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Faith in Conflict The Impact of the Great War on the Faith of the People of Britain

Bell Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9781911512677, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos

It may seem obvious that the Great War, with its immense cost in terms of lives lost and injuries of body and mind incurred, must have had a significant impact on the religious faith of the British people. There is much anecdotal evidence to support...

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Military

For the Motherland! For Stalin! A Red Army Officer's Memoir of the Eastern Front

Bogachev Boris, Bogacheva Maria

ISBN: HB: 9781849047975, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Boris Bogachev's highly readable account of life as a young platoon commander in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 is both a riveting tale of hardship and courage and a deeply informative military history. The son of a Sovi...

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First Circumnavigators Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery

Kelsey Harry

ISBN: HB: 9780300217780, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey's masterfully researched study is the fi...

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Medieval

Frederick Barbarossa The Prince and the Myth

Freed John B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300122763, Yale University Press, June 2016
704 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Frederick Barbarossa, born of two of Germany's most powerful families, swept to the imperial throne in a coup d'etat in 1152. A leading monarch of the Middle Ages, he legalized the dualism between the crown and the princes that endured until the end...

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General

Family Politics Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950

Ginsborg Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219470, ISBN: HB: 9780300112115, Yale University Press, April 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., images, 36 black&white illus.

In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at centre stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation...

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Military

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For God and Kaiser The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918

Bassett Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300219678, Yale University Press, March 2016
592 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus., 7 maps

Among the finest examples of deeply researched and colorfully written military history, Richard Bassett's "For God and Kaiser" is a major account of the Habsburg army told for the first time in English. Bassett shows how the Imperial Austrian Army, t...

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Music

Europe

Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court Music and the Circulation of Power

Cusick Suzanne G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226132136, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
488 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 6 halftones, 1 line drawing, 13 tables, 43 musical examples

A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for thirty years. Dazzling listeners with the transformative power of her pe...

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Military

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First World War Unseen Glass Plate Photographs of the Western Front

De Keyzer Carl, Van Reybrouck David

ISBN: HB: 9780226284286, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
280 pp., 32x22.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 80 halftones

A century after it began, we still struggle with the terrible reality of the First World War, often through republished photographs of its horrors: the muddy trenches, the devastated battlefields, the maimed survivors. Due to the crude film cameras u...

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Fatal Land War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America

Dziennik Matthew P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300196726, Yale University Press, August 2015
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain's colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the myt...

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Forging the Past Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain

Olds Katrina B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300185225, Yale University Press, August 2015
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Spain's infamous "false chronicles" were alleged to have been unearthed in 1595 in a monastic library deep in the heart of the German-speaking territories of the Holy Roman Empire by the Jesuit priest Jeronimo Roman de la Higuera. Though rife with an...

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