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Military

Afghan Way of War Culture and Pragmatism: A Critical History

Johnson R. W.

ISBN: PB: 9781849043762, ISBN: HB: 9781849041065, Hurst Publishers, April 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Included in the narrative are the wider Pashtun population that lived astride the British Imperial/Pakistan border, not just those Pashtuns resident in the modern state of Afghanistan. The literature on the Afghan wars and fro...

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Africa

Interlopers of Empire The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa

Arsan Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781849042970, Hurst Publishers, April 2014
452 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse that covered present-day Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Benin and Mauritania. Where others h...

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America

Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure that Shocked Washington City

Schultz Nancy Lusignan

ISBN: PB: 9780300205893, ISBN: HB: 9780300118469, Yale University Press, March 2014
288 pp., 23.6x15.7 cm, 24 illus.

In the spring of 1824 in the young capital city of Washington, D. C. , Ann Mattingly, widowed sister of the city's mayor, was miraculously cured of a ravaging cancer. Just days, or perhaps even hours, from her predicted demise, she arose from her sic...

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Biography & Memoires

America

My Bondage and My Freedom

Douglass Frederick, Blight David W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300190595, Yale University Press, March 2014
432 pp., 21x14 cm

Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation's enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War...

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Biography & Memoires

Military

Great Agnostic Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought

Jacoby Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300205787, ISBN: HB: 9780300137255, Yale University Press, March 2014
192 pp., 21x14 cm

During the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America's enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as "the Great Agnostic". The nation's most famous orator, he raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separa...

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Europe

Great Plague A People's History

Lord Evelyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300173819, Yale University Press, March 2014
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16-page section of black&white illus.

During Medieval times, the Black Death wiped out one-fifth of the world's population. Four centuries later, in 1665, the plague returned with a vengeance, cutting a long and deadly swathe through the British Isles. Though the murderous contagion even...

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Europe

If England Were Invaded

Le Queux William

ISBN: PB: 9781851244027, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2014
224 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 2 black&white illus.

...No fewer than two hundred thousand Germans were already upon English soil! The outlook grew blacker every hour. Eight years before the outbreak of the First World War, when national hysteria over the supposed presence of German spies in England gr...

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Military

Zhitomir-Berdichev Volume 2: German Operations West of Kiev 24 December 1943 - 31 January 1944

Barratt Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9781909384101, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2014
616 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white photos, 253 colour maps in separately-bound mapbook

This is the second volume of a two-volume set which together comprise a detailed and well-researched history of the important but neglected operation that was to be the beginning of the liberation of western Ukraine. On 24 December 1943, the Red Army...

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Military

Festung Guernsey, Volume 1.1 The English Garrisons on Guernsey

ISBN: PB: 9780992667108, Casemate, Clear Vue Publishing, March 2014
84 pp., 29.7x21 cm, approx. 200 illus.

This book is unique amongst all volumes on German fortifications of the Second World War, in that it was written by the German forces themselves. It is the ultimate guide to their defensive planning and mindset. The Channel Islands of Guernsey and J...

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Political Science

Military

Success and Failure in Limited War Information and Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars

Bakich Spencer D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226107714, ISBN: HB: 9780226107684, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 5 tables

Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. Chief among these challenges is the risk of escalation – be it in the scale, scope, cos...

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