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Europe

Britain's Civilian Armies in World War II The Fight on the Home Front

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781911096313, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
232 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus., 20 tables

Whilst the men and women of national service age were called to arms in the various Services, a parallel process was being undertaken involving the civilian population. This initiative relied in the main on volunteers accepting challenges and committ...

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Europe

Travel

Prague A City and Its River

Beckova Katerina

ISBN: PB: 9788024632926, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2017
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates, 25 halftones, 2 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Since its birth as a city, Prague's appearance, character, and life have been shaped by the River Vltava. The flow of the river enabled the settlement of the Prague basin, the creation of...

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Europe

Blood and Faith ;

Carr Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781849048019, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
440 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1609, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory or else be killed. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families were forced to abandon the homes and villages where they had li...

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Europe

Northern Conquest Vikings in Britain and Ireland

Holman Katherine

ISBN: PB: 9781904955344, Signal Books, February 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Most historical accounts examine the Viking Age in one part rather than the whole region of the British Isles and Ireland. Very few pay attention to the continued contact between England and Scandinavia in the post-Norman Conqu...

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Europe

General

Indigenous London Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire

Thrush Coll

ISBN: HB: 9780300206302, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metrop...

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Europe

Art of the Bribe Corruption Under Stalin, 1943-1953

Heinzen James

ISBN: HB: 9780300175257, Yale University Press, January 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

The first archive-based study of official corruption under Stalin and a compelling new look at the textures of everyday Soviet life after World War II In the Soviet Union, bribery was a skill with its own practices and culture. James Heinzen's innova...

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Europe

Spanish Resurgence, 1713-1748

Storrs Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300216899, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A major reassessment of Philip V's leadership and what it meant for the modern Spanish state Often dismissed as ineffective, indolent, and dominated by his second wife, Philip V of Spain (1700-1746), the first Bourbon king, was in fact the greatest t...

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Europe

Scorched Earth Stalin's Reign of Terror

Baberowski Jorg, Gilbert Steven, Komljen Ivo, Taber Samantha Jeanne

ISBN: HB: 9780300136982, Yale University Press, January 2017
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

German scholar Jorg Baberowski is one of the world's leading experts on the Stalin era, but his work has seldom been translated into English. This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad violence with which Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts S...

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Europe

Children and War Volume 2: Past and Present

Prontera Grazia, Aschauer Wolfgang, Buckley John, Embachler Helga, Albert Albert

ISBN: PB: 9781911096917, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
284 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 tables, 28 black&white illus.

The amount of international research on "Children and War" carried out by academics, governments and non-governmental organisations has continually increased in recent years. At the same time there has been growing public interest in how children exp...

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Jewish Studies

Polonica

Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present History, Representation, and Memory

Michlic Joanna Beata

ISBN: PB: 9781512600100, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2017
306 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children....

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