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Zhitomir-Berdichev Volume 2: German Operations West of Kiev 24 December 1943 - 31 January 1944

Barratt Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9781909384101, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2014
616 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white photos, 253 colour maps in separately-bound mapbook

This is the second volume of a two-volume set which together comprise a detailed and well-researched history of the important but neglected operation that was to be the beginning of the liberation of western Ukraine. On 24 December 1943, the Red Army...

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Political Science

Military

Success and Failure in Limited War Information and Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars

Bakich Spencer D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226107714, ISBN: HB: 9780226107684, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 5 tables

Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. Chief among these challenges is the risk of escalation – be it in the scale, scope, cos...

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Biography & Memoires

Military

Devil's General The Life of Hyazinth von Strachwitz - "The Panzer Graf"

Bagdonas Raymond

ISBN: PB: 9781612004327, ISBN: HB: 9781612002224, Casemate, February 2014
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This is the story of the most highly decorated German regimental commander of World War II, known as the "Panzer Graf" (Armoured Count). An aristocratic Silesian, whose ancestors had faced the Mongols at Leignitz, Strachwitz first won the Iron Cross...

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Military

From Kutch to Tashkent The Indo-Pakistan War of 1965

Bajwa Farooq

ISBN: HB: 9781849042307, Hurst Publishers, September 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Decades of Pakistani resentment over India's stance on Kashmir, and its subsequent attempt to force a military solution on the issue, led to the 1965 war between the two neighbours. It ended in a stalemate on the battlefield, a...

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Islam

Military

Fountainhead of Jihad The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012

Brown Vahid, Rassler Don

ISBN: HB: 9781849042079, Hurst Publishers, March 2013
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Drawing upon a wealth of previously unresearched primary sources in many languages, the authors shed much new light on a group frequently described as the most lethal actor in the current Afghan insurgency, and shown here to ha...

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Military

Orientalism and War

Barkawi Tarak, Stanski Keith

ISBN: PB: 9781849042086, Hurst Publishers, December 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Orientalism is a system of truths that imagines the world can be meaningfully understood in terms of a distinction between 'West' and 'East' from the Greek and Persian Wars onwards. It is also about an institutionalised communi...

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World

Military

Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War

Bell P. M. H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187700, ISBN: HB: 9780300148855, Yale University Press, September 2012
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 20 black&white illus.

The Battle of Britain. Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad. D-Day. These defining events of the Second World War exemplify both the immense heroism and the grievous costs of global conflict. They are the tense, thrilling moments that had the potential to swing...

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Zhitomir-Berdichev Volume 1: German Operations West of Kiev 24 December 1943 - 31 January 1944

Barratt Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9781907677663, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2012
472 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 140 colour maps in separately-bound mapbook

On 24 December 1943, the Red Army launched the first of a series of winter offensives against the German Army Group South under von Manstein, the overall object of which was to liberate western Ukraine from occupation. This first offensive is known t...

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Military

Bring Me Men Military Masculinity and the Benign Facade of American Empire

Belkin Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9781849041775, Hurst Publishers, May 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The masculinity of those who serve in the American military would seem to be indisputable, yet it is full of contradictions. To become a warrior, one must renounce those things in life that are perceived to be unmasculine. Yet...

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Political Science

Riot Politics Hindu-Muslim Violence and the Indian State

Berenschot Ward

ISBN: PB: 9781849041362, Hurst Publishers, January 2012
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! On 27 February 2002, fifty-eight people died when a train coach caught fire just outside a small-town railway station in Gujarat, Western India. The incident marked the beginning of one of the worst outbursts of Hindu-Muslim vi...

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