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Crusader Strategy Defending the Holy Land

Tibble Steve

ISBN: HB: 9780300253115, Yale University Press, August 2020
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Medieval states, and particularly crusader societies, often have been considered brutish and culturally isolated. It seems unlikely that they could develop "strategy" in any meaningful sense. However, the crusaders were actually highly organized in t...

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Catch-67 The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War

Goodman Micah, Levy Eylon

ISBN: PB: 9780300248418, ISBN: HB: 9780300236743, Yale University Press, December 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Since the Six-Day War, Israelis have been entrenched in a national debate over whether to keep the land they conquered or to return some, if not all, of the territories to Palestinians. In a balanced and insightful analysis, Micah Goodman deftly shed...

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Crucible of the Jacobite '15 The Battle of Sheriffmuir 1715

Oates Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9781911512899, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 illus.

Just over three centuries ago, there was a major battle in Scotland that was to decide the fate of the newly established – and bitterly contested – union of England and Scotland. On one hand there was a numerically superior army, trained and armed bu...

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Courage without Glory The British Army on the Western Front 1915

Jones Spencer

ISBN: PB: 9781912174119, ISBN: HB: 9781910777183, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 colour maps, 15 black&white illus.

The year 1915 was one of unprecedented challenges for the British Army. Short of manpower, firepower and experience, the army needed time to adapt before it could hope to overcome the formidable German defences of the Western Front. Yet the insistent...

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Cauldron NATO's Campaign in Libya

Weighill Rob, Gaub Florence

ISBN: HB: 9781849048828, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
392 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In March 2011, NATO launched a mission hitherto entirely unthinkable: to protect civilians against Libya's ferocious regime, solely from the air. NATO had never operated in North Africa, or without troops on the ground; it also...

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Cold War in the Islamic World Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Struggle for Supremacy

Hiro Dilip

ISBN: HB: 9781849049948, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
432 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! For four decades Saudi Arabia and Iran have vied for influence in the Muslim world. At the heart of this ongoing Cold War between Riyadh and Tehran lie the Sunni–Shia divide, and the two countries' intertwined histories. Saudis...

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Confronting Torture Essays on the Ethics, Legality, History, and Psychology of Torture Today

Anderson Scott A., Nussbaum Martha C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226529417, ISBN: HB: 9780226529387, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate. It grips our imagination, in part because torturing someone seems to be an unthinkable breach of humanity – theirs and ours. And...

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Islam

Crusade and Jihad The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North

Polk William R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222906, Yale University Press, February 2018
656 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking book is the first to address the catastrophic results of centuries of conflict, imperialism, and colonialism by the global north – China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America – in the Muslim world. We see this legacy in the flood...

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Civil Wars A History in Ideas

Armitage David

ISBN: PB: 9780300234244, Yale University Press, February 2018
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and isn't, have a long and contested history. Defining the term is acutely political, for ideas about what makes a war "civil" often depend on whether one is ruler or rebel, victor o...

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Aviation

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Chaco Air War 1932-35 The First Modern Air War in Latin America

Sapienza Antonio

ISBN: PB: 9781911512967, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
96 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 200 illus.

The Chaco War was probably the first "modern" conflict in Latin America where military aviation was widely used in all roles. Bolivia, as the reader will find out, had a very powerful military air force, but unfortunately for them and luckily for Par...

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