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Sacred Warriors Shia Militias, the Future of Iraq, and Iran's Battle for the Middle East

Alaaldin Ranj

ISBN: HB: 9781849049634, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The fall of Iraq's Baath regime was swiftly followed by the proliferation of terrorist groups, militant organisations and an ongoing sectarian conflict that continues to engulf the region. However the Shia militias involved rem...

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Nazi Millionaires

Alford Kenneth D.

ISBN: PB: 9781612005959, Casemate, April 2018
320 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, black&white photographs

During the final days of World War II, German SS officers crammed trains, cars, and trucks full of gold, currency, and jewels, and headed for the mountains of Austria. Fearful of arrest and determined to keep the stolen loot out of Allied hands, they...

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Confronting Torture Essays on the Ethics, Legality, History, and Psychology of Torture Today

Anderson Scott A., Nussbaum Martha C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226529417, ISBN: HB: 9780226529387, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate. It grips our imagination, in part because torturing someone seems to be an unthinkable breach of humanity – theirs and ours. And...

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Civil Wars A History in Ideas

Armitage David

ISBN: PB: 9780300234244, Yale University Press, February 2018
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and isn't, have a long and contested history. Defining the term is acutely political, for ideas about what makes a war "civil" often depend on whether one is ruler or rebel, victor o...

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7 Leadership Lessons of D-Day Lessons from the Longest Day - June 6, 1944

Antal John

ISBN: HB: 9781612005294, Casemate, September 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 35 illus.

The odds were against the Allies on June 6, 1944. The task ahead of the paratroopers who jumped over Normandy and the soldiers who waded ashore onto the beaches, all under fire, was colossal. In such circumstances good leadership can be the defining...

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Biography & Memoires

Lost Idol The Life and Death of a Young Officer: Esmond Elliot 1895-1917

Astor Johnnie, Alexandra Campbell

ISBN: HB: 9781912174027, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
248 pp., 24.5x18 cm, 100 illus. and maps

Esmond Elliot, younger son of the Earl of Minto, Viceroy of India, was killed while serving with the Scots Guards, aged 22, at the beginning of the Passchendaele Offensive. Compiled from his grieving mother's memorial of his life, together with his...

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Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb A Story of Defiance, Deterrence, and Deviance

Abbas Hassan

ISBN: HB: 9781849047159, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book provides a comprehensive account of the mysterious story of Pakistan's attempt to develop nuclear weapons in the face of severe odds. Hassan Abbas profiles the politicians and scientists involved, and the role of Chin...

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Duty Nobly Done The South Wales Borderers at Gallipoli 1915

Ashwood Rodney

ISBN: HB: 9781911512172, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
364 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 maps, 2 colour illus., 41 black&white illus.

While the main emphasis of the Great War was on the Western Front of France and Belgium, the British Army also took part in what was a lesser known conflict, but one of equal intensity and drama. This was at Gallipoli, on the shores of Turkey, betwee...

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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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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Scale Modelling WW1 Tanks

Astier Frederik

ISBN: PB: 9782352504689, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, October 2016
128 pp., 29.5x20.8 cm, 500 colour and black&white illus.

"Tank Models of the First World War" accurately describes assembly methods, painting and realization of dioramas for each of the 6 models: the Mark IV "Male" English, Mark IV "Female" and the German A7V, Schneider CA, the St. Chamond and the French R...

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