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Iranian Ways of War From Cyrus the Great to Qassam Soleimani

Hashim Ahmed S.

ISBN: HB: 9781787380349, Hurst Publishers, December 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book traces the long history of Iran's wars, and the evolution of the Islamic Republic's military trajectory since 1979. Ahmed Hashim draws on Farsi, Arabic and European sources to explore Iran's efforts to create modern a...

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Small Wars Too Big to Ignore

Hashim Ahmed S.

ISBN: HB: 9781849040822, Hurst Publishers, September 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The end of the Cold War and the (then) receding threat of global nuclear conflagration were meant to usher in a 'peace dividend': concomitantly warfare would decline as states devoted themselves to making money and providing fo...

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Europe

Berlin Operation 1945 Soviet General Staff

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: PB: 9781912390496, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2018
420 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 4 maps

Berlin Operation, 1945, tells the story of the Red Army's penultimate offensive operation in the war in Europe. Here the forces of three fronts (Second and First Belorussian and First Ukrainian) forced the Oder River and surrounded the defenders of t...

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Battle of Kursk The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counter-Offensive, July-August 1943

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: PB: 9781912390502, ISBN: HB: 9781910777671, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
390 pp., 24.6x16.8 cm, 6 maps

"The Battle of Kursk: The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counter- Offensive, July-August 1943", offers a peculiarly Soviet view of one of the Second World War's most critical events. While the Germans defeat s at Moscow and Stalingrad showed tha...

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Battle of Moscow 1941-42 The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counter-Offensive along the Moscow Strategic Direction

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: PB: 9781912390458, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
476 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 12 maps

Written by the Soviet General Staff in 1943 Reveals the strategy and tactics that went into the Soviet defence of Moscow Edited and translated by one of the world's experts on the Soviet contribution to World War II "The Battle of Moscow, 1941-1942:...

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Union Soldiers in the American Civil War Facts and Photos for Readers of All Ages

Herdegen Lance J.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213393, Casemate, Savas Beatie, September 2018
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 illus.

Some Confederates called him a "Bluebelly", "Mudsill", and even a "Lincolnite" (for President Abraham Lincoln), but the name that has carried down through the decades is simply "Billy Yank". Author Lance Herdegen tells his fascinating multi-faceted s...

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Middle East

Cold War in the Islamic World Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Struggle for Supremacy

Hiro Dilip

ISBN: HB: 9781849049948, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
432 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! For four decades Saudi Arabia and Iran have vied for influence in the Muslim world. At the heart of this ongoing Cold War between Riyadh and Tehran lie the Sunni–Shia divide, and the two countries' intertwined histories. Saudis...

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Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare

Hevia James L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226562285, ISBN: HB: 9780226562148, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Until well into the twentieth century, pack animals were the primary mode of transport for supplying armies in the field. The British Indian Army was no exception. In the late nineteenth century, for example, it forcibly pressed into service thousand...

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Landing in the Dawn Dissecting a Legend: The Landing at Anzac, Gallipoli, 25 April 1915

Hurst James

ISBN: HB: 9781911512462, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 50 black&white illus.

The Gallipoli Landing of 25 April 1915 is arguably Australia's best known battle. It is commemorated each year with a national holiday, services, parades and great media attention. 2015, the centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign, was marked by great pu...

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Asia

Khe Sanh Siege in the Clouds. An Oral History

Hammel Eric

ISBN: PB: 9781612005904, Casemate, February 2018
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 pages of photos

In late 1967 as part of the Tet offensive, U.S. commanders hoped to lure the North Vietnamese Army into exposing large numbers of soldiers to their overwhelming air power. But in January 1968, a U.S. Marine Corps force found themselves surrounded by...

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