Cold wars and proxy conflicts

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Murder, madness and military secrets - the Cold War is over, and things are about to get very hot.

Winner: Southern Historical Association Smith Award for Best Book in European HistoryWinner: Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Book AwardThey are war stories, filled with danger and deprivation, excitement and opportunity, sorrow and trauma, scandal and controversyand because they are the war stories of nurses, they remain largely untold.

'The story reaches out and grabs you by the throat' - Dr Clare Wright, historian and author of The Forgotten Rebels of EurekaThe facts are shocking.

The Vietnamese hilltribes made him a demi-god.

The engines are started, twenty shiny propellers glistening in the sun, forty exhausts rumbling and belching blue smoke.

Winner: Southern Historical Association Smith Award for Best Book in European HistoryWinner: Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Book AwardThey are war stories, filled with danger and deprivation, excitement and opportunity, sorrow and trauma, scandal and controversyand because they are the war stories of nurses, they remain largely untold.

A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front.

Winner: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardWinner: Master Corporal Jan Stanislaw Jakobczak Memorial Book AwardNovember 1917.

The train was packed with men.

Winner: Norman B.

"e;It is impossible to reproduce the state of mind of the men who waged war in 1917 and 1918,"e; Edward Coffman wrote in The War to End All Wars.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOn June 11, 1937, a closed military court ordered the execution of a group of the Soviet Union's most talented and experienced army officers, including Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevskii; all were charged with participating in a Nazi plot to overthrow the regime of Joseph Stalin.

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Choice Outstanding TitleWhen on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: Im an American, and I never retreat.

A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front.

Winner: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardWinner: Master Corporal Jan Stanislaw Jakobczak Memorial Book AwardNovember 1917.

The year is 1949.

An epic story of courage, genius and terrible folly, this is the first history of how the Soviet Union's scientists became both the glory and the laughing stock of the intellectual world.

**A BIRD IN WINTER - THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM LOUISE DOUGHTY - AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**FROM THE WRITER OF BBC SMASH HIT DRAMA CROSSFIREJohn Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on an Indonesian island, listening to the rain on the roof and believing his life may be in danger.

Despite China's alignment with Russia being one of the most significant factors shaping the international order, the dynamics of their historic relationships and, more importantly, the sources of China's alignment policy remain underexplored.

The train was packed with men.

Choice Outstanding TitleWhen on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: Im an American, and I never retreat.

An explanation of the frequency of war and its specific causes and consequences, first published in 2010.

Winner: Norman B.

This book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes in the post-Cold War era.

Focusing on two case studies from East Asia and Europe, Yinan He argues that the key to interstate reconciliation is the harmonization of national memories.

Comparative essays on the political and cultural ''mobilization'' of populations during the First World War.

This book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes in the post-Cold War era.

Focusing on two case studies from East Asia and Europe, Yinan He argues that the key to interstate reconciliation is the harmonization of national memories.

Explores the links between the Cold War and the global environment, ranging from the environmental impacts of nuclear weapons to the political repercussions of environmentalism.

This collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic, military, and political setting.

Smith reexamines German continuities and sheds new light on nationalism, anti-Semitism and genocide.

An anthology of the writing of Wilfred Burchett, perhaps the greatest journalist and war correspondent Australia has ever produced.

Revisionist account of the Ottoman Empire''s fateful decision to enter the First World War in 1914.

This book is about the religious dimensions of American leadership''s fight against communism during the Cold War.

An analysis of Russian democracy''s collapse in 1917 through the experiences of ordinary people.

This 2007 book provides the most comprehensive examination of American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) combat doctrine and methods ever published.

This book, first published in 2006, explores the memory of the Great War through the historical experience of pilgrimage.

This book explores the realities behind the Palestinian exodus of 1948 during the Arab-Israeli war.

A major re-interpretation of international relations from Versailles to the outbreak of war in 1939.

This book re-examines the course of the First World War through the lens of the Franco-British coalition.

A compelling assessment of the experience of the British soldier in the First World War.

A major contribution to our understanding of total war.

This 2005 book is a fully comparative history of the writing of the history of the Great War.

Decisions for War focuses on the question: why did World War I happen?

The essays in this collection, the fourth in a series on the problem of total war, examine the inter-war period.

This book provides an examination of the development of memorial landscapes in Ireland.

This 2003 text examines the role of Kaiser Wilhelm II, focusing on the final years of his reign.

This book, first published in 2000, examines the real state of German public opinion on the Great War and its aftermath.