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Armed Forces of Poland in the West 1939-46 Strategic Concepts, Planning, Limited Success but no Victory!

Peszke Michael Alfred

ISBN: PB: 9781908916549, ISBN: HB: 9781909982604, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2012
80 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 photos, 3 maps

This monograph focuses on the strategic concepts, planning and the limited success of the Polish military, leading up to the British Guarantee of March, 1939 and then throughout the Second World War. Recreated in France, the Polish Military concept...

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1st Bedfordshires Part One: Mons to the Somme

Fuller Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780956269652, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, July 2012
256 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In August 1914 the 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment were amongst the small professional British Army who gathered and prepared for a war that would "be over by Christmas". With a long and proud history, dating back to 1688, the regiment's fighting...

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Ending Wars Well Order, Justice and Conciliation in Contemporary Post-Conflict

Eric D. Patterson

ISBN: HB: 9780300171136, Yale University Press, June 2012
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Though scholars of political science and moral philosophy have long analyzed the justifications for and against waging war as well as the ethics of warfare itself, the problem of ending wars has received less attention. In the first book to apply jus...

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Zhitomir-Berdichev Volume 1: German Operations West of Kiev 24 December 1943 - 31 January 1944

Barratt Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9781907677663, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2012
472 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 140 colour maps in separately-bound mapbook

On 24 December 1943, the Red Army launched the first of a series of winter offensives against the German Army Group South under von Manstein, the overall object of which was to liberate western Ukraine from occupation. This first offensive is known t...

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Political Science

Nuclear Question in Middle East

Kamrava Mehran

ISBN: PB: 9781849042116, Hurst Publishers, May 2012
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The nuclear age is coming to the Middle East. Understanding the scope and motivations for this development and its implications for global security is essential. The last decade has witnessed an explosion of popular and scholar...

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Military

Bring Me Men Military Masculinity and the Benign Facade of American Empire

Belkin Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9781849041775, Hurst Publishers, May 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The masculinity of those who serve in the American military would seem to be indisputable, yet it is full of contradictions. To become a warrior, one must renounce those things in life that are perceived to be unmasculine. Yet...

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Military

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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Polonica

Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 2: The German Offensives on the Flanks and the Third Soviet Counteroffensive, 25 August–10 September 1941

Glantz David M.

ISBN: PB: 9781911096108, ISBN: HB: 9781906033903, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2012
456 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white photos, 50 maps

At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorised infantry of German Army Group Centre's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler and most German officers and soldiers believed would be...

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Military

Wars of the Roses

Hicks Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300181579, Yale University Press, February 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The Wars of the Roses (1455-85) were a major turning point in English history. But the underlying causes for the successive upheavals have been hotly contested by historians ever since. In this original and stimulating new synthesis, distinguished hi...

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Biography & Memoires

With the Red Devils at Arnhem Personal Experiences with the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade 1944

Swiecicki Marek

ISBN: PB: 9781907677342, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2012
96 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 photos, 2 maps

The Battle of Arnhem is a much-studied and discussed battle, with an uninterrupted flow of books being published about it. Helion are bringing back into print a fascinating eyewitness account that has remained overlooked since it was last published s...

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