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Europe

Marie-Antoinette

Delalex Helene, Maral Alexandre, Milovanovic Nicolas

ISBN: HB: 9781606064832, Getty Publications, July 2016
216 pp., 25x15 cm, 225 colour illus.

An intimate glimpse into the public and private world of one of history's most famous – and infamous – queens Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) continues to fascinate historians, writers, and filmmakers more than two centuries after her death. She became...

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Biography & Memoires

Military

March By Moonlight A Bomber Command Story of Ops and Evasion, Captivity and Friendship

Love Barry, Love Jack

ISBN: HB: 9780993415210, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, July 2016
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.

In May 1942 RAF Bomber Command observer Jack Love's world comes crashing down, literally. His aircraft sustains flak damage and a catastrophic engine failure forces a crash-landing in Northern France. The pilot manages a safe belly-landing in a ploug...

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Mobility Conquers The Story of 61 Mechanised Battalion Group 1978-2005

Steenkamp Willem, Heitman Helmoed-Romer

ISBN: HB: 9781911096528, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2016
1152 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 61 maps, 400 photos, 2 pp of colour badges & insignia

More than two years in the writing, this book is the warts-and-all story of the birth, career and death of the South African Defence Force's 61 Mechanised Battalion Group (1979-2005) – generally acknowledged as the best fighting unit in Africa in its...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

M48 Patton A Visual History of the U.S. Army's Mid 20th Century Battle Tank

Doyle David

ISBN: PB: 9780986112768, Casemate, The Ampersand Group, June 2016
128 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 250 illus.

The M48 series of Medium Tanks formed the backbone of America's armored force from the close of the Korean War, throughout the Cold War and onto the sands of Iran. The classic silhouette of the M48 is instantly recognizable to Veterans over a period...

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Political Science

America

Madison's Nightmare How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy

Shane Peter M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226380704, ISBN: HB: 9780226749396, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
255 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The George W. Bush administration's ambitious – even breathtaking – claims of unilateral executive authority raised deep concerns among constitutional scholars, civil libertarians, and ordinary citizens alike. But Bush's attempts to assert his power...

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America

Mourning Lincoln

Hodes Martha

ISBN: PB: 9780300219753, ISBN: HB: 9780300195804, Yale University Press, April 2016
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in new...

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Europe

Myth, Memory, Trauma Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70

Jones Polly

ISBN: PB: 9780300219777, ISBN: HB: 9780300185126, Yale University Press, April 2016
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities' initiation and...

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Europe

Massacre The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871

Merriman John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219449, Yale University Press, March 2016
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an eclectic revolutionary government that held power in Paris across eight weeks between 18 March and 28 May. Its brief rule ended in "Bloody Week"...

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America

Making Sense of the Americas How Protest Related to America in the 1980s and Beyond

Hansen Jan, Helm Christian, Reichherzer Frank

ISBN: PB: 9783593504803, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
360 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

From anti-Reagan riots in West Berlin to pictures of revolutionary Nicaragua, it is impossible to examine global social protest movements of the 1970s and '80s without addressing how these movements imagined the Americas. By examining historical repr...

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Political Science

Middle East

Missionaries of Modernity Advisory Missions and the Struggle for Hegemony, from the 1940s to Afghanistan

Giustozzi Antonio, Kalinovsky Artemy

ISBN: HB: 9781849044806, Hurst Publishers, March 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This volume is an historical survey of advisory and mentoring missions from the 1940s onwards, starting from the Soviet missions to the Kuomintang and ending with the mission to Iraq. It focuses on Afghanistan during the Soviet...

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