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Baptism of Fire The First Combat Experiences of the Royal Hungarian Air Force and Slovak Air Force, March 1939
ISBN: PB: 9781906033934, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2011
136 pp., 24.8x18.4 cm, 150 black&white photos, 8 colour aircraft profiles, 1 map
This story is a short but devastating episode from the turbulent history of Central Europe in the 20th Century, one that is hardly known outside the countries concerned. This short conflict was hushed up even in the German media in 1939, because the...
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£21,00
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Unwarranted Influence Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military Industrial Complex
ISBN: PB: 9780300177626, Yale University Press, October 2011
280 pp., 21x14 cm
In "Dwight" D. Eisenhower's last speech as president, on January 17, 1961, he warned America about the "military-industrial complex", a mutual dependency between the nation's industrial base and its military structure that had developed during World...
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£16,00
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Battle of Marathon
ISBN: PB: 9780300177664, Yale University Press, October 2011
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.
How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this s...
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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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Crossing the Berezina
ISBN: HB: 9782352500445, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, October 2011
100 pp., 31.7x23.5 cm, fully illustrated, 10 maps
The Battle of Berezina (near Borisov, Belarus) took place on November 26-29, 1812 between the French army of Napoleon, retreating after his invasion of Russia, and the Russian armies, under Mikhail Kutuzov, Peter Wittgenstein and Admiral Pavel Chicha...
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£30,00
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Mercenaries, Pirates, Bandits and Empires Private Violence in Historical Context
ISBN: PB: 9781849041492, Hurst Publishers, October 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In a world dominated by nation-states, expressions of private violence have generally been neglected: either as relics of a more disorganised world or as marginal nuisances to states themselves. The prevalence and centrality of...
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£40,00
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Pakistan-US Conundrum Jihadists, the Military and the People: The Struggle for Control
ISBN: PB: 9781849040105, ISBN: HB: 9781849040099, Hurst Publishers, October 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Yunas Samad's trenchant analysis of contemporary Pakistan features five main players: the people, the army, the Islamists, the politicians and the Americans. His book explains how a series of alliances borne of political and st...
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£25,00
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£50,00
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Arc of War Origins, Escalation, and Transformation
ISBN: PB: 9780226476292, ISBN: HB: 9780226476285, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 43 tables, 11 line illus.
In this far-reaching exploration of the evolution of warfare in human history, Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson provide insight into the perennial questions of why and how humans fight. Beginning with the origins of warfare among foraging groups,...
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£25,00
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£90,00
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Gun Power, No. 35 Volume 2: Half-Track
ISBN: PB: 9788372372215, Casemate, AJ Press, August 2011
240 pp., 29.5x21 cm, 119 black&white photos, 40 col photos, 3D graphics
Not for sale in Poland! This second volume opens with a description of the Half-Track's incarnation as a weapons carrier, with all variants and versions presented on 75 pages of drawings along with a collection of photographs. The next chapter disc...
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£35,00
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Eliminating Nuclear Weapons The Role of Missile Defence
ISBN: PB: 9781849041478, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The goal of a planet free from nuclear weapons is at last being taken seriously by the foreign policy establishments of the leading powers. For the Obama administration, followed by the British government, leading the world to...
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£35,00
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