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Living Politics in South Africa's Urban Shacklands

Ryan Chance Kerry

ISBN: PB: 9780226519661, ISBN: HB: 9780226519524, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

While much has been written on post-apartheid social movements in South Africa, most discussion centers on ideal forms of movements, disregarding the reality and agency of the activists themselves. In "Living Politics", Kerry Ryan Chance radically fl...

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Military

Landing in the Dawn Dissecting a Legend: The Landing at Anzac, Gallipoli, 25 April 1915

Hurst James

ISBN: HB: 9781911512462, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 50 black&white illus.

The Gallipoli Landing of 25 April 1915 is arguably Australia's best known battle. It is commemorated each year with a national holiday, services, parades and great media attention. 2015, the centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign, was marked by great pu...

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America

Looking Forward Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America

Pietruska Jamie L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226475004, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possi...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Lend-Lease and Soviet Aviation in the Second World War

Kotelnikov Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9781911512264, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
656 pp., 24.4x17 cm, 100 colour aircraft, 650 colour and black&white illus.

Seventy years have passed since the Second World War yet the books and articles still keep coming in a never-ending stream discussing the question of what role the deliveries of arms and materials by Soviet allies played in the victory of the Red Arm...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

Last of the Kriegies The Extraordinary True Life Experiences of Five Bomber Command Prisoners of War

Barker Reg

ISBN: HB: 9780993415296, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, November 2017
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.

"For you the war is over". "Last of the Kriegies" tells the extraordinary stories of five of the last remaining Second World War RAF Bomber Command Prisoners-of-War: pilot Reg Barker, bomb aimer Charles Clarke, air gunner David Fraser, air gunner Alb...

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Political Science

Europe

Less You Know, Better You Sleep Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship Under Yeltsin and Putin

Satter David

ISBN: PB: 9780300230727, Yale University Press, October 2017
240 pp., 21x14 cm

<p>In December 2013, David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War. The Moscow Times said it was not surprising he was expelled, "it was surprising it took so long". Satter is known in Russi...

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Military

Last Ironsides The English Expedition to Portugal, 1662-1668

Riley Jonathon

ISBN: PB: 9781912174102, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2017
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 illus., 22 maps

When Charles II returned home he began the search for a dynastic marriage. He fixed upon the Infanta of Portugal, Catherine of Braganza, whose dowry included the possession of Tangier, Bombay and valuable trade concessions. The Portuguese had been fi...

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Military

Leibstandarte Ardennes 1944

Smith Steve

ISBN: PB: 9781612005423, Casemate, Past & Present, October 2017
64 pp., 23.4x18.4 cm, 130 illus.

The 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler was the spearhead of the assault by Sepp Dietrich's Sixth Panzer Armee on the northern flank of the German Ardennes offensive. Divided into Kampfgruppen, the lead was Kampfgruppe Peiper whose armo...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

Lost Idol The Life and Death of a Young Officer: Esmond Elliot 1895-1917

Astor Johnnie, Alexandra Campbell

ISBN: HB: 9781912174027, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
248 pp., 24.5x18 cm, 100 illus. and maps

Esmond Elliot, younger son of the Earl of Minto, Viceroy of India, was killed while serving with the Scots Guards, aged 22, at the beginning of the Passchendaele Offensive. Compiled from his grieving mother's memorial of his life, together with his...

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Africa

Lebanon A Country in Fragments

Arsan Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781849047005, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Lebanon can seem a country in the grip of permanent crisis. Political infighting has paralysed its institutions, and its economy is barely treading water, pulled under by the effects of the Syrian Civil War, which has disrupted...

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