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Battle of Marathon
ISBN: PB: 9780300177664, Yale University Press, October 2011
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.
How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this s...
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£17,00
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War by Land, Sea, and Air Dwight Eisenhower and the Concept of Unified Command
ISBN: PB: 9780300171358, Yale University Press, June 2011
400 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm
Examining Eisenhower's career from his West Point years to the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act, David Jablonsky explores Eisenhower's efforts to implement a unified command in the U. S. military – a concept that eventually led to the c...
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£24,00
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Windfall of Musicians Hitler's Emigres and Exiles in Southern California
ISBN: PB: 9780300171235, Yale University Press, May 2011
336 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 27 black&white illus.
This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area. Musicologist Dorothy Lamb Crawford looks closely at the lives, creative work, and influ...
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£20,00
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Afghanistan How the West Lost Its Way
ISBN: HB: 9780300154573, Yale University Press, April 2011
304 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm, 30 black&white illus.
In October 2001, NATO forces invaded Afghanistan. Their initial aim, to topple the Taliban regime and replace it with a more democratic government aligned to Western interests, was swiftly achieved. However, stabilizing the country in the ensuing yea...
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£19,99
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Legacy of the Second World War
ISBN: PB: 9780300171389, Yale University Press, March 2011
208 pp., 20.8x13.7 cm
Sixty-five years after the conclusion of World War II, its consequences are still with us. In this probing book, the acclaimed historian John Lukacs raises perplexing questions about World War II that have yet to be explored. In a work that brilliant...
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£21,00
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Question of Command Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq
ISBN: PB: 9780300168075, Yale University Press, November 2010
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 maps, 20 black&white illus.
According to the prevailing view of counterinsurgency, the key to defeating insurgents is selecting methods that will win the people's hearts and minds. The hearts-and-minds theory permeates not only most counterinsurgency books of the twenty-first c...
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£29,00
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Gallipoli The End of the Myth
ISBN: PB: 9780300168945, Yale University Press, September 2010
288 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-1916 was an ill-fated Allied attempt to shorten the war by eliminating Turkey, creating a Balkan alliance against the Central Powers, and securing a sea route to Russia. A failure in all respects, the operation ended in...
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£11,99
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Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865
ISBN: HB: 9780300151510, Yale University Press, July 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.
This highly original work explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War. The book explains the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouri's guerrilla conflict, and for the state's anomalous experience i...
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£57,00
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Warrior Generals Winning the British Civil Wars
ISBN: HB: 9780300113082, Yale University Press, March 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
In this bold history of the men who directed and determined the outcome of the mid-seventeenth-century British wars – from Cromwell, Fairfax, and Essex to many more lesser-known figures – military historian Malcolm Wanklyn offers the first assessment...
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£25,00
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