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Masters of Mayhem Laurence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz

Stejskal James

ISBN: HB: 9781612005744, Casemate, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 pages of black&white photos

Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness before he can react. Never confronting a stronger force directly, but willing to use audacity and surprise to confound and demoralize an opponent. Operations driven by good intell...

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Ratels on the Lomba The Story of Charlie Squadron

Scholtz Leopold

ISBN: PB: 9781911512875, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 colour and black&white illus., 1 map

Charlie Squadron – the iron fist of the South African Defense Force's 61 Mechanised Battalion Group – led the way on 3 October 1987 during the climactic battle on the Lomba River in Southern Angola. Not only were they up against a vastly superior f...

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Freedom's Debtors British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution

Scanlan Padraic X.

ISBN: HB: 9780300217445, Yale University Press, October 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

British anti-slavery, widely seen as a great sacrifice of economic and political capital on the altar of humanitarianism, was in fact profitable, militarily useful, and crucial to the expansion of British power in West Africa. After the slave trade w...

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Seychelles Since 1770 History of a Slave and Post-Slavery Society

Scarr Deryck

ISBN: PB: 9781849048415, Hurst Publishers, July 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! A comprehensive history of the Seychelles, this volume traces its periods of colonisation by France and Britain, the immobile years of the twentieth century, the granting of independence in 1976, and the social changes precipit...

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Black Beret: The History of South Africa's Armoured Forces Volume 2: The War in Italy and The Interwar Years 1942-1961

Steenkamp Willem

ISBN: HB: 9781911512400, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
504 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 200 black&white illus.

Volume 2 of "The Black Beret" picks up where the previous volume left off, describing the bowing out of the South African Tank Corps, the formation of 6th South African Armoured Division and its subsequent campaign in Italy. Its exploits in Italy are...

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Kurdish Question Revisited

Stansfield Gareth, Shareef Mohammed

ISBN: PB: 9781849045919, ISBN: HB: 9781849045629, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
448 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Kurds, once marginal in the study of the Middle East and secondary in its international relations, have moved to centre stage in recent years. In Turkey, where the Kurdish question is an issue of national significance, and...

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Ivory Power and Poaching in Africa

Somerville Keith

ISBN: HB: 9781849046763, Hurst Publishers, November 2016
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Despite the 1989 global ivory trade ban, poaching and ivory smuggling have not abated. More than half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. A similarly alarming story can be told of the herds in n...

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First Victory The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign

Stewart Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300208559, Yale University Press, October 2016
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

A riveting new account of the long-overlooked achievement of British-led forces who, against all odds, scored the first major Allied victory of the Second World War Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and Co...

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Africa's Long Road Since Independence The Many Histories of a Continent

Somerville Keith

ISBN: HB: 9781849045155, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
500 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many – histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing saga of decolonisation and state-building, conflict, ec...

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Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris

Snedden Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781849043427, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) – popularly called 'Kashmir' – and then quickly sold this prized region to the wily and powerful Raja, Gulab Singh. Intriguingly, had they retained it, the India...

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