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WWII A Chronicle of Soldiering

Jones James

ISBN: PB: 9780226180939, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 3 maps, 1 line drawing

In 1975, James Jones – the American author whose novels "From Here to Eternity" and "The Thin Red Line" had made him the preeminent voice of the enlisted man in World War II – was chosen to write the text for an oversized coffee table book edited by...

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Why States Recover Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

Mills Greg

ISBN: PB: 9781849044615, Hurst Publishers, October 2014
680 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions – headed by warlords – around the spoils of l...

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Europe

Weimar From Enlightenment to the Present

Kater Michael H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300170566, Yale University Press, August 2014
472 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 29 black&white illus.

Historian Michael H. Kater chronicles the rise and fall of one of Germany's most iconic cities in this fascinating and surprisingly provocative history of Weimar. Weimar was a centre of the arts during the Enlightenment and hence the cradle of German...

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Walter Ralegh's "History of the World" and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance

Popper Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780226213965, ISBN: HB: 9780226675008, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 18 halftones

Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent the next seven years producing his massive "History of the World". Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books he was allowed...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

World War II German Field Weapons & Equipment A Visual Reference Guide

Ward Keith

ISBN: PB: 9781909384446, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2014
144 pp., 29.7x21 cm

This title is the first in a series that employs a simple and effective concept to illustrate and describe the multiplicity of equipment and weapons systems used on the ground during World War II. Whilst many books have described such weapons and war...

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What Soldiers Do Sex and the American GI in World War II France

Roberts Mary Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780226923116, ISBN: HB: 9780226923093, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones

How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly – but if you're the US Army...

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Europe

Walking the Retreat The March to the Marne: 1914 Revisited

Cudbird Terry

ISBN: PB: 9781909930025, Signal Books, June 2014
288 pp., 21.8x13.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! The opening month of the Great War ending in the Battle of the Marne (6-9 September 1914) was a turning point in modern history. The French and British armies were forced into a long retreat from Belgium but subsequently regrou...

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America

Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920 Second Edition

Rodgers Daniel T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226136233, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
336 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

The phrase "a strong work ethic" conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in America's Puritan heri...

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Ancient World

What Did the Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking

Lehoux Daryn

ISBN: PB: 9780226143217, ISBN: HB: 9780226471143, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 halftones, 4 line illus.

What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans' views about t...

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War's Waste Rehabilitation in World War I America

Linker Beth

ISBN: PB: 9780226143354, ISBN: HB: 9780226482538, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
304 pp., 23.4x16 cm, 20 halftones

With U. S. soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms with those permanently disabled in battle. At the moment, we accept rehabilitation as the proper so...

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