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Stay and Fight it Out The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp's Hill and the North End of the Battlefield
ISBN: PB: 9781611213317, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 maps, 150 illus.
July 1, 1863, had gone poorly for the Union army's XI Corps. Shattered in battle north of the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, the battered and embarrassed unit ended the day hunkered at the crest of a cemetery-topped hill south of the village. Reinf...
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£11,00
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And We Were Young Oundle School and the Great War
ISBN: HB: 9781912174195, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2018
432 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 300 black&white photos
"A boy, he spent his boy's dear life for England". These words from a poem of 1916 were written in reaction to the news that a young boy, who had left Oundle School just two years earlier, had shot himself, whilst stranded in the Libyan Desert. With...
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£29,00
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Fighting for General Lee Confederate General Rufus Barringer and the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade
ISBN: PB: 9781611213850, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 21 images, 10 maps
Rufus Barringer fought on horseback during the Civil War with General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and rose to lead the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade in some of the war's most difficult combats. Now in paperback, Fighting for General Lee: Confed...
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£15,00
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Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake
ISBN: HB: 9780226585284, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
The early Europeans settlers who staked their claims in the Chesapeake Bay were drawn to it for a variety of reasons. Some viewed the bay as a wild landscape waiting to be tamed, while others saw potential there for spiritual sanctuary. But all of th...
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£38,00
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Supermarket USA Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race
ISBN: HB: 9780300232691, Yale University Press, November 2018
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American-style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommu...
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George Washington The Wonder of the Age
ISBN: PB: 9780300240207, Yale University Press, November 2018
368 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>A much-needed concise biography of America's first president. As editor of the award-winning Library of America collection of George Washington's writings and a curator of the great man's original papers, John Rhodehamel has establishe...
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£13,99
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Caught in the Maelstrom The Indian Nations in the Civil War, 1861-1865
ISBN: HB: 9781611213362, Casemate, Savas Beatie, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 10 illus.
The sad plight of the Five Civilized Tribes – the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole – during America's Civil War is both fascinating and often overlooked in the literature. From 1861-1865, the Indians fought their own bloody civil war...
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£25,00
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Bulls Markets Chicago's Basketball Business and the New Inequality
ISBN: HB: 9780226583211, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones, 25 tables
The 1990s were a glorious time for the Chicago Bulls, an age of historic championships and all-time basketball greats like Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan. It seemed only fitting that city, county, and state officials would assist the team owners i...
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£34,00
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Chicago by the Book 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image
ISBN: HB: 9780226468501, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 145 colour plates
Despite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling  gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" arose from the midwestern capital's mo...
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£25,00
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All Measures Short of War The Contest for the Twenty-First Century and the Future of American Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300240276, ISBN: HB: 9780300223286, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A groundbreaking look at the future of great power competition in an age of globalization and what the United States can do in response. The two decades after the Cold War saw unprecedented cooperation between the major powers as the world converged...
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