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Baptism of Fire The First Combat Experiences of the Royal Hungarian Air Force and Slovak Air Force, March 1939
ISBN: PB: 9781906033934, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2011
136 pp., 24.8x18.4 cm, 150 black&white photos, 8 colour aircraft profiles, 1 map
This story is a short but devastating episode from the turbulent history of Central Europe in the 20th Century, one that is hardly known outside the countries concerned. This short conflict was hushed up even in the German media in 1939, because the...
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£21,00
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Battle of Marathon
ISBN: PB: 9780300177664, Yale University Press, October 2011
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.
How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this s...
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£17,00
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Barbarous Philosophers Reflections on the Nature of War from Heraclitus to Heisenberg
ISBN: HB: 9781849040891, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This is not a book about philosophy and war. It is a book on contemporary conflict in which the author invokes philosophy to help understand the problems that we face in fighting war today. "Barbarous Philosophers" sets out to...
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£45,00
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Black Devils' March - A Doomed Odyssey The 1st Polish Armoured Division 1939-45
ISBN: PB: 9781906033538, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2010
160 pp., 30.5x22.2 cm, 94 photos, 9 maps
The Black Devils March is an account of how the 1st (and only) Polish Armoured Division in the West under the leadership of General Stanislaw Maczek, arose out of the ashes of defeat and while attempting to avoid the internal politics of the Polish G...
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£25,00
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Barbarisation of Warfare
ISBN: PB: 9781850657996, Hurst Publishers, August 2006
334 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Images from Baghdad's now notorious Abu Ghraib prison have come to define the ill-starred occupation of Iraq, but they also remind us of war's undiminished brutality and indiscriminate excess. Yet, what happened in Abu Ghraib t...
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£20,00
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