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Jewish Studies

Exit Berlin How One Family Saved Itself from Nazi Germany

Bonelli Charlotte, Bodemann Natascha, Lipstadt Deborah E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197525, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no German, so Luzie quickly became transla...

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America

Political Science

Terror Courts America's Experiment with Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay

Bravin Jess

ISBN: PB: 9780300205596, ISBN: HB: 9780300189209, Yale University Press, June 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Within weeks of the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States had captured hundreds of suspected al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, and by the following January the first of these prisoners arrived at the U.S. Navy's detention camp in Guantana...

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Military

Blood Telegram Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide

Bass Gary J.

ISBN: PB: 9781849044578, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
548 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Blood Telegram" is an unprecedented chronicle of a pivotal but little-known chapter of the Cold War. Gary J. Bass shows how Nixon and Kissinger supported Pakistan's military dictatorship as it brutally quashed the results...

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History

Europe

Science and Emotions after 1945 A Transatlantic Perspective

Biess Frank, Gross Daniel M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226126487, ISBN: HB: 9780226126340, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Through the first half of the twentieth century, emotions were a legitimate object of scientific study across a variety of disciplines. After 1945, however, in the wake of Nazi irrationalism, emotions became increasingly marginalized and postwar rati...

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World

Making of the First World War

Beckett Ian F. W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300206647, ISBN: HB: 9780300162028, Yale University Press, April 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Nearly a century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed echo still. In this provocative book, historian Ian Beckett turns the spotlight on twe...

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America

Outside the Gates of Eden The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now

Bacon Hales Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226313153, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
496 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 105 halftones

Exhilaration and anxiety, the yearning for community and the quest for identity: these shared, contradictory feelings course through "Outside the Gates of Eden", Peter Bacon Hales's ambitious and intoxicating new history of America from the atomic ag...

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Military

Zhitomir-Berdichev Volume 2: German Operations West of Kiev 24 December 1943 - 31 January 1944

Barratt Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9781909384101, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2014
616 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white photos, 253 colour maps in separately-bound mapbook

This is the second volume of a two-volume set which together comprise a detailed and well-researched history of the important but neglected operation that was to be the beginning of the liberation of western Ukraine. On 24 December 1943, the Red Army...

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Political Science

Military

Success and Failure in Limited War Information and Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars

Bakich Spencer D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226107714, ISBN: HB: 9780226107684, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 5 tables

Common and destructive, limited wars are significant international events that pose a number of challenges to the states involved beyond simple victory or defeat. Chief among these challenges is the risk of escalation – be it in the scale, scope, cos...

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Biography & Memoires

Military

Devil's General The Life of Hyazinth von Strachwitz - "The Panzer Graf"

Bagdonas Raymond

ISBN: PB: 9781612004327, ISBN: HB: 9781612002224, Casemate, February 2014
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This is the story of the most highly decorated German regimental commander of World War II, known as the "Panzer Graf" (Armoured Count). An aristocratic Silesian, whose ancestors had faced the Mongols at Leignitz, Strachwitz first won the Iron Cross...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

German Fighters: 1936-1945 Volume 1: The Messerschmitt Bf 109

Breffort Dominique

ISBN: PB: 9782352503323, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, February 2014
192 pp., 30x23 cm, 600 colour profiles

Gathered in these two volumes is the legendary Luftwaffe aircraft: the Messerschmitt 109 and 110, the Focke-Wulf 190 and the jets that appeared at the end of the conflict. More than 600 color profiles detail a wide variety of insignia and camouflage...

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