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Seeker After Truths The Life and Times of G. A. Studdert Kennedy ("Woodbine Willie") 1883-1929

Parker Linda

ISBN: HB: 9781912174041, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy became one of the most famous army chaplains of the First World War, earning the nickname "Woodbine Willie" because of his habit of giving out both cigarettes and bibles to the men at the front. During the war he also earned...

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Marine Corps Way of War The Evolution of the U.S. Marine Corps from Attrition to Maneuver Warfare in the Post-Vietnam Era

Piscitelli Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9781611213607, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 images, 2 charts, 2 maps

The Marine Corps Way of War examines the evolving doctrine, weapons, and capability of the United States Marine Corps during the four decades since our last great conflict in Asia. As author Anthony Piscitelli demonstrates, the USMC has maintained it...

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Edge of Irony Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226566177, ISBN: HB: 9780226054421, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 26 halftones

Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of...

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Looking Forward Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America

Pietruska Jamie L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226475004, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possi...

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Dreamers How Young Indians are Changing the World

Poonam Snigdha

ISBN: PB: 9781849049078, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! 600 million Indians, more than half the population, are under twenty-five. This generation lives between extremes: more connected and global than ever, but with narrow ideas of Indian identity; raised with the cultural values o...

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Chickamauga Campaign - Glory or the Grave The Breakthrough, the Union Collapse, and the Defense of Horseshoe Ridge, September 20, 1863

Powell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213836, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
744 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 37 maps, 40 images

Now in paperback, "Glory or the Grave: The Breakthrough, the Union Collapse, and the Defense of Horseshoe Ridge, September 20, 1863" is the second volume in The Chickamauga Campaign, David Powell's magnificent three-volume study of this overlooked an...

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Chickamauga Campaign Barren Victory: The Retreat into Chattanooga, the Confederate Pursuit, and the Aftermath of the Battle, September 21 to October 20, 1863

Powell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213843, ISBN: HB: 9781611213287, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 15 images, 5 maps

Barren Victory is the third and concluding volume of the magisterial Chickamauga Campaign Trilogy, a comprehensive examination more than a decade in the making of one of the most important and complex military operations of the Civil War. The first...

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Under the Crescent Moon The Eleventh Corps in the American Civil War, 1862-1864. From the Defenses of Washington to Chancellorsville

Pula James S.

ISBN: HB: 9781611213379, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 maps, 40 illus.

The Eleventh Corps served in the Army of the Potomac for just twelve months (September 1862 – August 1863), but during that time played a pivotal role in the critical battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, hastened westward to reinforce a Union...

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In the Shadows of Victory II America's Forgotten Military Leaders, The Spanish-American War to World War II

Phillips Thomas D.

ISBN: HB: 9781612005461, Casemate, November 2017
288 pp., 21x15 cm, 30 illus.

During the course of America's existence, history has enshrined an exceptional few military leaders in the public's collective consciousness while sometimes ignoring others often equally as deserving, relegating them to footnotes at best. Though the...

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Domestic Subjects Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature

Piatote Beth H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227079, Yale University Press, August 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

Amid the decline of U.S. military campaigns against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, assimilation policy arose as the new front in the Indian Wars, with its weapons the deployment of culture and law, and its locus the American Indian...

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