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Yemen Endures Civil War, Saudi Adventurism and the Future of Arabia

Hill Ginny

ISBN: HB: 9781849048057, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Why is Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, involved in a costly and merciless war against its mountainous southern neighbour Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East? When the Saudis attacked the hitherto obscu...

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Biography & Memoires

Asia

King Never Smiles A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej

Handley Paul M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300228304, Yale University Press, February 2017
520 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of his country in 1946 and at the time of his death, in October 2016, was the world's longest serving monarch. Now out in paperback with a new preface by...

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Military

Budapest Operation (29 October 1944 - 13 February 1945) An Operational-Strategic Study

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781911512424, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
336 pp., 24.4x17 cm, 2 maps

"The Budapest Operation (29 October 1944-13 February 1945): An Operational-Strategic Study" examines in detail the Red Army's operations on the approaches to Budapest and the city's ultimate capture following a long siege. The first part of the stu...

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Military

Douglas MacArthur American Warrior

Herman Arthur

ISBN: PB: 9780812985108, Casemate, Presidio Press, February 2017
960 pp., 23.5x15.5 cm, maps, colour illus.

Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by George Armstrong Custer and Robert E. Lee. But he was also o...

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Military

Blood in the Forest The End of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket

Hunt Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9781911512066, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 maps, 19 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

"Blood in the Forest" tells the brutal story of the forgotten battles of the final months of the Second World War. While the eyes of the world were on Hitler's bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles along a front line of...

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Asia

Rivers Divided Indus Basin Waters in the Making of India and Pakistan

Haines Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9781849047166, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Indus Waters Treaty is considered a key example of India-Pakistan cooperation, but less has been said about its critical influence on state-making in both countries. "Rivers Divided" reveals the importance of the Indus Basi...

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Africa

History of Borno Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State

Hiribarren Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9781849044745, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Borno (in northeast Nigeria) is notorious today as the home of an Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, whose insurgency is a major security threat, but it was once the heartland of the Kanuri-speaking royal empire of Kanem-Bor...

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Europe

Northern Conquest Vikings in Britain and Ireland

Holman Katherine

ISBN: PB: 9781904955344, Signal Books, February 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Most historical accounts examine the Viking Age in one part rather than the whole region of the British Isles and Ireland. Very few pay attention to the continued contact between England and Scandinavia in the post-Norman Conqu...

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Europe

Art of the Bribe Corruption Under Stalin, 1943-1953

Heinzen James

ISBN: HB: 9780300175257, Yale University Press, January 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

The first archive-based study of official corruption under Stalin and a compelling new look at the textures of everyday Soviet life after World War II In the Soviet Union, bribery was a skill with its own practices and culture. James Heinzen's innova...

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America

Ultimate Guide to the Gettysburg Address

Hirsch David, Van Haften Dan

ISBN: PB: 9781611213331, Casemate, Savas Beatie, January 2017
64 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, colour illus.

Abraham Lincoln's November 19, 1863, Gettysburg Address is generally recognized as one of the greatest leadership speeches ever written. The Ultimate Guide to the Gettysburg Address explains the 272-word speech more thoroughly than any book previousl...

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