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The First World War film archive at the Imperial War Museum, London, is one of the oldest in the world, celebrating its 75th anniversary in 1994. This new catalog, compiled by members of the Museum's staff, covers all of the 1217 items in the First World War collection. Among this collection are full-length documentary films, shorter documentaries and newsreels, instructional and propaganda material, and animation, the majority of which is unique. It covers the battlefields and the home front, providing invaluable material for a full understanding of the history of the Great War in all its aspects. It traces many early stages in the evolution of combat camerawork and the effective film coverage of war. ... Read more

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Overshadowed for many years by the Nuremberg trials, the Tokyo Trial--one of the major events in the aftermath of World War II--has elicited renewed interest since the 50th anniversary of the war's end. Revelations of previously hidden war crimes, including comfort women and biological warfare, and the establishment of international courts to try Yugoslav and Rwandan war criminals have added to the interest. This bibliography addressees the renewed interest in the Tokyo Trial, providing over 700 citations to official publications, scholarly monographs and journal articles, contemporaneous accounts, manuscript collections, and Web sites. Also included are sources on the Trial's influence on international law and military law and unresolved issues being debated to this day. ... Read more

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In this companion volume to his 1995 bibliography of the same title, Daniel Blewett continues his foray into the vast literature of military studies. As did its predecessor, it covers land, air, and naval forces, primarily but not exclusively from a U.S. perspective, with the welcome emergence of small wars from publishing obscurity. In addition to identifying relevant organizations and associations, Blewett has gathered together the very best in chronologies, bibliographies, biographical dictionaries, indexes, journals abstracts, glossaries, and encyclopedias, each accompanied by a brief descriptive annotation.

This work remains a pertinent addition to the general reference collections of public and academic libraries as well as special libraries, government documents collections, military and intelligence agency libraries, and historical societies and museums.

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This is the author's fifth chronology on international terrorism. The volumes cover the period from 1968 through 1995, and provide the most comprehensive picture of international terrorist activities ever published. As with the last four volumes, this one also contains a bibliography on the key literature on the topic. ... Read more

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The English/British have always been known as "the sailor race" with "hearts of oak": the Royal Navy as the "Senior Service" and "first line of defense." It facilitated the motto: "the sun never set on the British Empire." The Royal Navy has exerted a powerful influence on Great Britain, its Empire, Europe, and, ultimately, the world. This superior annotated bibliography supplies entries that explore the influence of the English/British Navy through its history. ... Read more

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Women’s participation in the U.S. Armed Forces has grown over time in response to the national need for their services. Throughout each era of American history, patriotic women volunteered to serve their country in a wide variety of official and unofficially sanctioned capacities. When there was a call to duty, the United States Armed Forces always relied upon women to be a part of the effort. Women in the United States Military: An Annotated Bibliography is the most complete and up to date listing of resources to help students and scholars understand the effect women have had on the wars that have shaped the United States. Covering everything from the American Revolution to Operations in Iraq, Women in the United States Military is essential for all academic and research libraries.

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A complete work but not partial

One will need literature more critique with the Western world (markets, companies, sociobiology) to complete this book, or you will have a partial knowledge of the history and causes of this phenomena. Although it is an encyclopedia, there is an unbalanced weight in the topics with the serious absences commented before.

These volumnes must be completed with "Late Victorian Holocausts", M. Davisand others, to coverthe the reformulations in sociobiology performed by Galton, and its influence in the British Empire and other countries. These are very alive in the billion victims in the Third World.

This encyclopedia ignore the genocide in India with 30 billion victims explained in the Davies book. In a general way, the 3 volumes are quite benigne with the Anglo world, ignoring the ideological roots of the actual financial power and his real role in modern genocides (Congo, etc..).

People are alike all over
The first thing that hits you looking through this 3 volume set is how ready, willing and able the human race is, world-wide, to kill, kill, kill. If the human race was a car, it would have been sent back to the factory, the schematics destroyed, and the engineers would have started all over again from scratch! Serious design flaws.
Anyway, this set is a (probably brief) catalog of man's inhumanity to man. There is some mention of genocides and crimes against humanity in pre-modern times, but most of the horror takes place in the 20th century & later, where modern weapons make killing easier and more efficient - where perpetrators take pictures & make films of themselves committing atrocities. Why? Your guess is as good as mine. The set is pretty up-to-date, including Darfur, Gujarat, and Abu Ghraib. A depressing glimpse at Planet Earth and it's inhabitants.
Includes black and white photos. ... Read more

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This bibliography documents the most significant events in America from 1960 through the resignation of President Nixon in 1974. It includes entries for more than 1,300 books related to that period. Some were written during the 1960s and directly influenced and described that era. Others were written later and analyze and interpret the decade. The entries are arranged in 17 topical chapters on topics such as the presidencies, social protests, the impact of the Vietnam war, the cultural revolution, and trends in music, art, literature, and religion. Each entry includes a descriptive and evaluative annotation. The author, title, and subject indexes add to the value of the book as a reference. ... Read more

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All of the Roman military equipment featured in this catalogue was found in Wales, reflecting the region's domination by both soldiers and forts for approximately 350 years. Many objects are catalogued and illustrated here, followed by a gazetteer which provides background information on the sites where the objects were found. Organised by type, the catalogue features, for example, swords, scabbards, spears, pilae, bows, arrows, bolt-heads, body armour (including large amounts of lorica segmentata), helmet fragments, shields, belt fittings, hose harness, pendants and fasteners. Many of the finds were discovered at Caerleon and Usk. Each section on different object types begins with a brief discussion. The objects are illustrated with back and white photographs. ... Read more

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This volume is the only current, general bibliography on American national security and military strategy. It covers the years from the first Eisenhower administration through Reagan's second term, with emphasis placed on the period following U.S. intervention in Indochina. With specific chapters for each presidential administration, the book addresses such topics as decision makers and decision-making processes, military and defense policies, types of strategies, and alliances and responses to crises. A comprehensive subject index is also included. ... Read more

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Quinn Mitchell is a nine-to-five spy. She's a data analyst for the CIA during the day, and a suburban wife and mother on evenings and weekends. After a series of personal struggles and professional failures, Quinn hopes to find redemption in her newest assignment: a series of bizarre assassinations where victims are found with three-digit numbers tattooed, burned, or carved into their flesh. As Quinn pursues the killer across the globe -- always one body behind -- their lives become entangled in ways neither of them can predict.

This novella by Christian Cantrell (about 13,000 words) takes place in a world bordering on unprecedented change: as oil-based economies shift to hydrogen, the majority of wealth is redistributed across the globe; as aging nuclear arsenals are replaced with even more menacing threats, terrorists try to seize opportunities to tip the balance of power; and as humans become increasingly dependent on machines, massive indexes of information accumulate which can reveal almost anything about anyone to those who know how to use them.

THE EPOCH INDEX is a story about a world changing faster than humanity can adapt to it -- a world which may require us to redefine what it means to be a hero. ... Read more

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Michael Crighton has nothing over this guy!
"... the micro-meteor: an incredibly tiny, very high velocity, and very hot projectile that pierces the heart or brain so quickly that it's usually mistaken for a headache or indigestion until the triggerman is enjoying an espresso and a scone at least three blocks away. When coroners measure cauterized entrance and exit wounds of less than a millimeter in diameter, nobody ever bothers looking for the slug"
This is how Cantrell describes just one of the several terrifying assassin tools-of-the-trade that haunt his stories - often leaving me cringing (in the best sense) from the vivid imagery. His plots are short, succinct and so powerful that their message linger and rattle around in my head for several days after reading.Once started, they're impossible to put down so allot your time accordingly for you will read them to the end in one sitting. Fortunately for those who pride themselves on being punctual, these novellas require less time to read than it would take to plow through a newspaper but for me, I always end up back on the Amazon site looking for another.

I know of no place else where I can receive so much value for less than a dollar. His novellas stack up well with the finest in the genre - or any genre for that matter.
Thank you Mr. Cantrell. Keep up the great work!
KK

Best Cantrell Novel Yet
I've enjoyed each of Cantrell's novels but this one is by far the best.This story is light years ahead of all the others.I could not put it down and, though the ending was great I was sorry it was over.

His character development is great in this story but he doesn't short change the reader on his high tech sci-fi.I can't wait for the next one.

A happy Oklahoma reader

The best Cantrell story
I liked Containment, and Human Legacy Project was just as good. Brainbox was good, but the story itself was not very attractive to me. Now, if Containment and HLP were excellent, then Epoch Index was excellent to the 10th power.

In the other 3 Cantrell's that I've read, he has done a great job of 'creating' new technology, but in Epoch, what he did was 'explore' whole new branches of science. Epoch Index is absolutely amazing, and brings Cantrell to the level of Asimov, Card, Verne and Wells.

I always enjoy how his stories develop from events that are going on today, be it climate change, the shutting down of NASA, recycling, etc; but in this case he has completely outdone his other works by referencing the LHC and creating a whole new branch of science. I don't want to give away parts of the plot, but thank you Mr. Cantrell for bringing Science Fiction back to life, where it is not just cool lasers that are used, but where science is invented and created. The genre is called Science Fiction for a reason, although lately, most new SF works should fall under the 'Technology Fiction' genre. That has been truly disappointing to me, and I welcome the 'return' of good Sci-Fi.

The plot is unbelievably crazy and awesome (for lack of better words). The plot twists along with the alternating points of view make Epoch Index a story full of suspense and thrill.
I once again note how good Cantrell's endings are. They are hard to surpass.

The book description didn't get me interested in the book, as it didn't sound too much like Science Fiction. The cover looked interesting and having read Cantrell's other works, I knew I liked his style, so I choose to read it, and I don't regret it. Trust me, it is Science Fiction, and it is probably the best you will have read in a long time.

As with all of Cantrell's stories, this one is too short. Please make it longer! The story in Epoch Index is too good to be so short.

A great read overall, highly recommended.

An Excellent Follow-up to His Other Works
One of the most enjoyable things in literature is to watch as an author adapts and grows. For Mr. Cantrell, The Epoch Index, while short in length, does an admirable job of addressing some of the concerns/critiques that have been leveled at his other works, primarily his novel, Containment. Most notable of the critic's comments was that the characters in "Containment" lacked depth and were vehicles to carry the technological-focus of the novel. In "Epoch," it's my opinion that the entire story is based around the characters; with their development, motivations and proclivities forming the fabric that the plot is displayed, not the other way around.

Extropians take heart: this is not to say that technology and innovation take a back-seat to pithy characterization -- this is a Christian Cantrell story we are discussing here, so it has more than its fair share of subtle and not-so-subtle futurist and science fiction elements.

With this story, I'm even more excited for the future works of Mr. Cantrell!

Best story yet - Please flesh out full novel!
Epoch Index is an excellent hard-to-put-down hi-tech thriller.Highly recommended as are Christian's other short stories.This is my personal favorite so far.His writing style is fantastic in its straight-forward story propelling attention to detail and concepts.That's all I'll say about this story - read it!

My biggest frustration though with his short stories are simply that they are short stories to begin with.Cantrell is *far* too talented to write short stories that are the equivalent of tech demos - great ideas without the hard work to really flesh them out to full novels.In today's world of information overload where we are constantly multi-tasking and taking sips of data from numerous sources, I as well many others I'm sure CRAVE a full satisfying meal of a long form novel.I don't want a story I can finish in one day between elevator rides, car trips, blog posts, etc.I crave the escape and undistracted focus that an excellent novel provides.Please do not underestimate your reader's ability to maintain attention beyond 20 pages. ... Read more

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Preclassical and indigenous nonwestern military institutions and methods of warfare are the chief subjects of this annotated bibliography of work published 1967–1997. Classical antiquity, post-Roman Europe, and the westernized armed forces of the 20th century, although covered, receive less systematic attention. Emphasis is on historical studies of military organization and the relationships between military and other social institutions, rather than wars and battles. Especially rich in references to the periodical literature, the bibliography is divided into eight parts: (1) general and comparative topics; (2) the ancient world; (3) Eurasia since antiquity; (4) sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania; (5) pre-Columbian America; (6) postcontact America; (7) the contemporary nonwestern world; and (8) philosophical, social scientific, natural scientific, and other works not primarily historical. ... Read more

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As Mickolus once more demonstrates, terrorism is alive and well at the beginning of the 1990s. This volume combines a chronology of terrorism, (the fourth Mickolus has produced), with a selective bibliography on the topic, (his third). Covering the period from 1988-1991, this volume follows the same definition of terrorism and the same format and method devised for its predecessor volumes. The result is the most comprehensive look at terrorism available for the period. The earlier volumes are the standard reference chronologies and bibliographies for students and scholars as well as military observers and public policy makers. ... Read more

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Excellent source!
Encompassing close to a thousand pages, Mickolus' latest chronology and bibliography stands as an important contribution to the ever prevalent empirical research on oppositional political terrorism. The book, building on the author's previous three chronologies and two bibliographies, is divided into four sections. It begins with a brief four page introduction which characterizes the research effort as documentary rather than analytical. Unlike previous volumes, Mickolus' introduction avoids a discussion of simple aggregates, and provides a brief explanation of the amount of attention (measured in bytes) his chronology devotes to individual terrorist eventsbased on months and years.

The introduction is followed by "Updates of 1960-1987 events," which occupies approximately ten percent of the volume. To his credit, Mickolus recognizes that with time new information on old terrorist incidents, which he previously chronicled, accrues and includes this in his new book. On the heals of the updates section is the listing of the 1988-1991 incidents, occupying close to seventy-five percent of the book. In this section, individual events are described in more detail than Mickolus' previous compilations. While the majority of incidents are international in origin, he provides a number of domestic events that help place the international incidents in context.

Finally, the author concludes the book with a comprehensive selectively annotated bibliography, occupying almost eight percent of the total book, which focuses on recent literature on terrorism which is subdivided into six general classifications with a total of fifteen subdivisions.

While the length and cost of the chronology and bibliography would be increased, the events section could have benefited from some summary statistics similar to the one the author used in previous compilations. An index to the incidents as was included in previous editions, and may have been useful here as well. An index of this type makes it easier to access particular events in certain countries or committed by particular terrorist organizations. An inevitable consequence of any comprehensive effort, such as this one, is that the volume is quite pricey, retailing at ...which makes it out of the range of private researchers and places it squarely in the domain of library acquisitions.

In sum, the book is extremely helpful to researchers and policy-makers conducting empirical research on oppositional political terrorism. It is also useful to those researchers trying to understand the incidents that took place during the Gulf War. ... Read more