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This work seeks to reverse assessments of Italy's World War One contribution as slow and unprepared. Instead we seek to argue that Italy instead was a creative and innovative actor, whose navy's willingness to adapt to heartfelt objectives against greater foes, led to the development of the modern naval commando.

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Operation Allied Force was launched by NATO against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia) on 24 March 1999. The authors have analyzed the experiences of both sides, based on original facts and figures, since the they received the opportunity to compare the experiences on relevant sources from both sides.

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Exclusive cross-examination of the major air war fought over Serbia in 1999, providing detailed reconstructions of air combats between F-15s, F-16s and MiG-29s.

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This book tells the story of the international intervention that took place in Somalia, the successes, failures and lessons learned.

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Just three months after Indian forces withdrew from Sri Lanka, the war between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan government resumed. Illustrated with over 100 photographs, maps and colour profiles, Paradise Afire Volume 3 continues the story of the internal strife that plagued Sri Lanka in the late 20th Century.

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Relying on extensive studies of the Sri Lankan War with the help of first-hand sources, official documentation and publications from all of involved parties, this volume provides an in-depth and particularly detailed account of military operations during the first 16 years of this war.

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A comprehensive, in-depth, and richly-illustrated study of the US-Cuban relations during the first half of the 1950s.

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Never before has the world come as close to destruction as it did in October 1962. Barely 18 months after the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the US, Cuba and the Soviet Union once again came toe to toe in a show of intimidation.

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This is a book about failure, about lessons unlearned. The destruction of Montecassino was one of the most controversial, and pointless acts of the Second World War. Why was this most important cultural building in Europe destroyed in February of 1944 This book attempts to provide an answer.

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The end of the First World War saw the fields of Flanders contaminated by incalculable amounts of unexploded munitions and thousands of rotting corpses still exposed on the old battlefields. This is the story of how the battlefields of Belgium were, and still are, being cleared of the legacy of the Great War.

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In 2005-2006, widespread public anger with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra resulted in a crisis that formed the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD, so-called 'Yellow Shirts').

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Volume 1 of the Red Star versus Rising Sun mini-series examines the origins of the rapidly modernizing Imperial Japanese Army and its expansion, largely unfettered by civilian political constraints, into mainland Asia from the late 19th century up until 1938.

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This book covers the intense preparations for the coup of September 1955 and the conflict itself, described day by day in detail, along with the subsequent exile and return of President Peron.

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This book examines the military aspects of the 'Cyprus Problem', which in 1963-1974 escalated into a major international crisis, a Turkish invasion of Cyprus, and a near-war between Greece and Turkey.

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San Carlos to Stanley tells 40 Commandos untold role in the Falklands with many personal accounts from the officers and men of 40 Commando including being stranded in a minefield for several hours and a daylight helicopter assault onto Argentine positions on Sapper Hill under heavy fire.

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A detailed account and operational analysis of Portugal's air campaign over Portuguese Guinea from 1963-1974, with particular emphasis on the evolution of counter-insurgent air operations and guerrilla air defense measures.

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This second volume continues the examination of the struggle in Western Sahara that involved POLISARIO, Morocco, Mauritania and France from 1975-1991.

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Illustrated by over 100 photographs, dozens of maps and colour profiles, Showdown in Western Sahara offers a fascinating study of the military aspects of this conflict, its strategy, tactics and experiences with different weapons systems.

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By 1982, the backbone of the Argentine combat aviation was formed of Douglas A-4 Skyhawks, they took on the overwhelming struggle to fight the British Task Force that opposed the Argentine forces on the Malvinas/Falkland Islands.

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Of all the books about South Africa's 21-year 'Border War' - fought on both sides of Angola's frontier with present-day Namibia - this book has always been rated as among the best. A significant, full-color volume, it originally sold 31,000 copies in South Africa alone and has been out of print for decades, now updated and back in print.

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Soviet Military Aviation in Central Asia 1917-41 draws upon Russian-language written sources and photographic archives to tell the story of the inter-war use of air power in Soviet Central Asia and is illustrated with unique colour artworks showing the aircraft employed.