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War for the Seas A Maritime History of World War II

Mawdsley Evan

ISBN: PB: 9780300254884, ISBN: HB: 9780300190199, Yale University Press, July 2020
632 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 59 black&white illus., 9 maps, 14 figures

Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered mainland Europe, and Imperial Japan had overrun Southeast Asia and much of the Pacific. How could Britain and distant America prevail in what h...

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Defenders of Japan The Post-Imperial Armed Forces 1946-2016: A History

Mulloy Garren

ISBN: HB: 9781849048934, Hurst Publishers, December 2019
320 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! Japan's post-war armed forces are a paradox, both embarrassing remnants of the past and valuable repositories of experience. This book charts the development of the Japan Self-Defence Forces (JSDF) from 1954 as both unorthodox...

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Thunder in the Harbor Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the American Civil War

Mackowski Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781611211856, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2019
168 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 black&white illus., 4 maps

At 4:30 a.m. on Friday, April 12, 1861, Confederate batteries opened fire. Thirty-four hours later, with their supplies running low but their honor satisfied, Federal forces lowered their tattered flag. The only casualty – an accidental death – came...

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Stay and Fight it Out The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp's Hill and the North End of the Battlefield

Mackowski Chris, White Kristopher, Davis Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781611213317, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 maps, 150 illus.

July 1, 1863, had gone poorly for the Union army's XI Corps. Shattered in battle north of the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, the battered and embarrassed unit ended the day hunkered at the crest of a cemetery-topped hill south of the village. Reinf...

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Operation Kinetic Stabilizing Kosovo

Maloney Sean M.

ISBN: HB: 9781612349640, Casemate, Potomac Books, September 2018
512 pp., 24.1x15.9 cm

Foreword by Sir Mike Jackson, KFOR commander and later Chief of the General Staff in the UK A detailed history of an overlooked and largely forgotten, yet highly successful, operation in the Balkans during the 1990s Yugoslav conflict Includes intervi...

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German Ground Forces of World War II Complete Orders of Battle for Army Groups, Armies, Army Corps, and Other Commands of the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS, September 1, 1939, to May 8, 1945

McCroden William T., Nutter Thomas E.

ISBN: HB: 9781611211092, Casemate, Savas Beatie, September 2018
624 pp., 24.3x16.8 cm, 6 black&white photos, 1 map

This massive new reference work is broken up into sections presenting a detailed analysis of each corresponding order of battle for every German field formation above division. Additional new ground is broken by describing the orders of battle of the...

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Hannibal A Hellenistic Life

MacDonald Eve

ISBN: PB: 9780300240306, ISBN: HB: 9780300152043, Yale University Press, August 2018
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Hannibal lived a life of incredible feats of daring and survival, massive military engagements, and ultimate defeat. A citizen of Carthage and military commander in Punic Spain, he famously marched his war elephants and huge army over the Alps into R...

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Psychology

Why We Fight

Martin Mike

ISBN: HB: 9781849048897, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
328 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Why are we willing to die for our countries? How can ideology persuade someone to blow themselves up? When we go to war, morality, religion and ideology often take the blame. But Mike Martin boldly argues that the opposite is...

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Media Studies

Reporting War How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture, and Death to Cover World War II

Moseley Ray

ISBN: PB: 9780300234152, ISBN: HB: 9780300224665, Yale University Press, February 2018
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a for...

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Victory or Death The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, December 25, 1776 - January 3, 1777

Maloy Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781611213812, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 200 images, 10 maps

December 1776: Just six months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington and the new American Army sit on the verge of utter destruction by the banks of the Delaware River. The despondent and demoralized group of men had...

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