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Gallipoli The End of the Myth

Prior Robin

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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How to Lose the War on Terror

Perry Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781850659631, ISBN: HB: 9781850659624, Hurst Publishers, March 2010
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 2004 a small group of Americans and Europeans held a series of meetings in Beirut with senior members of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood. And in early 2005, a larger group of former senior American and European g...

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Mikoyan-Gurevitch MiG 21 Fishbed 1955-2010

Paloque Gerard

ISBN: PB: 9782352501473, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, February 2010
96 pp., 24.1x20.3 cm, full colour throughout

The MiG-21 originated with an official request from the Soviet authorities in 1954 for a light, high-performance (Mach 2 at 20 000 m) frontline fighter to protect military and production installations from potential raids by American bombers. Built f...

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Learning from Foreign Wars Russian Military Thinking 1859-73

Persson Gudrun

ISBN: PB: 9781906033613, ISBN: HB: 9781908916983, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2010
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 illus.

"Learning from Foreign Wars" examines how the Russian army interpreted the wars in Europe between 1859 and 1871, and the American Civil War. This was a time marked by rapid change – political, social, economic and technological. By raising the questi...

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Thucydides on Strategy Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and Their Relevance Today

Platias Athanassios G., Koliopoulos Konstantinos

ISBN: PB: 9781849040112, Hurst Publishers, September 2009
212 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Masterfully crafted and surprisingly modern, "History of the Peloponnesian War" has long been celebrated as an insightful, eloquent, and exhaustively detailed work of classical Greek history. The text is also remarkable for its...

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US Military Vehicles: Normandy 1944

Pauleian Erwan

ISBN: PB: 9782915762204, Casemate, OREP, July 2009
48 pp., 24x17 cm, illustrated throughout

During the Battle of Normandy, the US Army used a striking array of different vehicles for various purposes, from motorcycles to tanks. Many of them survived the war to either continue service within different armies or to become the pride of their c...

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Military Orientalism Eastern War Through Western Eyes

Porter Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9781850659594, ISBN: HB: 9781850659600, Hurst Publishers, July 2009
274 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! From the Ancient Greeks' obsession with the armies of the Persians, Westerners have been irresistibly drawn to the exotic nature of 'Oriental' warfare and have sought either to emulate their enemies' imagined ways of fighting o...

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From Genocide to Continental War The "Congolese" Conflict and the Crisis of Contemporary Africa

Prunier Gerard

ISBN: PB: 9781850656654, Hurst Publishers, March 2009
576 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the largely Tutsi RPF government built a repressive regime after a short pretence at national reconciliation, while hundreds of thousands of Hutu, many of whom had perpetrated the genocide...

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Hitler's New Disorder The Second World War in Yugoslavia

Pavlowitch Stevan K.

ISBN: HB: 9781850658955, Hurst Publishers, January 2008
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The history of the Second World War in Yugoslavia was for a long time the preserve of the Communist regime led by Marshal Tito. It was written by those who had battled hard to come out on top of the many-sided war fought across...

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Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow The Life and Times of a Slave Trade Captain

Pinfold John

ISBN: HB: 9781851243211, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2007
304 pp., 23x15.5 cm

Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its "human cargo". This is a highly engaging, rare, first-hand account written by a staunch defender of the slave trade. Crow depic...

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