Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War
ISBN: PB: 9780300276718,
ISBN: HB: 9780300251029,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
472 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 25 black&white illus.
472 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 25 black&white illus.
A reminder that war is not always, or even generally, good for long-term growth.
Many believe that despite its destructive character, war ultimately boosts long-term economic growth. For the United States this view is often supported by appeal to th...
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23.00 GBP
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35.00 GBP
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How Finland Survived Stalin
From Winter War to Cold War, 1939-1950
ISBN: HB: 9780300273618,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
256 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 18 black&white illus.
256 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 18 black&white illus.
A dramatic and timely account of Stalin's failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed.
In November 1939, Stalin directed his military leaders to launch an invasion of Finland. In what became known...
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25.00 GBP
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Arctic Convoys
Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas
ISBN: HB: 9780300269444,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
288 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus.
An incisive account of the Arctic convoys, and the essential role Bletchley Park and Special Intelligence played in Allied success.
Between 1941 and 1945, more than eight hundred shiploads of supplies were delivered to the Soviet Union protected by...
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20.00 GBP
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Lost Peace
How We Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War
ISBN: HB: 9780300255010,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm
The first account of the new Cold War – revealing how today's renewed era of global great power competition could threaten us all.
The end of the Cold War in 1989 heralded a unique prospect for an enduring global peace, as harsh ideological divisio...
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25.00 GBP
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On Wars
ISBN: HB: 9780300266818,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
616 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
616 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them.
Benjamin Franklin once said, "There never was a good war or a bad peace". But what determines whether war or peace is chosen? Aw...
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30.00 GBP
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Convoys
The British Struggle Against Napoleonic Europe and America
ISBN: PB: 9780300273403,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
416 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 24 black&white illus.
416 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The first account of Britain's convoys during the Napoleonic Wars – showing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victory.
During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans, protected by...
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11.99 GBP
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Women in Intelligence
The Hidden History of Two World Wars
ISBN: HB: 9780300260779,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus.
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus.
A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century.
From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the co...
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25.00 GBP
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Sky Above Kharkiv
Dispatches from the Ukrainian Front
ISBN: HB: 9780300270860,
Yale University Press,
August 2023
208 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 33 colour illus.
208 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 33 colour illus.
From Ukraine's leading writer-activist comes an intimate account of resistance and survival in the earliest months of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Serhiy Zhadan took to social media to coordinate a ne...
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14.99 GBP
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Origins of Victory
How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
ISBN: HB: 9780300234091,
Yale University Press,
May 2023
568 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
568 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
How the character of war is changing and how militaries can successfully adapt to meet the challenge.
This book by military strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., is the definitive take on the race for military dominance in the twenty-first century...
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35.00 GBP
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Tempest
The Royal Navy and the Age of Revolutions
ISBN: HB: 9780300238273,
Yale University Press,
April 2023
448 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour illus., 10 maps
448 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour illus., 10 maps
A major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolution.
The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican France. Britain relied on the Royal Navy to protect its shores and empire...
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25.00 GBP
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