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In Flanders Fields The Great War Seen from the Air, 1914-1918

Stichelbaut Birger

ISBN: HB: 9780300196580, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, December 2013
396 pp., 25.4x29.8 cm, 532 black&white illus.

Aerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of World War I and was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As a result, thousands of photographs taken from the air over th...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Top Drawings, No. 18 Battleship HMS Warspite

Koszela Witold

ISBN: PB: 9788362878925, Casemate, Kagero, December 2013
72 pp., 29.7x21 cm, drawing sheets, colour profiles, double A2 sheet with colour scheme, double B2 sheet with colour scheme

Not for sale in Poland! HMS Warspite is in the "Queen Elizabeth Class" or a superdreadnought as they became known. She saw action at Jutland and continued her career through the Second World War in action at D day before being scrapped in 1948. She...

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From Above War, Violence and Verticality

Adey Peter, Whitehead Mark, Williams Alison J.

ISBN: PB: 9781849042994, ISBN: HB: 9781849042987, Hurst Publishers, December 2013
356 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The arrival of the aerostatic balloon at the end of the nineteenth century ushered in a new perspective on the battlefield, taking over from the mount – the hill at the edge of the field of combat – and the fortified tower posi...

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Festung Guernsey, Volumes 4.6, 4.7 & 4.8 The Fortifications of Guernsey-South and East Coasts - Pointe de la Moye - Icart - Fort George

ISBN: PB: 9780957245648, Casemate, Clear Vue Publishing, November 2013
88 pp., 29.7x21 cm, approx. 200 illus.

This book is unique amongst all volumes on German fortifications of the Second World War, in that it was written by the German forces themselves. It is the ultimate guide to their defensive planning and mindset. The Channel Islands of Guernsey and J...

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Conceptualising Modern War

Haug Karl Erik, Maao Ole Jorgen

ISBN: PB: 9781849042727, ISBN: HB: 9781849041430, Hurst Publishers, November 2013
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since the end of the Cold War, scholars, military historians and analysts have struggled to agree a workable definition of contemporary warfare with reference to the conflicts that have erupted since 1989, whether in the former...

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Political Science

Putin's New Order in the Middle East

Nizameddin Talal

ISBN: HB: 9781849042598, Hurst Publishers, November 2013
358 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Vladimir Putin has almost by stealth transformed himself into an historic Russian figure. His undeniable political dominance was reflected in his return to presidential control after the March 2012 elections, having placed an o...

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Europe

Military

In the House of the Hangman The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949

Olick Jeffrey K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226103341, ISBN: HB: 9780226626383, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

The central question for both the victors and the vanquished of World War II was just how widely the stain of guilt would spread over Germany. Political leaders and intellectuals on both sides of the conflict debated whether support for National Soci...

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Anarchic Sea Maritime Security in the Twenty-First Century

Sloggett Dave

ISBN: HB: 9781849041003, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Maritime security covers many issues including disputes over ownership of the continental shelf and of the boundaries of Exclusive Economic Zones, as well as protecting citizens from ballistic missile attacks using sea-based pl...

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Military

Bosnian Muslims in Second World War A History

Hoare Marko Attila

ISBN: HB: 9781849042413, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
512 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The story of the Bosnian Muslims in World War II is an epic frequently alluded to in discussions of the 1990s Balkan conflicts, but almost as frequently misunderstood or falsified. This first comprehensive study of the topic in...

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Europe

This Seat of Mars War and the British Isles, 1485-1746

Carlton Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300197143, Yale University Press, September 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 24 black&white illus.

Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom went to war, often – and most bloodily – ag...

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