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Seapower States Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9780300251487, Yale University Press, January 2020
424 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm, 18 colour illus., 9 black&white illus., 7 maps
Andrew Lambert, author of "The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812" – winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal – turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities...
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£11,99
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Gallipoli New Perspectives on the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 1915-16
ISBN: HB: 9781911512189, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
656 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 maps, 50 black&white illus.
Generally conceded to be doomed from the outset by the most recent historiography, the Gallipoli campaign still arouses heated controversy. In a new compendium of original research by an impressive array of established and up-and-coming scholars, Gal...
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£45,00
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Six Day War The Breaking of the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9780300234558, ISBN: HB: 9780300222708, Yale University Press, April 2018
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
An enthralling, big-picture history that examines the Six-Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context. One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day W...
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£12,99
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£20,00
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Death and Disease in the Civil War A Union Surgeon's Correspondence from Harpers Ferry to Richmond
ISBN: PB: 9781611213591, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
168 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 35 images
Union surgeon James Dana Benton witnessed firsthand the suffering and death brought about by the ghastly wounds, infections, and diseases that wreaked havoc to both the Union and Confederate armies. A native of New York, Dr. Benton penned a series of...
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£13,00
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How to Read European Armor
ISBN: PB: 9781588396297, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2017
176 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 175 colour illus.
This engaging book offers an introduction to and overview of armor in Europe from the Middle Ages through the 17th century, focusing in particular on the 16th century when plate armor reached its peak of stylistic beauty and functional perfection. Cr...
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£18,99
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War by Numbers Understanding Conventional Combat
ISBN: HB: 9781612348865, Casemate, Potomac Books, August 2017
498 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
"War by Numbers" assesses the nature of conventional warfare through the analysis of historical combat. Christopher A. Lawrence establishes what we know about conventional combat and why we know it. By demonstrating the impact a variety of factors ha...
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£30,00
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Battle of Majuba Hill The Transvaal Campaign, 1880-1881
ISBN: PB: 9781911512387, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.
The ignominious rout of a British force at the battle of Majuba on 27 February 1881 and the death of its commander, Major General Sir George Pomeroy-Colley, was the culminating British disaster in the humiliating Transvaal campaign of 1880-1881 in So...
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£19,00
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Rebel Law Insurgents, Courts and Justice in Modern Conflict
ISBN: HB: 9781849047982, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In most societies, courts are where the rubber of government meets the road of the people. If a state cannot settle disputes and ensure that its decisions are carried out, for practical purposes it is no longer in charge. This...
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£25,00
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First (US) Infantry Division Allied units of World War Two
ISBN: PB: 9782352504641, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, March 2017
100 pp., 25x21 cm
The 1st Infantry Division was established in 1917 to participate in the fighting in France and faced the major German offensives of 1918. During the Second World War, it effected its first assault landing in North Africa in 1942. Then followed the in...
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Losing Small Wars British Military Failure in the 9/11 Wars
ISBN: PB: 9780300227512, Yale University Press, February 2017
344 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh chapters assessing and enumerating the overall mili...
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