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Canadians on the Somme, 1916 The Neglected Campaign

Stewart William F.

ISBN: HB: 9781911512950, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 77 black&white pictures, 6 diags, 32 maps, 12 tables

Ordered lines of heavily laden soldiers with rifles at "high port" trudging through mud against uncut barbed wire under heavy machine gun fire is the enduring view of the Somme 1916. What makes Canada's Somme campaign so difficult to characterise was...

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Europe

Military

Civil War London A Military History of London under Charles I and Oliver Cromwell

Flintham David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512622, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 illus.

London was the critical location throughout the English Civil Wars – a fact that has been emphasised by countless historians, with some going as far to say that by fleeing his capital in January 1642, King Charles I lost the war several months before...

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America

Military

Confederate Courage on Other Fields Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness

Crawford Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781611213522, Casemate, Savas Beatie, July 2017
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 6 maps, 53 images

"Confederate Courage on Other Fields: Overlooked Episodes of Leadership, Cruelty, Character, and Kindness" offers four valuable but little-studied events of the Civil War. Each story explores the hardships of battle, and demonstrations of courage and...

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Military

Islam

Caliphate at War The Ideological, Organisational and Military Innovations of Islamic State

Hashim Ahmed S.

ISBN: HB: 9781849046435, Hurst Publishers, July 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The military victories of ISIS have overturned the geopolitical map of the Middle East. Media attention has focused on ISIS' savage treatment of its enemies and its ability to attract foreign fighters. However, in order to expl...

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Middle East

Crossing the River Kabul An Afghan Family Odyssey

McLean Kevin

ISBN: HB: 9781612348971, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Baryalai Popal sees his Western-educated professors at Kabul University replaced by communists. He witnesses his classmates "disappearing". The communist takeover uproots Popal from his family and home. Thus begins Crossing the River Kabul, the true...

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Ecology

America

Coast Beyond Compare Coastal Geology and Ecology of Southern Alaska

Hayes Miles O., Michel Jacqueline

ISBN: PB: 9780981661841, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2017
350 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 183 colour plates, 9 halftones

The southern coast of Alaska stretches over six hundred miles, its sweeping crescent studded with glaciers and beaches that connect temperate rainforest to frozen islands. While its soaring beauty attracts thousands of visitors a year, it also hides...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Contender Richard Nixon, the Congress Years, 1946-1952

Gellman Irwin F.

ISBN: PB: 9780300220209, Yale University Press, May 2017
624 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The definitive account of Richard Nixon's congressional career, back in print with a new preface. Unsurpassed in the fifteen years since its original publication, Irwin F. Gellman's exhaustively researched work is the definitive account of Richard N...

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Europe

Colonial Violence European Empires and the Use of Force

Walter Dierk

ISBN: HB: 9781849048071, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Western interventions today have much in common with the countless violent conflicts that have occurred on Europe's periphery since the conquest of the Americas. Like their predecessors, modern imperial wars are shaped by geogr...

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Military

Criminology

Cyber War Will Not Take Place

Rid Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9781849047128, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
232 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Cyber war is coming", announced a landmark RAND report in 1993. In 2005, the U.S. Air Force boasted it would now fly, fight, and win in cyberspace, the "fifth domain" of warfare. This book takes stock, twenty years on: is cybe...

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Military

Courage in Combat Stories by and about Recipients of the Nation's Highest Awards

Rinaldo Richard J.

ISBN: PB: 9781612004563, Casemate, April 2017
456 pp., 23.6x15.9 cm

Published in conjunction with the Legion of Valor of the United States of America, this is an anthology of pieces about courage in combat, including stories by and about recipients of the United States' highest decorations, the Medal of Honor, the Di...

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