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Men of Barbarossa Battles and Leaders of the German Invasion of Russia, 1941
ISBN: HB: 9781935149156, Casemate, December 2009
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
This book not only tells the story of Operation Barbarossa but describes the expertise, skills, and decision-making powers of the men who directed it. The result is an illuminating look at the personalities behind the carnage, as summer triumph turne...
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£35,00
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Armed Militias of South Asia Fundamentalists. Maoists and Separatists
ISBN: PB: 9781850659778, Hurst Publishers, November 2009
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! There seems to be no end to the growing number of victims of civil war, terrorism, guerrilla warfare and military repression on the Indian subcontinent, despite the absence of interstate wars over the past ten years. These conf...
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£30,00
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Dismantling the West Russia's Atlantic Agenda
ISBN: HB: 9781597972109, Casemate, Potomac Books, October 2009
268 pp., 23x15 cm
As the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008 demonstrated in no uncertain terms, Russia has developed into a neo-imperialist power seeking to restore its spheres of dominance, to undermine the emergence of a wider Europe, and to prevent the deve...
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£18,00
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Thucydides on Strategy Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War and Their Relevance Today
ISBN: PB: 9781849040112, Hurst Publishers, September 2009
212 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Masterfully crafted and surprisingly modern, "History of the Peloponnesian War" has long been celebrated as an insightful, eloquent, and exhaustively detailed work of classical Greek history. The text is also remarkable for its...
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£18,99
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US Military Vehicles: Normandy 1944
ISBN: PB: 9782915762204, Casemate, OREP, July 2009
48 pp., 24x17 cm, illustrated throughout
During the Battle of Normandy, the US Army used a striking array of different vehicles for various purposes, from motorcycles to tanks. Many of them survived the war to either continue service within different armies or to become the pride of their c...
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£7,00
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Military Orientalism Eastern War Through Western Eyes
ISBN: PB: 9781850659594, ISBN: HB: 9781850659600, Hurst Publishers, July 2009
274 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! From the Ancient Greeks' obsession with the armies of the Persians, Westerners have been irresistibly drawn to the exotic nature of 'Oriental' warfare and have sought either to emulate their enemies' imagined ways of fighting o...
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£16,99
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£50,00
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All-Out for Victory! Magazine Advertising and the World War II Home Front
ISBN: HB: 9781584657682, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2009
340 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, many commercial advertisers and their Madison Avenue ad agencies instantly switched from selling products and services to selling the home front on ways to sup...
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£40,00
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Talking to Terrorists Making Peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country
ISBN: PB: 9781850659679, Hurst Publishers, May 2009
344 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The peace agreement in Northern Ireland is now held up as a beacon for conflict resolution around the world. The 'lessons of Ulster' have been applied by prime ministers, presidents, diplomats and intelligence agencies to numer...
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£17,99
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Silence of God And Other Plays
ISBN: PB: 9781906497095, ISBN: HB: 9781906497101, Seagull Books, March 2009
314 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm
Filloux's plays explore social justice from a global perspective, with a focus on Western liberalism. Themes of "honour killing", the Khmer Rouge genocide, human responsibility in the face of lawlessness, and women's rights are treated with a lyricis...
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£19,00
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£75,00
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From Genocide to Continental War The "Congolese" Conflict and the Crisis of Contemporary Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781850656654, Hurst Publishers, March 2009
576 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the largely Tutsi RPF government built a repressive regime after a short pretence at national reconciliation, while hundreds of thousands of Hutu, many of whom had perpetrated the genocide...
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£25,00
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