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BLOOMSBURY
Fall 2022
September – December
B L O O M S B U RY S I G M A S E P T E M B E R 2022
Licence to Kill
The Science of 007
Kathryn Harkup
Investigating the science behind the escapades of James
Bond and his foes.
In Licence to Kill, Kathryn Harkup takes a keen scientific look at the world’s
favorite secret agent: Bond, James Bond. Since Ian Fleming brought 007 to life
on the page in 1953’s Casino Royale, the character has overtaken the global
imagination, embodied by onscreen actors from Sean Connery to Daniel Craig.
Science and technology have always been central to the exciting plots than make
up the world of Bond—but from nuclear launches to lethal hats, what is fact and
what is fiction?
In 007 chapters, learn how the weapons, technologies, and tactics that have
SCIENCE thrilled and delighted audiences would work in the real world. Could our favorite
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007 actually escape all those close shaves with his life intact?
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Kathryn Harkup is a chemist and author. Kathryn completed a doctorate on her favourite
chemicals, phosphines, and went on to further postdoctoral research before realising that talking,
writing and demonstrating science appealed a bit more than hours slaving over a hot fume-hood.
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Wilder
How Rewilding is Transforming Conservation and Changing
the World
Millie Kerr
Millie Kerr takes readers on a global journey from Gabon to
Argentina that redefines our relationship to the wild.
Rewilding is a relatively new approach to wildlife conservation that, while in its
infancy, has incredible potential. It offers a spectrum of conservation options; at
one end is the “passive” approach, focusing on ecological restoration—simply
leaving land to recover naturally. At the other end of the spectrum is what might
be termed “active” rewilding, where keystone species are reintroduced to quicken
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the process of recovery. Rewilding is a multidimensional process, and we are still
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areas where they’ve gone locally extinct; active rewilding often involves high
stakes, from large mammal translocations to ambitious wildlife corridors through
densely populated areas.
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Outreach to science museums Millie Kerr is a lawyer turned writer focusing on wildlife conservation. Millie has worked for
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Panthera and the Wildlife Conservation Society, and has consulted for African Parks, Elephant
Family, and Fauna & Flora International. She is an award-winning wildlife photographer.
A Royal Geographical Society fellow, Millie holds a JD in law from The University of Texas, and
an MPhil in conservation leadership from the University of Cambridge. Millie, a native of Texas, is
based in London.
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Growing Up Human
The Evolution of Childhood
Brenna Hassett
Brings the science of physical anthropology to bear on
understanding how our evolutionary history has shaped a
phenomenon everyone has experienced—childhood.
The development of a fetus is an extraordinary biological process by itself, but
the story of how we grow up began long before any of us were born.
Paleoanthropological science has revealed that deep in our hominid lineage we
began to diverge from other primates by giving birth to fatter, more helpless
infants and developed one of humanity’s most striking adaptations—the
evolution of childhood; a long period of dependence and social learning that
makes us the animals we are today.
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babies have spurred social and cultural adaptations, including the invention of
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how past societies have treated children.
This book covers both the evolution of human children as biological phenomena
and the cultural impact visible in the archaeological record. It examines every
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this has changed over the millennia, and how we can interpret childhood through
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Brenna Hassett is an archaeologist who specializes in using clues from the human skeleton to
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She is one-quarter of the TrowelBlazers project, an outreach, advocacy, and academic effort to
celebrate women’s contributions to the trowel-wielding arts. Originally from the United States, she
completed her Ph.D at University College, London, and has been based at London's Natural History
Museum since 2012.
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Models of the Mind
How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our
Understanding of the Brain
Grace Lindsay
Explores the value of describing the machinery of
neuroscience using the elegant language of mathematics and
reveals in full the remarkable fruits of this endeavour.
The human brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over
100 trillion synapses. For more than a century, a diverse array of researchers
searched for a language that could be used to capture the essence of what these
neurons do and how they communicate—and how those communications create
thoughts, perceptions and actions. The language they were looking for was
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mathematics, and we would not be able to understand the brain as we do today
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9781472966438 | $18.00 / $25.00 Can. In Models of the Mind, author and computational neuroscientist Grace Lindsay
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describe many of the brain’s processes, including decision-making, sensory
processing, quantifying memory, and more. She introduces readers to the most
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when the abstract world of mathematical modelling collides with the messy
details of biology.
Each chapter of Models of the Mind focuses on mathematical tools that have been
applied in a particular area of neuroscience, progressing from the simplest
building block of the brain—the individual neuron—through to circuits of
interacting neurons, whole brain areas and even the behaviours that brains
command. In addition, Grace examines the history of the field, starting with
experiments done on frog legs in the late eighteenth century and building to the
large models of artificial neural netw...
PRAISE
“Grace Lindsay provides a masterful tour of this important frontier, tackling
intimidating topics with verve and wit.” —Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply
Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
“Enthralling, erudite and accessible . . . an engrossing history of science and an
enlightening guide to neuroscience’s current frontiers.” —Liam Drew,
Neurobiologist and author of I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals
“This book is an anthology of the scientific poetry that has illuminated our studies
and conceptions of the brain.” —Professor Larry Abbott, Center for Theoretical
Neuroscience, Columbia University
Grace Lindsay is a computational neuroscientist currently based at University College London.
She completed her PhD at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University, where
her research focused on building mathematical models of how the brain controls sensory
processing. Before that, she earned a bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience from the University of
Pittsburgh and received a research fellowship to study at the Bernstein Center for Computational
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Confessions
A Life of Failed Promises
A. N. Wilson
The much-anticipated memoirs of A. N. Wilson, one of Britain's
leading contemporary critics, literary and cultural, and a figure
celebrated for his waspish and subversive writing.
Here at last is the story of one of the leading contemporary critics, literary and
otherwise, who has become celebrated for his waspish and subversive writing. As
a writer, Wilson is polymathic. As the literary editor of the Spectator and Evening
Standard he pioneered the commissioning of celebrity reviewers like the former
Duchess of Devonshire and her sister Diana Moseley. He has published a number
of well received novels but he is also the master of the biographer's art. His prize-
B I O G R A P H Y & AU TO B I O G R A P H Y winning biographies of C. S. Lewis and Tolstoy remain classics, and for the latter
/ PERSONAL MEMOIRS he taught himself Russian.
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But now, Wilson turns the light upon himself. At Oxford, he married his tutor but
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writer and critic.
His account of being a Booker Prize judge is witty and cynical, as is his
description of how his close friend the novelist Beryl Bainbridge failed for the
fifth time to get beyond the Booker shortlist and finally win. The bridesmaid who
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A. N. Wilson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds a prominent position in the
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novelist. His novel, Winnie and Wolf, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His last book The
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The Power of Reconciliation
Justin Welby
The Power of Reconciliation will come to be seen as
Archbishop Welby's most important book to date.
The Reconciliation of which he writes relates to both religious and secular
communities. At a time the Churches are fighting to establish their authority and
authenticity, conflict is widespread. In the secular world, the after effects of
Covid, and increasingly polarized political and social strife, moves towards
reconciliation are more necessary than ever.
As is well known, before ordination Welby spent many years in the oil industry
and experienced such strife at first hand.
The book is full of practical advice for all those in authority on how to bring
about reconciliation. There is even a step-by-step guide for this, drawn from the
author's own managerial experience.
R E L I G I O N / I N S P I R AT I O N A L The book is thus down to earth, plugged into reality and devoid of pointless
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and how the Churches need to be reconciled with movements like BLM and
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Furthermore, there is the dignity of difference. Today there is so much
intolerance of views that are other than our own as we demonize those we do not
agree with.
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Finding the Language of Grace
Rediscovering Transcendence
Christopher Jamison
The Language of Grace considers the force of grace in our
lives, in our souls and in our minds.
Christopher Jamison came to prominence some years ago, when he was Abbot of
the Benedictine Monastery in Worth, Sussex. He featured in the BBC television
series 'The Monastery', which was watched by millions, and wrote a bestselling
book shortly thereafter called Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday
Life.
Now, Abbot Jamison returns with a new book about grace – the intricacies,
power and often pain of its working. In this new post-Covid time, here is a book
about the force of grace in our lives, in our souls and in our minds: a unique
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Silence by Shusako Endo, the novels of Marilynne Robinson and even the myth
of Percival and the Holy Grail. He asks, how do we restore the grace of trust?
How can we get back to listening to the silence? How do we read the signs of the
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Dostoevsky in Love
An Intimate Life
Alex Christofi
A highly original and immersive new biography of Fyodor
Dostoevsky, published to mark the 200th anniversary of his
birth.
Dostoevsky’s life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a
young revolutionary, he survived mock execution and Siberian exile to live
through a time of seismic change in Russia, eventually being accepted into the
Tsar’s inner circle. He had three great love affairs, each overshadowed by
debilitating epilepsy and addiction to gambling. Somehow, amidst all this, he
found time to write short stories, journalism and novels such as Crime and
B I O G R A P H Y & AU TO B I O G R A P H Y Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, works now recognised as
/ L I T E R A RY F I G U R E S among the finest ever written.
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In Dostoevsky in Love Alex Christofi weaves carefully chosen excerpts of the
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grand vista of Dostoevsky’s world: from the Siberian prison camp to the
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refined salons of St Petersburg. Along the way, Christofi relates the stories of the
three women whose lives were so deeply intertwined with Dostoevsky’s: the
consumptive widow Maria; the impetuous Polina who had visions of
assassinating the Tsar; and the faithful stenographer Anna, who did so much to
secure his literary legacy.
Reading between the lines of his fiction, Christofi reconstructs the memoir
Dostoevsky might have written had life – and literary stard...
PRAISE
"A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography." —Douglas Smith, author
of Rasputin: The Biography
"Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book." —Sue
Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche
Alex Christofi is Editorial Director at Transworld Publishers and author of three books published in
12 languages, including the novels Let Us Be True and Glass, winner of the Betty Trask Prize for
fiction. He has written for numerous publications including the Guardian, London Magazine, White
Review and the Brixton Review of Books, and contributed an essay to the anthology What Doesn't
Kill You: Fifteen Stories of Survival. Dostoevsky in Love, his first work of non-fiction, was
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Making Nice
Ferdinand Mount
A deliciously funny political satire from the bestselling author
of Cold Cream and the Sunday Times Book of the Year Kiss
Myself Goodbye.
Ferdinand Mount’s stinging satire plunges into the dubious world of London PR
firms, the back rooms of Westminster and the campaign trail in Africa and
America. We follow the hapless Dickie Pentecost, redundant diplomatic
correspondent for a foundering national newspaper, together with his stern
oncologist wife Jane, and their daughters Flo, an aspiring ballerina, and the
quizzical teenager Lucy. The whole family find themselves entangled in an ever
more alarming series of events revolving around the elusive Ethel (full name
Ethelbert), dynamic founder of the soaring public relations agency Making Nice.
FICTION / POLITICAL With echoes of Evelyn Waugh and The Thick of It, Making Nice is a masterly
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Hardcover ISBN: 9781472992871 “Ferdinand Mount’s exquisite writing draws you into a gorgeously horrid world of
lies, where all authenticity is faked, and where the biggest deceptions are the ones we
practise upon ourselves. Perhaps you recognise the place he’s talking about. He
exposes such cold truths with such warmth—I am in eternal awe of his writing,
wherever I find it.” —Marina Hyde
“Mount’s storytelling is irresistible.” —Literary Review
“One of our finest prose stylists.” —Daily Telegraph
“Making Nice is the funniest, shrewdest, most elegant novel I have read in years.
What will Mount conjure up next?” —The Oldie
“Like all his novels . . . show his gifts for comedy, ph...
Ferdinand Mount is a novelist, essayist and former editor of the Times Literary Supplement from
1991 to 2002. He was previously head of the Number Ten Policy Unit under Margaret Thatcher. As
a journalist, he has contributed regular columns to The Spectator, Daily Telegraph and Sunday
Times. His novel Of Love and Asthma, part of a six-volume series, A Chronicle of Modern
Twilight, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1992. He lives in North London with his family.
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Putin's Wars
From Chechnya to Ukraine
Mark Galeotti
A timely and accessible history of how Putin and the conflicts
he has chosen to involve Russia in has inexorably reshaped
the country and her role on the world stage.
Putin’s Wars is an accessible overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been
involved since Vladimir Putin became president of Russia in 2012. But it also
looks more broadly at his recreation of Russian military power and its expansion
to include a range of new capabilities, from mercenaries to operatives in a
relentless information war against Western powers. This is a engrossing strategic
overview of a rejuvenated Russian military and the successes, and failures, on the
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Dr Galeotti’s wide-ranging contacts throughout Russia, it is also peppered with
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Russia continues to dominate the news cycle throughout the Western world.
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forces in a variety of conflicts for over a decade. There is no author better placed
to demystify the capabilities of the Russian military and give a glimpse into what
the future may hold.
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newsletters Mark Galeotti is one of the foremost Russian-watchers today, who travels there regularly to teach,
lecture, talk to his contacts and observe the unfolding story of the Putin era. Based in London, he is
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Dünkirchen 1940
The German View of Dunkirk
Robert Kershaw
Dünkirchen 1940 explores the Battle of Dunkirk from the
German perspective, unveiling revelatory new material on an
event which changed the tide of World War II—and the course
of history.
The British evacuation from the beaches of the small French port town of
Dunkirk is one of the iconic moments of military history, The battle has captured
the popular imagination through LIFE magazine photo spreads, the fiction of Ian
McEwan and of course, Christopher Nolan’s hugely successful Hollywood
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Dünkirchen 1940 is the first major history on what went wrong for the Germans
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trapped British Expeditionary force might escape—they came to a shuddering
stop. Hitler had lost control of his stunning advance. Only a detailed
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Drawing on his own military experience, his German language skills and his
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historian’s eye for detail, Robert Kershaw creates a page-turning and ground-
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Meat Grinder
The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942–43
Prit Buttar
An engrossing history of the desperate battles for the Rzhev
Salient, a forgotten story brought to life by the harrowing
memoirs of German and Russian soldiers.
The fighting between the German and Russian armies in the Rzhev Salient during
World War II was so grisly, so murderous, and saw such vast losses that the
troops called the campaign ‘The Meat Grinder’. Though millions of men would
fight and die there, the Rzhev Salient does not have the name recognition of
Leningrad or Moscow. It was simply a vast tract of forests and swamps in the
heart of Mother Russia that has been largely ignored by Western historians . . .
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9781472851819 | $35.00 / $47.00 Can. Salient in this astonishing new history. Prit Buttar details how the long-ignored
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first-hand accounts, Buttar examines the four major offensives launched by the
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Red Army against the salient, all of which were defeated with heavy losses,
exceeding two million killed, wounded or missing, until eventually, the Germans
were forced to evacuate the salient in March 1943.
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way for the eventual Soviet victory against Army Group Centre in the summer of
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The Cactus Air Force
Air War over Guadalcanal
Eric Hammel, Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Using diary entries, interviews and first-hand accounts, this
vivid narrative brings to life the struggle in the air over the
island of Guadalcanal between August 20 and November 15,
1942.
For 40 years from 1961, the late Eric Hammel interviewed more than 150
American participants in the air campaign at Guadalcanal, none of whom are still
alive. These interviews are the most comprehensive first-person accounts of the
battle assembled by any historian. More importantly, they involved the junior
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officers and enlisted men whose stories and memories were not part of the
WAR II official history, thus providing a unique insight.
Osprey Publishing | 9/6/2022 The battle of Guadalcanal was the first offensive operation undertaken by the US
9781472851079 | $30.00 / $40.00 Can. and its allies in the Pacific War. ‘Cactus,’ the code name for the island, became a
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sinkhole for Japanese air and naval power, experienced forces whose losses could
9.2 in H | 6 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt never be made good. The three months of air battles between August 20, 1942,
16-page black and white plate section. when the first Marine air unit arrived on the island, and November 15, when the
last enemy attempt to retake the island was defeated, were perhaps the most
important of the Pacific War. After November 15, 1942, the US never looked
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back as its forces moved across the Pacific to the war’s inevitable conclusion.
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The Mighty Eighth
Masters of the Air over Europe 1942–45
Donald Nijboer
The perfect companion to Masters of the Air on Apple TV+, this
is a superbly illustrated examination of the aircraft, pilots,
crews and operations of the US Eighth Air Force.
The US Eighth Air Force—known as the “Mighty Eighth”—was a combat air
force activated in Georgia, USA on January 28, 1942. Its bomber command soon
H I S TO RY / M I L I TA RY / AV I AT I O N moved to Northern Europe to conduct strategic bombing missions, seeking to
Osprey Publishing | 9/6/2022 destroy Germany’s ability to wage war. Among the major operations it
9781472854216 | $40.00 / $53.00 Can.
participated in were “Big Week” in February 1944; the D-Day landings in June
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9.5 in H | 7.5 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt Air Force was the largest of the deployed combat Army Air Forces in numbers of
200 colour and black and white photographs, personnel, aircraft, and equipment. At peak strength, Eighth Air Force had 40
maps, aircraft profiles, and battlescenes.
heavy bomber groups, 15 fighter groups, and four specialized support groups.
This work provides a superbly illustrated and fully comprehensive exploration of
the Mighty Eighth’s bomber and fighter planes, its incredibly brave pilots and
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Doolittle, and William Kepner. Packed with hundreds of color aircraft profiles,
newsletters battlescene artworks, and period photographs, The Mighty Eighth provides a truly
comprehensive look at the illustrious history of the US Eighth Air Force.
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Arctic Convoys 1942
The Luftwaffe cuts Russia's lifeline
Mark Lardas
A new history of the most crucial few months of the Arctic
Convoys, when Germany's air power forced the Allies to
retreat to the cover of winter.
The Air Campaign series offers a colourful and in-depth picture of some of the
most iconic and key actions of aviation warfare. Using detailed bird’s eye view
maps, diagrams and action-packed illustrations of aerial battles, the series brings
to life the most important air campaigns of all time. In this new study, marine and
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Osprey Publishing | 9/13/2022 naval expert, Mark Lardas, explores the initial success of Luftwaffe attacks
9781472852434 | $24.00 / $32.00 Can. against Allied Artic Convoys during 1942 and demonstrates how the combined
Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Carton Qty: 1 presence of German warships, U-boats and bombers was a far more effective
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Illustrated throughout with around 60 photos and
attack strategy than the use of separate forces. This was a gruelling, dramatic, and
at least 14pp of colour illustrations high-stakes air campaign, fought in often appalling conditions with a Luftwaffe
armed with torpedoes as well as bombs. German reinforced naval and air forces
stationed in Norway found new opportunities to attack vital Allied Convoys, with
Luftwaffe bombers sinking half of Convoy PQ-15 in May 1942 and virtually
obliterating Convoy PQ-17 in July 1942 with the loss of 24 of its 38 merchant
ships. The climax came in September 1942 when 30 percent of Convoy PQ 18
was sunk with over three-quarters of its vessels lost due to air attack.
However, the Luftwaffe’s victory was short-lived. In November, it was
redeployed south to cover the Allied landings in North Africa and, in a shrewd
tactical move, the Allies also suspended their Arctic convoy sailings until
December, relying on the long Arctic nights to shiel...
Mark Lardas has written a variety of books on the subject of aviation including: ACM 29: The
Kamikaze Campaign 1944–45 and ACM 21: Battle of the Atlantic 1942–45. Currently he works
developing commercial aircraft systems as a quality assurance manager. He has also written
extensively about warships and is the author of 25 books, all related to military, naval or maritime
history. He currently lives in League City, Texas.
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British/Commonwealth Cruiser
vs Italian Cruiser
The Mediterranean 1940–43
Angus Konstam
This illustrated history explores the cruiser forces of the Italian
and British Royal navies, the jack-of-all trades warships of the
Mediterranean Naval War.
In 1941, when Italy entered World War II, the Royal Navy was badly
overstretched, and its Mediterranean Fleet had to face both the Italian Navy and
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the German and Italian Air Forces in a battle for supremacy. Although the British
9781472849687 | $22.00 / $29.00 Can. and Italian battle fleets squared off against each other, they were both often held
Trade Paperback | 80 pages | Carton Qty: 1 in reserve, in case the enemy fleet put to sea. So, it was left to the cruisers to
9.8 in H | 7.2 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt wage their own naval war in the Mediterranean. This involved a range of
Colour illustrations throughout, including
profiles, technical drawings, battlescene
missions, from escorting convoys and hunting enemy ones, to fighting for control
artworks, maps and photographs. of the sea around key locations such as the waters off Malta and Crete.
This superbly illustrated study, written by renowned naval expert Angus
Konstam, compares and contrasts the design, weapon technologies and combat
performance of the opposing cruiser forces. It also documents several major
clashes between British, Commonwealth and Italian cruisers, including spirited
actions fought off Cape Spada in 1940, a string of actions in the Gulf of Sirte
throughout 1941, battles against Axis convoys in 1941–42, and the Battle of
Pantellaria in 1942. Among the subjects of the specially commissioned colour
artworks are HMAS Sydney, HMS Naiad, RM Trento and RM Raimondo
Montecuccoli.
Angus Konstam is the author of over 100 history books, 60 of which are published by Osprey.
This acclaimed author has written widely on naval history, from Sovereigns of the Seas and Piracy:
The Complete History to his most recent bestseller, Mutiny on the Spanish Main. A former naval
officer and museum professional, he worked as the Curator in both the Royal Armouries, Tower of
London and the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, Florida. He now works as a full-time
author and historian, and ...
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The Chinese Civil War
1945–49
Michael Lynch
Updated and revised, with all new images throughout, this is a
concise study of the Chinese Civil War, a defining conflict in
world history that resulted in the creation of The People’s
Republic ...
Between the end of World War II and the dawn of the Cold War, one of the most
important conflicts in modern history reached its climax. With China’s Japanese
occupiers now defeated, the long struggle between Chiang Kai-shek’s
H I S TO RY / M I L I TA RY / W A R S & Nationalists and Mao Zedong’s Communists exploded into an intense, brutal and
C O N F L I C T S ( OT H E R ) ruthlessly fought civil war. In this engaging and surprising book, Michael Lynch
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delves into the political background and complex ramifications of the Chinese
Trade Paperback | 144 pages | Carton Qty: 1 Civil War, as well as assessing Mao and Chiang’s millions-strong armies, their
8.3 in H | 5.9 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt strategies and commanders, and the critical campaigns that won and lost China.
Fully illustrated in colour and black and white By 1949 the Nationalist government was defeated and in exile in Taiwan, and the
new People’s Republic of China was ready to emerge as a major Cold War
power.
Fully illustrated with photographs and colour maps, this is a concise study of one
of the bloodiest conflicts of the twentieth century and its significant
repercussions, the issues around which remain unresolved today.
Dr Michael Lynch is an Honorary Fellow in the School History, Politics & International Relations
at the University of Leicester. His specialist areas of interest include modern European and Asian
history. His previous publications include: Mao Zedong (Routledge, 2004), The People’s Republic
of China 1949–76, 2nd Edition (Hodder and Stoughton, 2008), Autocracy to Communism: Russia
1894-1941 (Hodder, 2008), and Nazi Germany (McGraw-Hill, 2012). He is a bestselling author on
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Essex-Class Aircraft Carriers
1945–91
Mark Stille
A history of the enduring Essex-class ships, the US Navy's
finest and most numerous fleet carrier during World War II,
which were modernized repeatedly and served with
distinction.
The Essex class was the USN’s war-winning ship class of the Pacific War. Of the
24 ships completed, 14 saw action, making the Essex class the largest class of
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fleet aircraft carriers ever built. These ships had a fine balance of striking power,
Osprey Publishing | 9/13/2022 protection, and speed and were modernized during and after the war. There were
9781472845818 | $19.00 / $25.00 Can. five distinct programs carried out, adding not only angled flight decks for jet
Trade Paperback | 48 pages | Carton Qty: 1 operations, but repeated upgrades to sensors, weapons, and equipment.
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Illustrated throughout with 40 photos and 8pp of
Essex-class carriers were used in a number of roles and provided the vast
colour illustrations majority of US Navy air power in the Korean War, and a sizeable proportion of
air power in the Vietnam conflict. However, as the “super carriers” began to enter
service in the early 1960s, the Essex class was relegated to secondary roles—a
single Essex carrier served until 1991 as the US Navy’s training carrier. This title
provides an in-depth portrait of this important and enduring class of ship, and
looks at its development and modifications while considering the many and
varied actions it took part in.
Mark E. Stille (Commander, United States Navy, retired) received his BA in History from the
University of Maryland and also holds an MA from the Naval War College. He has worked in the
intelligence community for 35 years including tours on the faculty of the Naval War College, on the
Joint Staff and on US Navy ships. He is currently a senior analyst working in the Washington DC
area. He is the author of numerous Osprey titles, focusing on naval history in the Pacific.
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Hunnic Warrior vs Late Roman
Cavalryman
Attila's Wars, AD 440–53
Murray Dahm
Roman and Hunnic fighting men are assessed and compared
in this fully illustrated study of Attila’s bid to conquer Europe
in the 5th century AD.
The Huns burst on to the page of western European history in the 4th century
H I S TO RY / M I L I TA RY / A N C I E N T AD. Fighting mostly on horseback, the Huns employed sophisticated tactics that
Osprey Publishing | 9/13/2022 harnessed the formidable power of their bows; they also gained a reputation for
9781472852083 | $22.00 / $29.00 Can. their fighting prowess at close quarters. Facing the Huns, the Roman Army
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9.8 in H | 7.2 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt fielded a variety of cavalry types, from heavily armed and armoured clibanarii
Colour artwork plates and maps; black & white and cataphractii to horse archers and missile cavalry. Many of these troops were
and colour photographs and illustrations. recruited from client peoples or cultures, including the Huns themselves.
After carving out a polyglot empire in eastern and central Europe, the Huns
repeatedly invaded Roman territory, besieging the city of Naissus in 443. With
Constantinople itself threatened, the Romans agreed to pay a huge indemnity. In
447, Attila re-entered Roman territory, confronting the Romans at the battle of
the Utus in Bulgaria. The Huns besieged Constantinople, but were unable to take
the city. In 451, after Hunnic forces invaded the Western Roman Empire, an army
led by the Roman general Aetius pursed the invaders, bringing the Huns to battle
at the Catalaunian Plains.
Featuring specially commissioned artwork and maps, this study examines the
origins, fighting methods and reputation of the two sides’ cavalry forces, with
particular reference to the siege of Naissus, the battle of the Utus and the
climactic encounter at the Catalaunian Plains.
Murray Dahm is a freelance historian and the author of several titles for Osprey, including Late
Roman Infantryman vs Gothic Warrior. Murray lives in Australia.
Giuseppe Rava has established himself as a leading military history artist and is inspired by the
works of the great military artists. He lives and works in Italy.
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The Jacobite Rebellion
1745–46
Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Updated and revised, with new images throughout, this
concise study examines one of the most heavily romanticized
and mythologized campaigns in military history—the Jacobite
Rebellion.
The Jacobite Rebellion was the Stuart dynasty’s final attempt to regain the British
throne, and its failure hastened the end of the Highland clans’ way of life. The
quixotic revolt, led by the charismatic Bonnie Prince Charlie and fought in the
H I S TO RY / M I L I TA RY / W A R S & main by clansmen loyal to the Stuarts, initially saw government forces
CONFLICTS (OTHER) outmanoeuvred and outfought before the Prince’s march on London was halted at
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9781472851161 | $20.00 / $27.00 Can.
Derby. The following spring, pursued back into the Highlands by the Duke of
Trade Paperback | 144 pages | Carton Qty: 1 Cumberland, the Prince’s army made its doomed last stand on the moor of
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Fully illustrated in colour and black and white This new edition, which includes colour maps, updates to the text and 30 new
images, provides an accessible introduction to the conflict. Esteemed military
historian Dr Gregory Fremont-Barnes examines the dynastic struggles of two
royal houses, the Rebellion’s manoeuvres and battles and the tragic aftermath for
the Highlands, presenting an in-depth evaluation of this key turning point in
British history.
Gregory Fremont-Barnes holds a doctorate in Modern History from the University of Oxford and
serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy,
Sandhurst. A prolific author, he has written many books on a variety of military and naval subjects
covering the 18th to the 21st centuries. As an academic advisor, Dr Fremont-Barnes has
accompanied many groups of British Army officers and senior NCOs in their visits to numerous
battlefields of the Peninsular War,...
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Roman Army Units in the
Eastern Provinces (2)
3rd Century AD
Raffaele D’Amato
Drawing upon the latest literary and archaeological research,
this is an in-depth study of the Roman Army units based in the
Eastern Provinces during the turbulent third century of the
Roman Empi...
H I S TO RY / M I L I TA RY / A N C I E N T The Men-at-Arms series presents the uniform, equipment and history of a vast
Osprey Publishing | 9/13/2022 array of military forces from around the world from ancient times to the present
9781472850492 | $19.00 / $25.00 Can. day. In this title, eminent Roman historian, Dr Raffaele D’Amato, looks at the
Trade Paperback | 48 pages | Carton Qty: 1 notoriously under-represented history of the Roman armies during the middle 3rd
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Illustrated with 8 detailed colour artworks Century whose records have been obscured by the chaotic civil wars of that
period between usurpers to the Imperial authority of Rome. Following on from
the previous title, MAA 527, Roman Army Units in the Western Provinces (2):
3rd Century AD, this book considers the evidence for troops in the Eastern half of
the Empire specifically around the Balkans, Mesopotamia, the Middle East and
North Africa and looks at the weakness of Imperial central authority which
inevitably led to local particularism and a wide range of appearance in regional
commands. Dr D'Amato uses literary, painted, sculptural and archaeological
sources to reconstruct this little-understood period of Roman military history and
meticulously charts and reconstructs the appearance and campaigns of those
Roman forces stationed in the East.
Raffaele D’Amato, PhD, is the author of some 40 books and has written numerous articles on the
Roman Empire, including Byzantium, medieval Europe and the military of Ancient Greece. He has
taught at the University of Ferrara, and for two years as a visiting professor at Fatih University,
Istanbul. He currently lives in England, working as an archaeological consultant and lawyer for
Timeline Auctions Ltd of Harwich, and also as an external researcher for the Laboratory of the
Danubian Provinces a...
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Bitter Peleliu
The Forgotten Struggle on the Pacific War's Worst Battlefield
Joseph Wheelan
The hard-hitting narrative of the Pacific War’s ‘forgotten battle’
of Peleliu—a story of intelligence failings and impossible
bravery.
In late 1944, as a precursor to the invasion of the Philippines, U.S. military
analysts decided to seize the small island of Peleliu to ensure that the Japanese
airfield there could not threaten the invasion forces. This important new book
explores the dramatic story of this ‘forgotten’ battle and the campaign’s strategic
failings. Bitter Peleliu reveals how U.S. intelligence officers had failed to detect
the complex network of caves, tunnels, and pillboxes hidden inside the island’s
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coral ridges. They did not discern—nor could they before it happened—that the
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defense of Peleliu would represent a tectonic shift in Japanese strategy. Now,
9781472849502 | $30.00 / $40.00 Can. invaders would be raked on the beaches by mortar and artillery fire. As the
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himself on ground carefully prepared for the purpose of killing as many
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16-page plate section in colour and black and Americans as possible. It was no less than attritional warfare.
white For the battle-hardened 1st Marine Division, Peleliu was a hornets’ nest. The
battle was unlike anything the division had seen before. Yet thanks to
pre-invasion over-confidence on the part of commanders, 30 of the 36 news
correspondents accredited for the campaign had left. Bitter Peleliu reveals the
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newsletters including Midnight in the Pacific (2017) and Bloody Okinawa (2020). Previously, he was an editor
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Chobham Armour
Cold War British Armoured Vehicle Development
William Suttie
A detailed overview of the vehicle development at the Military
Vehicles Research and Development Establishment on
Chobham Common from 1945 to its close in 2004.
Through much of World War II, British tanks and armoured vehicles were
outmatched by the German tanks they encountered. This led to the British Army
H I S TO RY / M I L I TA RY / V E H I C L E S placing much emphasis on ensuring that the same situation would not arise again
Osprey Publishing | 10/11/2022 should it face mass attacks by Soviet armoured forces during the Cold War. The
9781472855268 | $50.00 / $67.00 Can. task of developing the Main Battle Tanks and supporting armoured vehicles to
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out-range and quickly destroy the Soviet threat fell to the scientists and engineers
9.5 in H | 7.5 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt at the Fighting Vehicle Research and Development Establishment on Chobham
Fully illustrated throughout in colour and b&w Common near to Chertsey.
Military vehicle and equipment expert William Suttie draws extensively on
official MOD reports to tell the story of the development of the British Cold War
armour that served the British Army of The Rhine. Suttie covers the Centurion,
Chieftain, Challenger, and many other wheeled and tracked armoured vehicles
developed by the Fighting Vehicle Research and Development Establishment.
The vehicles developed at the Chertsey site were never used for their intended
purpose on the plains of North-west Germany, but have proved their worth in
later British operations, as well as in the hands of other users around the world.
Fully illustrated with photographs, schemes and drawings, including some that
have never been published before, this is a unique detailed overview of the
development of all post-war British armoured vehicles.
William Suttie has worked for the UK MOD for over 25 years in the field of military vehicle and
equipment research and development, currently as part of the Defence Science and Technology
Laboratory. During this period areas of work and expertise have included NBC detection and
protection, signature management, engineer vehicle concepts, minefield detection, combat
identification, platform survivability and vehicle subsystem technology. He completed a 4 year tour
as the scientific advisor to Dir...
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Armies of the First
Sino-Japanese War 1894–95
Gabriele Esposito
The study describes how newly modernized Japan waged war
against China in its first overseas campaign, marking its
remarkably rapid transition into Asia's leading military power.
After the Meiji restoration of the Japanese imperial regime was secured in
1868-77, the modernization along Western lines of Japan’s industry,
communications and land and naval forces advanced with remarkable speed, and
by the 1890s, the rejuvenated nation was ready to flex its muscles overseas. The
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obvious opponent was the huge but medieval Chinese Empire, and the obvious
Osprey Publishing | 10/25/2022
9781472851338 | $19.00 / $25.00 Can. arena for war was Korea, a nearby Chinese protectorate that Japan had long
Trade Paperback | 48 pages | Carton Qty: 1 coveted. (A secondary campaign would be fought on Formosa/ Taiwan, an
9.8 in H | 7.2 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt autonomous Chinese island protectorate.) This book describes the course of the
Illustrated with 8 pages of detailed colour
artwork
Japanese campaigns in China, and, in greater depth, the organization, equipment
and appearance of various Chinese forces (China had no true national army), the
Imperial Japanese Army and Navy, and, for the first time in English, the Korean
and Formosan participants. Japan’s victory left it confident enough to challenge
Imperial Russia nine years later. Russia's shocking defeat in 1905 at the Battle of
Tsushima where two-thirds of her fleet was destroyed by the Japanese Navy
confirmed Japan’s place as Asia’s leading military power, soon to become a
realistic rival to the West.
Gabriele Esposito is a professor of modern history, a freelance researcher and an author of military
history books, specializing in uniformology. His interests range from ancient civilizations to
modern postcolonial conflicts including 19th-century Italian, Spanish and Latin American wars.
His books and essays have been published by Pen & Sword, Winged Hussar and Libreria Editrice
Goriziana and he contributes to a variety of specialist military-history journals. He has written
various titles for...
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