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Defending Nazis in Postwar Czechoslovakia Life of K. Resler, Defense Councel Ex Officio of K. H. Frank

Drapal Jakub

ISBN: PB: 9788024637303, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Czech lawyer and scholar Jakub Drapal tells the story of the life of Kamill Resler, an attorney who defended the most prominent Nazi tried in postwar Czechoslovakia: Karl Her...

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Middle East

Hijaz The First Islamic State

Dahlan Malik

ISBN: HB: 9781849048798, Hurst Publishers, July 2018
568 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Hijaz, in the west of present-day Saudi Arabia, was the first Islamic state in Mecca and Medina. This new interpretative history offers a fresh vision of Islamic governance and law as a positive force for political reform i...

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Middle East

Merchant of Syria A History of Survival

Darke Diana

ISBN: HB: 9781849049405, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
364 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Barely literate, and supporting his mother and sisters from the age of ten, Abu Chaker built up a business empire – despite twice losing everything he had. Diana Darke follows his tumultuous journey, from instability in Syria a...

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America

New Abolition W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel

Dorrien Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780300230598, Yale University Press, March 2018
672 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a "new abolition" would require in American society. It became an important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of...

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Military

Silent Landscape at Gallipoli The Battlefields of the Dardanelles, One Hundred Years On

Doughty Simon

ISBN: HB: 9781911512738, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
176 pp., 245x318 cm, 120 colour photographs and maps

In our first book, we explored the impact of the fighting on the landscape of the Western Front – showing how the physical effects of war have left indelible traces; in this book, we follow the same theme, but from a different perspective. The Gallip...

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Military

Battalions at War The York & Lancaster Regiment in the First World War

Dillon John

ISBN: HB: 9781912174058, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
264 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white photos, 20 maps, 3 tables

The First World War is history; the last survivors of that conflict are now all dead. Three generations on, public perceptions of the war are formed from books, films and photographs. In the last two decades, revisionist historians have attempted to...

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Military

Peter The Great Humbled The Russo-Ottoman War Of 1711

Dorrell Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9781911512318, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
88 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 3 maps, 18 black&white illus.

In 1711 Peter the Great, the Tsar of Russia, led a large army of veterans from Poltava and his other Great Northern War victories into the Balkans. He aimed to humble the Ottomans in the same way he had the Swedes a few years before. Victory would se...

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America

Building the American Republic, Volume 2 A Narrative History from 1877

Dailey Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226300825, ISBN: HB: 9780226300795, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 haltfones

Now more than ever, we need informed citizens who bring a thorough knowledge of America's history to community life and the political process. Understanding what built our republic allows us to better maintain its democracy. These books are here to h...

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Philosophy

Europe

What Nostalgia Was War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion

Dodman Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226492940, ISBN: HB: 9780226492803, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it coul...

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Military

Africa

Mobile Warfare for Africa On the Successful Conduct of Wars in Africa and Beyond - Lessons Learned from the South African Border War

DeVries Roland, Burger Camille, Steenkamp Willem

ISBN: PB: 9781912174089, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
528 pp., 24.6x17 cm, 330 photos, 40 maps

Presenting a remarkable amount of experience drawing primarily from South Africa's Border War in the form of case studies, supported fully by an extensive number of photographs and specially commissioned maps, this study has applications for historia...

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