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Military

Life, Death and Growing Up on the Western Front

Fletcher Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780300205381, ISBN: HB: 9780300195538, Yale University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This book was inspired by the author's discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unm...

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Aviation

Legends of Aviation, No. 02 Fokker D. VII - The Lethal Weapon

Kowalski Tomasz J., Rys Marek

ISBN: HB: 9788364596773, Casemate, Kagero, November 2015
168 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, illus.

Not for sale in Poland! World War I was the time of dynamic development of aviation. Aircraft created during that period and pilots who fought in them, became legends that have fascinated generations of pilots and aviation enthusiasts. Legends of A...

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America

Legendary Detective The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction

Walton John

ISBN: HB: 9780226308265, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

"I'm in a business where people come to me with troubles. Big troubles, little troubles, but always troubles they don't want to take to the cops". That's Raymond Chandler's "Philip Marlowe", succinctly setting out our image of the private eye. A no-n...

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Europe

Jewish Studies

Liberation of the Camps The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath

Stone Dan

ISBN: HB: 9780300204575, Yale University Press, April 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Seventy years have passed since the tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated. When the horror of the atrocities came fully to light, it was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners. Yet...

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Europe

Latvia A Short History

Kalnins Mara

ISBN: PB: 9781849044622, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The history of the Latvian people begins some four and a half millennia ago with the arrival of the proto-Baltic Indo-Europeans to northern Europe. One branch of these migrants coalesced into a community which evolved a distinc...

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Aviation

Legends of Aviation, No. 01 Fokker Dr. I - The Aces' Aircraft

Kowalski Tomasz J., Rys Marek

ISBN: HB: 9788364596292, Casemate, Kagero, March 2015
144 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 9 anaglyphs, 182 renders, 49 photos

Not for sale in Poland! The Fokker Dr. I was built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke in 1917 and saw service during World War I. Manfred Von Richthofen, better known as the the Red Baron, is perhaps the most widely recognised Fokker pilot, gaining his final...

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Military

Last Blood on Pomerania Leon Degrelle and the Walloon Waffen SS Volunteers, February-May 1945

Borowski Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9781910294482, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2015
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 140 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., maps

The 28th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "Wallonien", which mostly consisted of French-speaking citizens of the Kingdom of Belgium – first as part of the Wehrmacht, and later in the ranks of the Waffen SS – fought as one of the national legions again...

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Medieval

Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

Cohen Thomas V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226269719, ISBN: HB: 9780226112589, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
316 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 map

Gratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in which Italian magistrates meted out justice to the vicious and the villainous, the scabro...

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Middle East

Learned Patriots Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire

Yalcinkaya M. Alper

ISBN: HB: 9780226184203, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The nineteenth century was, for many societies, a period of coming to grips with the growing, and seemingly unstoppable, domination of the world by the "Great Powers" of Europe. The Ottoman Empire was no exception: Ottomans from all walks of life – e...

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Military

Africa

Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath

Cole Peter, McQuinn Brian

ISBN: HB: 9781849043090, Hurst Publishers, January 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book offers a novel, incisive and wide-ranging account of Libya's '17 February Revolution' by tracing how critical towns, communities and political groups helped to shape its course. Each community, whether geographical (e...

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