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Canadian Soldier Collection 1914-1918

Brown Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9782815103589, Casemate, OREP, April 2017
32 pp., 24x17 cm

Almost a century has passed since the signing of the armistice on 11 November 1918. Of all the soldiers who went through that hell on earth, photographs, letters, stories and old uniforms kept in attics are all that is left. Thanks to a collection of...

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Aviation

Biography & Memoires

Chig Sky Pilot to the Glider Pilots of Arnhem

Vockins Mike

ISBN: HB: 9781911512332, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps, 23 illus.

New, hitherto unseen, first-hand accounts of the battle of Arnhem, the heroic Allied military operation known as "Market Garden", become rarer as time passes. "Chig: Sky Pilot to the Glider Pilots of Arnhem" is the story of a choir boy, who became a...

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Military

Camp Borden A Century of Service

March William

ISBN: PB: 9780978069629, Casemate, Aviaeology, March 2017
120 pp., 20.3x27.9 cm, 316 colour and black&white illus.

"Camp Borden: A Century of Service" is an overview of the history of this iconic institution. Over ten decades Borden has been a temporary posting, as either instructor or trainee, for countless thousands of military men and women who have served Can...

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Military

Churchill's Secret War with Lenin British and Commonwealth Military Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918-20

Wright Damien

ISBN: HB: 9781911512103, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
504 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 8 maps, 8 colour illus., 198 black&white illus.

After three years of great loss and suffering on the Eastern Front, Imperial Russia was in crisis and on the verge of revolution. In November 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks (later known as "Soviets") seized power, signed a peace treaty with the Central Pow...

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Political Science

Asia

Complicities The People's Republic of China in Global Capitalism

Dirlik Arif

ISBN: PB: 9780996635530, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2017
86 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

As the People's Republic of China has grown in economic power, so too have concerns about what its sustained growth and expanding global influence might mean for the established global order. Explorations of this changing dynamic in daily reporting a...

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Political Science

Europe

Crimean Nexus Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations

Pleshakov Constantine

ISBN: HB: 9780300214888, Yale University Press, February 2017
216 pp., 21x14 cm

How the West sleepwalked into another Cold War A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea's ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flash points in cu...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Claretta Mussolini's Last Lover

Bosworth R. J. B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300214277, Yale University Press, February 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

A master historian illuminates the tumultuous relationship of Il Duce and his young lover Claretta, whose extraordinarily intimate diaries only recently have become available. Few deaths are as gruesome and infamous as those of Benito Mussolini, Ita...

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Military

Confronting Case Blue Briansk Front's Attempt to Derail the German Drive to the Caucasus, July 1942

Sdvizhkov Igor'

ISBN: HB: 9781911096436, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
384 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 10 maps, 3 colour photos, 6 black&white photos

The author, Igor' Sdvizhkov, takes a close look at the attempt by the Briansk Front's Operational Group Chibisov to collapse the northern shoulder of the German drive to the Caucasus – north-west of Voronezh – in July 1942. Using both previously clas...

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Ancient World

Classicisms

Norman Larry F., Leonard Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780935573572, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2017
184 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 105 colour plates

As an aesthetic ideal, classicism is often associated with a conventional set of rules founded on supposedly timeless notions such as order, reason, and decorum. As a result, it is sometimes viewed as rigid, outdated, or stodgy. But in actuality, cla...

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Law

Anthropology

Competing Norms State Regulations and Local Praxis in sub-Saharan Africa

Diawara Mamadou, Roschenthaler Ute

ISBN: PB: 9783593506531, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
271 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 maps

States in sub-Saharan Africa, as anywhere else, are vested with the authority to implement laws and sanction their application. But in spite of a growing emphasis in Africa on participatory approaches to legislation, little research has focused on th...

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