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From Moscow to Stalingrad The Eastern Front, 1941-1942
ISBN: PB: 9781612006093, Casemate, May 2018
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 black&white and colour photos
The path from Moscow to Stalingrad was littered with successes and losses for both the Red Army and the Wehrmacht, with tensions remaining high and culminating in one of the harshest battles of the Second World War. Part of the Casemate Illustrated s...
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£19,00
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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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We Dared to Win The SAS in Rhodesia
ISBN: HB: 9781612005874, Casemate, May 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour and black&white photos
In his own words Andre Scheepers describes his childhood on a farm, learning about the bush from his African friends, and becoming a soldier. The family had to leave the farm after being ambushed by terrorists. A quiet, introspective, deep thinker...
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£25,00
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More Than a Doctrine The Eisenhower Era in the Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9781612349978, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map
Given on January 5, 1957, the Eisenhower Doctrine Address forever changed America's relationship with the Middle East. Announcing that "a greater responsibility now devolves upon the United States" in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis, President Eisen...
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£28,00
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Drive on Moscow, 1941 Operation Taifun and Germany’s First Great Crisis in World War II
ISBN: PB: 9781612005966, Casemate, May 2018
288 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, 16 pages of photos
At the end of September 1941, more than a million German soldiers lined up along the frontline just 180 miles west of Moscow. They were well trained, confident, and had good reasons to hope that the war in the East would be over with one last offensi...
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£9,00
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From Conquest to Deportation The North Caucasus under Russian Rule
ISBN: HB: 9781849048941, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
480 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book is about a region on the fringes of empire, which neither Tsarist Russia, nor the Soviet Union, nor in fact the Russian Federation, ever really managed to control. Starting with the nineteenth century, it analyses the...
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£65,00
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Spies in the Congo The Race for the Ore that Built the A-Bomb
ISBN: PB: 9781849049528, ISBN: HB: 9781849046381, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
400 pp., 19.8x13 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book is the true story of American spies in Africa in the Second World War, which until now has never been researched or told. It is set against the background of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the war – Americ...
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£14,99
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£25,00
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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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Why We Fight
ISBN: HB: 9781849048897, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
328 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Why are we willing to die for our countries? How can ideology persuade someone to blow themselves up? When we go to war, morality, religion and ideology often take the blame. But Mike Martin boldly argues that the opposite is...
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£20,00
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Islamist Terrorism in Europe A History
ISBN: PB: 9781849049504, ISBN: HB: 9781849044059, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The 2012 Toulouse and Montauban shootings and the grisly murder of Lee Rigby in Woolwich in 2013 are stark reminders of the terrorist threat posed by militant Islamist extremism in Europe. Whereas the death of Osama bin Laden a...
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£30,00
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