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Empire of Defense Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War
ISBN: PB: 9780226632926, ISBN: HB: 9780226632896, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
"Empire of Defense" is nothing less than an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American warfare. Joseph Darda exposes how the post-World War II formation of the Department of Defense and the subsequent Korean War set a c...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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Across an Angry Sea The SAS in the Falklands War
ISBN: HB: 9781787381124, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! In early summer 1982 – winter in the South Atlantic – Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a Royal Navy Task Force is assembled and dispatched. This is the story of D Squadron, 22 SAS, commanded by Ced...
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£20,00
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Pakistan Adrift Navigating Troubled Waters
ISBN: HB: 9781849049610, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
280 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Asad Durrani served as a three star general in the Pakistan army, and later headed the Inter-Services Intelligence agency from 1990 to 1992. His time in service encompassed the Soviet Union's withdrawal from Afghanistan and dis...
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£25,00
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Silent Landscape at Gallipoli The Battlefields of the Dardanelles, One Hundred Years On
ISBN: HB: 9781911512738, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
176 pp., 245x318 cm, 120 colour photographs and maps
In our first book, we explored the impact of the fighting on the landscape of the Western Front – showing how the physical effects of war have left indelible traces; in this book, we follow the same theme, but from a different perspective. The Gallip...
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£29,00
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Battalions at War The York & Lancaster Regiment in the First World War
ISBN: HB: 9781912174058, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
264 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white photos, 20 maps, 3 tables
The First World War is history; the last survivors of that conflict are now all dead. Three generations on, public perceptions of the war are formed from books, films and photographs. In the last two decades, revisionist historians have attempted to...
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£35,00
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Peter The Great Humbled The Russo-Ottoman War Of 1711
ISBN: PB: 9781911512318, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
88 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 3 maps, 18 black&white illus.
In 1711 Peter the Great, the Tsar of Russia, led a large army of veterans from Poltava and his other Great Northern War victories into the Balkans. He aimed to humble the Ottomans in the same way he had the Swedes a few years before. Victory would se...
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£19,00
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Mobile Warfare for Africa On the Successful Conduct of Wars in Africa and Beyond - Lessons Learned from the South African Border War
ISBN: PB: 9781912174089, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
528 pp., 24.6x17 cm, 330 photos, 40 maps
Presenting a remarkable amount of experience drawing primarily from South Africa's Border War in the form of case studies, supported fully by an extensive number of photographs and specially commissioned maps, this study has applications for historia...
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£35,00
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Teenage Safari A South African Conscript in the Border War in Angola and Namibia
ISBN: PB: 9781911512936, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 colour & black&white photos, 1 map
A wide-eyed South African conscript relates his small share of the war in Angola and Namibia in the 1980s. This is not the usual military history, written by a commander armed with facts, nor a researched story of a war or campaign. It is a persona...
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£16,00
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In Nelson's Wake The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars
ISBN: PB: 9780300228830, ISBN: HB: 9780300200652, Yale University Press, August 2017
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 colour illus., maps
The Napoleonic Wars saw Britain immersed in a conflict of unprecedented scale and intensity. With France dominant on the European mainland, the fate of the British population rested first and foremost on the Royal Navy and the thousands of individual...
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£12,99
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£25,00
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Soldiers in Revolt Army Mutinies in Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781849048293, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Soldiers in Revolt" examines the understudied phenomenon of military mutinies in Africa. Through interviews with former mutineers in Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, and The Gambia, the book provides a unique and intimate perspecti...
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£25,00
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