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Gun Power, No. 29 Schneidereca, St. Echamond
ISBN: PB: 9788372371966, Casemate, AJ Press, December 2010
136 pp., 29.5x21 cm, illus.
Not for sale in Poland! The monograph tells the story of the French armour beginnings, covering the first and second French tanks ever produced, the Schneider CA and the St. Chamond, and describes their combat use as well as the development of doctr...
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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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At Leningrad's Gates The Story of a Soldier with Army Group North
ISBN: PB: 9781935149378, Casemate, November 2010
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
This is the remarkable story of a German soldier who fought throughout World War II, rising from conscript private to captain of a heavy weapons company on the Eastern Front. William Lubbeck was 19 when he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in August 19...
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£14,00
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Ships of The Royal Navy A Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present
ISBN: HB: 9781935149071, Casemate, October 2010
396 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This is the fourth fully revised edition of a book first published in 1970. This longevity is testimony to its enduring value as a reference work – indeed, "Colledge" (as it is universally known) is still the first stop for anyone wanting more inform...
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£49,00
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Shift Israel-Palestine from Border Struggle to Ethnic Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9781849040853, Hurst Publishers, October 2010
144 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The size and intensity of the Israeli army's operations since 2000 as well as the unprecedented scale of settlement construction brought about a qualitative change in the relationship between Palestinians and Israelis, altering...
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£20,00
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Gallipoli The End of the Myth
ISBN: PB: 9780300168945, Yale University Press, September 2010
288 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-1916 was an ill-fated Allied attempt to shorten the war by eliminating Turkey, creating a Balkan alliance against the Central Powers, and securing a sea route to Russia. A failure in all respects, the operation ended in...
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£11,99
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Small Boats, Weak States, Dirty Money Piracy and Maritime Terrorism in the Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9781849040792, ISBN: HB: 9781850659273, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The sea is a restless realm. In part that restlessness is timeless: the action of wind and waves. In part it is ancient: the direct threat of pirates. In part it is very modern: the threat of terrorism that has been felt acutel...
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£16,99
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£40,00
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Barbarous Philosophers Reflections on the Nature of War from Heraclitus to Heisenberg
ISBN: HB: 9781849040891, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This is not a book about philosophy and war. It is a book on contemporary conflict in which the author invokes philosophy to help understand the problems that we face in fighting war today. "Barbarous Philosophers" sets out to...
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£45,00
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Prisoners of America's Wars From the Early Republic to Guantanamo
ISBN: HB: 9781849040501, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Prisoners of war have featured in virtually every conflict that the US has engaged in since its revolutionary beginnings. Today visitors to Washington will frequently see a black POW flag flying high on government buildings or...
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£45,00
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Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865
ISBN: HB: 9780300151510, Yale University Press, July 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.
This highly original work explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War. The book explains the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouri's guerrilla conflict, and for the state's anomalous experience i...
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£57,00
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