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.
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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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
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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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.
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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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.
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
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
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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Battleground 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9780300281088, ISBN: HB: 9780300263428, Yale University Press, April 2025
320 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 13 maps
The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East. The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instea...
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Second Front Anglo-American Rivalry and the Hidden Story of the Normandy Campaign
ISBN: HB: 9780300278873, Yale University Press, April 2025
800 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus., 6 maps
A revelatory new account of the Second World War – and how bitter competition between the Allies would shape the postwar world. In June 1944, an Allied army of British, American, and Canadian troops sought to open up a Second Front in Normandy. But...
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Tides of Fortune The Rise and Decline of Great Militaries
ISBN: HB: 9780300268676, Yale University Press, April 2025
264 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
An ambitious look at how the twentieth century's great powers devised their military strategies and what their implications mean for military competition between the United States and China. How will the United States and China evolve militarily in...
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Burying the Enemy The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars
ISBN: HB: 9780300273977, Yale University Press, March 2025
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 39 black&white illus., 2 maps
A fascinating and moving history of the British and German war dead buried on enemy soil in the two world wars. Why do societies only remember their own national war dead? Today, the enemy dead might be largely hidden from view, but this wasn't alw...
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