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The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland
A Regional Survey
In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Crawford provides the first survey of women’s suffrage campaigns across the British Isles and Ireland, focusing on local campaigns and...
May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47739-0 (Routledge)
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The Redcoat and Religion
The Forgotten History of the British Soldier from the Age of Marlborough to the Eve of the First World War
This compelling study presents the most comprehensive examination available of the role of religion in the army during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Through extensive analysis...
May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47742-0 (Routledge)
Tolkien the Medievalist
Interdisciplinary in approach, Tolkien the Medievalist provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's Medievalism. In fifteen essays, eminent scholars and new voices explore...May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47348-4 (Routledge)
Maps and Monsters in Medieval England
This study centers on issues of marginality and monstrosity in medieval England. In the middle ages, geography was viewed as divinely ordered, so Britain's location...April 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99331-9 (Routledge)
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Japanese-German Relations, 1895-1945
War, Diplomacy and Public Opinion
Written by a team of Japanese and German scholars, this book presents an interpretation of Japanese/German history and international diplomacy. It provides a greater understanding of...
April 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45705-7 (Routledge)
News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46411-6 (Routledge)
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Colonialism and Genocide
Previously published as a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice, this is the first book to link colonialism and genocide in a systematic way in...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46415-4 (Routledge)
The Normandy Campaign 1944
Sixty Years On
With essays from leading names in military history, this new book re-examines the crucial issues and debates of the D-Day campaign.
It tackles a range of core...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44942-7 (Routledge)
Battle for the Ukraine
The Korsun'-Shevchenkovskii Operation
A comprehensive guide to the battle for the Ukraine from the Soviet perspective during the winter of 1943-1944. This volume is an unexpurgated translation of...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44935-9 (Routledge)
Caporetto 1917
Victory or Defeat?
This work concerns the Battle of Caporetto in October 1917, where the Austro-German Army broke through the Italian lines forcing them to retreat after losing...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44937-3 (Routledge)
The Battle for L'vov July 1944
The Soviet General Staff Study
The Red Army's summer offensive of 1944 against Hitler's Wehrmacht was unprecedented in terms of its scale, scope, and strategic intent and impact. This study...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44939-7 (Routledge)
Training, Tactics and Leadership in the Confederate Army of Tennessee
Seeds of Failure
This assessment of the performance of the southern soldiers in the American Civil War of 1861 deals with every aspect of an army from its...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44930-4 (Routledge)
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Hitler's Last Chief of Foreign Intelligence
Allied Interrogations of Walter Schellenberg
When the curtains fell on the 'Thousand-Year Reich', in May 1945, SS-Brigadefuhrer Walter Schellenberg left for neutral Stockholm, only to be takn shortly thereafter to...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44932-8 (Routledge)
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Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran
A Persian Renaissance
An account of the re-emergence of Persia as a world player and the reassertion of its cultural, political and spiritual links with Turkic Lands, this...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44454-5 (Routledge)
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The Small Players of the Great Game
The Settlement of Iran's Eastern Borderlands and the Creation of Afghanistan
This book deals with the 19th century Anglo-Russian Great Game played out on the territorial chessboard of eastern and north-eastern parts of the waning Persian...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44452-1 (Routledge)
The Reformation of Ritual
An Interpretation of Early Modern Germany
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44393-7 (Routledge)
Politics and Religion in Napoleonic Italy
The War Against God, 1801-1814
The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy explores the intense cultural conflict created by French rule in Italy at the start of the nineteenth century....2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44394-4 (Routledge)
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Shakespeares Last Plays
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43687-8 (Routledge)
The Peloponnesian War
The range and extent of the Peloponnesian War of the fifth century BC has led to it being described as a 'world war' in miniature....2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44395-1 (Routledge)
Iranian History and Politics
The Dialectic of State and Society
This book contains the most detailed and comprehensive statement of Homa Katouzian's theory of arbitrary state and society in Iran, and its applications to Iranian...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44170-4 (Routledge)
British Generalship on the Western Front 1914–1918
Defeat into Victory
This book explores the British Army's response on the Western Front to a period of seminal change in warfare. In particular it examines the impact...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40778-6 (Routledge)
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The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945
'August Storm'
This critical examination of the final Soviet strategic offensive operation during World War II seeks to chip away at two generally inaccurate pictures many Westerners...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40861-5 (Routledge)
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Soviet Operational and Tactical Combat in Manchuria, 1945
'August Storm'
At the request of the other Allies, on 9th August 1945, a force of over 1.5 million Red Army soldiers unleashed a massive attack against...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40863-9 (Routledge)
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British and Japanese Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941-45
Some sixty years after the Far Eastern War ended, this innovative new collection brings together five distinguished UK-based scholars and five from Japan to reappraise...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8555-7 (Routledge)
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A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham
A Twentieth Century Naval Leader
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8460-4 (Routledge)
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Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Second World War
Five major groups fought one another in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Second World War: The German and Italian occupiers, the Serbian Chetniks, the...2006 | Hardback: 978-0-7146-8510-6 (Routledge)
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Tedder
Quietly in Command
Arthur Tedder became one of the most eminent figures of the Second World War: first as head of Anglo-American air forces in the Middle East,...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4367-0 (Routledge)
The Red Army, 1918-1941
From Vanguard of World Revolution to America's Ally
Supported in large part by evidence released after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this book follows the career of the Red Army from its...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40865-3 (Routledge)
British Armour in the Normandy Campaign
The popular perception of the performance of British armour in the Normandy campaign of 1944 is one of failure and frustration. Despite overwhelming superiority in...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40773-1 (Routledge)
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Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East 1919-1939
Planning for War Against Japan
Between the ending of the Great War and the start of the Second World War in 1939, the Royal Navy remained the largest in the...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40775-5 (Routledge)
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Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland
The Question of Fire Control
This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era.
With a foreword by Professor Andrew...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40788-5 (Routledge)
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Military Leadership in the British Civil Wars, 1642-1651
'The Genius of this Age'
Despite the wealth of British Civil Wars studies, little work addresses the nature of military leadership effectiveness in terms of the eventual result -parliamentary victory....2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40790-8 (Routledge)
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The War Behind the Eastern Front
Soviet Partisans in North West Russia 1941-1944
This book is based on Soviet archival sources, most previously untapped by Western and Soviet and post-Soviet Russian historians, in addition to German material from...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40794-6 (Routledge)
SOE in France
An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France 1940-1944
SOE in France was first published in 1966, followed by a second impression with amendments in 1968. Since these editions were published, other material on...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40800-4 (Routledge)
Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40859-2 (Routledge)
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My Pen and My Soul Have Ever Gone Together
Thomas Paine and the American Revolution
2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99645-7 (Routledge)
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Cossacks in the German Army 1941-1945
2002 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-8199-3 (Routledge)
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Napoleon and the World War of 1813
Lessons in Coalition Warfighting
This analysis of the world war between Napoleon and the 6th coalition in 1813 covers operations in Europe, Spain and North America. It examines the...1999 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4444-8 (Routledge)
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