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Gott Strafe England Volume 3: The German Air Assault against Great Britain 1914-1918
ISBN: HB: 9781911512752, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2019
356 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 200 black&white photos, 30 line drawings, maps
The aerial attacks against Great Britain by airships and aircraft in the Great War were a new development in the history of British warfare. Previously, it had been the British armies that had crossed the seas to do the fighting in foreign lands, but...
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£29,00
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Empire of Defense Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War
ISBN: PB: 9780226632926, ISBN: HB: 9780226632896, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
"Empire of Defense" is nothing less than an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American warfare. Joseph Darda exposes how the post-World War II formation of the Department of Defense and the subsequent Korean War set a c...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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Taliban at War 2001-2018
ISBN: HB: 9781787381322, Hurst Publishers, June 2019
336 pp., 22.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! How does the Taliban wage war? How has its war changed over time? Firstly, the movement's extraordinary military operation relies on financial backing. This volume analyses such funding. The Taliban's external sources of suppor...
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£50,00
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Woman's Place U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11
ISBN: HB: 9781787381315, Hurst Publishers, June 2019
304 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the U.S. approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies, policies, and practices. While the analysis of these developments is rich and...
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£40,00
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Bletchley Park and D-Day
ISBN: HB: 9780300243574, Yale University Press, May 2019
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus., 2 maps
Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis' codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelli...
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£18,99
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America's Covert War in East Africa Surveillance, Rendition, Assassination
ISBN: PB: 9781849044134, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Clara Usiskin has spent eight years investigating the 'War on Terror' and its effects in the East and Horn of Africa, documenting hundreds of cases of rendition, secret detention and targeted killings. As a result of her work e...
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£17,99
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Motorcycles and Motorcycling in the USSR from 1939 A Social and Technical History
ISBN: HB: 9781787113145, Bookport, Veloce Publishing, March 2019
128 pp., 25x20.7 cm
This book provides the first accessible English language account of motorcycles in the Soviet Union. Concentrating on the wartime and postwar period until 1990, prior to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, it covers the motorcycles produced, and loo...
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£25,00
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Our Latest Longest War Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan
ISBN: PB: 9780226598567, ISBN: HB: 9780226265650, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
The first rule of warfare is to know one's enemy. The second is to know thyself. More than fifteen years and three quarters of a trillion dollars after the US invasion of Afghanistan, it's clear that the United States followed neither rule well. Amer...
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£20,00
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£24,00
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Thunder in the Harbor Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the American Civil War
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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£8,00
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Target Saigon: Fall of South Vietnam Volume 2: The Beginning of the End, January 1974 - March 1975
ISBN: PB: 9781911512929, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2019
88 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 150 photos, 5 maps, 18 colour profiles
Drawing on a wide range of Vietnamese-language sources, the author presents a detailed account of the continuing efforts of North Vietnam to invade the South, enlivened by a large number of previously unpublished photographs, and colour profiles for...
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£16,00
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