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Military

Lone Wolf and Bear Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule

Gammer Moshe

ISBN: PB: 9781850657484, Hurst Publishers, November 2005
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The two Russo-Chechen wars (1994-6 and 1999-onwards) have brought the country and its people to the centre of world attention, most recently when separatists stormed a Moscow theatre, taking hundreds of people hostage. This boo...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Stalin's Secret Pogrom The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-fascist Committee

Rubensteln Joshua, Naumov Vladimir P., Wolfson Laura Esther

ISBN: PB: 9780300104523, Yale University Press, October 2005
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 51 black&white illus.

In 1952 fifteen Soviet Jews, including five prominent poets and writers, were falsely accused, secretly tried, and convicted of treason and espionage. Thirteen were executed, one died in a prison hospital and one was exiled. This book presents the lo...

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Culture Studies

Europe

Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944

ISBN: HB: 9781851243358, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2005
64 pp., 14.8x10 cm

In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to expect and how to behave in a newly-liberated France. Containing candid descriptions of this war-ravaged society (widespread malnourishment, rampant tube...

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Africa

Military

Dirty War in West Africa The R.U.F. and the Destruction of Sierra Leone

Gberie Lansana

ISBN: PB: 9781850657422, Hurst Publishers, October 2005
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "A Dirty War in West Africa" charts, in gripping detail based on first-band experience, the decade long civil war that brought Sierra Leone to its knees from 1991-2001. The group spearheading the violence, the Revolutionary Uni...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Encyclopaedia of Soviet Fighters, 1939-1951

Leonard Herbert, Jouineau Andre

ISBN: HB: 9782915239607, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, August 2005
192 pp., 32.3x23.4 cm, photos, line drawings and illustrations throughout

The Soviet aircraft industry of the 1940-1950 period has been incredibly productive, while Russian manufacturers, stimulated by the huge needs stressed by World War Two, competed with each other in design and creativeness. This book offers an exhaust...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Holocaust Controversy The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France

Moyn Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9781584655091, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2005
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How has the world come to focus on the Holocaust and why has it invariably done so in the heat of controversy, scandal, and polemics about the past? These questions are at the heart of this unique investigation of the Treblinka affair that occurred i...

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Military

Darfur The Ambiguous Genocide

Prunier Gerard

ISBN: HB: 9781850657705, Hurst Publishers, July 2005
264 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In mid-2004 the Darfur crisis in Western Sudan forced itself on to the centre stage of world affairs. A formerly obscure 'tribal conflict' in the heart of Africa has escalated into what could be the first genocide of the twenty...

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Aviation

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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Aviation

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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Aviation

Fiat G.59

Nicola Malizia

ISBN: PB: 9788875650186, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2005
183 pp., 24x17 cm, 6 colour illus., 147 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

After the bitter defeat suffered by Italy in the II post war stage, the engineer Giuseppe Gabrielli has been able to build an authentic jewel of the sky. Born from the "ribs" of the FIAT G.55, the last Italian fighter of the II WW, the FIAT G.59 was...

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