Mercenaries books

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Russia’s Corporate Soldiers: The Global Expansion of Russia’s Private Military Companies

Russia’s Corporate Soldiers: The Global Expansion of...

Author: Seth G. Jones ,  Catrina Doxee
ISBN: 9781538140390
Format: Paperback
$96.99

The CSIS Transnational Threats Project analyzes Russia’s increasing use of private military companies as a means...  Read More >>

The Lost Samurai: Japanese Mercenaries in South East Asia, 1593-1688

The Lost Samurai: Japanese Mercenaries in South East...

Author: Stephen Turnbull
ISBN: 9781526758989
Format: Hardback
$59.99

The first ever account of Japanese overseas mercenaries.  Read More >>

Maximillian's Lieutenant: Personal History of the Mexican Campaign, 1864-7

Maximillian's Lieutenant: Personal History of the Mexican...

Author: Ernest Pitner (Austria) ,  Gordon Etherington-Smith
ISBN: 9781350184664
Format: Paperback
$64.99

This is the diary of a young Austrian army officer who went off as a mercenary to Mexico as part of an ill-judged...  Read More >>

Letters of the Lost Children: Japan -- World War II

Letters of the Lost Children: Japan -- World War II...

Author: Reinhold C Ferster ,  Jan Atchley Bevan
ISBN: 9781942016489
Format: Hardback
$100.19

"Photographs of these ""Lost Children"" -- Japanese boys as young as 13 serving as unknown child soldiers -- were...  Read More >>

Mercenaries, Hybrid Armies and National Security: Private Soldiers and the State in the 21st Century

Mercenaries, Hybrid Armies and National Security: Private...

Author: Caroline Varin (Regent's University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367600426
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book assesses the use of ‘mercenaries’ by states, and their integration into the national armed forces as part...  Read More >>

Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire: US Mercenary Force in the Middle East

Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire: US Mercenary...

Author: Eric Covey (University of Abuja, Nigeria)
ISBN: 9780755626502
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire examines the role of mercenary figures in negotiating relations between the...  Read More >>

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away...

Author: Phil Miller
ISBN: 9780745340791
Format: Paperback
$38.79

An explosive account of a secret group of mercenaries based on newly declassified documents.  Read More >>

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away...

Author: Phil Miller
ISBN: 9780745340784
Format: Hardback
$219.94

An explosive account of a secret group of mercenaries based on newly declassified documents.  Read More >>

Caribbean Legion: And its Mercenary Air Force, 1947-1950

Caribbean Legion: And its Mercenary Air Force, 1947-1950...

Author: Dan Hagedorn ,  Mario Overall
ISBN: 9781912866373
Format: Paperback
$42.99

The stuff of legends, their exploits throughout the simmering Caribbean region of the late 1940s have gained a life...  Read More >>

Privatization of America’s Public Institutions: The Story of the American Sellout

Privatization of America’s Public Institutions: The...

Author: Lawrence Baines
ISBN: 9781433164330
Format: Hardback
$339.90

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Privatization of America’s Public Institutions: The Story of the American Sellout

Privatization of America’s Public Institutions: The...

Author: Lawrence Baines
ISBN: 9781433164323
Format: Paperback
$121.04

Privatization of America’s Public Institutions describes the transformation of the military, K–12 public schools,...  Read More >>

The Ismaili Assassins: A History of Medieval Murder

The Ismaili Assassins: A History of Medieval Murder...

Author: James Waterson
ISBN: 9781526760821
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A sparkling exploration of a deadly subject.  Read More >>

Marque and Reprisal: The Spheres of Public and Private War

Marque and Reprisal: The Spheres of Public and Private...

Author: Kenneth B. Moss
ISBN: 9780700627752
Format: Hardback
$145.07

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Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire: US Mercenary Force in the Middle East

Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire: US Mercenary...

Author: Eric Covey (University of Abuja, Nigeria)
ISBN: 9781788311618
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire examines the role of mercenary figures in negotiating relations between the...  Read More >>

Mad Mike Hoare: The legend: A biography

Mad Mike Hoare: The legend: A biography

Author: Chris Hoare
ISBN: 9780620798617
Format: Paperback
$51.75

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Outsourced Empire: How Militias, Mercenaries, and Contractors Support US Statecraft

Outsourced Empire: How Militias, Mercenaries, and Contractors...

Author: Andrew Thomson
ISBN: 9780745337050
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The full picture of the impact of paramilitary insurgencies across the globe.  Read More >>

In the kill zone: Surviving as a private military contractor in Iraq

In the kill zone: Surviving as a private military contractor...

Author: Neil Reynolds
ISBN: 9781868428564
Format: Paperback
$59.49

When Neil Reynolds was first asked in 2003 whether he’d like to work in Iraq as a private military contractor, he...  Read More >>

The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order

The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean...

Author: Sean McFate (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, National Defense University)
ISBN: 9780190621087
Format: Paperback
$31.95

Sean McFate lays bare the opaque world of private military contractors, explaining the economic structure of the...  Read More >>

Private Security in Africa: From the Global Assemblage to the Everyday

Private Security in Africa: From the Global Assemblage...

Author: Doctor Paul Higate ,  Mats Utas
ISBN: 9781786990259
Format: Paperback
$56.99

A comprehensive analysis of the rise of private security providers across Africa, and its implications for African...  Read More >>

Private Security in Africa: From the Global Assemblage to the Everyday

Private Security in Africa: From the Global Assemblage...

Author: Doctor Paul Higate ,  Mats Utas
ISBN: 9781786990266
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A comprehensive analysis of the rise of private security providers across Africa, and its implications for African...  Read More >>

Lost Lions of Judah: Haile Selassie's Mongrel Foreign Legion 1935-41

Lost Lions of Judah: Haile Selassie's Mongrel Foreign...

Author: Christopher Othen
ISBN: 9781445659831
Format: Hardback
$51.75

The strange, untold story of the Nazis and adventurers who fought for Ethiopia against Mussolini’s invaders.  Read More >>

Private Security Companies during the Iraq War: Military Performance and the Use of Deadly Force

Private Security Companies during the Iraq War: Military...

Author: Scott Fitzsimmons (University of Limerick, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781138893405
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Drawing on extensive empirica data, this book explores the use of deadly force by private security companies during...  Read More >>

Piracy in Southeast Asia: Trends, Hot Spots and Responses

Piracy in Southeast Asia: Trends, Hot Spots and Responses...

Author: Carolin Liss (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany) ,  Ted Biggs (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
ISBN: 9781138682337
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book combines multi-disciplinary ethnographic and theoretical approaches to examine the re-emergence of piracy...  Read More >>

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