Current Events : Warfare & Terrorism

This book explores the war effort of Aboriginal and Islander Australians during the Second World War and the reasons their contribution has gone unrecognised for so long. This is a comprehensive account of the work black Australians during the years when their country faced the threat of invasion by the Japanese. Despite suspicion and prejudice, they earned a place within the digger legend. more...

Price: $22.00

A news-breaking inside look at Saddam's nuclear program-by the Iraqi scientist who ran it No one knows more about Iraq's nuclear weapons program than Mahdi Obeidi, the man who headed its successful uranium enrichment effort. In the aftermath of the 2003 Iraq War, Obeidi voluntarily turned himself into American intelligence. Among the revelations reported by CNN at the time: In the early 1990s, under orders to hide the core of the program from U.N. weapons inspectors, Obeidi had buried in his backyard the capacity to build uranium-enriching gas centrifuges. more...

Price: $24.95

This edited volume considers a varied range of post-war, post-Dayton and post-911 problems and issues in Bosnian security. more...

Price: $150.00

Defence against ballistic missiles has been a subject of UK political policy and technical investigation since World War II - this book analyses that long history. more...

Price: $37.95

The relationship of policy to strategy is a central issue in international studies. Using the little-known but highly relevant example of British planning for the occupation in 1945, the book provides a case-study in the practicalities of 'liberating' enemy territory. It looks at the way in which policy was developed and then reconciled with those of her Allies; how negotiations were directly affected by the existing - and expected - strategic situation; and how the military were involved in the reconstruction of Austria. more...

Price: $100.00