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  • HUNGER
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    HUNGER
    N. S. NASH
    Throughout the ages, more combatants and civilians have died in war of the effects of starvation and resulting disease than have been killed by bullet or bomb. The author of this fascinating work argues that, over the last 160 years, conflicts have been decided not just on the battlefield but by the denial of an adversary's access to food. The starvation that followed led to mi...

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  • IN THE SERVICE OF THE EMPEROR
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    IN THE SERVICE OF THE EMPEROR
    N.S. NASH
    The expansion of the Japanese Empire between 1931 until its defeat in 1945 is one of the most extraordinary yet shocking episodes in human history. Extraordinary in that a relatively non-industrialised island nation was prepared to go to war, concurrently, with China, the most populous country, Great Britain with its world-wide empire and the USA, the wealthiest and most powerf...

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  • IN THE SERVICE OF THE EMPEROR
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    IN THE SERVICE OF THE EMPEROR
    N S NASH
    The expansion of the Japanese Empire between 1931 until its defeat in 1945 is one of the most extraordinary yet shocking episodes in human history. Extraordinary in that a relatively non-industrialised island nation was prepared to go to war, concurrently, with China, the most populous country, Great Britain with its world-wide empire and the USA, the wealthiest and most powerf...

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  • BETRAYAL OF AN ARMY
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    BETRAYAL OF AN ARMY
    N. S. NASH
    The British invasion of Mesopotamia was initially successful in securing the oil fields around Basra by November 1914.Despite evidence of stiffening Turkish resistance and inadequate supply lines which relied solely on the River Tigris, the Expeditionary Force was disastrously ordered to advance on Baghdad under the command of the ambitious, capable but flawed Major General Cha...

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  • CHITRAL CHARLIE
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    CHITRAL CHARLIE
    N. S. NASH
    Charles Townshend achieved international fame, as a captain, when he commanded the besieged garrison at Chitral (now Pakistan) in 1895. As a result, he became known as Chitral Charlie.Decorated by Queen Victoria and lionized by the British public, his passage up through the Army was assured and, in 1916, he was given command on 6th Indian Division and sent to Mesopotamia. Here ...

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  • LOGISTICS IN THE VIETNAM WARS, 1945–1975
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    LOGISTICS IN THE VIETNAM WARS, 1945–1975
    N.S. NASH
    An examination of the supply methods implemented by combatants in the Vietnam Wars in the mid-twentieth-century, and the aftermath. The combatants in the three Vietnam wars from 1945 to 1975 employed widely contrasting supply methods. This fascinating book reveals that basic traditional techniques proved superior to expensive state of the art systems. During the Indochina or “F...

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  • BETRAYAL OF AN ARMY
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    BETRAYAL OF AN ARMY
    N. S. NASH
    The British invasion of Mesopotamia was initially successful in securing the oil fields around Basra by November 1914.Despite evidence of stiffening Turkish resistance and inadequate supply lines which relied solely on the River Tigris, the Expeditionary Force was disastrously ordered to advance on Baghdad under the command of the ambitious, capable but flawed Major General Cha...

    $329.00

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  • CHITRAL CHARLIE
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    CHITRAL CHARLIE
    N. S. NASH
    Charles Townshend achieved international fame, as a captain, when he commanded the besieged garrison at Chitral (now Pakistan) in 1895. As a result, he became known as Chitral Charlie.Decorated by Queen Victoria and lionized by the British public, his passage up through the Army was assured and, in 1916, he was given command on 6th Indian Division and sent to Mesopotamia. Here ...

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  • CARIBBEAN CRISIS
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    CARIBBEAN CRISIS
    N S NASH
    In 1983, President Reagan's military intervention in Grenada, under the guise of rescuing U.S. citizens, led to a botched operation, exposing political and military missteps. In 1983, Grenada, a small Commonwealth Island in the Caribbean, had strong ties with Communist Cuba. Bernard Coard and a group of hard-line Marxist-Leninists overthrew the unelected Prime Minister Maurice ...

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  • HUNGER
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    HUNGER
    N S NASH
    Throughout the ages, more combatants and civilians have died in war of the effects of starvation and resulting disease than have been killed by bullet or bomb. The author of this fascinating work argues that, over the last 160 years, conflicts have been decided not just on the battlefield but by the denial of an adversary’s access to food. The starvation that followed led to mi...

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  • 'STRAFER'
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    'STRAFER'
    N. S. NASH
    Unexpectedly selected by Churchill to command 8th Army in 1942 in place of the sacked Auchinleck, 'Strafer' Gott was targeted by German intelligence as he flew to Cairo to take up his new post. Six ME109s intercepted his aircraft and, after shooting it down, deliberately machine-gunned the crash scene. Gott became the only Allied general to be successfully targeted by the Germa...

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  • K BOAT CATASTROPHE
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    K BOAT CATASTROPHE
    N. S. NASH
    On 31 January 1918 nine K Class steam-powered submarines sailed with the Grand Fleet to Exercise in the North Sea. The ships left the Firth of Forth at a speed of 21 knots on a cold winter night with the flagship HMS Courageous leading the way. Following in her wake was HMS Ithuriel and the K Class submarines of the 13th Submarine Flotilla and then 5 nautical miles astern of th...

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