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Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn

Willes Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780300238686, Yale University Press, August 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.

<p>Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times. Pepys was earthy and shrewd,...

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Mercenary Mediterranean Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Fancy Hussein

ISBN: PB: 9780226597898, ISBN: HB: 9780226329642, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 5 maps, 1 table

Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Aragon to meet with the king of Aragon, who showered them with gifts, including sumptuous cloth and decorative saddles,...

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Robert the Bruce King of the Scots

Penman Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300240313, Yale University Press, July 2018
456 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 16 pp. black&white illus.

Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) famously defeated the English at Bannockburn and became the hero king responsible for Scottish independence. In this fascinating new biography of the renowned warrior, Michael Penman focuses on Robert's kingship in the fi...

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One Hot Summer Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

Ashton Rosemary

ISBN: PB: 9780300238662, Yale University Press, July 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

<p>While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered. And yet, historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhist...

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Military

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First Bridge Too Far The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943

Saliger Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781612006895, Casemate, July 2018
256 pp., 22.9x15 cm

The full story of the British airborne forces attempt to take the strategically important Primosole Bridge, published for the 75th anniversary of the battle Shows how this battle was a precursor to the Battle of Arnhem – and the lessons that were and...

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Defending Nazis in Postwar Czechoslovakia Life of K. Resler, Defense Councel Ex Officio of K. H. Frank

Drapal Jakub

ISBN: PB: 9788024637303, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Czech lawyer and scholar Jakub Drapal tells the story of the life of Kamill Resler, an attorney who defended the most prominent Nazi tried in postwar Czechoslovakia: Karl Her...

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Islam

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Kingdoms of Faith A New History of Islamic Spain

Catlos Brian A.

ISBN: HB: 9781787380035, Hurst Publishers, July 2018
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain either as a paradise of enlightened tolerance, or as the site where civilisations clashed. Award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos taps a wide array of original sources to paint a mor...

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Estonia A Modern History

Taylor Neil

ISBN: PB: 9781849049573, Hurst Publishers, July 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! With only 1.3 million inhabitants, Estonia is one of Europe's least populous nations – yet it boasts one of the continent's fastest growing economies. In the first serious English-language history of this small Baltic state, Ne...

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On Germany

MacDonogh Giles

ISBN: HB: 9781849049450, Hurst Publishers, July 2018
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! After the Second World War, Germany was an international pariah. Today, it has become a beacon of the Western world. But what makes this extraordinary nation tick? "On Germany" tells the story of a country reborn, from defeat...

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Jewish Studies

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Ecologies of Witnessing Language, Place, and Holocaust Testimony

Pollin-Galay Hannah

ISBN: HB: 9780300226041, Yale University Press, June 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking work rethinks conventional wisdom about Holocaust testimony, focusing on the power of language and place to shape personal narrative. Oral histories of Lithuanian Jews serve as the textual base for this exploration. Comparing the...

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