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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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Reporting War How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture, and Death to Cover World War II
ISBN: PB: 9780300234152, ISBN: HB: 9780300224665, Yale University Press, February 2018
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a for...
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£12,99
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£20,00
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Crusade and Jihad The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North
ISBN: HB: 9780300222906, Yale University Press, February 2018
656 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
This groundbreaking book is the first to address the catastrophic results of centuries of conflict, imperialism, and colonialism by the global north – China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America – in the Muslim world. We see this legacy in the flood...
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£30,00
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Civil Wars A History in Ideas
ISBN: PB: 9780300234244, Yale University Press, February 2018
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and isn't, have a long and contested history. Defining the term is acutely political, for ideas about what makes a war "civil" often depend on whether one is ruler or rebel, victor o...
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£11,99
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Most Secret War R. V. Jones and the Genesis of British Scientific Intelligence 1939-45
ISBN: HB: 9781911512554, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 23 illus., 13 diagrams, 3 tables
The history of scientific intelligence – its birth, its importance during the Second World War and its unique wartime qualities – has relied almost entirely on the memories of its pioneer, R.V. Jones. Through scrutiny of Jones' post-war literature (e...
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£45,00
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Danish Volunteers of the Waffen-SS Freikorps Danmark 1941-43
ISBN: HB: 9781911512707, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
320 pp., 30.5x22.2 cm, 550 black&white photos
The book Danish Volunteers of the Waffen-SS tells the story of Freikorps Danmark in pictures from 1941-1943. Freikorps Danmark was established as a Danish corps which had to fight communism and, from its beginning, it was controlled from Denmark and...
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£59,00
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Defending Island Britain in the Second World War Documentary Sources
ISBN: PB: 9781911512592, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 illus.
Historically, one could argue that island nations were presented with a degree of comfort in being surrounded by water (especially so before the invention of flight and submarines); however, technological advances in the early part of the 20th centur...
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£19,00
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Victory or Death The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, December 25, 1776 - January 3, 1777
ISBN: PB: 9781611213812, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 200 images, 10 maps
December 1776: Just six months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington and the new American Army sit on the verge of utter destruction by the banks of the Delaware River. The despondent and demoralized group of men had...
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£12,00
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In a Single Blow The Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Beginning of the American Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9781611213799, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images, 6 maps
"I have now nothing to trouble your Lordship with, but an affair that happened on the 19th instant..." General Thomas Gage penned the above line to his superiors in London, casually summing up the shots fired at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 17...
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£12,00
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From Docks and Sand Southport and Bootle's Battalion, The 7Th King's Liverpool Regiment, in the First World War
ISBN: HB: 9781911512165, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
This book is a study of the importance and significance of community identity to a fighting unit in the First World War. In this case the unit in question is primarily 7th King's Regiment and more widely the 55th West Lancashire Division, 1914-18....
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£29,00
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