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How Armies Grow The Enlargement of Military Forces in the Age of Total War 1789-1945

Strohn Matthias

ISBN: HB: 9781612006017, Casemate, November 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The first two decades after the end of the Cold War were characterised by government's desires to reduce the sizes of their armed forces, not least in order to save money. Hand in hand with this general reduction went an intellectual and doctrinal re...

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Hall of Mirrors War and Warfare in the Twentieth Century

Storr Jim

ISBN: HB: 9781912390854, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 colour plates, 10 maps, 12 charts

The 20th Century was hugely violent. It was possibly the most violent century in history. It is a clearly-defined period in the past. A huge amount has been written about war, and warfare, in that period. So, what can we learn from war, and warfare,...

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Ancient World

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Hannibal A Hellenistic Life

MacDonald Eve

ISBN: PB: 9780300240306, ISBN: HB: 9780300152043, Yale University Press, August 2018
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Hannibal lived a life of incredible feats of daring and survival, massive military engagements, and ultimate defeat. A citizen of Carthage and military commander in Punic Spain, he famously marched his war elephants and huge army over the Alps into R...

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Hundred Thousand Sons of St Louis The French Campaign in Spain April to October 1823

Weaver Ralph

ISBN: HB: 9781912174096, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
120 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 colour & 25 black&white illus., maps

This book sheds light on an almost unknown military campaign conducted by a French army, 100,000 men strong. The army was referred to by the French king as the 'Sons of St. Louis' and was pitted against parts of the regular Spanish army and a numerou...

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How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland

Grindle Douglas

ISBN: HB: 9781612349541, Casemate, Potomac Books, January 2018
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 photos

In June 2011, the hallways of the district government center in rural Dand District, Afghanistan hummed with activity, with scores of local village elders visiting offices to appeal for assistance and handouts. Outside, insurgents had been pushed out...

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History of Art

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How to Read European Armor

LaRocca Donald

ISBN: PB: 9781588396297, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2017
176 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 175 colour illus.

This engaging book offers an introduction to and overview of armor in Europe from the Middle Ages through the 17th century, focusing in particular on the 16th century when plate armor reached its peak of stylistic beauty and functional perfection. Cr...

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Europe

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Hitler's Soldiers The German Army in the Third Reich

Shepherd Ben H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300228809, ISBN: HB: 9780300179033, Yale University Press, August 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent s...

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High Command British Military Leadership in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

Elliott Christopher L.

ISBN: PB: 9781849048132, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! From 2001 Britain supported the United States in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Victory" in such conflicts is always hard to gauge and domestic political backing for them was never robust. For this, the governments of Tony Blai...

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Hey for Old Robin! The Campaigns and Armies of the Earl of Essex During the First Civil War, 1642-44

Scott Chris, Turton Alan

ISBN: PB: 9781911512219, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.

"Hey For Old Robin!" was the cry of the Earl of Essex's army during the First Civil War as, contrary to modern popular belief, Robert Devereux was well-liked by the men he led. This book fills a gap in the literature of the Civil Wars, taking up the...

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Honoring Those They Led Decorated Field Commanders of the Third Reich: Command Authorities, Award Parameters, and Ranks

Yerger Mark C., Fiorenza Leslie

ISBN: HB: 9781911512226, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
264 pp., 27.6x21.9 cm, 300 black&white illus.

"Honoring Those They Led" examines specific points and groups within a massive subject; Commanding Generals of WW II German field commands with those primarily studied being among those presented one or more of their highest combat decorations by Ado...

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