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Last of the Kriegies The Extraordinary True Life Experiences of Five Bomber Command Prisoners of War

Barker Reg

ISBN: HB: 9780993415296, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, November 2017
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.

"For you the war is over". "Last of the Kriegies" tells the extraordinary stories of five of the last remaining Second World War RAF Bomber Command Prisoners-of-War: pilot Reg Barker, bomb aimer Charles Clarke, air gunner David Fraser, air gunner Alb...

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Recollections from the Ranks Three Russian Soldiers' Autobiographies from the Napoleonic Wars

Boland Darrin

ISBN: HB: 9781912174188, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2017
156 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, illus. and maps

From Napoleon's invasion of 1812 to the Wars of Liberation and beyond, seen from the common Russian soldier's perspective. This volume is composed of three accounts previously unavailable in English. Detailed annotations illuminate a seldom understoo...

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Autobiography or Narrative of a Soldier The Peninsular War Memoirs of William Brown of the 45th Foot

Brown William

ISBN: HB: 9781911512943, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2017
152 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 maps

William Brown's autobiography is a unique historical document, since he is the only memoirist to have come to light from the ranks of the 45th (1st Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot for the period of the Peninsula War – a regiment that was one of Wel...

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Cities Contested Urban Politics, Heritage, and Social Movements in Italy and West Germany in the 1970s

Baumeister Martin, Schott Dieter, Bonomo Bruno

ISBN: PB: 9783593506975, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2017
420 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Historians discuss the 1970s as an era of deep transformations and even structural rupture in Western societies. For the first time, Cities Contested engages in this debate from the perspective of comparative urban history, examining the struggles in...

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Mob Town A History of Crime and Disorder in the East End

Bennett John

ISBN: HB: 9780300221954, Yale University Press, September 2017
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Even before Jack the Ripper haunted its streets for prey, London's East End had earned a reputation for immorality, filth, and vice. John Bennett, a writer and tour guide who has walked and researched the area for more than thirty years, delves into...

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What Did You Do In Great War, Grandfather? The Life and Times of an Edwardian Horse Artillery Officer

Barrington Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781912174034, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 90 photos and maps

Part history, part social documentary, part love story, this is a grandson's search for what his grandfather did in the Great War. Drawing on war diaries in the National Archives, unit records in the Royal Artillery museum, and a unique pictorial rec...

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Short History

Gladiators Fighting to the Death in Ancient Rome

Bishop M. C.

ISBN: PB: 9781612005133, Casemate, September 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

The gladiator is one of the most enduring figures of Ancient Rome. Heroic, though of lowly status, they fought vicious duals in large arenas filled with baying crowds. The survivor could be either executed (the famous 'thumbs down' signal) or spared...

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Political Science

Rival Power Russia's Influence in Southeast Europe

Bechev Dimitar

ISBN: HB: 9780300219135, Yale University Press, August 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 maps, 11 figs

Is Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades' of E.U. and U.S. efforts to promote stability in post-communist Southeast Europe? Politicians and commentators in the West say, "yes". With rising global anxiety over Russia's political policies...

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Sarah Osborn's World The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America

Brekus Catherine A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300226911, ISBN: HB: 9780300182903, Yale University Press, August 2017
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

In 1743, sitting quietly with pen in hand, Sarah Osborn pondered how to tell the story of her life, how to make sense of both her spiritual awakening and the sudden destitution of her family. Remarkably, the memoir Sarah created that year survives to...

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Military

Faces from the Front Harold Gillies, The Queen's Hospital, Sidcup and the Origins of Modern Plastic Surgery

Bamji Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781911512660, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2017
304 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 61 colour illus., 232 black&white illus., 2 tables

"Faces from the Front" examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred facial injuries during the First World War. These injuries were produced within a short time span, but (for the first time in a major conflict) did not n...

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