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Military Strategy A Global History

Black Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9780300217186, Yale University Press, February 2020
480 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

Strategy has existed as long as there has been organised conflict. In this new account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship between purpose, force, implementation and effectiveness in military strategy and its dramatic impact on the...

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Technology & Engineering

Motorcycles and Motorcycling in the USSR from 1939 A Social and Technical History

Turbett Colin

ISBN: HB: 9781787113145, Bookport, Veloce Publishing, March 2019
128 pp., 25x20.7 cm

This book provides the first accessible English language account of motorcycles in the Soviet Union. Concentrating on the wartime and postwar period until 1990, prior to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, it covers the motorcycles produced, and loo...

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Magyar Warriors Volume 1: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces, 1919-1945

Bernad Denes, Kliment Charles K.

ISBN: PB: 9781912174164, ISBN: HB: 9781906033880, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
404 pp., 24.6x17.8 cm, 500 black&white photos, 43 tables, 13 maps

The Hungarian armed forces, known as the Honvedseg, were built up in the 1930s, their expansion gaining momentum once Hungary became free of the strict post- World War I Trianon treaty limitations in August 1938. Politically, Hungary was looking for...

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Cartography

Maps of Fredericksburg An Atlas of the Fredericksburg Campaign, Including all Cavalry Operations, September 18, 1862 - January 22, 1863

Gottfried Bradley

ISBN: HB: 9781611213713, Casemate, Savas Beatie, September 2018
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 122 maps

"The Maps of Fredericksburg: An Atlas of the Fredericksburg Campaign, Including all Cavalry Operations, September 18, 1862 – January 22, 1863" continues Bradley M. Gottfried's efforts to study and illustrate the major campaigns of the Civil War's Eas...

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Africa

Masters of Mayhem Laurence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz

Stejskal James

ISBN: HB: 9781612005744, Casemate, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 pages of black&white photos

Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness before he can react. Never confronting a stronger force directly, but willing to use audacity and surprise to confound and demoralize an opponent. Operations driven by good intell...

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Middle East

More Than a Doctrine The Eisenhower Era in the Middle East

Fowler Randall

ISBN: HB: 9781612349978, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map

Given on January 5, 1957, the Eisenhower Doctrine Address forever changed America's relationship with the Middle East. Announcing that "a greater responsibility now devolves upon the United States" in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis, President Eisen...

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Military History of Modern South Africa

van der Waag Ian

ISBN: HB: 9781612005829, Casemate, April 2018
420 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 illus.

Twentieth-century South Africa saw continuous, often rapid and fundamental socio-economic and political change. The century started with a brief but total war. Less than ten years later Britain brought the conquered Boer republics and the Cape and Na...

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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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Marine Corps Way of War The Evolution of the U.S. Marine Corps from Attrition to Maneuver Warfare in the Post-Vietnam Era

Piscitelli Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9781611213607, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 images, 2 charts, 2 maps

The Marine Corps Way of War examines the evolving doctrine, weapons, and capability of the United States Marine Corps during the four decades since our last great conflict in Asia. As author Anthony Piscitelli demonstrates, the USMC has maintained it...

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Africa

Mobile Warfare for Africa On the Successful Conduct of Wars in Africa and Beyond - Lessons Learned from the South African Border War

DeVries Roland, Burger Camille, Steenkamp Willem

ISBN: PB: 9781912174089, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
528 pp., 24.6x17 cm, 330 photos, 40 maps

Presenting a remarkable amount of experience drawing primarily from South Africa's Border War in the form of case studies, supported fully by an extensive number of photographs and specially commissioned maps, this study has applications for historia...

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