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Arms and Influence
ISBN: PB: 9780300246742, Yale University Press, May 2020
352 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm
Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities – real or imagined – are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter's new introduction to the work shows...
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£14,99
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When Peace Kills Politics International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans
ISBN: PB: 9781849048316, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Why do war and coercion still dominate the political realm in the Sudans, over a decade since the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, and despite a litany of conflict resolution efforts? This book explains the paradoxical role of in...
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£25,00
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How Armies Grow The Enlargement of Military Forces in the Age of Total War 1789-1945
ISBN: HB: 9781612006017, Casemate, November 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The first two decades after the end of the Cold War were characterised by government's desires to reduce the sizes of their armed forces, not least in order to save money. Hand in hand with this general reduction went an intellectual and doctrinal re...
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£50,00
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Hall of Mirrors War and Warfare in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9781912390854, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 colour plates, 10 maps, 12 charts
The 20th Century was hugely violent. It was possibly the most violent century in history. It is a clearly-defined period in the past. A huge amount has been written about war, and warfare, in that period. So, what can we learn from war, and warfare,...
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£25,00
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First Bridge Too Far The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943
ISBN: HB: 9781612006895, Casemate, July 2018
256 pp., 22.9x15 cm
The full story of the British airborne forces attempt to take the strategically important Primosole Bridge, published for the 75th anniversary of the battle Shows how this battle was a precursor to the Battle of Arnhem – and the lessons that were and...
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£22,00
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Days of Battle Armoured Operations North of the River Danube, Hungary 1944-45
ISBN: PB: 9781912174263, ISBN: HB: 9781907677649, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2018
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 16 maps
"Days of Battle" describes a hitherto neglected part of the military history of Hungary during World War II. In three separate studies, Dr Norbert Szamveber, drawing from files and documentation from German, Hungarian and Soviet sources, presents det...
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£25,00
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£35,00
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Masters of Mayhem Laurence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz
ISBN: HB: 9781612005744, Casemate, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 pages of black&white photos
Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness before he can react. Never confronting a stronger force directly, but willing to use audacity and surprise to confound and demoralize an opponent. Operations driven by good intell...
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£19,00
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War from the Ground Up Twenty-First-Century Combat as Politics
ISBN: PB: 9781849049481, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
304 pp., 21.6x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! As a British infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles Emile Simpson completed three tours of Southern Afghanistan. Drawing on that experience, and on a range of little-known case studies ranging from Nepal to Borneo, "War Fr...
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£12,99
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Chaco Air War 1932-35 The First Modern Air War in Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9781911512967, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
96 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 200 illus.
The Chaco War was probably the first "modern" conflict in Latin America where military aviation was widely used in all roles. Bolivia, as the reader will find out, had a very powerful military air force, but unfortunately for them and luckily for Par...
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£16,00
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Campaigns and Battles of General Nathan Bedford Forrest Kentucky to Chickamauga, 1861-1863
ISBN: HB: 9781611212846, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 58 maps, 2 images
Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of the most intriguing characters to emerge during the Civil War. There are no shortage of books and articles on the man and his generalship, with topics ranging from hero worship based on his extraordinary battlefield...
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£22,00
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