The Dogsoldier Codex
The Dogsoldier Codex

Author: Brian Pfeifer

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2006-10-01

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 1430309431

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Based on over 10 years of experience as a fighter and teacher, the Dog Soldier Codex is an excellent tool for aspiring heavy fighters in the Society for Creative Anachronism. From your first authorization to your first field command, this volume will earn a place in your armor bag, carrying you through your early years and beyond. In addition to training numerous new fighters, Baron Sylvanus Perrin has also led them on the battlefield. This book draws upon his accumulated knowledge and avoids mere theoretical speculation. Each chapter is full of practical advice, beginning with how to prepare for your first authorization and proceeding logically through basic and advanced melee skills. Not limited to new fighters however, training and leading heavy infantry are also discussed in depth. In addition to the SCA, The Dog Soldier Codex will also be useful to participants in Markland, Dagorhir, Tuchux, and other medieval combat recreation organizations.

Pax Britannica: British Counterinsurgency In Northern Ireland, 1969-1982
Pax Britannica: British Counterinsurgency In Northern Ireland, 1969-1982

Author: Montgomery McFate

Publisher: Wilberforce Codex

Published: 2014-12-22

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 099057430X

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British forces conducted operations short of war in Northern Ireland for twenty-five years, yet they were unable to defeat the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). In this heretofore unpublished dissertation from 1994, McFate identifies how certain cultural, legal, and political factors contributed to the longevity of violence in Northern Ireland. Viewing counterinsurgency as a self-reproducing cultural system with its own complex logic, McFate argues that limitations on violence prescribed by the counterinsurgency principle of minimum force paradoxically resulted in a very high degree of sustainability of conflict. Certain other factors—such as emergency security legislation, reverence of military competence, and geo-strategic compression of violence within a cordon sanitaire—enabled normalization and reproduction of the conflict. In opposition to this order, the 1981 Republican hungerstrikes used the silence of the body to incriminate the state, 'embodying' a resistance to the war system of counterinsurgency.

forum for inter-american research Vol 3
forum for inter-american research Vol 3

Author: Wilfried Raussert

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-07-20

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 3946507794

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Volume 3 of 6 of the complete premium print version of journal forum for inter-american research (fiar), which is the official electronic journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS). fiar was established by the American Studies Program at Bielefeld University in 2008. We foster a dialogic and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Americas. fiar is a peer-reviewed online journal. Articles in this journal undergo a double-blind review process and are published in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Native Peoples of the World
Native Peoples of the World

Author: Steven L. Danver

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 1030

ISBN-13: 1317464001

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This work examines the world's indigenous peoples, their cultures, the countries in which they reside, and the issues that impact these groups.

Necropolis
Necropolis

Author: Dan Abnett

Publisher: Black Flame

Published: 2003-05

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781844160068

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On the shattered world of Verghast, Gaunt and his ghosts find themselves caught up in an ancient and deadly civil war as the mighty hive-city, Vervunhive, is beseiged. When treachery from within brings down the city's defences, the Tanith stand on the very brink of defeat.

A Dog's Head
A Dog's Head

Author: Jean Dutourd

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1998-06-20

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780226174921

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Jean Dutourd's A Dog's Head is a wonderful piece of magical realism, reminiscent of Rushdie and Borges. With mordant wit, Dutourd presents the story of Edmond Du Chaillu, a boy born, to the horror of his bourgeois parents, with the head of a spaniel.