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Asia

Division of Heaven and Earth On Tibet's Peaceful Revolution

Akester Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781849046770, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Division of Heaven and Earth" is one of the most influential and important books from Tibet in the modern era – a passionate indictment of Chinese policies and an eloquent analysis of protests that swept Tibet from March 2...

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Middle East

Political Science

Gateways to the World Port Cities in the Persian Gulf

Kamrava Mehran

ISBN: PB: 9781849045636, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Persian Gulf region has become home to some of the world's fastest growing, most impressive cities, many of them with global aspirations. "Gateways to the World" presents an in-depth, systematic, and multi-disciplinary appr...

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Africa

Guinea Masks, Music and Minerals

Posthumus Bram

ISBN: PB: 9781849043694, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Guinea is rich, both materially and culturally, with the world's largest bauxite reserves, gold, diamonds and iron ore. It abounds in culture and traditions and has a remarkable, if often turbulent, history. Guinea is also exce...

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Africa

Who Killed Hammarskjold? The UN, The Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa

Williams Susan

ISBN: PB: 9781849048026, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold remains one of the biggest mysteries of the twentieth century. Shortly after midnight on 18 September 1961, an aircraft carrying Hammarskjold and his UN team crashed into dark...

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Europe

Maisky Diaries The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London

Maisky Ivan, Gorodetsky Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780300221701, Yale University Press, November 2016
632 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.

<p>Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries....

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Europe

August 1914 France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever

Cabanes Professor Bruno, O'Hara Stephanie

ISBN: HB: 9780300208276, Yale University Press, November 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

A haunting portrait of France at war On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks. Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldier...

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Military

War in the North Sea The Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy 1914-1918

Barry Quintin

ISBN: HB: 9781911096382, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
456 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 100 black&white illus., 15 maps

For years before the outbreak of the First World War, it was the expectation of most officers of the Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy that very shortly thereafter, a decisive fleet action would be fought. This had a major impact on the strateg...

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Military

Arte Militaire The Application of 17th Century Military Manuals to Conflict Archaeology

Louth Warwick

ISBN: PB: 9781911096221, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
88 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 25 black&white illus., 19 diagramss, 15 photos

Military manuals have been used as a source through a range of historical studies, but only recently has their potential to Conflict Archaeology truly been recognised. Military manuals allowed the progression of the Military Revolution from the infor...

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Military

Phantoms of Bribie The Jungles of Vietnam to Corporate Life and Everything in Between

Mackay Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781925275575, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
320 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm, 50 black&white illus. and maps

The Phantoms of Bribie is a highly readable blend of an engaging yarn and a fascinating portrayal of operational service in Vietnam as an infantry company commander, leading some 100 fine young national service and regular soldiers in close quarter j...

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America

Criminology

Murder at the Fort A Double Homicide Cold Case and Cover Up!

Marmion Bob

ISBN: PB: 9781925520118, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
324 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm, 50 black&white illus. and maps

Early one cold, wintry morning in late May 1942, the bullet-ridden body of Driver Roy Willis was found on the side of the road. He had been shot a number of times with a military revolver. Despite extensive enquiries by some of the Victoria Police's...

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