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Panzer Operations Germany's Panzer Group 3 During the Invasion of Russia, 1941

Hoth Hermann, Lyons Linden

ISBN: PB: 9781612005621, ISBN: HB: 9781612002699, Casemate, October 2017
200 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, maps, 16 photos

Hermann Hoth led Germany's 3rd Panzer Group in Army Group Center – in tandem with Guderian's 2nd Group – during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Together those two daring panzer commanders achieved a series of astounding victories, encirclin...

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Africa

Teenage Safari A South African Conscript in the Border War in Angola and Namibia

Davies Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781911512936, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 colour & black&white photos, 1 map

A wide-eyed South African conscript relates his small share of the war in Angola and Namibia in the 1980s. This is not the usual military history, written by a commander armed with facts, nor a researched story of a war or campaign. It is a persona...

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Military

Day Rommel Was Stopped The Battle of Ruweisat Ridge, 2 July 1942

Jephson F. R., Jephson Chris

ISBN: HB: 9781612005584, Casemate, October 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, photos, maps

George VI's biographer, Sir John Wheeler Bennett wrote "The actual turning of the tide in the 2nd World War may be accurately determined as the first week of July 1942". This book argues that it is possible to be even more exact: the tide turned at a...

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Europe

Cities Contested Urban Politics, Heritage, and Social Movements in Italy and West Germany in the 1970s

Baumeister Martin, Schott Dieter, Bonomo Bruno

ISBN: PB: 9783593506975, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2017
420 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Historians discuss the 1970s as an era of deep transformations and even structural rupture in Western societies. For the first time, Cities Contested engages in this debate from the perspective of comparative urban history, examining the struggles in...

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America

Education

School, Society, and State A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940

Steffes Tracy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226435305, ISBN: HB: 9780226772097, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 23x15 cm

"Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife", wrote John Dewey in his classic work "The School and Society". In "School, Society, and State", Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration of the con...

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Philosophy

World

Thinking About History

Maza Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780226109336, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's "Thinking About History", a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent t...

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Business & Economics

Bourgeois Equality How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226527932, ISBN: HB: 9780226333991, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
768 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables

There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The...

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Anthropology

Africa

Bottleneck Moving, Building, and Belonging in an African City

Melly Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780226488905, ISBN: HB: 9780226488875, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

In "Bottleneck", anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal – a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a succ...

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Sign Language

Asia

Deaf to the Marrow Deaf Social Organizing and Active Citizenship in Viet Nam

Cooper Audrey C.

ISBN: HB: 9781563686856, Gallaudet University Press, October 2017
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 40 photographs, 1 map

In "Deaf to the Marrow", public anthropologist Audrey C. Cooper examines the social production and transformation of ideas about language, bodies, and state-structured educational institutions in southern Viet Nam. Focusing on the reform period (1986...

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Military

Fashion

Fashion in Steel The Landsknecht Armour of Wilhelm von Rogendorf

Krause Stefan, Haag Sabine, Zajic Andreas

ISBN: HB: 9780300230864, Yale University Press, September 2017
128 pp., 27.3x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.

This sumptuously illustrated book celebrates a curious masterpiece of German Renaissance art – the Landsknecht armor of Wilhelm von Rogendorf (1523). Recently conserved to its original glory, this magnificent suit of armor, made for a trusted courtie...

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