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Photosniper, No. 20b Volume 2: Panzer IV Ausf. H and Ausf. J

Karmieh Samir, Gladysiak Lukasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596919, Casemate, Kagero, January 2016
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 58 black&white illus., 74 colour photographs

Not for sale in Poland! The Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. H and Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. J tanks were produced in the largest numbers in the range known as Sonderkraftfahrzeug 161 in German terminology – 7,000 vehicles. This means that a significant quantity of these...

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German Motorcycles of WWII A Visual History in Vintage Photos and Restored Examples

Doyle David

ISBN: PB: 9781944367022, Casemate, The Ampersand Group, January 2016
120 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 250 illus.

The Germans developed and used the motorcycle as an instrument of offensive warfare, perhaps more than any other nation in WWII. The major tasks of these units were mopping-up for the following troops and employment as an advance guard, surprise raid...

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Kubelwagen and Schwimmwagen A Visual History of the German Army's Multi-Purpose Vehicle

Doyle David

ISBN: PB: 9781944367039, Casemate, The Ampersand Group, January 2016
120 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 250 illus.

The vehicle that was to become the Type 82 Kubelwagen had its roots in the development of the Volkswagen "People's Car". With war clouds gathering over Europe, the efforts of the Volkswagen facility were turned to the production of military vehicles....

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Political Science

America

Streets of San Francisco Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950-1972

Lowen Agee Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226378084, ISBN: HB: 9780226122281, University of Chicago Press, January 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 map

For decades, the city of San Francisco has been nearly synonymous with the word "liberal", known for its diversity and acceptance, environmental activism, and thriving art scene. But this has not always been the case. Liberalism in San Francisco in t...

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America

Law

Illinois Justice The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens

Manaster Kenneth A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226350103, ISBN: HB: 9780226502434, University of Chicago Press, January 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Illinois political scandals reached new depths in the 1960s and '70s. In "Illinois Justice", Kenneth Manaster takes us behind the scenes of one of the most spectacular. The so-called Scandal of 1969 not only ended an Illinois Supreme Court justice's...

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Movers and Shakers, Scalawags and Suffragettes Tales from Bellefontaine Cemetery

Ferring Shepley Carol

ISBN: PB: 9781883982867, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, January 2016
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 colour plates, 40 halftones

The history of Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis is told through the stories of those who are buried there. The book is organized into sections, such as artists, fur traders, and Civil War generals, which feature biographies of individuals. Besides...

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Africa

Africa's Long Road Since Independence The Many Histories of a Continent

Somerville Keith

ISBN: HB: 9781849045155, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
500 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many – histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing saga of decolonisation and state-building, conflict, ec...

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Africa

General

Famine in Somalia Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, 2011-12

Maxwell Daniel, Majid Nisar

ISBN: PB: 9781849045759, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Some 250,000 people died in the southern Somalia famine of 2011-2012, which also displaced and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands more. Yet this crisis had been predicted nearly a year earlier. The harshest drou...

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Military

Middle East

Army of Afghanistan A Political History of a Fragile Institution

Giustozzi Antonio

ISBN: HB: 9781849044813, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book is the first full length political history of the Afghan Army, and as such is unparalleled in the range and depth of its analysis of this vitally important institution. Giustozzi locates the Army's development within...

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Military

Balochistan, the British and the Great Game The Struggle for the Bolan Pass, Gateway to India

Heathcote T. A.

ISBN: HB: 9781849044790, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Great Game for Central Asia led to British involvement in Balochistan, a sparsely-populated area in Pakistan, mostly desert and mountain, and containing the Bolan Pass, the southern counterpart of the more famous Khyber. It...

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