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America

Gott Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781905422593, ISBN: HB: 9781905422586, Seagull Books, May 2008
632 pp., 23.6x16.2 cm, 40 halftones

Che Guevara's death began a legend and closed an era. Based directly on the documents produced by the guerrillas themselves, this is the first comprehensive history of that era. In theory, immense disparity in local wealth combined with the heavy h...

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Military

Killing Civilians Method, Madness and Morality in War

Slim Hugo

ISBN: PB: 9781850659143, ISBN: HB: 9781850658818, Hurst Publishers, May 2008
300 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This is a book about how civilians suffer in war and why people decide that they should. Most civilian suffering in war is deliberate and always has been. Massacres, rape, displacement, famine and disease are usually designed....

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew An Italian Story

Vittorio Segre Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226744773, University of Chicago Press, April 2008
284 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

"I was probably less than five years old when my father fired a shot at my head". From this first line, Dan Vittorio Segre's memoir moves from one startling turning point to the next. The child of aristocratic parents, Segre fled Fascist Italy and Mu...

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Military

Life and Death in the Balkans A Family Saga in a Century of Conflict

Tomasevic Bato

ISBN: HB: 9781850659136, Hurst Publishers, April 2008
544 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This compellingly written autobiography covers the past century and more in the life of Bato Tomasevic's Montenegrin family in the harsh and ever-turbulent mountains of southern Yugoslavia. The narrative begins some fifty years...

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Military

War and the Liberal Conscience

Howard Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781850658917, Hurst Publishers, March 2008
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Isn't war rooted in the vested interests of the ruling classes? (But have not democracies proved as bellicose as other states?) Should not political disputes be settled by civilised negotiations? (But what if the adversary is n...

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Asia

Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan's Past

Breen John

ISBN: HB: 9781850659075, Hurst Publishers, March 2008
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book is the first authoritative volume in English on Yasukuni, the controversial Shinto shrine in the heart of Tokyo, dedicated to the Japanese war dead. Twelve convicted and two suspected Class A war criminals are enshrin...

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Europe

From Siberia to America A Story of Survival and Success

Frusztajer Boruch B.

ISBN: PB: 9781589661554, ISBN: HB: 9781589661721, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, February 2008
430 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

During World War II, many Polish Jews were forcibly deported from Russian-occupied eastern Poland to Siberia, where they were subjected to appalling suffering and oppression under the Communist regime. "From Siberia to America" is a memoir of one...

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Europe

Political Science

Towards a Romanian Silicon Valley? Local Development in Post-Socialist Europe

Baga Eniko

ISBN: PB: 9783593381268, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2008
210 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 4 halftones

This book examines local attempts at sustainable development in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Eniko Baga focuses on the small Romanian town of Timisoara as its residents respond to major national and international changes, including the dismantling...

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Military

Volume 1: Armoured Operations of the Second World War

Garcia Juan

ISBN: HB: 9788496016729, Casemate, Quiron, January 2008
192 pp., 30.5x22.8 cm, full colour throughout

This large format book recounts the history of several famous armored engagements of the Second World War. The engagements covered are: The Soviet Invasion of Poland, from Sedan to Abbeville (France), Montcornet, May 17 1940, Rommel's counterattacks...

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General

Military

Tormented by History Nationalism in Greece and Turkey

Sofos Spyros A., Ozkirimli Umut

ISBN: PB: 9781850658993, ISBN: HB: 9781850659051, Hurst Publishers, January 2008
220 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Tormented" by Historyis the first comparative study of nationalism in Greece and Turkey. Grounded in an extensive critical review of the popular and scholarly historiography and literature on Greek and Turkish nationalisms, it...

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