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Festung Guernsey, Volumes 1.3 & 1.4 Tactical Review of the Fortified Areas and Fortified Structures

ISBN: PB: 9780992667122, Casemate, Clear Vue Publishing, October 2014
114 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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Festung Guernsey, Volumes 2.3 & 2.4 Deployment of Artillery and Anti-Aircraft Artillery

ISBN: PB: 9780992667146, Casemate, Clear Vue Publishing, October 2014
144 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 122 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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Canada's Bastions of Empire Halifax, Victoria and the Royal Navy 1749-1918

Elson Bryan

ISBN: HB: 9781459503267, Casemate, Formac-Lorimer, October 2014
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 100 black&white illus.

This book offers a fresh perspective on North American history, and the key role played by Halifax and Victoria in ensuring that Canada emerged as an independent country in the 20th century. Brian Elson focuses on the significance of the bases for t...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

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Camouflage and Markings of Allied Armor in the Battle for Cassino January - May 1944

Plowman Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9788360672228, Casemate, Model Centrum Progres, October 2014
56 pp., 29x20.5 cm, 20 colour illus., 78 black&white illus.

Published to coincide with the 70th Anniversary of the battle for Cassino, this is an authoritative guide to the armor deployed by the Allies over the course of the fighting for this strategic objective. Covering American, British, Indian, Canadian,...

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America

Friends Disappear The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston

Barr Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226156460, ISBN: HB: 9780226156323, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 3 maps, 4 line drawings

Mary Barr thinks a lot about the old photograph hanging on her refrigerator door. In it, she and a dozen or so of her friends from the Chicago suburb of Evanston sit on a porch. It's 1974, the summer after they graduated from Nichols Middle School,...

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World

Military

WWII A Chronicle of Soldiering

Jones James

ISBN: PB: 9780226180939, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 3 maps, 1 line drawing

In 1975, James Jones – the American author whose novels "From Here to Eternity" and "The Thin Red Line" had made him the preeminent voice of the enlisted man in World War II – was chosen to write the text for an oversized coffee table book edited by...

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America

Psychology

Madness Is Civilization When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980

Staub Michael E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226214634, ISBN: HB: 9780226771472, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones

In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America's problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social...

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America

Necessary Evil Settling Missouri with a Rope and a Gun

Johnston Joe

ISBN: PB: 9781883982812, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 halftones, 3 line drawings, 6 maps

From the Mormon Wars to the Border Wars to gangs of Bald Knobbers and Bushwhackers, Missouri's reign of vigilante justice during the nineteenth century is unparalleled by any other state in the nation. Situated as the Gateway to the West, Missouri ex...

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Middle East

Islam

Advice for the Sultan Prophetic Voices and Secular Politics in Medieval Islam

Yavari Neguin

ISBN: HB: 9781849042604, Hurst Publishers, October 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In "Advice for the Sultan" Neguin Yavari excavates multiple, conflicting strands of Islamic political thought from the medieval past to the present, reassessing these ideas and their impact over the longue duree. Her aim is to...

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Middle East

Current Affairs

Among the Ruins Syria Past and Present

Sahner Christian C.

ISBN: HB: 9781849044004, Hurst Publishers, October 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! As a civil war shatters a country and consumes its people, historian Christian Sahner offers a poignant account of Syria, where the past profoundly shapes its dreadful present. "Among the Ruins" blends history, memoir and repo...

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