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A remarkable story of high hopes and crushing disappointment, the campaign contains moments of sheer horror and nerve-shattering excitement; pathos and comic relief; occasional cowardice and much selfless courage - all culminating in the climax of the First Battle of Ypres. And yet, as Peter Hart shows in this gripping and revisionary look at the war's first year, for too long the British part in the 1914 campaigns has been veiled in layers of self-congratulatory myth.

As guerras já não são mais as mesmas. Em vez da confrontação militar formal, o mundo vem assistindo a uma série de guerras "irregulares", como terrorismo, guerrilha, insurreição, movimentos de resistência e conflitos assimétricos em geral. Alessandro Visacro, profundo estudioso do assunto, nos oferece um amplo panorama dos movimentos que alimentam essas guerras: embasamento político, estratégia, táticas e resultados obtidos.

In this international history of Reconstruction, Don Doyle chronicles the world events inspired by the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1870, France withdrew from Mexico, Russia sold Alaska to the US, and Britain proclaimed the new state of Canada. British workers demanded more voting rights, Spain toppled Queen Isabella II and ended slavery in its Caribbean colonies, Cubans rose against Spanish rule, France overthrew Napoleon III, and the kingdom of Pope Pius IX fell before the Italian Risorgimento.