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Africa

Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts Sudan and South Sudan's Bitter and Incomplete Divorce

Copnall James

ISBN: PB: 9781849048309, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! What happened after Africa's biggest country split in two? When South Sudan ran up its flag in July 2011 two new nations came into being. In South Sudan the joy of independence vanished quickly: the former rebel movement ruling...

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America

Political Science

President and the Apprentice Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961

Gellman Irwin F.

ISBN: PB: 9780300223521, Yale University Press, January 2017
816 pp., 22.7x14.7 cm, 32 black&white illus.

More than half a century after Eisenhower left office, the history of his presidency is so clouded by myth, partisanship, and outright fraud that most people have little understanding of how Ike's administration worked or what it accomplished. We kno...

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Military

Africa

Paras Portugal's First Elite Force in Africa, 1961-1974

Cann John P.

ISBN: PB: 9781911512486, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
72 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 27 colour illus., 73 black&white illus.

Portuguese paratroopers or "paras" began as a stepchild of the army and found a home in the Portuguese Air Force in 1955. Initially, the post-World War Two Portuguese Army seemed to have had mixed emotions about the need for elite, special-purpose fo...

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Military

Portuguese Commandos Feared Insurgent Hunters, 1961-1974

Cann John P.

ISBN: PB: 9781911096320, Casemate, Helion and Company, January 2017
104 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 90 black&white illus., 10 colour photos, 10 tables, 15 maps

During the 13-year insurgency (1961-74) in Portuguese Africa, more than 800,000 men and women served in the Portuguese armed forces. Of this number, about 9,000 served as commandos (or about 1 percent). Yet their combat losses ? 357 dead, 28 missing...

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Military

Phantoms of Bribie The Jungles of Vietnam to Corporate Life and Everything in Between

Mackay Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781925275575, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
320 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm, 50 black&white illus. and maps

The Phantoms of Bribie is a highly readable blend of an engaging yarn and a fascinating portrayal of operational service in Vietnam as an infantry company commander, leading some 100 fine young national service and regular soldiers in close quarter j...

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Christianity

America

Peaceful Conquest Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order

Burnidge Cara Lea

ISBN: HB: 9780226232317, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

A century after his presidency, Woodrow Wilson remains one of the most compelling and complicated figures ever to occupy the Oval Office. A political outsider, Wilson brought to the presidency a distinctive, strongly held worldview, built on powerful...

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America

Paying with Their Bodies American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran

Kinder John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226420714, ISBN: HB: 9780226210094, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The p...

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Middle East

Pearl of Khorasan A History of Herat

Gammell C. P. W.

ISBN: HB: 9781849046541, Hurst Publishers, September 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The city of Herat in western Afghanistan long sat at the edge of empires and served as a hub for trade and a conduit for armies. Yet it has been much more than simply a staging post or plaything of political ambition. It has be...

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Military

Passchendaele The Untold Story

Prior Robin, Wilson Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780300221213, Yale University Press, August 2016
280 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 16 black&white illus.

No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied...

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Europe

Prague of Charles IV, 1316-1378

Royt Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024631325, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2016
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates, 25 halftones, 2 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In "The Prague of Charles IV, 1316-1378", Czech professor of art history Jan Royt renders a vivid image of the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom during the High Gothic period, presenting the...

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