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1st Bedfordshires Part Two: Arras to the Armistice

Fuller Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780957116320, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, December 2012
256 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

The second part of Steven Fuller's history of the 1st Battalion, the Bedfordshire Regiment, covering the period from October 1916 until the end of the war. In the final two years of the Great War the 1st Bedfordshires were engaged at the Battle of Ar...

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Orientalism and War

Barkawi Tarak, Stanski Keith

ISBN: PB: 9781849042086, Hurst Publishers, December 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Orientalism is a system of truths that imagines the world can be meaningfully understood in terms of a distinction between 'West' and 'East' from the Greek and Persian Wars onwards. It is also about an institutionalised communi...

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Viaz'ma Catastrophe, 1941 The Red Army's Disastrous Stand against Operation Typhoon

Lopukhovsky Lev

ISBN: HB: 9781908916501, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2012
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This book describes one of the most terrible tragedies of the Second World War and the events preceding it. The horrible miscalculations made by the Stavka of the Soviet Supreme High Command and the Front commands led in October 1941 to the deaths an...

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Festung Guernsey, Volumes 3.3, 3.4 & 3.5 The Fortifications of Guernsey-West Coast - Grande Havre to Perelle

ISBN: PB: 9780957245617, Casemate, Clear Vue Publishing, October 2012
106 pp., 29.7x21 cm, approx. 200 illus.

This book is unique amongst all volumes on German fortifications of the Second World War, in that it was written by the German forces themselves. It is the ultimate guide to their defensive planning and mindset. The Channel Islands of Guernsey and J...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

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Super Model International, No. 2

Szymczyk Przemyslaw, Kapelski Lukasz, Bulanda Rafal

ISBN: PB: 9788362878406, Casemate, Kagero, October 2012
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, highly illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Poland! This fantastic series Super Model International presents the best modellers from around the world profiling their great models, with hints and tips, step-by-step instructions for building, reports from model kit shows and...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

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Photosniper, No. 06 BMW R 75 and Other BMW Motorcycles in the German Army in 1930-1945

Nieweglowski Wojciech

ISBN: PB: 9788362878390, Casemate, Kagero, October 2012
56 pp., 29.7x21 cm, illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Poland! The BMW R75 is a World War II-era motorcycle and sidecar combination produced by the German company BMW. In the 1930s BMW were producing a number of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 s...

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Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War

Bell P. M. H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187700, ISBN: HB: 9780300148855, Yale University Press, September 2012
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 20 black&white illus.

The Battle of Britain. Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad. D-Day. These defining events of the Second World War exemplify both the immense heroism and the grievous costs of global conflict. They are the tense, thrilling moments that had the potential to swing...

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Empires of Mud Wars and Warlords in Afghanistan

Giustozzi Antonio

ISBN: PB: 9781849042253, ISBN: HB: 9781850659327, Hurst Publishers, September 2012
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Warlords, namely charismatic military leaders who exploit the weakness of central authorities to seize control of and autonomously rule a sub-national area, have earned much notoriety in recent years on account of the excesses...

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Storming the World Stage The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba

Tankel Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781849041867, ISBN: HB: 9781849040464, Hurst Publishers, August 2012
364 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! On the night of 21 November 2008, in a series of simultaneous and well-coordinated attacks, Lashkar-e-Taiba gunmen killed more than 170 people and injured over 300 in Mumbai, India's commercial capital. The victims included not...

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Limits of Detente The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973

Daigle Craig

ISBN: HB: 9780300167139, Yale University Press, July 2012
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

In this first book-length analysis of the origins of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Craig Daigle draws on documents only recently made available to show how the war resulted not only from tension and competing interest between Arabs and Israelis,...

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