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  • KING ARTHUR'S WARS
    JIM STORR
    The story of an era shrouded in mystery, and the gradual changing of a nation’s cultural identity.   We speak English today, because the Anglo-Saxons took over most of post-Roman Britain. How did that happen? There is little evidence: not much archaeology, and even less written history. There is, however, a huge amount of speculation. King Arthur’s Wars brings an entirely new a...

    $229.00

  • THE BERLIN OPERATION 1945
    SOVIET GENERAL STAFF
    A study of the Red Army’s penultimate offensive operation in the war in Europe.   The forces of three fronts—Second and First Belorussian and First Ukrainian—reached the Oder River and surrounded the defenders of the German capital, reduced the city and drove westward to link up with the Western allies in central Germany. This is another in a series of studies compiled by the S...

    $229.00

  • THE MILITARY AND POLICE FORCES OF THE GULF STATES
    CLIFF LORD / ATHOL YATES
    This comprehensive guide offers a detailed overview of the armed forces in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the UAE—fully illustrated with photos and maps.   This volume provides a complete picture of Gulf State armed forces, including historical information on each state describing how the various militaries developed. Maps are provided, along with a glossary of terms and diag...

    $149.00

  • THE 1989 COUP D'ÉTÁT IN PARAGUAY
    ANTONIO LUIS SAPIENZA
    This political and military history of Paraguay chronicles the dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner from 1954 to the coup that overthrew him in 1989.   1989 was a crucial year for Paraguay. After thirty-five years of dictatorship, General Alfredo Stroessner was overthrown by a coup d’état. In this sweeping historical study, Paraguayan historian Antonio Luis Sapienza chron...

    $149.00

  • OPENING THE BLACK BOX
    METIN GURCAN
    A scholarly analysis of the Turkish military in the 21st century by the Near East policy expert and author of What Went Wrong in Afghanistan.   On July 15th, 2016, a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces attempted a coup d’état against sitting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Though the attempt was unsuccessful, the TAF would never be the same. In Opening the Black Box, former...

    $229.00

  • THE HALL OF MIRRORS
    JIM STORR
    The military scholar and author of The Human Face of War analyses the nature of 20th-century war and warfare in this wide-ranging study.   The 20th Century was possibly the most violent and turbulent century in history. The wars waged in those ten decades reshaped the globe and wreaked an incalculable toll on human life.  In The Hall of Mirrors, military analyst and historian J...

    $229.00

  • NICARAGUA, 1961–1990
    DAVID FRANCOIS
    A history of the Sandinista takeover of this Central American nation and the uneasy decades leading up to it, with maps, photos, and illustrations.   In the wake of the US invasion of Nicaragua in 1912, the country came under the rule of the Somoza family, which imposed a brutal, corrupt military dictatorship. A low-scale insurgency of students, supported by peasants and other ...

    $149.00

  • MEXICANS AT WAR
    SANTIAGO A. FLORES
    The untold story of Mexican aviators in WWII, including their role in the Battle of the Philippines, is revealed in this illustrated military history.   When Mexico’s neighbor to the north entered World War II, German U-Boats began haunting the North American coastline. And when the Kriegsmarine torpedoed Mexican tankers, the young republic was drawn into the global conflict. A...

    $229.00