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Ashes of Hama The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria
ISBN: HB: 9781849042857, Hurst Publishers, April 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! When the convulsions of the Arab Spring first became manifest in Syria in March 2011, the Ba'athist regime was quick to blame the protests on the "Syrian Muslim Brotherhood" and its "al-Qaeda affiliates". But who are these Isla...
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£45,00
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Blood, Steel and Myth The II. SS-Panzer-Korps and the Road to Prochorowka, July 1943
ISBN: HB: 9780974838946, Casemate, RZM Publishing, March 2013
496 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 300 black&white photos, 13 maps
George Nipe, author of Last Victory in Russia and Decision in the Ukraine, has written a revealing and unprecedented re-analysis of the II. SS-Panzer-Korps' operations during the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943. Unlike all previous books on the...
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£47,00
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Fountainhead of Jihad The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012
ISBN: HB: 9781849042079, Hurst Publishers, March 2013
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Drawing upon a wealth of previously unresearched primary sources in many languages, the authors shed much new light on a group frequently described as the most lethal actor in the current Afghan insurgency, and shown here to ha...
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£29,99
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War and War Crimes The Military, Legitimacy and Success in Armed Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9781849040945, ISBN: HB: 9781849040938, Hurst Publishers, March 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The laws of war have always been concerned with issues of necessity and proportionality, but how are these principles applied in modern warfare? What are the pressures on practitioners where an increasing emphasis on legality i...
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£30,00
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£45,00
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War Comes to Garmser Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier
ISBN: HB: 9781849042642, Hurst Publishers, March 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! War in Afghanistan will never be understood without getting to grips with the small places – the provinces, districts, and villages – where most of the fighting occurred, away from the cities, in hundreds of hamlets, valleys, a...
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£35,00
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Festung Guernsey, Volumes 3.6, 4.1 & 4.2 The Fortifications of Guernsey-West and South Coasts Rocquaine to Corbiere
ISBN: PB: 9780957245624, Casemate, Clear Vue Publishing, February 2013
106 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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£15,00
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Gun Power, No. 23 Volume 2: Ferdinand Elefant
ISBN: PB: 9788372371652, Casemate, AJ Press, February 2013
200 pp., 29.5x21 cm, illus.
Not for sale in Poland! This series focuses on armour, armoured vehicles and artillery. Every book contains a chapter chronicling the design's history, plenty of drawings in modelling scales, colour plates presenting camouflaging schemes and a mode...
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£19,00
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Crucible of Combat Germany's Defensive Battles in the Ukraine 1943-44
ISBN: PB: 9781908916907, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2013
504 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus., 105 maps
In his historical series Hinze provides the only comprehensive account of events on the central and southern portions of the German Eastern Front during the years of German retreat. This volume covers events on the southern portion of the Eastern Fro...
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£35,00
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Welcome Home, Boys! Military Victory Parades in New York City 1899-1946
ISBN: PB: 9783593397450, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
276 pp., 21.5x14 cm
During the first half of the twentieth century military victory parades in New York became an iconic part of the American cultural memory – ticker tape and soldiers returning to their sweethearts symbolized the joy of a nation at peace. In this incis...
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£40,00
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Policing Afghanistan The Politics of the Lame Leviathan
ISBN: HB: 9781849042055, Hurst Publishers, February 2013
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Policing is not a popular topic of serious scholarly research. Although a vast literature on policing exists, it is mostly technical in nature and only rarely analytical. Even the police forces of Western Europe and North Ameri...
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£49,99
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