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Short History

Greek Warriors Hoplites and Heroes

Willekes Carolyn

ISBN: PB: 9781612005157, Casemate, September 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Thermopylae, Marathon: though fought 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece, the names of these battles are more familiar to many than battles fought in the last half-century, but our concept of the men who fought in these battles may be more a product of...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

Lost Idol The Life and Death of a Young Officer: Esmond Elliot 1895-1917

Astor Johnnie, Alexandra Campbell

ISBN: HB: 9781912174027, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
248 pp., 24.5x18 cm, 100 illus. and maps

Esmond Elliot, younger son of the Earl of Minto, Viceroy of India, was killed while serving with the Scots Guards, aged 22, at the beginning of the Passchendaele Offensive. Compiled from his grieving mother's memorial of his life, together with his...

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America

In the Shadow of Bois Hugo The 8th Lincolns at the Battle of Loos

Atter Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9781911512776, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 illus., maps

This is the first book dedicated to the subject of the 8th (Service) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment during the First World War – and this particular Kitchener battalion has been a neglected topic of study; however, there is a rich mine of informati...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

What Did You Do In Great War, Grandfather? The Life and Times of an Edwardian Horse Artillery Officer

Barrington Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781912174034, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 90 photos and maps

Part history, part social documentary, part love story, this is a grandson's search for what his grandfather did in the Great War. Drawing on war diaries in the National Archives, unit records in the Royal Artillery museum, and a unique pictorial rec...

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Political Science

World

Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions 1917 and Its Aftermath from a Global Perspective

Rinke Stefan, Wildt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783593507057, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2017
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

Unquestionably a watershed year in world history, 1917 not only saw the Russian Revolution and the US entry into World War I, it also marked a foundational moment in determining global political structures for the remaining twentieth century. Yet whi...

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Poetry

Ancient World

Aeneid

Virgil

ISBN: HB: 9780226450186, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

So begins the "Aeneid", greatest of Western epic poems. Virgil's story of the journey of Aeneas has been a part of our cultural heritage for so many centuries that it's all too easy to lose sight of the poem itself – of its brilliantly cinematic depi...

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Military

Improbable War China, the United States and the Logic of Great Power Conflict

Coker Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781849048781, ISBN: HB: 9781849043960, Hurst Publishers, September 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Improbable War" explains why conflict between the USA and China cannot be ruled out. In 1914 war between the Great Powers was considered unlikely, yet it happened. We learn only from history, and popular though the First W...

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America

Domestic Subjects Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature

Piatote Beth H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227079, Yale University Press, August 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

Amid the decline of U.S. military campaigns against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, assimilation policy arose as the new front in the Indian Wars, with its weapons the deployment of culture and law, and its locus the American Indian...

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Europe

Conquest of Death Violence and the Birth of the Modern English State

Lockwood Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300217063, Yale University Press, August 2017
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

A fresh and fascinating history of crime and violence in England through the office of the coroner. In his fascinating debut, Matthew Lockwood explores the history of crime, homicide, and suicide in England over four centuries through the office of...

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Europe

Military

In Nelson's Wake The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars

Davey James

ISBN: PB: 9780300228830, ISBN: HB: 9780300200652, Yale University Press, August 2017
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 colour illus., maps

The Napoleonic Wars saw Britain immersed in a conflict of unprecedented scale and intensity. With France dominant on the European mainland, the fate of the British population rested first and foremost on the Royal Navy and the thousands of individual...

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