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Queen Elizabeth's Book of Oxford Ms Bodley 13a, a Facsimile with Introduction and Translation

Durning Louise, Knight Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9781851243150, Bodleian Library Publishing, January 2006
112 pp., 25x17.6 cm, 50 colour illus.

Among the many gifts presented to Queen Elizabeth during her week-long visit to Oxford in the summer of 1566, none is more remarkable than this manuscript history of the University illustrated with exceptionally fine drawings of its buildings. Though...

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Junkers Ju.87 Picchiatello

Di Terlizzi Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788886815581, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2005
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 18 colour illus., 88 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

This Italian publication has a bilingual text and it deals with the Italian Ju 87, a bombing aircraft of the IIWW widely used by the Regia Aeronautica. The text is supplemented with interesting photos, one of which is in World War II vintage colour....

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Fieseler Fi-156 Storch in Italian Service

Di Terlizzi Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788875650650, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2005
88 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 76 colour illus., 62 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

Among the many aircraft used by Regia Aeronautica units during the II WorldWar, the Fieseler Storch proved to be extremely versatile and higly appreciated by italian crews. Although wide use was also made of the feared Stuka and the powerful Me 109s,...

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Memory of Judgment Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust

Douglas Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780300109849, Yale University Press, May 2005
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This powerful book offers the first detailed examination of the law's response to the crimes of the Holocaust. In vivid prose it offers a fascinating study of five exemplary proceedings-the Nuremberg trial of the major Nazi war criminals, the Israeli...

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Middle East

Political Science

Revolution Unending Afghanistan 1979 to the Present

Dorronsoro Gilles

ISBN: HB: 9781850656838, Hurst Publishers, January 2005
370 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The defeat of the Greek armies in Asia Minor in August 1922, leading to what the Greeks call 'the Asia Minor Catastrophe', led directly to the flight of Greek refugees from Asia Minor, the compulsory exchange of populations bet...

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North American P/F 51 Mustang in Italian Service

Di Massimo Patroncino

ISBN: PB: 9788875650193, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2004
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 46 colour illus., 80 black&white (including threeviews and profiles)

A bilingual text rich in black & white and colour photographs, colour profiles and an appendix. The book retraces the development and the characteristics of this marvellous fighter, one of the best out of World War II, not only for its effectiveness...

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Macchi MC 200 Saetta, Part 2

Di Terlizzi Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788875650056, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2004
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 38 colour illus., 97 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

The volume starts retracing the role of this fighter during the IIWW. The historical dealing encloses a lot of photographs with commented captions. Particularly interesting is the part eferring to the manufacturing of the Pack model kit Mc 200 (1/48...

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Macchi MC 202 Folgore, Part 1

Di Terlizzi Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788886815420, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2003
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 18 colour illus., 55 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

The first part of the monography is dedicated to an aircraft that is the one of the most researched between those that partecipated in the II World War. The text is bilingual (Italian/English) and the volume deals with the history and the modelling s...

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Catherine the Great A Short History

de Madariaga Isabel

ISBN: PB: 9780300097221, Yale University Press, September 2002
256 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 17 illus.

Ivan IV, "the Terrible" (1533-1584) is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among the most neglected. Notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror – and for killing his own son – he has been credited with establi...

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Macchi MC 200 Saetta, Part 1

Di Terlizzi Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788886815703, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2002
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 26 colour illus., 106 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

The first part of the monography is dedicated to one of the most required aircraft of the II WW, that deals with all aspects of the type?s life from development through service. The text and the captions are in Italian and English, the modelling maki...

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