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Why States Recover Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
ISBN: PB: 9781849044615, Hurst Publishers, October 2014
680 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions – headed by warlords – around the spoils of l...
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£20,00
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On the Precipice Stalin, the Red Army Leadership and the Road to Stalingrad , 1931-1942
ISBN: PB: 9781909384958, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2014
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Like some astronomers, who discover cosmic objects not by direct observation, but by watching the deviations of known heavenly bodies from their calculated trajectories, Peter Mezhiritsky makes his findings in history through thoughtful reading and t...
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£21,00
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The Armoured Forces of the Bulgarian Army 1936-45 Operations, Vehicles, Equipment, Organisation, Camouflage and Markings
ISBN: HB: 9781909384163, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2014
504 pp., 30.5x22.2 cm, 600 black&white photos, 24 pp. colour profiles, insignia, maps
This book provides a detailed history of motor vehicles and armoured fighting vehicles in the Bulgarian Army from 1936, during the last years of peace, until the end of the Second World War in 1945. For much of this period, Bulgaria was allied to G...
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£59,00
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War Comes to Garmser Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier
ISBN: HB: 9781849042642, Hurst Publishers, March 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! War in Afghanistan will never be understood without getting to grips with the small places – the provinces, districts, and villages – where most of the fighting occurred, away from the cities, in hundreds of hamlets, valleys, a...
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£35,00
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Gun Power, No. 23 Volume 2: Ferdinand Elefant
ISBN: PB: 9788372371652, Casemate, AJ Press, February 2013
200 pp., 29.5x21 cm, illus.
Not for sale in Poland! This series focuses on armour, armoured vehicles and artillery. Every book contains a chapter chronicling the design's history, plenty of drawings in modelling scales, colour plates presenting camouflaging schemes and a mode...
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£19,00
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World War One Soldiers 1914-1918
ISBN: PB: 9782352502685, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, January 2013
84 pp., 24x20 cm, fully illustrated throughout
Never before have actual battle uniforms, individual equipment and weapons of the infantrymen of the great war been illustrated in such authentic detail. Original surviving items, painstakingly assembled from rare private and public collections, are...
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£17,00
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Gun Power, No. 26 Volume 1: Churchill
ISBN: PB: 9788372371959, Casemate, AJ Press, October 2011
176 pp., 29.5x21 cm, 190 black&white photos, 3 colour photos, scale plans, 28 colour plates
Not for sale in Poland! A fantastic new addition to the Gun Powder series, Churchill is the first of three volumes describing the British infantry tank. Production of the Churchill began in 1941 with the development of the A20 tank by Harland & Wol...
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£34,00
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Making War in Cote d'Ivoire
ISBN: PB: 9781850658160, Hurst Publishers, May 2011
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The conflict in Cote d'Ivoire has the characteristics of Shakespearean drama – the key figures are larger than life, each with a fatal flaw, and the self-destructive path each is following is clearly visible to all but themselv...
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£25,00
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Escape from the Nazis The Incredible and Inspiring Saga of Two Young Jews on the Run in World War II Poland
ISBN: HB: 9781550280555, Casemate, Formac-Lorimer, January 2011
211 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm
Ben Mandelkern was only 23 when the Nazis invaded his native Poland in September 1939. From then until the end of the war his one concern was survival. Like other Polish Jews, Ben and his young wife, Helena, came face to face with the evil of Nazism...
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£25,00
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Question of Command Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq
ISBN: PB: 9780300168075, Yale University Press, November 2010
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 maps, 20 black&white illus.
According to the prevailing view of counterinsurgency, the key to defeating insurgents is selecting methods that will win the people's hearts and minds. The hearts-and-minds theory permeates not only most counterinsurgency books of the twenty-first c...
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£29,00
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