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War's Nomads A Mobile Radar Unit in Pursuit of Rommel during the Western Desert Campaign, 1942-1943

Grice Frederick

ISBN: HB: 9781612002880, Casemate, March 2015
240 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 25 black&white illus.

"War's Nomads" is an evocative account of one man's experience of life in a mobile radar unit after the battle of El Alamein as Rommel's AfrikaKorps was relentlessly pursued across the desert through Egypt, Libya and Tunisia by the Eighth Army. It is...

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War Bonds Love Stories from the Greatest Generation

Hval Cindy

ISBN: HB: 9781612002903, Casemate, March 2015
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, photos throughout

35 personal stories each starting with a WW2-era song title and ending with a personal "Love Lesson" from the couple.Beautiful stories of love and passion that took place amidst all the confusion and destruction of the Second World War.Over 120 black...

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Wellington's Wars The Making of a Military Genius

Davies Huw

ISBN: PB: 9780300208658, ISBN: HB: 9780300164176, Yale University Press, October 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington lives on in popular memory as the 'Invincible General', loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate – and controversial – n...

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WWII A Chronicle of Soldiering

Jones James

ISBN: PB: 9780226180939, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 3 maps, 1 line drawing

In 1975, James Jones – the American author whose novels "From Here to Eternity" and "The Thin Red Line" had made him the preeminent voice of the enlisted man in World War II – was chosen to write the text for an oversized coffee table book edited by...

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Why States Recover Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

Mills Greg

ISBN: PB: 9781849044615, Hurst Publishers, October 2014
680 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions – headed by warlords – around the spoils of l...

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World War II German Field Weapons & Equipment A Visual Reference Guide

Ward Keith

ISBN: PB: 9781909384446, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2014
144 pp., 29.7x21 cm

This title is the first in a series that employs a simple and effective concept to illustrate and describe the multiplicity of equipment and weapons systems used on the ground during World War II. Whilst many books have described such weapons and war...

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What Soldiers Do Sex and the American GI in World War II France

Roberts Mary Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780226923116, ISBN: HB: 9780226923093, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones

How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly – but if you're the US Army...

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War and War Crimes The Military, Legitimacy and Success in Armed Conflict

Gow James

ISBN: PB: 9781849040945, ISBN: HB: 9781849040938, Hurst Publishers, March 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The laws of war have always been concerned with issues of necessity and proportionality, but how are these principles applied in modern warfare? What are the pressures on practitioners where an increasing emphasis on legality i...

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War Comes to Garmser Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier

Malkasian Carter

ISBN: HB: 9781849042642, Hurst Publishers, March 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! War in Afghanistan will never be understood without getting to grips with the small places – the provinces, districts, and villages – where most of the fighting occurred, away from the cities, in hundreds of hamlets, valleys, a...

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Welcome Home, Boys! Military Victory Parades in New York City 1899-1946

Jobs Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9783593397450, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2013
276 pp., 21.5x14 cm

During the first half of the twentieth century military victory parades in New York became an iconic part of the American cultural memory – ticker tape and soldiers returning to their sweethearts symbolized the joy of a nation at peace. In this incis...

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