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War and War Crimes The Military, Legitimacy and Success in Armed Conflict

Gow James

ISBN: PB: 9781849040945, ISBN: HB: 9781849040938, Hurst Publishers, March 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The laws of war have always been concerned with issues of necessity and proportionality, but how are these principles applied in modern warfare? What are the pressures on practitioners where an increasing emphasis on legality i...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Mini Topcolors, No. 30 Luftwaffe's Baptism of Fire, Part I

Goralczyk Maciej, Wrobel Arkadiusz, Swiatlon Janusz, Sadlo Andrzej

ISBN: PB: 9788362878291, Casemate, Kagero, February 2013
16 pp., 27.3x20.3 cm, full colour throughout

Not for sale in Poland! Camouflage history has always been a fascinating topic for modelers. This series shows not only how specific vehicles or aircraft were painted, but also enables the reader to finish their model of to a very high standard by...

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Military

Political Science

Policing Afghanistan The Politics of the Lame Leviathan

Giustozzi Antonio, Isaqzadeh Mohammed

ISBN: HB: 9781849042055, Hurst Publishers, February 2013
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Policing is not a popular topic of serious scholarly research. Although a vast literature on policing exists, it is mostly technical in nature and only rarely analytical. Even the police forces of Western Europe and North Ameri...

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Africa

Songs and Secrets South Africa from Liberation to Governance

Gilder Barry

ISBN: HB: 9781849042376, Hurst Publishers, November 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! A decade into its hard-won democracy, South Africa and its ruling party, the ANC, have been through turbulent times. Confrontation between Thabo Mbeki, and his then deputy, Jacob Zuma; the dismissal of Zuma as Deputy; Zuma's de...

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America

Media Studies

Enemies Within The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America

Goldberg Robert Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300194722, Yale University Press, September 2012
370 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

There is a hunger for conspiracy news in America. Hundreds of Internet websites, magazines, newsletters, even entire publishing houses, disseminate information on invisible enemies and their secret activities, sub-versions, and coverups. Those who su...

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Military

Empires of Mud Wars and Warlords in Afghanistan

Giustozzi Antonio

ISBN: PB: 9781849042253, ISBN: HB: 9781850659327, Hurst Publishers, September 2012
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Warlords, namely charismatic military leaders who exploit the weakness of central authorities to seize control of and autonomously rule a sub-national area, have earned much notoriety in recent years on account of the excesses...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Hitler's Hangman The Life of Heydrich

Gerwarth Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300187724, Yale University Press, August 2012
336 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruth...

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America

Eighteen-Day Running Mate McGovern, Eagleton, and the Nation's Fear of Depression

Glasser Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780300176292, Yale University Press, July 2012
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

No skeletons were rattling in his closet, Thomas Eagleton assured George McGovern's political director. But only eighteen days later – after a series of damaging public revelations and feverish behind-the-scenes maneuverings – McGovern rescinded his...

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America

Sound Diplomacy Music and Emotions in Transatlantic Relations, 1850-1920

Gienow-Hecht Jessica C. E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226292168, ISBN: HB: 9780226292151, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 24 halftones, 6 line illus.

The German-American relationship was special long before the Cold War; it was rooted not simply in political actions, but also long-term traditions of cultural exchange that date back to the nineteenth century. Between 1850 and 1910, the United State...

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Military

Polonica

Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 2: The German Offensives on the Flanks and the Third Soviet Counteroffensive, 25 August–10 September 1941

Glantz David M.

ISBN: PB: 9781911096108, ISBN: HB: 9781906033903, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2012
456 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white photos, 50 maps

At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorised infantry of German Army Group Centre's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler and most German officers and soldiers believed would be...

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