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Last Blood on Pomerania Leon Degrelle and the Walloon Waffen SS Volunteers, February-May 1945

Borowski Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9781910294482, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2015
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 140 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., maps

The 28th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "Wallonien", which mostly consisted of French-speaking citizens of the Kingdom of Belgium – first as part of the Wehrmacht, and later in the ranks of the Waffen SS – fought as one of the national legions again...

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Europe

De-Stalinisation Reconsidered Persistence and Change in the Soviet Union

Bohn Thomas M., Einax Rayk, Abesser Michel

ISBN: PB: 9783593501666, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
276 pp., 21x13.9 cm

Joseph Stalin's death was a defining event in Soviet history. In its aftermath, the state was forced to reconceive its political, economic, social, and cultural identity. This volume includes new contributions from an international collection of rese...

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World

Postcoloniality-Decoloniality-Black Critique Joints and Fissures

Broeck Sabine, Junker Carsten

ISBN: PB: 9783593501925, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
398 pp., 21x13.9 cm

Can Western modernity be analyzed and critiqued through the lens of enslavement and colonial history? As this volume reveals, such analysis is not only possible, it is essential to our understanding of contemporary race relations and society generall...

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America

Between Mao and McCarthy Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years

Brooks Charlotte

ISBN: HB: 9780226193564, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. Considered potentially sympathetic to communism, their communities attracted substantial public and government scrutiny, particularly in San Francisco...

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America

Friends Disappear The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston

Barr Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226156460, ISBN: HB: 9780226156323, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 3 maps, 4 line drawings

Mary Barr thinks a lot about the old photograph hanging on her refrigerator door. In it, she and a dozen or so of her friends from the Chicago suburb of Evanston sit on a porch. It's 1974, the summer after they graduated from Nichols Middle School,...

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Christianity

Crusader States

Barber Malcolm

ISBN: PB: 9780300208887, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 figures, 21 maps, 15 black&white illus.

When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God's favor. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God's p...

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Europe

Gulag Town, Company Town Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta

Barenberg Alan

ISBN: HB: 9780300179446, Yale University Press, August 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous "Gulag Archipelago" by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a prison camp complex. Author Alan Barenberg's eye-open...

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Genocide on the Drina River

Becirevic Edina

ISBN: HB: 9780300192582, Yale University Press, August 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this scholarly yet intensely personal history, author Edina Becirevic's explores the widespread ethnic cleansing that occurred in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 through 1995, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Serbs against Bosn...

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Europe

Monty's Men The British Army and the Liberation of Europe

Buckley John

ISBN: PB: 9780300205343, Yale University Press, August 2014
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain's fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitler's Germany. Following Britain's military commanders and troops...

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Europe

Fortune Hunter A German Prince in Regency England

Bowman Peter James

ISBN: PB: 9781909930032, Signal Books, August 2014
256 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm

For sale in CIS only! The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year brought a new influx of impecunious Continental noblemen to the world's richest country, and the more brides they carried off,...

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