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  • Hussars, Horses and History

    The Military Memoirs of Major-General John Strawson

    by John Strawson ...
    John Strawson describes joining the 4th Hussars in the Middle East in 1942 and serving with them until amalgamation with the 9th Hussars in 1958 as The Queens Royal Irish Hussars. He commanded the Regiment during the Borneo campaign and was Colonel from 1975 to 1985. His account of war in Italy and of operations in Malaya and Borneo are of special interest.This light-hearted memoir reveals ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • If By Chance

    Military Turning Points that Changed History

    by Major General John Strawson ...
    Could Napoleon have won the battle of Waterloo? And what would have happened if he had? Or suppose Nelson had not destroyed the French fleet at Aboukir, would Napoleon have conquered India and become Emperor of the East? What if Hitler had not halted his panzer forces before Dunkirk and had entrapped the entire British Expeditionary Force? How would Churchill have then denied the Wehrmacht? If by ... Read more

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  • The Battle for Italy

    One of the Second World War's Most Brutal Campaigns

    by John Strawson ...
    One of the Second World War's most brutal and dramatic campaigns brought to life in this vivid and epic historyIt could have all been over much quicker. In this gripping account, bestseller John Strawson analyses how the slow, bloody and fiercely fought Italian campaign delayed the end of the Second World War after the tide had turned against Hitler and the Germans. Here was a point of dogged ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A History of the SAS

    The First Forty Years

    by John Strawson ...
    "Who Dares Wins". The world's most legendary special forces unit - and a history of action you will barely believe.This is the extraordinary, secretive story of how the SAS evolved from an unconventional handful of soldiers, operating behind enemy lines in North Africa in 1941, into the world's most disciplined and respected professionals, up to their daring and dangerous exploits in the Iranian ... Read more

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  • Hitler as Military Commander

    by John Strawson ...
    Was Hitler 'the greatest strategic genius of all time' as Nazi propaganda had it, or just an amateur?Why was the startling success of his campaigns in Poland and France followed by the blundering mistakes in Russia, North Africa and France? Might Germany even have won the war without Hitler's continual and disastrous interference?In this extraordinary history, John Strawson answers these and other ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Battle for North Africa

    The Epic Second World War Struggle in the Desert

    by John Strawson ...
    The moment Britain fought back.It was in North Africa that the tide turned; that Britain began its long fightback against Nazi dominance.The distinguished military historian Major General John Strawson's vivid, unputdownable book describes how the balance of power in North Africa see-sawed between the Italians, the British and the Germans through the years 1940 to 1943, and how ultimate victory ... Read more

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  • Law after Ground Zero

    Edited by John Strawson ...
    Following the events of September 11, a new legal order is emerging in which the 'terrorist threat' has been used as justification to marginalise human rights.This collection of themed essays offers an emphatic defence to the threats confronting our human rights culture. In analysing the role of the United Nations, the conduct of the Afghan war, domestic anti-terrorist legislation and the new ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Injustice, Memory and Faith in Human Rights

    Edited by Kalliopi Chainoglou, Barry Collins, Michael Phillips, John Strawson ...
    This multi-disciplinary collection interrogates the role of human rights in addressing past injustices. The volume draws on legal scholars, political scientists, anthropologists and political philosophers grappling with the weight of the memory of historical injustices arising from conflicts in Europe, the Middle East and Australasia. It examines the role of human rights as legal doctrine, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    Responses to 7 October: Law and Society

    by Rosa Freedman, David Hirsh, Robbie Sabel, Philip Spencer, Ulf Haeussler, Eric Heinze, John Strawson, Jeffrey Herf, Yehudis Fletcher, Leslie Morrison Gutman, Samuel D. Landau, Danny Trom, Bruno Karsenti, Julius Gruber, Bianca Loy, Daniel Poensgen, Jack Omer-Jackaman, Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights ...
    Narrated by Sarah Kants, Simon Schatzberger ...
    Series Audiobook 6 - Studies in Contemorary Antisemitism

    Unabridged

    5 hours 26 min

    One of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Law and Society begins with a legal and a genocide studies critique of the claim that Israel is genocidal; another reflects on the absence of an understanding of antisemitism in international legal discourse.There are reflections on experiences in the Palestine solidarity movement and on the twists that discourse there takes. Contributions ... Read more

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    In the ruined houses, streets and sewers of Stalingrad there raged a ferocious hand-to-hand battle. The advancing Panzers proved vulnerable in the close quarter combat. Resistance was to the death as Stalin ordered that the city that bore his name must be held at all costs. For the Germans, the grim reality of another frozen winter in Russia was fast approaching ...Read about Hitler’s plan to ... Read more

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  • The First World War

    by John Keegan ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive account of the Great War from one of our most eminent military historians. "Elegantly written, clear, detailed, and omniscient.... Keegan is...perhaps the best military historian of our day." —The New York Times Book ReviewThe First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of ... Read more

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  • Winston S. Churchill: Road to Victory, 1941–1945

    by Martin Gilbert ...
    Series Book 7 - Winston S. Churchill Biography
    The seventh volume of the acclaimed, official biography: "An engrossing history of Churchill's crucial role in the grand alliance of World War II" ( Los Angeles Times).This seventh volume in the epic, multivolume biography of Winston S. Churchill takes up the story of "Churchill's War" with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and carries it on to the triumph of V-E Day, May 8, ... Read more

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