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Military
Why States Recover Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
Mills Greg
ISBN: PB: 9781849044615, Hurst Publishers, October 2014
680 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions – headed by warlords – around the spoils of l...
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Women Studies
Asia
Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union
Wemheuer Felix
ISBN: HB: 9780300195811, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political roots of these socialist era famines, in which ov...
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World
Global Rules America, Britain and a Disordered World
Cronin James E.
ISBN: HB: 9780300151480, Yale University Press, September 2014
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The Second World War created and the Cold War sustained a "special relationship" between America and Britain, and the terms on which that decades-long conflict ended would become the foundation of a new world order. In this penetrating analysis, a ne...
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Military
Christianity
Crusader States
Barber Malcolm
ISBN: PB: 9780300208887, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 figures, 21 maps, 15 black&white illus.
When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God's favor. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God's p...
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Europe
Men from the Ministry How Britain Saved Its Heritage
Thurley Simon
ISBN: PB: 9780300205244, ISBN: HB: 9780300195729, Yale University Press, September 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 50 black&white illus.
Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments and historic sites and opened them to the public. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. Of course, collections of paintings, sculptures,...
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Modelling - Military Drawings
Aviation
SMI Library, No. 09 Grumman F6F Hellcat, Volume I
Szlagor Tomasz
ISBN: PB: 9788364596056, Casemate, Kagero, September 2014
96 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 135 photos, 5 colour photos, 4 colour profiles
Not for sale in Poland! Grumman F6F Hellcat was one of the best fighter aircraft of the World War Two era and the most effective fighter of the US Navy. There is no doubt that Hellcats won complete air superiority for the Americans over the vast ar...
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Modelling - Military Drawings
Monographs, No. 56 Vought F4U Corsair, Volume II
Szlagor Tomasz, Wieliczko Leszek A.
ISBN: PB: 9788364596087, Casemate, Kagero, September 2014
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 18 scale drawings, 112 black&white photos, 5 paintings
Not for sale in Poland! The second volume carries on the story of the F4U Corsair by examining its development and operational service in later stages of the World War Two. By early 1944 the Corsair well proved its worth in combat. Finally qualifie...
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Biography & Memoires
Soviet Women Snipers of the Second World War
Obraztsov Youri, Anders Maud
ISBN: PB: 9782352503880, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, September 2014
145 pp., 25x21 cm, illus.
The commitment of Soviet women to their country during World War II was unprecedented, both in terms of their sheer numbers and also in terms of their unique roles. More than 100,000 of them would join the regular army, or the partisans. Of all the j...
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Polonica
Out in Front A Polish Fighter Pilot's Dramatic Air War
Lanowski Witold
ISBN: HB: 9780992620745, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, September 2014
320 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, black&white illus.
Decorated Polish fighter pilot Witold "Lanny" Lanowski tells his remarkable Second World War story beginning with his dramatic escape from Nazi aggression in Poland, fighting with the reformed Polish Air Force in France, and eventually arriving in En...
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America
City for Children Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950
Gutman Marta
ISBN: HB: 9780226311289, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 120 halftones, 14 line drawings
American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast c...
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