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Danube A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest

Thorpe Nick

ISBN: PB: 9780300205459, Yale University Press, August 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and Germany. Travelling its full length from east to we...

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America

Declaration of Independence in Historical Context American State Papers, Petitions, Proclamations, and Letters of the Delegates to the First National Congresses

Shain Barry Alan

ISBN: HB: 9780300158748, Yale University Press, August 2014
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Political science professor Barry Shain has collected 174 letters, papers, petitions and proclamations from the years directly preceding the creation of the Declaration of Independence that challenge many of the dominant narratives that shape contemp...

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Asia

Destruction of Hyderabad

Noorani A. G.

ISBN: HB: 9781849044394, Hurst Publishers, August 2014
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The fascinating story of the fall of the Indian princely state of Hyderabad has till now been dominated by the "court historians" of Indian nationalism. In this book A. G. Noorani offers a revisionist account of the Indian Army...

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Military

D-Day Through French Eyes Normandy 1944

Roberts Mary Louise

ISBN: HB: 9780226136998, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 2 line drawings

"Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges". Silent parachutes dotting the night sky – that's how one woman in Normandy in June of 1944 learned that the D-Day invasio...

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Biography & Memoires

Military

Devil's General The Life of Hyazinth von Strachwitz - "The Panzer Graf"

Bagdonas Raymond

ISBN: PB: 9781612004327, ISBN: HB: 9781612002224, Casemate, February 2014
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This is the story of the most highly decorated German regimental commander of World War II, known as the "Panzer Graf" (Armoured Count). An aristocratic Silesian, whose ancestors had faced the Mongols at Leignitz, Strachwitz first won the Iron Cross...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

Decals Red Series Mustangs over Europe, Part 1: Nos. 303 & 309 Squadrons (1:32)

ISBN: PB: 9788362878772, Casemate, Kagero, October 2013
12 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 5 archive photos, 3 painting schemes, 18 views

Not for sale in Poland! The Red Series is back with another issue devoted to the P-51 Mustang. All planes are presented and described in a 12 page, full-colour guidebook, which also includes five archive photos. This time the authors focused on the...

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America

Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900 Volume 1: Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru

Forment Carlos A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226101415, ISBN: HB: 9780226257150, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
488 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 maps, 19 figures, 11 tables

Carlos Forment's aim in this highly ambitious work is to write the book that Tocqueville would have written had he traveled to Latin America instead of the United States. Drawing on an astonishing level of research, Forment pored over countless newsp...

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Aviation

Dam Busters Failed to Return

Owen Robert, Darlow Steve, Feast Sean

ISBN: HB: 9780957116344, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, June 2013
128 pp., 21.6x14 cm

On the night of 16/17 May 1943 a select group of young RAF Bomber Command airmen carried out one of the most audacious and daring low level raids of the Second World War. Nineteen aircrews of No. 617 Squadron, flying modified Avro Lancasters, each ar...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Dreaming in French The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

Kaplan Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780226054872, ISBN: HB: 9780226424385, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 halftones

A year in Paris... since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision – and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light".Dreaming in French" tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives o...

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Asia

Document Raj Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India

Raman Bhavani

ISBN: HB: 9780226703275, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 halftones

Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of Empire, but Bhavani Raman, in "Document Raj", uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power of...

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