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Biography & Memoires

Claudio Ranieri T[h]inkerman

Gatas Aris

ISBN: PB: 9781782551287, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, December 2017
280 pp., 20.5x13.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

How does a team and a coach, who were nearly forgotten three years ago, achieve the impossible? How do they rise to the top and conquer the Premier League, the toughest league in the world? Everyone is entitled to dream big after Claudio Ranieri's mi...

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Aviation

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First Kills The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot Wladyslaw Gnys

Gnys Stefan

ISBN: HB: 9781612005560, Casemate, December 2017
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, highly illustrated

Polish pilot W³adek Gnyœ was credited with shooting down the first two German aircraft of World War II on September 1, 1939. On 2 September 1939, as Gnys' squadron took off near Krakow to intercept the German invaders, German Stuka pilot Frank Neuber...

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America

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Resisting Sherman A Confederate Surgeon's Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865

Robertson Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9781611213867, ISBN: HB: 9781611212600, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 maps, 45 images

Surprisingly little ink has been spilled on the final months of the Civil War in the Carolinas, despite its fascinating cast of characters, host of combats large and small, and its impact on the course of the war. Now in paperback, Resisting Sherman:...

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Military

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Gabriel Rains and the Confederate Torpedo Bureau

Waters Davis W.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213508, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
168 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 31 images, 2 maps

"Ironclads are said to master the world, but torpedoes master the ironclads". Gabriel J. Rains was a Confederate Brigadier General who was more than a military officer – he was a scientist. His Civil War appointment gave him an opportunity to develop...

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Jewish Studies

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Gershom Scholem From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back

Zadoff Noam

ISBN: PB: 9781512601138, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

German-born Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem (1897-1982), the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, delved into the historical analysis of kabbalistic literature from late antiquity to the twentieth century. His writings traverse Jewish historiography, Zi...

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Law

Louis D. Brandeis American Prophet

Rosen Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300230710, ISBN: HB: 9780300158670, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was "the Jewish Jefferson", the greatest critic of what he called "the curse of bigness", in business and government, since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the hund...

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Biography & Memoires

Judaism

David The Divided Heart

Wolpe David

ISBN: PB: 9780300230741, ISBN: HB: 9780300188783, Yale University Press, November 2017
184 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Of all the figures in the Bible, David arguably stands out as the most perplexing and enigmatic. He was many things: a warrior who subdued Goliath and the Philistines; a king who united a nation; a poet who created beautiful, sensitive verse; a loyal...

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Performing Arts

Barbra Streisand Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power

Gabler Neal

ISBN: PB: 9780300230611, Yale University Press, November 2017
296 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful... talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the natural wonders of the age". Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a p...

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Military

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Flag The Story of Revd David Railton MC and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

Richards Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781612004471, Casemate, November 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 pages of photos

Reverend David Railton MC served as a chaplain on the Western Front during World War I. Attached to three divisions between 1916 and 1918, Railton supported the soldiers in their worst moments, he buried the fallen, comforted the wounded, wrote to th...

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Military

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Recollections from the Ranks Three Russian Soldiers' Autobiographies from the Napoleonic Wars

Boland Darrin

ISBN: HB: 9781912174188, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2017
156 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, illus. and maps

From Napoleon's invasion of 1812 to the Wars of Liberation and beyond, seen from the common Russian soldier's perspective. This volume is composed of three accounts previously unavailable in English. Detailed annotations illuminate a seldom understoo...

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