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Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb A Story of Defiance, Deterrence, and Deviance

Abbas Hassan

ISBN: HB: 9781849047159, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book provides a comprehensive account of the mysterious story of Pakistan's attempt to develop nuclear weapons in the face of severe odds. Hassan Abbas profiles the politicians and scientists involved, and the role of Chin...

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Christianity

Project Eagle The American Christians of North Korea in World War II

Kim Robert S.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348698, Casemate, Potomac Books, May 2017
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Robert S. Kim contributes to a fuller understanding of Asia in World War II by revealing the role of American Christian missionary families in the development of the Korean independence movement and the creation of the forgotten alliance between that...

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Political Science

Police in Africa The Street Level View

Beek Jan, Gopfert Micro, Owen Olly, Steinberg Jonny

ISBN: PB: 9781849045773, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! State police forces in Africa are a curiously neglected subject of study, even within the framework of security issues and African states. This book brings together criminologists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, pol...

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Biography & Memoires

Passchendaele 103 Days in Hell

Churchill Alexandra, Holmes Andrew, Dyer Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9781911512301, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
224 pp., 24.2x27.5 cm, 8 maps, 130 black&white illus.

2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the 3rd Battle of Ypres. In "Passchendaele: 103 Days in Hell", Alexandra Churchill, with Andrew Holmes and Jonathan Dyer, explains this pivotal engagement using 103 personal stories of men who fought in it. Using a...

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Africa

Paras Portugal's First Elite Force in Africa, 1961-1974

Cann John P.

ISBN: PB: 9781911512486, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
72 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 27 colour illus., 73 black&white illus.

Portuguese paratroopers or "paras" began as a stepchild of the army and found a home in the Portuguese Air Force in 1955. Initially, the post-World War Two Portuguese Army seemed to have had mixed emotions about the need for elite, special-purpose fo...

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Portuguese Commandos Feared Insurgent Hunters, 1961-1974

Cann John P.

ISBN: PB: 9781911096320, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 90 black&white illus., 10 colour photos, 10 tables, 15 maps

During the 13-year insurgency (1961-74) in Portuguese Africa, more than 800,000 men and women served in the Portuguese armed forces. Of this number, about 9,000 served as commandos (or about 1 percent). Yet their combat losses ? 357 dead, 28 missing...

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Phantoms of Bribie The Jungles of Vietnam to Corporate Life and Everything in Between

Mackay Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781925275575, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
320 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm, 50 black&white illus. and maps

The Phantoms of Bribie is a highly readable blend of an engaging yarn and a fascinating portrayal of operational service in Vietnam as an infantry company commander, leading some 100 fine young national service and regular soldiers in close quarter j...

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Passchendaele The Untold Story

Prior Robin, Wilson Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780300221213, Yale University Press, August 2016
280 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 16 black&white illus.

No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied...

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Aviation

Phoenix: A Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945 Volume 1: The Phoenix is Reborn 1918-1934

Meredith Richard

ISBN: HB: 9781910294505, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2016
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 3 tables, 115 black&white illus.

Based on forty years of detailed research, the Phoenix Project is a unique history of the wartime German Luftwaffe. Going far beyond a simple description of famous air battles and operations the overall work draws extensively on original documents, s...

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Photosniper, No. 07 Chieftain Main Battle Tank - Development And Active Service From Prototype To Mk.11

Griffin Robert

ISBN: PB: 9788362878529, Casemate, Kagero, January 2016
72 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 137 colour photos, 20 painting schemes

Not for sale in Poland! The Chieftain was a radical evolutionary development of the successful Centurion line of tanks that had emerged at the end of the Second World War. The British had learned during the war that their tanks often lacked suffici...

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