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Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781849048804, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! South Africa's transition to democracy took place against a backdrop of shadow war between the apartheid regime's counterinsurgency forces and the African National Congress' armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). This book analyse...
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£20,00
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Hezbollah Mobilisation and Power
ISBN: HB: 9781849046312, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
376 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Almost thirty years after its foundation, Hezbollah remains an enigma. Is it an Islamist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel or the first Arab national resistance to have ever defeated Tel Aviv's troops? Should we lo...
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£25,00
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Across an Angry Sea The SAS in the Falklands War
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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£20,00
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Pakistan Adrift Navigating Troubled Waters
ISBN: HB: 9781849049610, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
280 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Asad Durrani served as a three star general in the Pakistan army, and later headed the Inter-Services Intelligence agency from 1990 to 1992. His time in service encompassed the Soviet Union's withdrawal from Afghanistan and dis...
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£25,00
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Hijaz The First Islamic State
ISBN: HB: 9781849048798, Hurst Publishers, July 2018
568 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Hijaz, in the west of present-day Saudi Arabia, was the first Islamic state in Mecca and Medina. This new interpretative history offers a fresh vision of Islamic governance and law as a positive force for political reform i...
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£50,00
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Merchant of Syria A History of Survival
ISBN: HB: 9781849049405, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
364 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Barely literate, and supporting his mother and sisters from the age of ten, Abu Chaker built up a business empire – despite twice losing everything he had. Diana Darke follows his tumultuous journey, from instability in Syria a...
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£20,00
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What is the Sharia?
ISBN: HB: 9781849048170, Hurst Publishers, July 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In the West, "sharia" often calls to mind antiquated laws founded upon gender discrimination and barbaric punishments. In the East, for some it means the ideal standards by which Muslims strive to live; for others, it is the gr...
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£35,00
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Soldiers in Revolt Army Mutinies in Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781849048293, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Soldiers in Revolt" examines the understudied phenomenon of military mutinies in Africa. Through interviews with former mutineers in Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, and The Gambia, the book provides a unique and intimate perspecti...
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£25,00
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Africa, Empire and Fleet Street Albert Cartwright and West Africa Magazine
ISBN: HB: 9781849048323, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! For decades before and after African independence, the London weekly West Africa was a well-known source of news, analysis and comment on the region, especially the (former) British territories. Jonathan Derrick, who worked on...
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£35,00
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Identity, Conflict and Politics in Turkey, Iran and Pakistan
ISBN: HB: 9781849043724, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ethnic and religious identity-markers compete with class and gender as principles shaping the organisation and classification of everyday life. But how are an individual's identity-based conflicts transformed and redefined? Ide...
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£65,00
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