Small Wars
Too Big to Ignore
ISBN: HB: 9781849040822,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2026
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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Coker on War
Strategic Thinking for Uncertain Times
ISBN: PB: 9781805264347,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2026
312 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
312 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A homage to the late, great scholar of war, exploring his considerable legacy and engaging with questions of conflict and strategy in the same spirit.
From the collapse of the Soviet Union and the "end of history" to the rise of Islamist terrorism a...
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27.50 GBP
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Baltic States in the Second World War
A History
ISBN: HB: 9781805264200,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2026
424 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
424 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
This new history reveals that the Baltic States were as fiercely contested between the Germans and Russians as any flashpoint of the Second World War.
Comparing a map of Europe from 1936 with one from 1946, all the countries are there, albeit with s...
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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,
March 2026
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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30.00 GBP
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Black Cross
A History of the Baltic Crusades
ISBN: HB: 9780300279061,
Yale University Press,
January 2026
480 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 24 black&white illus., 7 maps
480 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 24 black&white illus., 7 maps
A wide-ranging new history of the Baltic Crusades and their legacy.
Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last pagan societies in northern Europe, particularly in the Baltic Sea re...
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25.00 GBP
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Fallout
The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea
ISBN: HB: 9780300278774,
Yale University Press,
January 2026
544 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 21 black&white illus.
544 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 21 black&white illus.
A behind-the-scenes look into why U.S. efforts to contain North Korea's nuclear capabilities have not worked.
For almost four decades, the United States has tried to stop North Korea's attempts to build nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver t...
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30.00 GBP
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Imperfect Equilibrium
Civil-Military Relations in Russian Defense Policymaking
ISBN: PB: 9781805264279,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2026
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Why has Russia's military struggled to adapt to the challenges of contemporary warfare?
Despite years of attempts to improve its military capabilities, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 revealed a crippling lack of skill, discipline an...
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25.00 GBP
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Russia and Iran
Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine
ISBN: HB: 9781911723738,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2025
368 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
368 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Charts the evolution of the Russia-Iran relationship in the twenty-first century, from tenuous alignment to robust partnership.
Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has cast a spotlight on Russia's burgeoning partnership with Iran...
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30.00 GBP
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Arab Bureau
The Story of Britain's Most Ingenious Intelligence Unit
ISBN: HB: 9781805264255,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2025
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A fascinating study of the British Empire's Middle Eastern intelligence section during the First World War, drawing on government files and secret publications.
In the midst of the First World War, an extraordinary intelligence unit operated from Ca...
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25.00 GBP
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Dark Path
The Structure of War and the Rise of the West
ISBN: PB: 9780300285536,
ISBN: HB: 9780300270686,
Yale University Press,
November 2025
488 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
488 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
From an esteemed military historian, a sweeping history of the revolutions in war-fighting that have shaped the modern world.
Heraclitus wrote that "war is the father of all", and it has formed much of the modern world. Although the fundamental nat...
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12.99 GBP
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30.00 GBP
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