Military Studies 2021 HIGHLIGHTS THE GUN MAKERS OF BIRMINGHAM, 1660-1960
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AMERICAN MILITARY HELICOPTERS AND VERTICAL/ SHORT LANDING AND TAKEOFF AIRCRAFT SINCE 1941 E.R. Johnson Drawings by Ted Williams Nov 2021 251pp, 400 photos 9781476677347 Paperback US$49.95
Provides a concise historical survey, including technical specifications, drawings, and photographs of every type of helicopter and V/STOL aircraft developed for the US military, from the earliest examples tested in 1941 and 1942, up to the newest prototypes.
THE SS CITY OF FLINT An American Freighter at War, 1939-1943 Magne Haugseng
Joseph McKenna
Apr 2021 160pp, 40 photos 9781476683782 Paperback US$45.00
Traces the history and development of gun-making in Birmingham, England which was, for many years, a centre of the world’s firearms industry. This book covers innovations in design and manufacture of both military and sporting arms from 1660 through to 1960. The city is perhaps best known for mass-producing some of the most battle-tested weapons in history, including the Brown Bess musket, the Webley revolver and the Lee-Enfield rifle.
Jul 2021 219pp, 30 photos 9781476685366 Paperback US$39.95
Christmas 1942 saw the SS City of Flint in New York with other freighters loading for North Africa. Allied codes had been cracked and the convoy was expected by a group of U-Boats. Spotted and tailed until sunset, she was torpedoed and exploded - among the cargo was poison gas. Eleven survivors in her fourth lifeboat fought mountainous seas, sharks and hunger. Eyewitness accounts, war diaries and archival sources bring this untold story to life.
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THE CZECH AND SLOVAK LEGION IN SIBERIA, 1917-1922
THE GERMAN FAILURE IN BELGIUM, AUGUST 1914
2012 264pp, 52 photos 9780786465712 Paperback US$29.95
Dennis Showalter, Joseph P. Robinson & Janet A. Robinson
Joan McGuire Mohr
The Legion’s detour through Siberia became the greatest human interest story of the war, chronicled weekly in the New York Times and New York Herald. This volume offers the first account of this hidden yet epic journey, shedding light on a fascinating but forgotten facet of World War I. FORTHCOMING
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America’s Fightin’est Marine Charley Roberts Nov 2021 277pp 9781476686769 Paperback US$35.00
Marine Corps Sergeant Major Daniel J. Daly received his first Medal of Honor for singlehandedly holding off enemy attacks during China’s Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the second for his daring, one-man action during an ambush in Haiti in 1915. This first full-length biography presents a detailed examination of a Marine Corps legend.
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UNITED STATES ARMY DEPOT BRIGADES IN WORLD WAR I
How Faulty Reconnaissance Exposed the Weakness of the Schlieffen Plan
Alexander F. Barnes & Peter L. Belmonte
2019 225pp, 23 photos 9781476674629 Paperback US$45.00
Examines the structural failures that frustrated the Germans in the war’s crucial initial campaign, the invasion of Belgium. FORTHCOMING
THE KAISER’S LAST GENERAL
The East Africa Campaign and the Hunt for Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, 1914-1918 R.G. Gladding Feb 2022 277pp 9781476685991 Paperback US$39.95
Promoted to major-general by the Kaiser in 1917, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck led the only undefeated German force to surrender to the Allies, well after the end of hostilities in Europe. This history follows what began as a campaign of conquest and devolved into a hunt for a single general and his small, loyal command.
Nov 2021 147pp, 140 photos 9781476682051 Paperback US$45.00
Examines the history of depot brigades, development battalions, US Guards units, Students’ Army Training Corps, and other ‘forgotten’ troops charged with training soldiers, guarding installations, and performing myriad other duties. BESTSELLER
WOODROW WILSON AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF The Presidency and the Great War Michael P. Riccards & Cheryl A. Flagg 2019 241pp, photos 9781476679570 Paperback US$49.95
Analyses Wilson’s management style before the war, his diplomacy and his final demise in his battle with the Senate. This book considers the war as representing the collapse of Western traditional virtues and examines Wilson’s attempt to restore them.
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DISPUTED DECISIONS OF WORLD WAR II
A Biography of Rudolf Höss
Decision Science and Game Theory Perspectives
John W. Primomo
Mark Thompson
2020 251pp, 46 photos 9781476681467 Paperback US$39.95
Rudolf Höss has been called the most significant mass murderer in history. As the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz, he supervised the killing of more than 1.1 million people. This biography follows Höss throughout his life, from his childhood through his Nazi command and to his eventual reckoning at Nuremberg.
2020 213pp 9781476680040 Paperback US$75.00
A former Harvard professor of decision science and game theory draws on those disciplines in this review of controversial strategic and tactical decisions of World War II. Allied leadership, although outstanding in many ways, sometimes botched what now is termed meta-decision making or deciding how to decide.
ARCHITECT OF SOVIET VICTORY IN WORLD WAR II
The United States Army Fourth Armored Division, 1945-1946
The Life and Theories of G.S. Isserson
Don M. Fox
Richard W. Harrison
2020 249pp, 95 photos 9781476680095 Paperback US$45.00
2010 411pp, 32 photos 9780786448975 Paperback US$49.95
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ART AND THE NAZIS, 1933-1945 Looting, Propaganda and Seizure
Arthur J. McLaughlin, Jr. Dec 2021 277pp, 25 photos 9781476666419 Paperback US$39.95
The artistic backgrounds of Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering are examined, along with the various Nazi art looting organisations, and Nazi endeavours to both censor and manipulate the arts for propaganda purpose. Longheld beliefs about the Nazi destruction of ‘degenerate art’ are examined. The destruction of artworks by the Allies and looting by Soviet Trophy Brigades are also documented.
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The Investigative Work of the U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group, 1945–1947 John J. Dunphy 2019 146pp 9781476674742 Paperback US$35.00
The US Army 7708 War Crimes Group investigated atrocities committed in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. These young Americans gathered evidence, interviewed witnesses, apprehended suspects and prosecuted defendants at trials held at Dachau.
THE U.S. NAVY AT NORMANDY Fleet Organization and Operations in the D-Day Invasion
FINAL BATTLES OF PATTON’S VANGUARD
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Drawing from an in-depth analysis of Georgii Samoilovich Isserson’s numerous published and unpublished works, this book provides the first full-length biography of a man perhaps best known as the mastermind behind the “deep operation”, which became the cornerstone of Soviet offensive operations in World War II.
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By January 1945, Nazi Germany’s defeat seemed inevitable yet much fighting remained. General George S. Patton’s Third Army would carve its way into the German heartland, the Fourth Armored Division once again serving as his vanguard. This volume covers the final months of combat.
MISSION YUGOSLAVIA
The OSS and the Chetnik and Partisan Resistance Movements, 1943-1945 Blaž Torkar 2020 191pp, 15 photos 9781476682396 Paperback US$39.95
Focusing on the wartime activities of the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Axis-controlled Yugoslavia during World War II, this book chronicles American policy, plans for sending aid and agents, and the establishment of the first training bases in North Africa and the Mediterranean.
UNDERSTANDING NAZI IDEOLOGY The Genesis and Impact of a Political Faith Carl Müller Frøland Translated by John Irons 2020 349pp 9781476678306 Paperback US$49.95
Traces the origins of the ‘political religion’ of Nazism. Ultra-nationalism and totalitarianism, racial theory and anti–Semitism, nature mysticism and occultism, eugenics and social Darwinism, adoration of the Führer and the glorification of violence are all explored.
Greg H. Williams 2020 368pp, photos 9781476680774 Paperback US$49.95
Describes the Allied naval command structure for Operation Neptune and offers a comprehensive look at integrated offshore operations - how they were organised, who the sailors were and what they experienced.
WHY THE AXIS LOST
An Analysis of Strategic Errors John Arquilla 2020 225pp, 15 photos 9781476674520 Paperback US$45.00
Providing fresh perspective on World War II, this study argues that the Germans, Japanese and Italians made poor design choices in ships, planes, tanks and information security - before and during the war - that forced them to fight with weapons and systems that were too soon outmatched by the Allies’.
WOMEN OF VALOR The Rochambelles on the World War II Front, Revised Edition Ellen Hampton Apr 2021 151pp, 25 photos 9781476684536 Paperback US$29.95
Women in an armoured division! General Leclerc had never heard of such a thing. But if he wanted the 19 brand-new ambulances, he would have to take their female drivers too. This book resurrects their stories, which recount the nature of courage and the definition of fear, from Normandy to Berchtesgaden.
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THE ATOMIC BOMB IN IMAGES AND DOCUMENTS The Manhattan Project and the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Nov 2021 57pp, 200 photos 9781476684888 Paperback US$49.95
THE CHINA INCIDENT
Michael Sturma
Nghia M. Vo
HO CHI MINH’S BLUEPRINT FOR REVOLUTION
Jan 2021 350pp, photos 9781476682334 Paperback US$45.00
Allied POWs and the Sinking of the Rakuyo Maru and Kachidoki Maru
Sep 2021 245pp, photos 9781476685854 Paperback US$39.95
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G. William Whitehurst
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VIETNAM WAR REFUGEES IN GUAM
Examines the maturation of the ARVN, and the major battles it fought from 1963 to its demise in 1975. Despite its flaws, the ARVN was a well-organised and disciplined force with an independent spirit and contributed enormously to the war effort.
Igniting the Second Sino-Japanese War
Drawing on a wealth of sources including interviews with key players, from soldiers to diplomats, this history traces America’s unexpected and unpopular involvement in an Asian conflict, and the growing recognition of Japan’s threat to world peace and the inevitability of war.
THE ARVN AND THE FIGHT FOR SOUTH VIETNAM Nghia M. Vo
Samuel S. Kloda
Richly illustrated, Samuel Kloda’s chronicle of the dawn of the atomic age sets the record straight on one of the greatest scientific advancements of all time. Readers will see how a letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin Roosevelt led to the formation of the Advisory Committee on Uranium and to the secret Manhattan Project.
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PEARL HARBOR DECLASSIFIED The Evidence of American Foreknowledge of the Attack James M. D’Angelo Aug 2021 208pp, 20 photos 9781476684383 Paperback US$39.95
Did President Roosevelt and other highranking US government officials know about Japanese plans to attack Pearl Harbor in advance? Drawing on recently declassified materials and revelations from other writers, this book traces the flow of intelligence and concludes the attack was allowed to happen to win the support for a war against Japan.
Dec 2021 277pp, photos 9781476686998 Paperback US$35.00
More than 130,000 South Vietnamese fled their homeland at the end of the Vietnam War. Tens of thousands landed on the island of Guam on their way to the US. Many remained there. This book chronicles a part of the first mass migration of Vietnamese “boat people,” before and after the fall of Saigon in April 1975, a story still unfolding almost half a century later. FORTHCOMING
In the Words of Vietnamese Strategists and Operatives
A WAR TOUR OF VIET NAM
Virginia Morris with Clive A. Hills
Dec 2021 277pp, 30 photos 9781476682419 Paperback US$35.00
2018 242pp, 150 photos 9781476665634 Paperback US$45.00
When Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces on April 30, 1975, the communist victory sent shockwaves around the world. Drawing on recently declassified documents and rare interviews with Ho Chi Minh’s strategists and couriers, this book offers a fresh perspective on his military blueprint and the reasons behind the American failure in Vietnam.
Apr 2021 193pp, photos 9781476682426 Paperback US$39.95
In September 1944, a wolfpack of US submarines attacked the Japanese convoy HI-72 in the South China Sea. Among the ships sunk were two carrying Allied prisoners of war. Men who had already endured Japanese captivity faced a renewed struggle for survival at sea. This book tells the story of the HI-72 convoy through the stories of two survivors.
A History of Operation New Life
A Cultural History Erin R. McCoy
The Vietnam War ended almost half a century ago. This book, part history, part travelogue, reveals the war’s legacy, still very much alive, in the places where it was fought and in the memories and memorials of those who survived it. The chronological story of the war is told through exploration of culture, history, popular music, and the countries who were major players.
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CIA Clandestine Radio Broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe Richard H. Cummings Jun 2021 199pp, photos 9781476678641 Paperback US$45.00
Published for the first time, the history of the CIA’s clandestine short-wave radio broadcasts to Eastern Europe and the USSR during the early Cold War is covered in-depth. Excerpts from broadcasts taken from monitoring reports of Eastern Europe intelligence agencies are included.
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Memoir of a Nuclear Missile Crew Commander Scott Cook Jan 2022 277pp 9781476686370 Paperback US$29.95
Describes the insular and secretive military subculture of men and women who lived with the sobering burden of potentially unleashing global devastation.
OTHER MILITARY HISTORY THE CIVIL WAR ABROAD
THE FIGHT FOR DUBLIN, 1919-1921
Charles Priestley
Joseph McKenna
Jan 2022 277pp, 40 photos 9781476687094 Paperback US$39.95
Jul 2021 244pp 9781476684413 Paperback US$49.95
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Urban Warfare in the Irish Struggle for Independence
How the Great American Conflict Reached Overseas
PAKISTAN SINCE INDEPENDENCE A History, 1947 to Today Stanley B. Sprague 2020 285pp 9781476681511 Paperback US$39.95
Details Pakistan’s turbulent 73-year history of civil war, military coups, political assassinations, wars with India, cooperation with the US during the Afghan-Soviet war, and events following 9/11.
The impacts of the Civil War were felt far beyond American shores. Many sites associated with the war remain in Britain and France, the two countries most affected, and traces of it can still be found in such unlikely places as Sweden and Turkey. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book examines a selection of sites and episodes highlighting the international side of the Civil War.
Chronicles the covert war of assassinations, arrests, torture and murder that culminated in the November 1920 mass assassination of British intelligence officers by IRA squads.
DEEP SPACE WARFARE
Nov 2021 277pp 9781476685281 Paperback US$35.00
John C. Wright
Describes the gruelling Golani training regime and contrasts the exhilaration of high-risk operations in enemy territory with a disdain for war, its moral dilemmas and its victories.
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HELLENISTIC LAND BATTLES 300-167 BCE
Ken W. Sayers
2020 159pp, photos 9781476679266 Paperback US$29.95
How should nations view space? How should they fight there? What would space warfare look like and how should strategists approach it? Offering critical observations regarding this unique theatre of international relations, a military professional explores the strategic implications as human affairs move beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
DUTCH FORTIFICATIONS An Illustrated History from the Roman Era to the Cold War
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A Memoir of Special Operations in the Israeli Defense Forces Elon Perry
Covering 2000 years this book describes the evolution of military architecture in the territory today known as the Netherlands. This general history covers the innovators, architects and engineers of each period and their involvement in the development of fortifications.
Ken W. Sayers 2019 361pp, 190 photos 9781476672564 Paperback US$45.00
Provides the rosters, histories, specifications and illustrations of 130 different auxiliary ship types used throughout US history. NEW
A History and Directory from World War I to Today Aug 2021 329pp, 290 photos 9781476676500 Paperback US$55.00
A History and Analysis of 130 Engagements Fred Eugene Ray, Jr. 2020 249pp, photos 9781476682563 Paperback US$45.00
The Hellenistic Period saw the Grecian phalanx challenged by legionary formations from the rising city-state of Rome. This book, for the first time, provides detailed tactical analyses for all 130 significant land engagements of Hellenistic armies, 300-167 BCE.
Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage May 2021 287pp, 400 illustrations 9781476680422 Paperback US$49.95
A History and Directory from World War I to Today
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Britain’s Ironclads Built for the Confederacy, 1862-1923 Andrew R. English Oct 2021 194pp, 50 photos 9781476682761 Paperback US$45.00
Provides the first complete history of these once famous ironclads that never fired a shot in anger yet served at distant stations as defenders of the British Empire.
Covering more than 1000 of the Navy’s small combatants, this comprehensive survey provides all-time rosters, histories, specifications and illustrations of patrol vessels from before World War I to the present. FORTHCOMING
USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65)
The First Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier Mark L. Evans Jan 2022 277pp 9781476686868 Paperback US$49.95
The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Her story spans 51 years (1961-2012) of active service. More than just an operational history of Enterprise, this book recounts the experiences of the men and women who served on board.
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