For sale in CIS only! Spared by the Arab revolts, Bouteflika's Algeria continues to intrigue observers. How does its political system function? Who really governs? Who are behind the protests? How strong are the Islamists? Are there alternatives to...

For sale in CIS only! Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the "Shabaab", or youth, the only self-proclaimed branch of al-Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ay...

For sale in CIS only! Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many – histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing saga of decolonisation and state-building, conflict, ec...

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...

The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Using the stories of tapper Bil...

"Armoured Hussars 2" provides a highly-illustrated account of the 1st Polish Armoured Division's baptism of fire in Normandy in August 1944, from Operations Totalise and Tractable to the victory at Falaise, culminating at the climactic battle on Mont...

For sale in CIS only! Recent international intervention in Afghanistan has reproduced familiar versions of the Afghan national story, from repeatedly doomed invasions to perpetual fault lines of ethnic division. Yet almost no attention has been paid...

In this sweeping and lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from prehistoric times through the Ottoman period. The study is struct...

The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from the Western world and ends with the Norman takeover of England. Between these epochal events, many of the contours and patterns of Engl...

Adam's Armour 1 and 2 the ultimate in armour modelling guides! Adam's Armour 1 modelling guide is the ultimate in the construction of armour modelling! Adam Wilder's pioneering processes and techniques are described by him in the greatest of detail....