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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30.00 GBP
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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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Cracking the Crab
Russian Espionage Against Japan, from Peter the Great to Richard Sorge
ISBN: PB: 9781805263036,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The fascinating history of Russia's secret agents targeting Japan, from the Edo shogunate to the Second World War.
Richard Sorge is one of history's most famous spies. This hard-drinking, womanising, motorcycle-crashing Soviet officer penetrated the...
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30.00 GBP
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Economic War
Ukraine and the Global Conflict between Russia and the West
ISBN: PB: 9781805263166,
ISBN: HB: 9781787389564,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Winner of the US - Russia Relations Book Prize from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Selected as one of the "Books to Read in 2023" in the Financial Times
How a revolution in Ukraine precipitated an international economic...
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17.99 GBP
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30.00 GBP
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Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland
A Life in Geopolitics
ISBN: PB: 9781805263142,
ISBN: HB: 9781787389373,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
328 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 41 black&white illus.
328 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 41 black&white illus.
An award-winning critical biography of Finland's towering leader, charting his statecraft, his political journey and his strategic bravado, carving out independence between Stalin and Hitler.
Field marshal and statesman Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951)...
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16.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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Military Theory and the Conduct of War
What Is Strategy All About?
ISBN: HB: 9781911723936,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
176 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
176 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
Is there a universal theory for the conduct of war?
The question of whether there is a general, universal theory for the conduct of war has long preoccupied military thinkers, army personnel and students of conflict. Warfare has been radically trans...
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18.99 GBP
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Insecure Guardians
Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi
ISBN: PB: 9781787389236,
ISBN: HB: 9781787386884,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
404 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 24 black&white illus.
404 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 24 black&white illus.
An in-depth study of the policing practices of an insecure state, foregrounding the experiences of officers on the frontline of Pakistan's armed conflicts.
The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its co...
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15.99 GBP
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40.00 GBP
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Russia's Man of War
The Extraordinary Viktor Bout
ISBN: HB: 9781911723943,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 colour illus.
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 colour illus.
An intrepid reporter's fast-paced investigation into the extraordinary life of Viktor Bout, the much-mythologised Russian fixer known as the "Merchant of Death".
Viktor Bout was a warlord's warlord, according to MI6, the US National Security Council...
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25.00 GBP
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To Die with Such Men
Frontline Stories from Ukraine's International Legion
ISBN: HB: 9781911723899,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 8 colour illus.
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 8 colour illus.
Based on interviews and body-cam footage, a gripping account of British and American volunteers fighting in Ukraine, from Kyiv to Bakhmut.
This book is "Black Hawk Down" meets "Enemy at the Gates" meets "Band of Brothers", and it's all true. It's ab...
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20.00 GBP
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