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Carnage and Connectivity Landmarks in the Decline of Conventional Military Power

Betz David

ISBN: HB: 9781849043229, Hurst Publishers, October 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The burgeoning of global connectivity in recent decades is without historical parallel and the 'wiring up' of the world continues apace, even in the poorest regions. Flux and ever-quickening change are the leitmotifs of the "in...

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Dearest Mother First World War Letters Home from a Young Sapper Officer in France and Salonika

Baines Andrew, Palmer Joanna

ISBN: PB: 9781910294574, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2015
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 100 black&white illus.

John Stanhope Baines, a Winchester classical scholar and young Royal Engineers officer, was on active service in France and Salonika during the First World War. Throughout this time he wrote to his "Dearest Mother", who had studied classics at Cambri...

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Battle of Kursk 1943 The View through the Camera Lens

Britton Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9781909982857, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2015
488 pp., 26.5x24 cm, 575 black&white illus.

The Battle of Kursk, despite the seven decades that have passed since the event, continues to attract great attention even today. The combat operations, which unfolded in the summer of 1943 in the center of the Eastern Front, by their scale, the forc...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Working in the Killing Fields Forensic Science in Bosnia

Ball Howard

ISBN: HB: 9781612347189, Casemate, Potomac Books, April 2015
232 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 illus.

While the specificities of individual wars vary, they share a ubiquitous aftermath: the task of finding and identifying the "disappeared". The Bosnian war of the early 1990s that destroyed the sovereign state of Yugoslavia is no exception. In Working...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Serbian Army in the Wars for Independence Against Turkey, 1876-1878

Babac Dusan

ISBN: HB: 9781909982246, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2015
280 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

The Wars for Independence, also called the First and the Second Serbo-Turkish Wars 1876-1878, were the first military conflicts in the modern history of the Serbian state, after which the Principality of Serbia gained full independence at the Berlin...

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Operation Dynamo The Evacuation from Dunkirk, May-June 1940

Benbow Tim

ISBN: HB: 9781910294598, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2015
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 3 tables, 4 colour maps

Few episodes in warfare are as famous as the evacuation of the British expeditionary force and many French troops from Dunkirk. It was a very British success, pulling something of a victory from the jaws of defeat – a triumph in the face of catastrop...

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Last Blood on Pomerania Leon Degrelle and the Walloon Waffen SS Volunteers, February-May 1945

Borowski Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9781910294482, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2015
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 140 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., maps

The 28th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "Wallonien", which mostly consisted of French-speaking citizens of the Kingdom of Belgium – first as part of the Wehrmacht, and later in the ranks of the Waffen SS – fought as one of the national legions again...

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Christianity

Crusader States

Barber Malcolm

ISBN: PB: 9780300208887, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 figures, 21 maps, 15 black&white illus.

When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God's favor. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God's p...

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Europe

Monty's Men The British Army and the Liberation of Europe

Buckley John

ISBN: PB: 9780300205343, Yale University Press, August 2014
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain's fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitler's Germany. Following Britain's military commanders and troops...

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Blood Telegram Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide

Bass Gary J.

ISBN: PB: 9781849044578, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
548 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Blood Telegram" is an unprecedented chronicle of a pivotal but little-known chapter of the Cold War. Gary J. Bass shows how Nixon and Kissinger supported Pakistan's military dictatorship as it brutally quashed the results...

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