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In the Shadows of Victory II America's Forgotten Military Leaders, The Spanish-American War to World War II

Phillips Thomas D.

ISBN: HB: 9781612005461, Casemate, November 2017
288 pp., 21x15 cm, 30 illus.

During the course of America's existence, history has enshrined an exceptional few military leaders in the public's collective consciousness while sometimes ignoring others often equally as deserving, relegating them to footnotes at best. Though the...

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Military

Intimate War An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict

Martin Mike

ISBN: PB: 9781849048910, ISBN: HB: 9781849043366, Hurst Publishers, November 2017
424 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "An Intimate War" tells the story of the last thirty-four years of conflict in Helmand Province, Afghanistan as seen through the eyes of the Helmandis. In the West, this period is often defined through different lenses – the So...

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America

In the Shadow of Bois Hugo The 8th Lincolns at the Battle of Loos

Atter Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9781911512776, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 illus., maps

This is the first book dedicated to the subject of the 8th (Service) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment during the First World War – and this particular Kitchener battalion has been a neglected topic of study; however, there is a rich mine of informati...

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Military

Improbable War China, the United States and the Logic of Great Power Conflict

Coker Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781849048781, ISBN: HB: 9781849043960, Hurst Publishers, September 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Improbable War" explains why conflict between the USA and China cannot be ruled out. In 1914 war between the Great Powers was considered unlikely, yet it happened. We learn only from history, and popular though the First W...

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Europe

Military

In Nelson's Wake The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars

Davey James

ISBN: PB: 9780300228830, ISBN: HB: 9780300200652, Yale University Press, August 2017
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 colour illus., maps

The Napoleonic Wars saw Britain immersed in a conflict of unprecedented scale and intensity. With France dominant on the European mainland, the fate of the British population rested first and foremost on the Royal Navy and the thousands of individual...

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Middle East

Instability in the Middle East Structural Causes and Uneven Modernisation 1950-2012

Cerny Karel

ISBN: PB: 9788024634272, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Middle Eastern instability is manifest externally in many ways: by crises afflicting governing regimes, the rise of political Islam, terrorism, revolution, civil war, increased migration,...

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Middle East

Impossible Revolution Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy

al-Haj Saleh Yassin

ISBN: PB: 9781849048668, Hurst Publishers, July 2017
312 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a leftist dissident who spent sixteen years as a political prisoner and now lives in exile. He describes with precision and fervour the events that led to Syria's 2011 uprising, the metamorphosis of the p...

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Literary Criticism

Medieval

In the Skin of a Beast Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France

McCracken Peggy

ISBN: HB: 9780226458922, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates

In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet – whether as friends or foes – issues of mastery and submission are often at stake".In the Skin of a Beast" shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting lar...

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Europe

Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag The Violence of Stalin's Labor Camps

Alexopoulos Golfo

ISBN: HB: 9780300179415, Yale University Press, April 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror. In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin's Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labo...

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Military

Imperial Bayonets Tactics of the Napoleonic Battery, Battalion and Brigade as Found in Contemporary Regulations (New Edition)

Nafziger George

ISBN: HB: 9781911512233, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
296 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 7 charts, 94 tables, 132 illus.

"Imperial Bayonets" examines the maneuvering systems of the French, Prussians, Russians, Austrians and British from 1792 to 1815. It studies infantry maneuvers and firepower, cavalry maneuvers, and artillery. It is THE definitive work on Napoleonic t...

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