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Magyar Warriors Volume 2: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces, 1919-1945

Bernad Denes, Kliment Charles K.

ISBN: HB: 9781910777923, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
432 pp., 24.6x17.8 cm

The Hungarian armed forces (known as the Honvedseg) were built up from the 1920s, their expansion gaining momentum once Hungary became free of the strict post-First World War Trianon treaty limitations in August 1938. Politically, Hungary was looking...

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Europe

Travel

Prague A City and Its River

Beckova Katerina

ISBN: PB: 9788024632926, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2017
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates, 25 halftones, 2 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Since its birth as a city, Prague's appearance, character, and life have been shaped by the River Vltava. The flow of the river enabled the settlement of the Prague basin, the creation of...

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America

Albrecht Durer and the Epistolary Mode of Address

Brisman Shira

ISBN: HB: 9780226354750, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 49 colour plates, 86 halftones

Art historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships between artists and patrons; and present artists as modern, self-aware individuals. This book takes a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht Durer, Shira B...

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Europe

Scorched Earth Stalin's Reign of Terror

Baberowski Jorg, Gilbert Steven, Komljen Ivo, Taber Samantha Jeanne

ISBN: HB: 9780300136982, Yale University Press, January 2017
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

German scholar Jorg Baberowski is one of the world's leading experts on the Stalin era, but his work has seldom been translated into English. This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad violence with which Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts S...

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Military

War in the North Sea The Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy 1914-1918

Barry Quintin

ISBN: HB: 9781911096382, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
456 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 100 black&white illus., 15 maps

For years before the outbreak of the First World War, it was the expectation of most officers of the Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy that very shortly thereafter, a decisive fleet action would be fought. This had a major impact on the strateg...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

General and the President MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War

Brands H. W.

ISBN: HB: 9780385540575, Casemate, Presidio Press, November 2016
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, illus.

From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the post-World War II order....

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Berlin for Jews A Twenty-First-Century Companion

Barkan Leonard

ISBN: HB: 9780226010663, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 2 maps

What is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you the baggage of history? And what happens when an American Jew, raised by a secular family, falls in love with Berlin not in spite of his being a Jew but because of i...

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History of Art

Medieval

Feast for the Senses Art and Experience in Medieval Europe

Bagnoli Martina, Normore Christina, Newman Barbara, Casagrande Carla, Dillon Emma, Brilliant Virginia

ISBN: HB: 9780300222951, Yale University Press, October 2016
280 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 241 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.

The late medieval world was marked by a culture of refinement and sophistication. The period's media of choice – paintings, manuscripts, prints, tapestries, embroideries, ivory sculpture, metalwork, and enamels – speak volumes about the pleasures of...

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Military

War in the East A Military History of the Russo-Turkish War 1877-78

Barry Quintin

ISBN: PB: 9781911096696, ISBN: HB: 9781907677113, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 266 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 25 maps

When Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire in April 1877, it was the fifth time during the nineteenth century that hostilities had broken out between the two empires. On this occasion the other Great Powers had done all they could to prevent it,...

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Military

Eureka Stockade A Ferocious and Bloody Battle

Blake Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9781922132048, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
236 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

"Eureka Stockade: A Ferocious and Bloody Battle", is the epic account of the battle for the Eureka Stockade, an iconic moment in Australian history. On the chilly dawn morning of 3 December 1854 British soldiers and police of the Victorian colonial g...

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