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Northern Ireland The Reluctant Peace

Cochrane Feargal

ISBN: HB: 9780300178708, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

In this thoughtful and engaging book, Feargal Cochrane looks at Northern Ireland's "Troubles" from the late 1960s to the present day. He explains why, a decade and a half after the peace process ended in political agreement in 1998, sectarian attitud...

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German Generation An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century

Kohut Thomas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300192452, ISBN: HB: 9780300170030, Yale University Press, April 2013
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new history of twentieth-century Germany, as experienced and m...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Arch Conjuror of England John Dee

Parry Glyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300194098, Yale University Press, April 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

Outlandish alchemist and magician, political intelligencer, apocalyptic prophet, and converser with angels, John Dee (1527-1609) was one of the most colourful and controversial figures of the Tudor world. In this fascinating book – the first full-l...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

Air Battles, No. 19 Luftwaffe versus USAAF 8th Air Force, Volume I

Murawski Marek J.

ISBN: PB: 9788362878604, Casemate, Kagero, April 2013
80 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 109 photos

Not for sale in Poland! Luftwaffe versus USAAF 8th Air Force Vol. I – Another remarkable book in Air Battles series gives its readers exceptional chance to follow the history of relentless combat fought between Luftwaffe and USAF in the skies over...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Monographs, No. 50 Heinkel He 219 UHU, Volume II

Murawski Marek J., Rys Marek

ISBN: PB: 9788362878628, Casemate, Kagero, April 2013
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, illus.

Not for sale in Poland! Heinkel He 219 Uhu Vol. II – The glossy monograph describes the famous Luftwaffe night fighter. This comprehensive book describes the history and combat record of all units once flying He 219 Uhu. Numerous archival photos re...

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Aviation

Legends of Aviation, No. 07 Pfalz: Fighter Aircraft from Rheinland the Wine Country

Kowalski Tomasz J.

ISBN: PB: 9788362878611, Casemate, Kagero, April 2013
72 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 73 photos

Not for sale in Poland! Fighters made in a Bavarian GmbH Flugzeugwerke factory were the third most common type of fighter aircraft used by the Imperial Army Air Service (Luftstreitkrنfte). Although having elegant lines, they turned out to be inferi...

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Middle East

Palestine between Politics and Terror, 1945-1947

Golani Motti

ISBN: PB: 9781611684506, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

British General Sir Allan Cunningham was appointed in 1945 as high commissioner of Palestine, and served in this capacity until the end of the British mandate on May 15, 1948. The three years of Cunningham's tenure were tremendously complex political...

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America

West Side Carbondale, Pennsylvania Mine Fire

Purcell Munley Kathleen

ISBN: PB: 9781589662124, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2013
100 pp., 22.4x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

In early 1947 residents of the west side of Carbondale, Pennsylvania began noticing a peculiar steam escaping from the ground. An investigation into this phenomenon revealed that Carbondale was slowly but steadily being destroyed by a burning inferno...

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America

Slaves Waiting for Sale Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade

McInnis Maurie D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226055060, ISBN: HB: 9780226559339, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
280 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 125 halftones, 12 colour illus.

In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culmi...

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Europe

Nazi Symbiosis Human Genetics and Politics in the Third Reich

Weiss Sheila Faith

ISBN: PB: 9780226055718, ISBN: HB: 9780226891767, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 37 halftones

The Faustian bargain – in which an individual or group collaborates with an evil entity in order to obtain knowledge, power, or material gain – is perhaps best exemplified by the alliance between world-renowned human geneticists and the Nazi state. U...

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