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Evelyn Waugh's Oxford

Cooke Barbara, Dodd Amy

ISBN: HB: 9781851244874, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2018
192 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 65 illus.

Oxford held a special place in Evelyn Waugh's imagination. So formative were his Oxford years that the city never left him, appearing again and again in his novels in various forms. This book explores in rich visual detail the abiding importance of O...

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Military

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Kursk 1943 The Greatest Battle of the Second World War

Toeppel Roman

ISBN: HB: 9781912390038, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
184 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 8 colour maps, 1 table

The Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 was one of the greatest battles in military history involving more than 3 million soldiers, 10,000 tanks and 8,000 aircraft. While many books have been written on this allegedly most decisive battle of the Se...

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Europe

Odessa 1941-44 Defense, Occupation, Resistance and Liberation

Ovcharenko Nikolai

ISBN: HB: 9781912390144, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
196 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 16 black&white photos, maps

After a brief overview of the origins and development of the city of Odessa on the Black Sea Coast, author Nikolai Ovcharenko turns to its citizens' ordeal during the Second World War. In the process, he describes the heroism of the city's defenders...

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Small Towns in Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries Heritage and Development Strategies

Klusakova Lud'a

ISBN: PB: 9788024636450, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Always in the shadow of their more famous urban neighbors, small towns are consistently overlooked in historical research, especially in Europe. This book investigates the ramifications of...

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Biography & Memoires

Complete Maisky Diaries: 1932-1943 Volumes 1-3

Maisky Ivan, Gorodetsky Gabriel, Sorokina Tatiana, Ready Oliver

ISBN: HB: 9780300117820, Yale University Press, February 2018
1672 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 131 black&white illus.

Confiscated by Soviet authorities in the 1950s, the diaries of Ivan Maisky, the USSR's ambassador to Great Britain from 1932 to 1943, have been unearthed, annotated, and edited for publication in a three-volume set that Niall Ferguson predicts "will...

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Townshend Moment The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century

Griffin Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780300218978, Yale University Press, February 2018
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Patrick Griffin chronicles the attempts of brothers Charles and George Townshend to control the forces of history in the heady days after Britain's mythic victory over France in the mid-eighteenth century, and the historic and unintended consequences...

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Christianity

Catholics on the Barricades Poland, France, and "Revolution", 1939-1956

Kosicki Piotr H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300225518, Yale University Press, February 2018
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

This collective intellectual biography examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including Karol Wojty³a, future Pope John Paul II, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the future prime minister who would dismantle...

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Political Science

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Ukrainian Night An Intimate History of Revolution

Shore Marci

ISBN: HB: 9780300218688, Yale University Press, February 2018
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day...

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Claiming Crimea A History of Catherine the Great's Southern Empire

O'Neill Kelly

ISBN: HB: 9780300218299, Yale University Press, February 2018
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 29 black&white illus.

Russia's long-standing claims to Crimea date back to the eighteenth-century reign of Catherine II. Historian Kelly O'Neill has written the first archive-based, multi-dimensional study of the initial "quiet conquest" of a region that has once again mo...

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Military

Danish Volunteers of the Waffen-SS Freikorps Danmark 1941-43

Bjerregaard Jens Pank

ISBN: HB: 9781911512707, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
320 pp., 30.5x22.2 cm, 550 black&white photos

The book Danish Volunteers of the Waffen-SS tells the story of Freikorps Danmark in pictures from 1941-1943. Freikorps Danmark was established as a Danish corps which had to fight communism and, from its beginning, it was controlled from Denmark and...

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