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From the Western Front to Salonika A French Soldier Writes Home (1914-1918)

Labaume-Howard Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9781911096283, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 102 photos, drawings, maps

The book's editor, Catherine Labaume-Howard, found 300 of her grandfather's letters in an old potato sack when a family home was sold. The author of the letters, Pierre Suberviolle, was from Montauban in the South of France. He joined the army on 7 A...

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Arte Militaire The Application of 17th Century Military Manuals to Conflict Archaeology

Louth Warwick

ISBN: PB: 9781911096221, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
88 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 25 black&white illus., 19 diagramss, 15 photos

Military manuals have been used as a source through a range of historical studies, but only recently has their potential to Conflict Archaeology truly been recognised. Military manuals allowed the progression of the Military Revolution from the infor...

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March By Moonlight A Bomber Command Story of Ops and Evasion, Captivity and Friendship

Love Barry, Love Jack

ISBN: HB: 9780993415210, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, July 2016
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.

In May 1942 RAF Bomber Command observer Jack Love's world comes crashing down, literally. His aircraft sustains flak damage and a catastrophic engine failure forces a crash-landing in Northern France. The pilot manages a safe belly-landing in a ploug...

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Investment in Blood The True Cost of Britain's Afghan War

Ledwidge Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780300205268, ISBN: HB: 9780300190625, Yale University Press, August 2014
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this follow-up to the extremely successful Losing Small Wars, Frank Ledwidge analyses the cost – both financial and human – of Britain's involvement in the Afghanistan war. With the aid of interviews, on-the-ground research and countless Freedom o...

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Military Transformed? Adaptation and Innovation in the British Military, 1792-1945

LoCicero Michael, Mahoney Ross

ISBN: PB: 9781911096702, ISBN: HB: 9781909384460, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 tables

Between 1792 and 1945, the character of warfare changed. Battalions standing shoulder to shoulder during the Napoleonic era gave way to the industrialised, modern armies of the First and Second World Wars. The organisation and operational methods of...

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Literary Spy The Ultimate Source for Quotations on Espionage & Intelligence

Lathrop Charles E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300203882, Yale University Press, June 2013
496 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, black&white illus.

"The Literary Spy" provides a unique view of the intelligence world through the words of its own major figures (and those fascinated with them) from ancient times to the present. CIA speechwriter and analyst Charles E. Lathrop has compiled and annota...

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Middle East

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Ashes of Hama The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

Lefevre Raphael

ISBN: HB: 9781849042857, Hurst Publishers, April 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When the convulsions of the Arab Spring first became manifest in Syria in March 2011, the Ba'athist regime was quick to blame the protests on the "Syrian Muslim Brotherhood" and its "al-Qaeda affiliates". But who are these Isla...

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Viaz'ma Catastrophe, 1941 The Red Army's Disastrous Stand against Operation Typhoon

Lopukhovsky Lev

ISBN: HB: 9781908916501, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2012
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This book describes one of the most terrible tragedies of the Second World War and the events preceding it. The horrible miscalculations made by the Stavka of the Soviet Supreme High Command and the Front commands led in October 1941 to the deaths an...

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Wars of Plunder Conflicts, Profits and the Politics of Resources

Le Billon Philippe

ISBN: PB: 9781849041454, ISBN: HB: 9781849042697, Hurst Publishers, April 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Focusing on key resources – oil, diamonds, and timber – he argues that resources and wars are linked in three main ways. First, resource revenues finance belligerents, a trend that has become all the more conspicuous since the...

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Political Science

Enemy We Created The Myth of the Taliban / Al-Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, 1970-2010

Linschoten Alex Strick van, Kuehn Felix

ISBN: PB: 9781849043755, ISBN: HB: 9781849041546, Hurst Publishers, January 2012
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! To this day the belief is widespread that the Taliban and Al Qaeda are in many respects synonymous, that their ideology and objectives are closely intertwined and that they have made common cause against the West for decades. S...

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