilities that would extract the necessary enriched uranium, and saw to it that nothing interfered with the accelerated research and swift assembly of the weapon.

Revivez les tensions de la guerre froide et découvrez comment le monde a frôlé l'apocalypse nucléaire sans y sombrer. Idéale pour enrichir vos trajets quotidiens, cette plongée historique captivante décrypte les stratégies de la peur et de la dissuasion. Explorez les coulisses d'une...

Plongez au cœur de la guerre froide avec ce récit historique haletant où l'humanité frôle l'apocalypse nucléaire. Pendant treize jours d'octobre 1962, des décisions prises dans l'ombre à Washington, Moscou et La Havane ont scellé le destin de la planète. Vivez de l'intérieur la...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read’ At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In an instant, the temperature at its core rose to millions of degrees...

The digital audiobook edition of Andrew Feinstein's powerful exposé, The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, complete and unabridged and read by the actor Gildart Jackson. Pulling back the curtain on the secretive world of the global arms trade, Andrew Feinstein reveals the corruption...

In the last days of World War II, a new weapon terrorized the United States Navy in the Pacific. Told from the perspective of the men who endured this horrifying tactic, At War with the Wind is the first book to recount in nail-biting detail what it was like to experience an attack by Japanese kamikazes. Born of desperation in the face of overwhelming material superiority, suicide attacks—by aircraft, submarines, small boats, and even manned rocket-boosted gliders—were capable of inflicting catastrophic damage, testing the resolve of officers and sailors as never before.

The first of two ground-breaking volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this audiobook is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages. It highlights the political stresses between the Allies, the problems of feeding and paying for the Allied forces assembling in Belgium during the undeclared war and how a strategy was thrashed out. It studies the neglected topic of how the Allies beyond the Rhine hampered the plans of Blücher and Wellington, thus allowing Napoleon to snatch the initiative from them.

This bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize finalist gives readers the complete untold story of the top-secret military base for the first time. "Compellingly hard-hitting." —New York Times It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five...

Brought to you by Penguin. When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with this...

A revelatory account of how African Independence was systematically undermined by the United States. "Fascinating information, original research, and bold ideas." —NPR "A triumph of archival research." —Jacobin In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the...

No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history of the organization, New York Times best-selling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain", from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present.

Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: How do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? That question has never been resolved - and Schlosser reveals how the combination of human fallibility and technological complexity still poses a grave risk to mankind.

Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year “An exceedingly important book!” —General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Director of the CIA “Essential reading for understanding how technology will change the future of warfare.” —Chris Miller, New York...

How to keep you and yours safe from the perils of the modern world. In today's increasingly hostile climate people are anxious about how to keep themselves safe. Chris Ryan is an expert in dangerous situations and here he tells you how to keep yourself and your family safe from the perils of...