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Accursed Tower The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land

Crowley Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780300254808, Yale University Press, August 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 illus.

The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immedia...

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Military

Arms and Influence

Schelling Thomas C., Slaughter Anne-Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780300246742, Yale University Press, May 2020
352 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm

Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities – real or imagined – are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter's new introduction to the work shows...

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Military

Architectures of Violence The Command Structures of Modern Mass Atrocities, from Yugoslavia to Syria

Ferguson Kate

ISBN: HB: 9781849048118, Hurst Publishers, December 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Paramilitary or irregular units have been involved in practically every case of identity-based mass violence in the modern world, but detailed analysis of these dynamics is rare. Exploring the case of former Yugoslavia, the gen...

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Military

Political Science

America's Covert War in East Africa Surveillance, Rendition, Assassination

Usiskin Clara

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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Military

America

And We Were Young Oundle School and the Great War

Pendrill Colin

ISBN: HB: 9781912174195, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
432 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 300 black&white photos

"A boy, he spent his boy's dear life for England". These words from a poem of 1916 were written in reaction to the news that a young boy, who had left Oundle School just two years earlier, had shot himself, whilst stranded in the Libyan Desert. With...

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Military

Another Bloody Chapter in an Endless Civil War Volume 2: Northern Ireland and the Troubles 1988-90

Wharton Ken

ISBN: HB: 9781911512011, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 60 illus.

Irish Republicanism, like its bloodthirsty Loyalist equivalent, bred and nurtured men of evil; psychopathic men and women who killed without compunction or thought; men and women who thought nothing of robbing innocents of their lives, uncaring of th...

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Military

Across an Angry Sea The SAS in the Falklands War

Delves Cedric

ISBN: HB: 9781787381124, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! In early summer 1982 – winter in the South Atlantic – Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a Royal Navy Task Force is assembled and dispatched. This is the story of D Squadron, 22 SAS, commanded by Ced...

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Military

Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare

Hevia James L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226562285, ISBN: HB: 9780226562148, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Until well into the twentieth century, pack animals were the primary mode of transport for supplying armies in the field. The British Indian Army was no exception. In the late nineteenth century, for example, it forcibly pressed into service thousand...

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Military

Amphibious Warfare Battle on the Beaches

Gilbert Oscar E., Cansiere Romain

ISBN: PB: 9781612006154, Casemate, June 2018
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

One of the most difficult types of warfare to master, landing on a hostile beach requires scrupulous planning and intense coordination between the forces in the air, sea and land. With a history reaching back to the Persians landing on the Greek s...

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Military

Aviation

Air Battles over the Baltic 1941 The Air War on 22 June 1941 - The Battle for Stalin's Baltic Region

Timin Mikhail

ISBN: HB: 9781911512561, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
528 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 500 black&white photos, 28 tables, 14 maps, 111 colour illus.

This unique work is the first in a series of publications dedicated to the condition of the air forces of the Red Army prior to the Nazi invasion of 22 June 1941. The author describes in detail the composition and the capabilities of the Soviet avi...

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