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Losing Small Wars British Military Failure in the 9/11 Wars

Ledwidge Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780300227512, Yale University Press, February 2017
344 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh chapters assessing and enumerating the overall mili...

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International Civil War Greece, 1943-1949

Gerolymatos Andre

ISBN: PB: 9780300180602, Yale University Press, January 2017
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

An authoritative history of the Greek Civil War and its profound influence on American foreign policy and the post-Second World War period In his comprehensive history Andre Gerolymatos demonstrates how the Greek Civil War played a pivotal role in th...

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Africa

First Victory The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign

Stewart Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300208559, Yale University Press, October 2016
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

A riveting new account of the long-overlooked achievement of British-led forces who, against all odds, scored the first major Allied victory of the Second World War Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and Co...

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Lusitania The Cultural History of a Catastrophe

Jasper Willi, Spencer Stewart

ISBN: HB: 9780300221381, Yale University Press, September 2016
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 35 black&white illus.

A fascinating reassessment of a turning point in the First World War, revealing its role in shaping the German psyche On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast. Nearly 1,200 people...

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Europe

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Hitler's Compromises Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany

Stoltzfus Nathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300217506, Yale University Press, September 2016
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A comprehensive and eye-opening examination of Hitler's regime, revealing the numerous strategic compromises he made in order to manage dissent History has focused on Hitler's use of charisma and terror, asserting that the dictator made few concessio...

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Passchendaele The Untold Story

Prior Robin, Wilson Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780300221213, Yale University Press, August 2016
280 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 16 black&white illus.

No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied...

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History of Art

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Civil War in Art and Memory

Savage Kirk

ISBN: HB: 9780300214680, Yale University Press, May 2016
292 pp., 28x22.2 cm, 88 colour illus., 57 black&white illus.

Reflecting on the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, this notable book brings together a range of media and perspectives that show how the conflict has been recorded and remembered over time. Fifteen essays written by leading scholars in a v...

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For God and Kaiser The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918

Bassett Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300219678, Yale University Press, March 2016
592 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus., 7 maps

Among the finest examples of deeply researched and colorfully written military history, Richard Bassett's "For God and Kaiser" is a major account of the Habsburg army told for the first time in English. Bassett shows how the Imperial Austrian Army, t...

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Somme

Prior Robin, Wilson Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780300220285, Yale University Press, March 2016
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Despite superior air and artillery power, British soldiers died in catastrophic numbers at the Battle of Somme in 1916. What went wrong, and who was responsible? This book meticulously reconstructs the battle, assigns responsibility to military and p...

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Life, Death and Growing Up on the Western Front

Fletcher Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780300205381, ISBN: HB: 9780300195538, Yale University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This book was inspired by the author's discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unm...

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