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Invisible armies : an epic history of guerrilla warfare from ancient times to the present / Max Boot.
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| Authors: |
Boot, Max, 1968-
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| Call number: |
355.021809 BOO |
| Publisher: |
New York : Liveright Pub. Corporation, c2013. |
| Publication date: |
c2013. |
| Subject: |
Guerrilla warfare -- History.
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| Title: |
Invisible armies : an epic history of guerrilla warfare from ancient times to the present / Max Boot. |
| Edition: |
1st ed. |
| Physical description: |
xxix, 750 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note: |
Barbarians at the gate : the origins of guerrilla warfare -- Liberty or death : the rise of liberal revolutionaries -- The spreading oil spot : the wars of empire -- The bomb throwers : the first age of international terrorism -- The sideshows : guerrillas and commandos in the world wars -- The end of empire : the wars of "national liberation" -- Radical chic : the romance of the leftist revolutionaries -- God's killers : the rise of radical Islam. |
| Summary note: |
A complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages. |
| Biography note: |
Includes bibliographical references (p.[643]-707) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780871404244 (hardcover)
0871404249 (hardcover) |
| LCCN: |
2012028522 |
| Url for this record: |
http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1420368
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| Bib No.: |
1420368 |
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