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Military

Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb A Story of Defiance, Deterrence, and Deviance

Abbas Hassan

ISBN: HB: 9781849047159, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book provides a comprehensive account of the mysterious story of Pakistan's attempt to develop nuclear weapons in the face of severe odds. Hassan Abbas profiles the politicians and scientists involved, and the role of Chin...

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Political Science

Social Currents in North Africa Culture and Governance after the Arab Spring

Abi-Mershed Osama

ISBN: PB: 9781849048279, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Social Currents in North Africa" is a multi-disciplinary analysis of the social phenomena unfolding in the Maghreb today. The contributors analyse the genealogies of contemporary North African behavioral and ideological norms,...

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Literary Criticism

Medieval

Medievalism The Middle Ages in Modern England

Alexander Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300227307, Yale University Press, April 2017
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 27 colour illus.

Now reissued in an updated paperback edition, this groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period was re-established in post-Enlightenment England – from Walpole and Scott, Pugin, R...

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Europe

Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag The Violence of Stalin's Labor Camps

Alexopoulos Golfo

ISBN: HB: 9780300179415, Yale University Press, April 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror. In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin's Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labo...

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Military

Duty Nobly Done The South Wales Borderers at Gallipoli 1915

Ashwood Rodney

ISBN: HB: 9781911512172, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
364 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 maps, 2 colour illus., 41 black&white illus.

While the main emphasis of the Great War was on the Western Front of France and Belgium, the British Army also took part in what was a lesser known conflict, but one of equal intensity and drama. This was at Gallipoli, on the shores of Turkey, betwee...

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World

Dark Path to Freedom Rusi Nazar, from the Red Army to the CIA

Altayli Enver

ISBN: HB: 9781849046978, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Born in Margilan, Central Asia on the eve of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Rusi Nazar had one of the most exciting lives of the twentieth century. Charming, intellectually brilliant and passionately committed to the liberatio...

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Military

Browned off and Bloody-Minded The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945

Allport Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300226386, Yale University Press, March 2017
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

<p>More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, disc...

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Asia

Division of Heaven and Earth On Tibet's Peaceful Revolution

Akester Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781849046770, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Division of Heaven and Earth" is one of the most influential and important books from Tibet in the modern era – a passionate indictment of Chinese policies and an eloquent analysis of protests that swept Tibet from March 2...

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America

Old-Time Saloon Not Wet – Not Dry, Just History

Ade George

ISBN: PB: 9780226412306, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm, 4 halftones, 8 line drawings

Fancy a tipple? Then pull up a stool, raise a glass, and dip into this delightful paean to the grand old saloon days of yore. Written by Chicago-based journalist, playwright, and all-round wit George Ade in the waning years of Prohibition, "The Old-T...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Scale Modelling WW1 Tanks

Astier Frederik

ISBN: PB: 9782352504689, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, October 2016
128 pp., 29.5x20.8 cm, 500 colour and black&white illus.

"Tank Models of the First World War" accurately describes assembly methods, painting and realization of dioramas for each of the 6 models: the Mark IV "Male" English, Mark IV "Female" and the German A7V, Schneider CA, the St. Chamond and the French R...

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