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First published in 1960 and as relevant today as it was then, this a gripping military adventure, an extended symposium on waging war in a new global order, and an essential investigation of the ethics of counterinsurgency.

First published in 1960 and as relevant today as it was then, this a gripping military adventure, an extended symposium on waging war in a new global order, and an essential investigation of the ethics of counterinsurgency.

Indocina, 1954. A seguito della sconfitta di Dien Bien Phu, in un campo di prigionia nel Vietnam del nord, alcuni ufficiali del Corpo di spedizione francese vengono rieducati alla dottrina comunista vietminh. Dopo la scoperta della guerra rivoluzionaria combattuta lungo le piste e le risaie del Tonchino, vengono contagiati dal mal jaune, la "febbre gialla" dell'impegno politico strettamente affiancato a quello militare: non saranno mai più gli...

Surrounded on all borders but its western coastline by hostile and aggressive neighbors, the state of Israel resembles the walled city of the Middle Ages. But its walls are not stone and mortar, they are flesh and blood they are the soldiers, both men and women the airmen, the intelligence, the tankscorpsmen and the paratroops. These young people from the old ghettos of Europe, from the cities of North Africa and Asia, native-born Sabras are t...

The military cult classic with resonance to the wars in Iraq and Vietnam-now back in printWhen The Centurions was first published in 1960, readers were riveted by the thrilling account of soldiers fighting for survival in hostile environments. They were equally transfixed by the chilling moral question the novel posed: how to fight when the "age of heroics is over." As relevant today as it was half a century ago, The Centurions is a gripping m...

A searing novel of modern warfare which has been out of print for decades, sequel to "The Centurions". When a group of French paratroopers serving in the Algerian War are called to answer for actions they consider necessary, however immoral, they plot a coup that results in a new French government and in the death of one of their own.

Nella guerra rivoluzionaria la vittoria si conquista fuori dal campo di battaglia, nel cuore del paese nemico: è questa la lezione che i paras francesi hanno imparato in Indocina e che cercheranno di mettere in pratica in Algeria. Basato su vicende realmente accadute, un grande classico della letteratura di guerra. Dopo I centurioni, un nuovo capitolo delle imprese degli uomini del colonnello Raspéguy. Al ritorno dall'Indocina, dove hanno affr...