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Rebooting Clausewitz "On War" in the Twenty-First Century

Coker Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781849047142, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Rebooting Clausewitz" offers an entirely new take on the work of history's greatest theorist of war. Written for an undergraduate readership that often struggles with Clausewitz's master work On War – a book that is often cons...

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Reconographers Intelligence and Reconnaissance in British Tank Operations on the Western Front 1916-18

Hardy Colin

ISBN: HB: 9781911096344, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
144 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 34 photos, 9 maps, 10 pencil sketches, 3 diags

This is the first book devoted to the subject of reconnaissance in the nascent Tank Corps in the Great War. It is a neglected field in spite of passing references to reconnaissance in a number of early books on the history of the Tank Corps. This is...

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Rout of the German Forces in Belorussia Operation Bagration, 23 June - 29 August 1944

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781911096597, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
416 pp., 24.4x17 cm, 4 maps

"The Rout of the German-Fascist Troops in Belorussia in 1944" covers the Red Army's Belorussian strategic operation: the linchpin of the 10 major Soviet offensive efforts launched that year to clear the country of the invader. During the course of th...

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Recce Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines

Stadler Koos

ISBN: HB: 9781612004044, Casemate, September 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 illus.

South African Special Forces, known as the "Recces", are an elite group of soldiers that few can aspire to join. Shrouded in secrecy due to the covert nature of their work, the legendary Recces have long fascinated, but little is known about how they...

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Biography & Memoires

Aviation

Ruddy Awful Waste Eric Lock DSO, DFC & Bar: The Brief Life of a Battle of Britain Ace

Brew Steve, Bradbury Mike

ISBN: HB: 9780993415234, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, August 2016
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 illus.

In early 1939, 19-year-old Salopian Eric Lock joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve to fulfil his dream of flying. Within eighteen months, he found himself pitted against one of the largest air forces in the world, fighting for the survival of his homelan...

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Rollback The Red Army's Winter Offensive along the Southwestern Strategic Direction, 1942-43

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781910777176, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2016
412 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 8 maps

"Rollback: The Red Army's Winter Offensive along the Southwestern Strategic Direction, 1942-43" covers the period from mid-December 1942 to mid-February 1943, one of the most critical periods of the war on the Eastern Front. It was here that followin...

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Africa

Rebels in a Rotten State Understanding Atrocity in the Sierra Leone Civil War

Mitton Kieran

ISBN: PB: 9781849044226, ISBN: HB: 9781849044233, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The atrocities of civil wars present us with many difficult questions. How do seemingly ordinary individuals come to commit such extraordinary acts of cruelty, often against unarmed civilians? Can we ever truly understand such...

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Rebuilding Britain The Aftermath of the Second World War

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781910294451, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2015
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Undoubtedly, the Second World War was one of the darkest periods of history. With untold losses and countless with physical and mental scars, there was little to celebrate except the relief of closure. Yet what happened once the noise of the shelling...

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Race to the Rhine Liberating France and the Low Countries, 1944-1945

Marriott Leo, Forty Simon

ISBN: HB: 9781612002941, Casemate, March 2015
192 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

The speed of the German Blitzkrieg in 1940 and the relative ease with which they brushed aside Allied defenses meant four years of occupation. But in June 1944 – this time with American forces – the Allies finally returned for a rematch. The destruct...

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Political Science

Riot Politics Hindu-Muslim Violence and the Indian State

Berenschot Ward

ISBN: PB: 9781849041362, Hurst Publishers, January 2012
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! On 27 February 2002, fifty-eight people died when a train coach caught fire just outside a small-town railway station in Gujarat, Western India. The incident marked the beginning of one of the worst outbursts of Hindu-Muslim vi...

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