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Darfur and the British
ISBN: HB: 9781850659488, Hurst Publishers, January 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This volume presents annotated selections from the British records that were copied in situ by the author in al-Fashir and Kutum in 1970 and 1974 and of which the originals were subsequently destroyed by accident. The British w...
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£65,00
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"Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926 Ten Years That Shook the World
ISBN: PB: 9781849047210, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
480 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth...
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£16,99
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Faith, Unity, Discipline The Inter-Service-Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan
ISBN: HB: 9781849045179, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Established in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-8 by British officer Major General Robert Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Army, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for years remained an...
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£40,00
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Bosnia's Paralysed Peace
ISBN: PB: 9781849040549, ISBN: HB: 9781849040532, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Two decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement came into force, Bosnia is not at war. However, the absence of war is not peace. Bosnia has failed to move on from conflict. Political processes are deadlocked. The country is in a s...
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£16,99
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£45,00
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Long Watch War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka
ISBN: HB: 9781849046404, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "A Long Watch" is the story of the highest-ranking prisoner detained by the Tamil Tigers during Sri Lanka's civil war, a naval officer pulled from a dark ocean after a battle at sea. For eight years Commodore Boyagoda lived at...
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£20,00
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Blood Year Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror
ISBN: PB: 9781849045551, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
124 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Blood Year" is an unsparingly honest, self-critical analysis of the collapse of western counterterrorism strategy, by one of its original architects. As a soldier, counterterrorism official, and Chief Strategist in the US Stat...
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£9,99
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Ottoman Culture of Defeat The Balkan Wars and their Aftermath
ISBN: HB: 9781849045414, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
260 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! When the first Balkan War broke out in October 1912, few Ottomans anticipated that it would prove to be a watershed moment for the Empire, ending in ignominy, national catastrophe, and the loss of its remaining provinces in the...
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£50,00
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Army of Afghanistan A Political History of a Fragile Institution
ISBN: HB: 9781849044813, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book is the first full length political history of the Afghan Army, and as such is unparalleled in the range and depth of its analysis of this vitally important institution. Giustozzi locates the Army's development within...
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£50,00
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Balochistan, the British and the Great Game The Struggle for the Bolan Pass, Gateway to India
ISBN: HB: 9781849044790, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Great Game for Central Asia led to British involvement in Balochistan, a sparsely-populated area in Pakistan, mostly desert and mountain, and containing the Bolan Pass, the southern counterpart of the more famous Khyber. It...
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£45,00
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Collateral Damage A Candid History of a Peculiar Form of Death
ISBN: HB: 9781849044073, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The dilemmas precipitated by the unintentional killing of civilians in war, or "collateral damage", shape many aspects of military conduct, yet noticeable by its absence has been a methodical examination of the place and role o...
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£35,00
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