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The Iran-Iraq War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century and accidentally created the current nightmare of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. There have been many books on the conflict, but this is the first detailed military history using materials from both sides, as well as materials obtained from US Intelligence circles and Briti

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In June 1967 Israel, which seemed on the verge of being annihilated by its Arab neighbors, took six days to redraw the strategic map in one of the most dramatic reversals of fortune in modern times. This volume provides a mass of new information and new insight into the conflict using both Israeli and Arab sources.

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The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States, Volume 3, covers the military, police, and selected para-military services of Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar from early 20th Century until 2010.

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A detailed record of the armed forces raised in the British Protectorate of Aden and those units deployed to serve there.

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History of the military forces of the Gulf states that were mostly British Protected States. Illustrated with scores of photographs and maps.

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Nazi Germany's fall is regularly depicted through the dual images of Adolf Hitler directing the final battle for Berlin from his claustrophobic Fhrerbunker, and the subsequent Soviet victory immortalized by the flying of the 'Hammer and Sickle' over the burnt-out Reichstag.

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Portuguese paratroopers (or 'paras') began as a stepchild of the army and found a home in the Portuguese Air Force in 1955. Initially, the post-World War Two Portuguese Army seemed to have had mixed emotions about the need for elite, special-purpose forces that operated in small units with the attendant flexibility and elevated lethality. Shock tro

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The first authoritative account of this conflict ever published in the English language is lavishly illustrated and provides a blow-by-blow account of both aerial and ground combat operations.

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On 1 October 1990, hundreds of Banyarawanda militants that served with the Ugandan Army deserted their posts to form the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and invade Rwanda. Thus began the Rwandan Civil War, which was to culminate in the famous genocide of nearly one million of Tutsi and moderate Hutus, in 1994.

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Tokugawa Ieyasu's decisive victory at Sekigahara in 1600 concluded the civil wars, confirmed his position as shogun (generalissimo), and inaugurated the Edo period, named after Edo (modern-day Tokyo). Then the formerly so powerful Tokugawa clan army declined, which directly led to Japan's 1635 decision to initiate a policy of enforced seclusion.

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This second volume is a detailed and unbiased study of the military, historical, and political circumstances of the 1969 Sino-Soviet border war.

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This volume is covering one of the least-well-known conflicts in the Middle East, fought in Oman during the second half of the 1950s; and one of very few insurgencies that was successfully suppressed. As such, it provides a host of valuable lessons learned.

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The book is the first to examine comprehensively the experience of the Highland soldier in the Great War, seeking the truth behind the myths. It does not deal with the operational history, but with the life and character of the Highland soldier.

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Through Adversity is probably the most comprehensive account of Britain and the Commonwealth's war in the air during the Second World War. It combines detailed studies into the tactics, techniques and technology that made British air power so effective, together with the personal accounts of the aircrew themselves as they executed some of the most

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This third volume closes the gap between the unit histories of volumes 1 and 2 and the technical descriptions in the Jentz and Spielberger books. For the first time, efforts are described in detail of what was taken to create units and what was required to keep the Tiger tank in action regarding handling and operating the vehicle.

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This book details the campaigns of Louis-Gabriel Suchet in the Peninsular War. The only one of Napoleon's marshals to earn his baton in Spain, Suchet conquered Aragon, Lower Catalonia, and Valencia in a string of brilliant sieges and battles against both Spanish regular and guerrilla forces.

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This is the story of the RAF anti-shipping Strike Wing based at North Coates in Lincolnshire, whose Beaufighters from 1943 attacked heavily defended German convoys transporting raw materials to Rotterdam. During a little-known but hard-fought two-year campaign, the Wing succeeded in forcing the enemy's ships off the sea.

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Trinidad 1990 details the dramatic events of July 1990 and the successfully operation that quelled it. It was a coming of age for the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force which, without external intervention, contained and then defeated an Islamist uprising. Illustrated by more than 100 photographs, maps and colour profiles.

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The story of the JNAs difficult task of entering the Sinai Peninsula right on the heels of withdrawing Israeli forces in 1956 is the centrepiece of this book. It is illustrated by more than 150 original photographs, most of which have never been published before.

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In Unfinished War, Asmaa Waguih takes us on remarkable visual tour of Yemen, once thought of as a beautiful and mysterious land that was the realm of the Queen of Sheba, with over 150 full colour photographs contrasting scenes of everyday life for the people of this nation with the effects of an ongoing conflict.

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Reviewing and re-examining Operation Urgent Fury: the US Intervention in Grenada in 1983.