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  • Hold at All Costs!

    The Epic Battle of Delville Wood 1916

    by Ian Uys ...
    Delville Wood in the Somme was the most famous battle ever fought by South Africans. Through this action other nations learnt to respect the fighting qualities of the men from the fledgling Union of South Africa. Erstwhile foes, Boer and Briton, fought shoulder to shoulder against the pride of the German Army. They withstood waves of attacking infantrymen; were subjected to savage artillery fire ... Read more

    $30.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bushmen Soldiers

    The History of 31, 201 & 203 Battalions During the Border War 1974-90

    by Ian Uys ...
    The Bushman soldiers were the most outstanding all-round fighters of the Border War. As the first of the indigenous population to take up arms on South Africa's behalf, they were among the last to lay them down. The border's oldest and most bush-wise people, they became feared as relentless trackers and dedicated soldiers.Coming from a primitive hunter/gatherer culture, they responded well to a ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philippines-Japan Relations in the Twenty-First Century

    Change and Direction

    Edited by Dennis D. Trinidad, Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Asia-Pacific Region
    Trinidad and Chua provide invaluable insights on various dimensions and directions of 21st-century Philippines-Japan relations from Filipino and Japanese scholars. Their chapters highlight the adjustments made in the relationship as the two countries grapple with old and emerging domestic issues amid changing international contexts.The book’s multidisciplinary approach and rich empirical data ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Sea-Wolves

    by Lars Brownworth ...
    In AD 793 Norse warriors struck the English isle of Lindisfarne and laid waste to it. Wave after wave of Norse ‘sea-wolves’ followed in search of plunder, land, or a glorious death in battle. Much of the British Isles fell before their swords, and the continental capitals of Paris and Aachen were sacked in turn. Turning east, they swept down the uncharted rivers of central Europe, captured Kiev ... Read more

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  • There Was a Country

    A Memoir

    by Chinua Achebe ...
    From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil warFor more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a ... Read more

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  • Siege at Jadotville

    The Irish Army’s Forgotten Battle

    by Declan Power ...
    The Irish soldier has never been a stranger to fighting the enemy with the odds stacked against him. The notion of charging into adversity has been a cherished part of Ireland’s military history. In September 1961, another chapter should have been written into the annals, but it is a tale that lay shrouded in dust for years.The men of A Company, Thirty-Fifth Irish Infantry Battalion, arrived in ... Read more

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  • South Sudan

    The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War

    by Hilde F. Johnson ...
    In July 2011, South Sudan was granted independence and became the world's newest country. Yet just two-and-a-half years after this momentous decision, the country was in the grips of renewed civil war and political strife. Hilde F. Johnson served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan from July 2011 until July 2014 ... Read more

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  • British Infantryman vs Zulu Warrior

    Anglo-Zulu War 1879

    by Ian Knight ...
    Series Book 3 - Combat
    The short but savage Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 pitched well-equipped but complacent British soldiers into combat with the Zulu, one of history's finest fighting forces.The clashes between these two different armies prompted tactical innovation on both sides, as the British and their Zulu opponents sought to find the optimal combination of mobility, protection and firepower. This engrossing study ... Read more

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  • The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory

    The Black Hats from Bull Run to Appomattox and Thereafter

    by Lance J. Herdegen ...
    Why another book on the Iron Brigade? Because this is really the first book on this storied outfit—and it could not have been written without the lifetime of study undertaken by award-winning author Lance J. Herdegen. More than a standard military account, Herdegen’s latest puts flesh and faces on the men who sat around the campfires, marched through mud and snow and dust, fought to put down the ... Read more

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  • We Never Knew Exactly Where: Dispatches From the Lost Country of Mali

    by Peter Chilson ...
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    A masterful blend of reportage and history from one of the world's newest front lines in the war on terror -- the endangered African country of Mali.What happens when a country suddenly splits in two? In 2012, Mali, once a poster child for African democracy, all but collapsed in a succession of coups and countercoups as Islamist rebels claimed control of the country’s north, making it a new safe ... Read more

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  • Modern African Wars (4)

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    by Peter Abbott ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    In the 1970s, during the ruinous 30-year dictatorship of General Mobutu, periodic rebellions led to the hasty insertion once again of Belgian and French paratroops to save European lives.From the mid-1990s the country split again, becoming the battleground for the largest African war in history, as armies and rebel groups from Rwanda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Namibia and other countries crossed ... Read more

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