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River Effra South London's Secret Spine

Newman Jon

ISBN: PB: 9781909930421, Signal Books, November 2016
146 pp., 21.9x16.5 cm, 8 colour illus.

For sale in CIS only! London was once a city awash with watercourses. Most of these streams and small rivers have long since disappeared underground and their void has been filled by myth, legend and an enduring yet uncertain fascination. The River...

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Soldiers' Tales #2 A Collection of True Stories from Aussie Soldiers

Neave Denny

ISBN: PB: 9781921941795, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
192 pp., 21x14.8 cm

"Soldiers' Tales #2" is a unique collection of personal accounts told by soldiers or relatives who have lived with their stories. Spanning the period from World War I through to the conflicts of the modern era, these stories are a mixture of the humo...

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America

Dirty Waters Confessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss

Nelson R. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226334493, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 6 maps

In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law – he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his a...

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Africa

Bridge Over Blood River The Rise and Fall of the Afrikaners

Norman Kajsa

ISBN: HB: 9781849046817, Hurst Publishers, October 2016
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Twenty years after the fall of apartheid the white Afrikaner minority fears cultural extinction. How far are they prepared to go to survive as a people? "Bridge Over Blood River's" haunting and subversive evocation of South Afr...

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Military

Stalin's Favorite: The Combat History of the 2nd Guards Tank Army from Kursk to Berlin Volume 2: From Lublin to Berlin, July 1944 - May 1945

Nebolsin Igor, Britton Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9781910777794, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2016
552 pp., 24.9x17 cm

The author Igor Nebolsin continues with his detailed chronology of the 2nd Guards Tank Armys combat operations. This volume includes the hard fighting outside of Warsaw in the summer of 1944; the 1st Belorussian Fronts winter offensive in the Vistula...

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General

Segregation A Global History of Divided Cities

Nightingale Carl H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226379715, ISBN: HB: 9780226580746, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
528 pp., 23x15 cm, 42 halftones

When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow – two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. But as Carl H. Nightingale shows us i...

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Medieval

Neighboring Faiths Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today

Nirenberg David

ISBN: PB: 9780226379852, ISBN: HB: 9780226168937, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In "Neighboring Faiths", David Nirenberg examines...

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Stalin's Favorite: The Combat History of the 2nd Guards Tank Army from Kursk to Berlin Volume 1: January 1943 - June 1944

Nebolsin Igor

ISBN: HB: 9781909982154, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2015
504 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 250 black&white photos, 24 colour maps, 70 tables

This is the first detailed combat history of any Soviet unit available in the English language known to the author. The 2nd Tank Army was not an ordinary force; by 1945 it was an elite Guards formation which played a decisive role in the Soviet offen...

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Victory Was Beyond Their Grasp With the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division from the Huertgen Forest to the Heart of the Reich

Nash Douglas

ISBN: HB: 9781612003054, Casemate, April 2015
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, photos throughout

As the Allies were approaching the German frontier at the beginning of September 1944, the German Armed Forces responded with a variety of initiatives designed to regain the strategic initiative. While the "Wonder Weapons" such as the V-1 flying bomb...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Japanese Battleship Kongo

Nowak Grzegorz, Goralski Waldemar

ISBN: PB: 9788361220152, Casemate, Kagero, April 2015
56 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 104 renders, 1 fold-out poster, 2 fold-out plans

Not for sale in Poland! Kongo, meaning indestructable, was the Imperial Japanese Navy's first super-dreadnought type battlecruiser, and the name-ship of her class, which also included the Hiei, Kirishima, and Haruna. She was upgraded to a battleshi...

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