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This volume uncovers how Sub-Saharan Africa was imagined in Russian culture fr... This volume uncovers how Sub-Saharan Africa was imagined in Russian culture from 1850 to 1917. Drawing on travelogues ethnographic studies fiction and museum collections Anita Frison reveals how Russia-though lacking formal colonies in... more

Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945 is the first nuts-and-bolts... Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945 is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw allied intelligence documents and postwar Japanese documentation as primary sources. This second volume covers the armament of... more

Auxiliaries is a term used to describe non-native soldiers in Roman service. T... Auxiliaries is a term used to describe non-native soldiers in Roman service. The term nowadays can almost be read as pejorative but the auxiliaries of Imperial Rome were hard fighting men! Well-equipped and well-trained these men sometimes from... more

Britain and Empire 1880-1945 traces the relationship between Britain and its e... Britain and Empire 1880-1945 traces the relationship between Britain and its empire during a period when the two spheres intersected with one another to an unprecedented degree. The story starts with the imperial expansion of the late nineteenth... more

The historical roots of air superiority date to the First World War which mark... The historical roots of air superiority date to the First World War which marked the emergence of the fighter airplane offensive and defensivefighter doctrine and the trained fighter pilot. By the end of the war the Imperial German Air Service had... more