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  • - A South African Conscript in the Border War in Angola and Namibia
    av Evan Davies
    271

  • av Jonathan Oates
    321 - 371

  • - Uppingham and the Great War
    av Timothy Halstead
    337

  • - Rhodesian Security Forces 1979-80, South African Defence Force 1981-83
    av Dave Barr
    431

    Dave Barr knew from the age of 12 that he wanted to be a marine. Following a series of menial jobs - including working as a shoe shiner in a barber's shop and stints in service stations - at 17 he joined the Marines before shipping out to Vietnam. This was his dream come true - flying as a helicopter gunner - and he ended the war with an impressive

  • - Portugal'S First Elite Force
    av John P. Cann
    261

  • av Tom Cooper
    261 - 271

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    av Soviet General Staff
    481 - 547

  • - The Transvaal Campaign, 1880-1881
    av John Laband
    321

    The ignominious rout of a British force at the Battle of Majuba on 27 February 1881 - and the death of its commander, Major General Sir George Pomeroy-Colley - was the culminating British disaster in the humiliating Transvaal campaign of 1880-1881 in South Africa. For the victorious Boers, who were rebelling against the British annexation of their

  • - The Fall of South Vietnam
    av Albert Grandolini
    261

  • - The Seven Years' War in North America from the French Journals of Comte Maures De Malartic, 1755-1760
     
    321

    'These are the facts and notes taken by a soldier on campaign, written daily, sometimes in a tent, sometimes in a canoe, today in the presence of the enemy, tomorrow in conference with a tribe of savages'. This succinct description is taken from the original French edition of the journal of Comte Maurès de Malartic. Malartic, major of the Régiment

  • - Rhodesia and Chemical Biological Warfare 1975-1980
    av Glenn Cross
    367

    Dirty War is the first comprehensive look at Rhodesia's top secret use of chemical and biological weapons (CBW) during their long counterinsurgency against native African nationalists. Having declared its Independence from Great Britain in 1965, the government almost immediately faced a growing threat. In the midst of this long, terrible conflict,

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    - The First World War and the Peace Conferences
    av Martin Gibson
    417

    The First World War showed the vital importance of oil. The use of oil-fuelled aircraft, tanks, motor vehicles - and especially warships - increased greatly during the war. Britain and its allies found themselves in an oil crisis in 1917, but it was overcome (with difficulty) and the Allies' greater oil resources - mostly supplied by the USA - cont

  • av Peter Dennis
    271

    In this title in the 'Battle for Britain' series, well-known historical illustrator Peter Dennis takes the battle out to sea - supplying all the artwork needed to create the navies which clashed in the English Channel at a moment of supreme danger for the realm. Artwork is also supplied for a printable squared sea surface, coastline and islands. He

  • av Peter Dennis
    271

    In the 'Battle for Britain' series, well-known historical illustrator Peter Dennis breathes life back into the 19th century paper soldier - supplying all the artwork needed to create the armies which struggled for supremacy through our island history. Here, the Legions of Rome and the fierce Celtic inhabitants of Britannia can clash again using sim

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    417

    The amount of international research on children and war - carried out by academics, governments and non-governmental organisations - has continually increased in recent years. Simultaneously, there has been growing public interest in how children experience military conflicts and how their lives have been affected by war and its aftermath. In ligh

  • - The Forgotten Fronts
    av Tom Cooper
    261

    The Iran-Iraq War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century and accidentally created the current nightmare of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. There have been many books on the conflict, but this is the first detailed military history using materials from both sides, as well as materials obtained from US Intelligence circles and Briti

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    - Combat, Psychology and Morale in the British 19th (Western) Division 1915-18
    av James Roberts
    417

    In this ground-breaking work, James Roberts examines the willingness and ability of British volunteer and conscript infantrymen of the Great War to perform the soldier's fundamental role: to kill or maim the enemy, and accept the attendant chance of being killed or wounded. Literature to date has been, paradoxically, somewhat silent on the soldier'

  • - Supplying the Troops on the Western Front 1914-1918, Documentary Sources
    av David Rogers
    271

    Soldiers in the trenches were issued with four bullets a day, unless they were either snipers or manned a machine gun. This does not seem like a lot of bullets; however, four bullets a day is 28 per week - therefore, a million soldiers need 28 million bullets per week. Of course, there were a lot more than a million troops at the Western Front, so

  • - The Birth of the British Army
    av Stephen Ede-Borrett
    371

  • - The Russo-Ottoman War of 1711
    av Nicholas Dorrell
    321

    In 1711, Peter the Great - the Tsar of Russia - led a large army of veterans from Poltava and his other Great Northern War victories into the Balkans. He aimed to humble the Ottomans in the same way he had the Swedes a few years before. Victory would secure useful allies in the Balkans, cement Russia's 'Great Power' status and offer Peter the oppor

  • - The Campaigns and Armies of the Earl of Essex During the First Civil War, 1642-44
    av Alan Turton
    371

    'Hey For Old Robin!' was the cry of the Earl of Essex's army during the First Civil War as, contrary to modern popular belief, Robert Devereux was well-liked by the men he led. This book fills a gap in the literature of the civil wars - taking up the challenge to write a new history of Essex and his army and examining the often repeated view that h

  • - The Army of the Dutch Republic, 1713-1772, Part I: Infantry
    av Marc Geerdink-Schaftenaar
    321

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    - Southport and Bootle'S Battalion, the 7th King'S Liverpool Regiment, in the First World War
    av Adrian Gregson
    417

    This book is a study of the importance of community identity to a fighting unit in the First World War. In this case, the unit in question is primarily 7th King's Regiment - and more widely, the 55th West Lancashire Division (1914-1918). The book is based upon the author's own PhD thesis - 'The 1/7th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment and the Grea

  • - Hunting Insurgents in the Rhodesian Bush War, a Memoir
    av Lindsay O’Brien
    287

    Bandit Mentality captures Lindsay 'Kiwi' O'Brien's Bush War service from 1976-1980 at the coalface of the Rhodesian conflict. Starting in the BSA Police Support Unit - the police professional anti-terrorist battalion - he served across the country as a section leader and a troop commander before joining the UANC political armies as a trainer and ad

  • - Northen Ireland and the Troubles 1984-87
    av Ken Wharton
    337 - 431

  • - The Diaries of Private Jack Smallshaw, September 1914-March 1919
    av Steve Corbett
    271

    September 1914, and the whole of Europe was at war following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914. In France and Belgium, the British Expeditionary Force were struggling to hold back the German hoards as their casualties began to mount. Back in Britain the call went out f

  • - The Royalist Army in Exile in the War Against Cromwell 1656-1660
    av John Barratt
    321

  • - Past and Present
     
    321

    The amount of international research on 'Children and War' carried out by academics, governments and non-governmental organizations has continually increased in recent years. At the same time there has been growing public interest in how children experience military conflicts and how their lives have been affected by war and its aftermath. In light of the many brutal post-colonialist civil wars or 'new wars', especially in Africa and Asia, child soldiers have in particular gained increased attention. Simultaneously, since the 1990s, the history of the Holocaust and World War II has also increasingly been written from the perspective of children; those who speak out now and publish their memoirs experienced the Holocaust as children. A similar generational change has also taken place in the societies of the perpetrators: Germans and Austrians who experienced the war as children took over the role of war witnesses from the soldiers of the German Wehrmacht. Moreover, intensified focus on children's experiences and their strategies for dealing with what they went through is evident in Eastern Europe as well. In Children and War: Past and Present scholars from different academic disciplines, practitioners in the field, and representatives of government and non-governmental institutions approach this sensitive subject from different angles and in various methodological ways. The book shows how children expressed their experiences in letters, memoirs and diaries during and after World War I and World War II and how children remembered those wars. Many of the authors also deal with various long-term psychological effects. Using the example of children's literature in World War I and the representation of child survivors in the postwar cinema, another focus of the book is on the representation of children in different wars. Based on post-colonial and contemporary wars in Africa, images of girl and boy soldiers created by the media, NGOs and governments as well as trends in how they are represented in contemporary research are also discussed. The last section of the book concentrates on various institutions such as welfare organizations and NGOs dealing with children in different wars. How have institutions supported children? And concerning contemporary conflicts, how does the international community face the question of international justice and adapt to children's needs?

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    - Intelligence and Reconnaissance in British Tank Operations on the Western Front 1916-18
    av Colin Hardy
    417

    This is the first book devoted to the subject of reconnaissance in the nascent Tank Corps in the Great War. It is a neglected field in spite of passing references to reconnaissance in a number of early books on the history of the Tank Corps. This is also the first attempt to provide a conceptual framework in which to consider intelligence and reconnaissance work and to see it in the broader context of military reconnaissance. Adding the term 'Reconography' to the military lexicon draws attention to a little-known monograph on the subject which has never entered the popular domain before now. The introduction of the tanks on the Western Front in 1916 launched a new form of armored warfare. After their baptism on 15 September 1916, the tanks became dependent on a few reconnaissance officers to guide them into action. The importance of these officers was fully recognized within the Tank Corps itself, but less so outside. The reconnaissance officers came to form an elite group of talented men, a special caste, whose contribution to the nascent Tank Corps was far greater than their numbers might suggest. It is surprising, therefore, that the contribution made by these officers has hitherto been neglected in the historiography of British tank operations in the First World War. This book aims to appeal at a number of levels: it seeks to pull together the activities, skills and techniques of tank Intelligence and reconnaissance officers and assess their place and contribution to British tank operations in the Great War; it places tank reconnaissance work in the wider context of intelligence and reconnaissance activities prior to the war and it also provides a case study of the tensions that inevitably occur when new wine is put into old bottles, or more prosaically, new technology into existing organizations. It has been necessary to create conceptual structures in which reconnaissance operations can be analyzed; it attempts to breathe life into what some might regard as a dull technical subject by devoting space to key figures in Tank Corps' intelligence and reconnaissance activities. Fortunately, and perhaps as a consequence of their activities, they were some of the most colorful and interesting figures in the Tank Corps at that time. In awarding the author the WFA-Helion Holmes Prize, the judges concluded that 'his work reflects deep research, a high standard of writing and a notable originality'.

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