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Guerilla: Insurgents, Patriots and Terrorists from Sun Tzu to Bin Laden

Since Man's earliest days there has been conflict and, also from that point, unconventional forms of action where the norm was abandoned and the unorthodox employed. Here, Rooney selects examples of the men who, for personal or national ambitions, have been trailblazers in this form of warfare.

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adult
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medium · 252 pages

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