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Fashion in Steel The Landsknecht Armour of Wilhelm von Rogendorf

Krause Stefan, Haag Sabine, Zajic Andreas

ISBN: HB: 9780300230864, Yale University Press, September 2017
128 pp., 27.3x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.

This sumptuously illustrated book celebrates a curious masterpiece of German Renaissance art – the Landsknecht armor of Wilhelm von Rogendorf (1523). Recently conserved to its original glory, this magnificent suit of armor, made for a trusted courtie...

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History of Art

Military

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

Military

In Nelson's Wake The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars

Davey James

ISBN: PB: 9780300228830, ISBN: HB: 9780300200652, Yale University Press, August 2017
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 colour illus., maps

The Napoleonic Wars saw Britain immersed in a conflict of unprecedented scale and intensity. With France dominant on the European mainland, the fate of the British population rested first and foremost on the Royal Navy and the thousands of individual...

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Europe

Military

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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Political Science

Military

See it/Shoot it The Secret History of the CIA's Lethal Drone Program

Fuller Christopher J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300218541, Yale University Press, June 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

An illuminating study tracing the evolution of drone technology and counterterrorism policy from the Reagan to the Obama administrations. This eye-opening study uncovers the history of the most important instrument of U.S. counterterrorism today: th...

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Ancient World

Military

Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta The Persian Challenge

Rahe Paul A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227093, Yale University Press, May 2017
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most powerful empire in the world. In this meticulously researched study, historian Paul Rahe argues that Sparta was responsible for the i...

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Military

When Britain Saved the West The Story of 1940

Prior Robin

ISBN: PB: 9780300226430, Yale University Press, May 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

From the comfortable distance of seven decades, it is quite easy to view the victory of the Allies over Hitler's Germany as inevitable. But in 1940 Great Britain's defeat loomed perilously close, and no other nation stepped up to confront the Nazi th...

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America

Military

Bloody Engagements John R. Kelso's Civil War

Kelso John R., Grasso Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300210965, Yale University Press, April 2017
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

The first edited edition of a Union soldier's remarkable memoir, offering a rare perspective on guerrilla warfare and on the larger meanings of the Civil War. While tales of Confederate guerilla-outlaws abound, there are few scholarly accounts of th...

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Military

Brazil, 1964-1985 The Military Regimes of Latin America in the Cold War

Klein Herbert S., Luna Francisco Vidal

ISBN: HB: 9780300223316, Yale University Press, April 2017
216 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

An insightful study of the political, economic, and social changes Brazil experienced during the twenty-year rule of its Cold War military regime. Cuba's revolution in 1959 fueled powerful anti-Communist fears in the United States. As a result, in t...

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Military

Browned off and Bloody-Minded The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945

Allport Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300226386, Yale University Press, March 2017
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

<p>More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, disc...

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