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Aviation

SMI Library, No. 09 Grumman F6F Hellcat, Volume I

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596056, Casemate, Kagero, September 2014
96 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 135 photos, 5 colour photos, 4 colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! Grumman F6F Hellcat was one of the best fighter aircraft of the World War Two era and the most effective fighter of the US Navy. There is no doubt that Hellcats won complete air superiority for the Americans over the vast ar...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Monographs, No. 56 Vought F4U Corsair, Volume II

Szlagor Tomasz, Wieliczko Leszek A.

ISBN: PB: 9788364596087, Casemate, Kagero, September 2014
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 18 scale drawings, 112 black&white photos, 5 paintings

Not for sale in Poland! The second volume carries on the story of the F4U Corsair by examining its development and operational service in later stages of the World War Two. By early 1944 the Corsair well proved its worth in combat. Finally qualifie...

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America

Declaration of Independence in Historical Context American State Papers, Petitions, Proclamations, and Letters of the Delegates to the First National Congresses

Shain Barry Alan

ISBN: HB: 9780300158748, Yale University Press, August 2014
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Political science professor Barry Shain has collected 174 letters, papers, petitions and proclamations from the years directly preceding the creation of the Declaration of Independence that challenge many of the dominant narratives that shape contemp...

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Asia

Restless Valley Revolution, Murder and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia

Shishkin Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780300205916, Yale University Press, July 2014
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

It sounds like the stuff of a fiction thriller: two revolutions, a massacre of unarmed civilians, a civil war, a drug-smuggling highway, brazen corruption schemes, contract hits, and larger-than-life characters who may be villains... or heroes... or...

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America

Robert Morris's Folly The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder

Smith Ryan K.

ISBN: HB: 9780300196047, Yale University Press, July 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.

In 1798 Robert Morris – 'financier of the American Revolution', confidant of George Washington, former U.S. senator – plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtors' prison and public contempt. How could one of the richest men in the Unit...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Stalin's American Spy Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European Show-Trials

Sharp Tony

ISBN: HB: 9781849043441, Hurst Publishers, May 2014
424 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Stalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May 1949, he was kidnapped and handed over to the Hungarian secret police. Tortured...

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Middle East

Pashtun Question The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan

Siddique Abubakar

ISBN: HB: 9781849042925, Hurst Publishers, May 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Most contemporary journalistic and scholarly accounts of the instability gripping Afghanistan and Pakistan have argued that violent Islamic extremism, including support for the Taliban and related groups, is either rooted in Pa...

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America

American Zion The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War

Shalev Eran

ISBN: PB: 9780300205909, Yale University Press, April 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that pervaded political rhetoric. From Revolutionary times to about 1830, numerous Ameri...

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Europe

Philosophy

Hitler's Philosophers

Sherratt Yvonne

ISBN: PB: 9780300205473, Yale University Press, April 2014
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Hitler had a dream to rule the world, not only with the gun but also with his mind. He saw himself as a "philosopher-leader", and astonishingly gained the support of many intellectuals of his time. In this compelling book, Yvonne Sherratt explores Hi...

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Africa

Having People, Having Heart Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central Uganda

Scherz China

ISBN: PB: 9780226119670, ISBN: HB: 9780226119533, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Believing that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have increasingly sought to replace material aid with efforts to build self-reliance and local institutions. But i...

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