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Colonial Violence European Empires and the Use of Force

Walter Dierk

ISBN: HB: 9781849048071, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Western interventions today have much in common with the countless violent conflicts that have occurred on Europe's periphery since the conquest of the Americas. Like their predecessors, modern imperial wars are shaped by geogr...

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Political Science

Military

Art of Creating Power Freedman on Strategy

Wilkinson Benedict, Gow James

ISBN: HB: 9781849045810, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
308 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Art of Creating Power" explores the intellectual thought and wider impact – on military affairs, politics and the universities – of Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on strategy, confl...

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Military

Churchill's Secret War with Lenin British and Commonwealth Military Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918-20

Wright Damien

ISBN: HB: 9781911512103, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
504 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 8 maps, 8 colour illus., 198 black&white illus.

After three years of great loss and suffering on the Eastern Front, Imperial Russia was in crisis and on the verge of revolution. In November 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks (later known as "Soviets") seized power, signed a peace treaty with the Central Pow...

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Islam

Current Affairs

Republic of Islamophobia The Rise of Respectable Racism in France

Wolfreys Jim

ISBN: PB: 9781849046886, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Islamophobia in France is on the increase. Muslims are being subjected to unprecedented scrutiny of what they wear, eat and say. Racist acts and rhetoric are increasingly common. Leading public figures, meanwhile, continue to c...

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Military

Miners at War 1914-1919 South Wales Miners in the Tunneling Companies on the Western Front

Wood Ritchie

ISBN: HB: 9781911096498, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 54 black&white illus., 24 maps, 26 tables

The author's compilation of a unique register identifying those individual South Wales miners who served in the tunnelling companies has allowed a remarkable story to be told. For the first time, the lives of individual South Wales miners are highlig...

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World

Extraordinary Ordinariness Everyday Heroism in the United States, Germany, and Britain, 1800-2015

Wendt Simon

ISBN: PB: 9783593506173, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
294 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 25 halftones

Everyday heroes and heroines – ordinary men, women, and children who are honored for actual or imagined feats – have received only scant attention in heroism scholarship. While scholars have devoted thousands of pages to war heroes, heroic leaders, a...

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Media Studies

Asia

Reporting the Retreat War Correspondents in Burma, 1942

Woods Philip

ISBN: HB: 9781849047173, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The British defeat in Burma at the hands of the Japanese in 1942 precipitated the longest retreat in British military history and the onset of its most drawn-out campaign of World War II. It also marked the beginning of the end...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

World War II Soviet Field Weapons and Equipment A Visual Reference Guide

Ward Keith

ISBN: PB: 9781909384996, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
160 pp., 29.7x21.1 cm, 300 colour illus.

This title is the second in a series that employs a simple and effective concept to illustrate and describe the multiplicity of equipment and weapons systems used on the ground during World War II. Whilst many books have described such weapons and wa...

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Africa

Who Killed Hammarskjold? The UN, The Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa

Williams Susan

ISBN: PB: 9781849048026, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold remains one of the biggest mysteries of the twentieth century. Shortly after midnight on 18 September 1961, an aircraft carrying Hammarskjold and his UN team crashed into dark...

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Europe

Military

Battle of Montgomery, 1644 The English Civil War in the Welsh Borderlands

Worton Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9781911096238, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
120 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 8 maps, 8 black&white illus., 42 colour illus.

Reflecting on the Battle of Montgomery, Sir Thomas Myddelton – who had jointly commanded the victorious Parliamentarian Army – later described it as: "as great a victory as hath been gained in any part of the kingdom". Fought on 18 September 1644 in...

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