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Walls Have Ears The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II
ISBN: PB: 9780300254853, ISBN: HB: 9780300238600, Yale University Press, September 2020
336 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 24 black&white illus.
At the outbreak of World War II, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation: German prisoners' cells were to be bugged and listeners installed behind the walls to record and transcribe their private...
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£10,99
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War for the Seas A Maritime History of World War II
ISBN: PB: 9780300254884, ISBN: HB: 9780300190199, Yale University Press, July 2020
632 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 59 black&white illus., 9 maps, 14 figures
Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered mainland Europe, and Imperial Japan had overrun Southeast Asia and much of the Pacific. How could Britain and distant America prevail in what h...
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£12,99
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£25,00
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When Peace Kills Politics International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans
ISBN: PB: 9781849048316, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Why do war and coercion still dominate the political realm in the Sudans, over a decade since the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, and despite a litany of conflict resolution efforts? This book explains the paradoxical role of in...
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£25,00
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Woman's Place U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11
ISBN: HB: 9781787381315, Hurst Publishers, June 2019
304 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the U.S. approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies, policies, and practices. While the analysis of these developments is rich and...
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£40,00
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William the Conqueror
ISBN: PB: 9780300234169, Yale University Press, May 2018
616 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Fifteen years in the making, a landmark reinterpretation of the life of a pivotal figure in British and European history In this magisterial addition to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates combines biography and a multidisciplinary approach...
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£16,99
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We Dared to Win The SAS in Rhodesia
ISBN: HB: 9781612005874, Casemate, May 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour and black&white photos
In his own words Andre Scheepers describes his childhood on a farm, learning about the bush from his African friends, and becoming a soldier. The family had to leave the farm after being ambushed by terrorists. A quiet, introspective, deep thinker...
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£25,00
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War from the Ground Up Twenty-First-Century Combat as Politics
ISBN: PB: 9781849049481, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
304 pp., 21.6x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! As a British infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles Emile Simpson completed three tours of Southern Afghanistan. Drawing on that experience, and on a range of little-known case studies ranging from Nepal to Borneo, "War Fr...
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Why We Fight
ISBN: HB: 9781849048897, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
328 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Why are we willing to die for our countries? How can ideology persuade someone to blow themselves up? When we go to war, morality, religion and ideology often take the blame. But Mike Martin boldly argues that the opposite is...
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£20,00
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Words are Weapons Inside ISIS's Rhetoric of Terror
ISBN: HB: 9780300223224, Yale University Press, October 2017
256 pp., 21x14 cm
ISIS wages war not only on the battlefield but also online and in the media. Through a close examination of the words and images ISIS uses, with particular attention to the "digital caliphate" on the web, Philippe-Joseph Salazar theorizes an aestheti...
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£25,00
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What Did You Do In Great War, Grandfather? The Life and Times of an Edwardian Horse Artillery Officer
ISBN: PB: 9781912174034, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 90 photos and maps
Part history, part social documentary, part love story, this is a grandson's search for what his grandfather did in the Great War. Drawing on war diaries in the National Archives, unit records in the Royal Artillery museum, and a unique pictorial rec...
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£19,00
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