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Africa

Africin Imperial London The Indomitable Life of A. B. C. Merriman-Labor

Jones Danell

ISBN: HB: 9781849049603, Hurst Publishers, June 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time when many Europeans considered black people inferior, Sierra Leonean writer A. B. C. Merriman-Labor claimed his right to describe the world as he found it. He looked at...

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Middle East

Persian Gulf Command A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq

Jackson Ashley

ISBN: HB: 9780300221961, Yale University Press, May 2018
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 map, 24 black&white illus.

This dynamic history is the first to construct a total picture of the experience and impact of World War II in Iran and Iraq. Contending that these two countries were more important to the Allied forces' war operations than has ever been acknowledged...

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Asia

Terracotta Army Legacy of the First Emperor of China

Jian Li, Sung Hou-Mei, Weixing Zhang, Neer William

ISBN: HB: 9780300230567, Yale University Press, February 2018
120 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 137 colour illus.

First discovered by a farmer in 1974, the burial site of China's first emperor, Ying Zheng, has yielded thousands of life-size terracotta figures and artifacts, and continues to be excavated today. This fascinating publication features more than 130...

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America

Indian Army in the First World War New Perspectives

Jeffreys Alan

ISBN: HB: 9781911512783, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 illus., 2 maps

The book addresses the important global role of the Indian Army during the First World War. It is an academic reassessment of the army by both established and early career scholars of the Indian Army, as well as naval historians. It looks at the hist...

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Military

Day Rommel Was Stopped The Battle of Ruweisat Ridge, 2 July 1942

Jephson F. R., Jephson Chris

ISBN: HB: 9781612005584, Casemate, October 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, photos, maps

George VI's biographer, Sir John Wheeler Bennett wrote "The actual turning of the tide in the 2nd World War may be accurately determined as the first week of July 1942". This book argues that it is possible to be even more exact: the tide turned at a...

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Military

Miracle at the Litza Hitler's first Defeat on the Eastern Front

Jacobsen Alf R., Stewart Frank

ISBN: HB: 9781612005065, Casemate, September 2017
160 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 34 illus.

In the early summer of 1941 German mountain soldiers under the command of General Eduard Dietl set out in northern Norway up through Finland to the Russian border. Operation Silberfuchs was underway. The northernmost section of the Eastern Front woul...

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Military

Fortress Salopia Exploring Shropshire's Military History from the Prehistoric Period to the Twentieth Century: 2016 Conference Proceedings

Jenkins Tim

ISBN: HB: 9781911512691, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
148 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 photos, 6 maps, 3 line drawings/plans, 1 archaeological survey plan

"Fortress Salopia" is the culmination of contributions from heritage and historic professionals, practising archaeologists and academic historians that explores the unique military past of the county of Shropshire from the prehistoric period to the 2...

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Military

On Gladsmuir Shall the Battle Be! The Battle of Prestonpans 1745

Johnston Arran

ISBN: HB: 9781911512837, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus., 13 maps

In the summer of 1745, a charismatic (but inexperienced) young Prince sailed to Scotland – determined to wrest the crowns of Great Britain from the head of George II. In a few short weeks, he raised an army large enough to challenge the government's...

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Military

New Way of Fighting: Professionalism in the English Civil War Proceedings of the 2016 Helion and Company "Century of the Soldier" Conference

Jones Serena

ISBN: HB: 9781911512615, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
172 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 illus. and maps

War quickens the pace of military and technological change, and the increasing pace and scope of European warfare during the 16th and 17th centuries prepared the ground for the professional military forces we are familiar with today. The speakers at...

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Military

True to their Salt Indigenous Personnel in Western Armed Forces

Johnson R. W.

ISBN: HB: 9781849044257, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In the last decade an Iraqi Army and an Afghan National Army were created entirely from scratch, the founding of which was deemed to be a crucial measure for the establishment of security and the withdrawal of Western forces fr...

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