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Aviation

Night Raiders of the Air

Kingsford A. R.

ISBN: HB: 9781612001487, Casemate, July 2014
222 pp., 19x12.7 cm

One of the many who came to Europe from all over the Commonwealth to fight in the First World War, Kingsford had sailed from New Zealand in 1914. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and learned to fly at Northolt, before being posted to 33 Squad...

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Military

Military Transformed? Adaptation and Innovation in the British Military, 1792-1945

LoCicero Michael, Mahoney Ross

ISBN: PB: 9781911096702, ISBN: HB: 9781909384460, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 tables

Between 1792 and 1945, the character of warfare changed. Battalions standing shoulder to shoulder during the Napoleonic era gave way to the industrialised, modern armies of the First and Second World Wars. The organisation and operational methods of...

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America

Brown in the Windy City Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago

Fernandez Lilia

ISBN: PB: 9780226212845, ISBN: HB: 9780226244259, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 maps, 13 tables, 18 halftones

Like other industrial cities in the postwar period, Chicago underwent the dramatic population shifts that radically changed the complexion of the urban north. As African American populations grew and white communities declined throughout the 1960s an...

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Jewish Studies

Polonica

Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival

Friling Tuvia

ISBN: PB: 9781611685879, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Eliezer Gruenbaum (1908-1948) was a Polish Jew denounced for serving as a Kapo while interned at Auschwitz. He was the communist son of Itzhak Gruenbaum, the most prominent secular leader of interwar Polish Jewry who later became the chairman of the...

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Aviation

Eagles Over Gazala Air Battles in North Africa May - June 1942

Palermo Michele

ISBN: PB: 9788875651688, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2014
300 pp., 24x17 cm, illus.

Michele Palermo finally offers us this fully-detailed reconstruction, covering short time intervals in multiple volumes, in a way that allows him to describe the events with the greatest possible accuracy. The present volume deals with the so called...

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America

Political Science

Terror Courts America's Experiment with Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay

Bravin Jess

ISBN: PB: 9780300205596, ISBN: HB: 9780300189209, Yale University Press, June 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Within weeks of the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States had captured hundreds of suspected al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, and by the following January the first of these prisoners arrived at the U.S. Navy's detention camp in Guantana...

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Music

Jewish Studies

Forbidden Music The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis

Haas Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300205350, Yale University Press, June 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

When National Socialism arrived in Germany in 1933, Jews were dominating music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. The party's policy on music brought about a cultur...

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America

Emperor of Liberty Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy

Cogliano Francis D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300179934, Yale University Press, June 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 3 maps

This book, the first in decades to closely examine Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy, offers a compelling reinterpretation of his attitudes and accomplishments as a statesman during America's early nationhood. Beginning with Jefferson's disastrous st...

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Europe

Jewish Studies

Exit Berlin How One Family Saved Itself from Nazi Germany

Bonelli Charlotte, Bodemann Natascha, Lipstadt Deborah E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197525, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no German, so Luzie quickly became transla...

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Europe

Media Studies

Huns Have Got My Gramophone! Advertisements from the Great War

Doran Amanda-Jane, McCarthy Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781851243990, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2014
112 pp., 17x11 cm, 50 black&white illus.

Fountain-Pens – The Super-Pen for Our Super-Men Ladies! Learn To Drive! Your Country Needs Women Drivers! Do you drink German water? When Britain declared war on Germany in 1914, companies wasted no time in seizing the commercial opportunities presen...

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