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Crusade and Jihad The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North

Polk William R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222906, Yale University Press, February 2018
656 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking book is the first to address the catastrophic results of centuries of conflict, imperialism, and colonialism by the global north – China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America – in the Muslim world. We see this legacy in the flood...

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Civil Wars A History in Ideas

Armitage David

ISBN: PB: 9780300234244, Yale University Press, February 2018
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and isn't, have a long and contested history. Defining the term is acutely political, for ideas about what makes a war "civil" often depend on whether one is ruler or rebel, victor o...

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Most Secret War R. V. Jones and the Genesis of British Scientific Intelligence 1939-45

Goodchild James

ISBN: HB: 9781911512554, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 23 illus., 13 diagrams, 3 tables

The history of scientific intelligence – its birth, its importance during the Second World War and its unique wartime qualities – has relied almost entirely on the memories of its pioneer, R.V. Jones. Through scrutiny of Jones' post-war literature (e...

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Europe

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Danish Volunteers of the Waffen-SS Freikorps Danmark 1941-43

Bjerregaard Jens Pank

ISBN: HB: 9781911512707, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
320 pp., 30.5x22.2 cm, 550 black&white photos

The book Danish Volunteers of the Waffen-SS tells the story of Freikorps Danmark in pictures from 1941-1943. Freikorps Danmark was established as a Danish corps which had to fight communism and, from its beginning, it was controlled from Denmark and...

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Defending Island Britain in the Second World War Documentary Sources

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512592, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 illus.

Historically, one could argue that island nations were presented with a degree of comfort in being surrounded by water (especially so before the invention of flight and submarines); however, technological advances in the early part of the 20th centur...

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America

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Victory or Death The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, December 25, 1776 - January 3, 1777

Maloy Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781611213812, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 200 images, 10 maps

December 1776: Just six months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington and the new American Army sit on the verge of utter destruction by the banks of the Delaware River. The despondent and demoralized group of men had...

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America

In a Single Blow The Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Beginning of the American Revolution

Greenwalt Phillip

ISBN: PB: 9781611213799, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images, 6 maps

"I have now nothing to trouble your Lordship with, but an affair that happened on the 19th instant..." General Thomas Gage penned the above line to his superiors in London, casually summing up the shots fired at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 17...

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From Docks and Sand Southport and Bootle's Battalion, The 7Th King's Liverpool Regiment, in the First World War

Gregson Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9781911512165, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

This book is a study of the importance and significance of community identity to a fighting unit in the First World War. In this case the unit in question is primarily 7th King's Regiment and more widely the 55th West Lancashire Division, 1914-18....

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Russian Army in the Great Northern War 1700-21 Uniforms, Organization, Materiel, Training and Combat Experience

Megorsky Boris

ISBN: PB: 9781911512882, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
196 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 8 colour illus., 30 black&white illus., maps

The book describes the armed forces of Peter the Great in its entirety, and covers in depth old Russian troops and irregulars, as well as Peter's new standing army (guards, infantry, dragoons, elite units and artillery) and his brand-new force(the na...

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America

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By Fire and Bayonet Grey's West Indies Campaign of 1794

Brown Steve

ISBN: HB: 9781911512608, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 8 maps

There have been few books about Grey's glorious (but ultimately ill-fated) West Indies campaign in the early years of the long and terrible wars of 1793-1815, yet five of the subalterns in Grey's expeditionary force went on to command divisions in We...

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