Small Wars
Too Big to Ignore
ISBN: HB: 9781849040822,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2025
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The end of the Cold War and the (then) receding threat of global nuclear conflagration were meant to usher in a "peace dividend": concomitantly warfare would decline as states devoted themselves to making money and providing for their respective soci...
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25.00 GBP
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Iranian Ways of War
From Cyrus the Great to Qassam Soleimani
ISBN: HB: 9781787380349,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2025
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
This book traces the long history of Iran's wars, and the evolution of the Islamic Republic's military trajectory since 1979. Ahmed Hashim draws on Farsi, Arabic and European sources to explore Iran's efforts to create modern armed forces, the devast...
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Death to Order
A History of Modern Assassination
ISBN: HB: 9780300258042,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A deeply researched history of assassination in the modern world, from Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Reinhard Heydrich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto...
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Crusader Criminals
The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land
ISBN: PB: 9780300284294,
ISBN: HB: 9780300276077,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
384 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 14 colour illus., 6 maps
384 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 14 colour illus., 6 maps
A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land.
The religious wars of the crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality beyond the battlefield. More so than any other medieva...
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War in the Smartphone Age
Conflict, Connectivity and the Crises at Our Fingertips
ISBN: HB: 9781911723998,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2025
312 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
312 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Fresh ways of thinking about war and information on the data-saturated battlefields of the twenty-first century - drawing on Russia's conflict with Ukraine.
Thanks to smartphones, war is everywhere, all the time. Anyone can view, analyse and comment...
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22.00 GBP
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No More Napoleons
How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One
ISBN: HB: 9780300275551,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
512 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 black&white illus., 4 maps
512 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 black&white illus., 4 maps
How, for just over a century, Britain ensured it would not face another Napoleon Bonaparte - manipulating European powers while building a global maritime empire.
At the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, a fragile peace emerged in Europe. The cont...
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25.00 GBP
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Vigilance Is Not Enough
A History of United States Intelligence
ISBN: HB: 9780300269291,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
832 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
832 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
A broad and deep survey of American intelligence from before the Revolution to the present.
Every nation has an intelligence apparatus - some means by which its top officials acquire needed information on sensitive issues. But each nation does it d...
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35.00 GBP
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Alfred Dreyfus
The Man at the Center of the Affair
ISBN: PB: 9780300281804,
ISBN: HB: 9780300254006,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
224 pp., 21,6x14,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
224 pp., 21,6x14,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents.
On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus's cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting "Death t...
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Mission Europe
The Secret History of the Women of SOE
ISBN: HB: 9780300272697,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
368 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus., 1 map
368 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus., 1 map
The remarkable history of the women who worked for Special Operations Executive across occupied Europe.
In the wake of the Nazi invasion of Europe, the tentative sparks of resistance in occupied countries were fanned by Britain's Special Operations...
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Supremacy at Sea
Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory
ISBN: PB: 9780300283884,
ISBN: HB: 9780300255454,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
396 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 32 black&white plates
396 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 32 black&white plates
The gripping account of the U.S. Navy's fast carrier force - and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the achievement of American naval supremacy.
Task Force 58 was World War II's most powerful battle fleet. Made up in mid-1944 of sixtee...
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