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Guinea Masks, Music and Minerals

Posthumus Bram

ISBN: PB: 9781849043694, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Guinea is rich, both materially and culturally, with the world's largest bauxite reserves, gold, diamonds and iron ore. It abounds in culture and traditions and has a remarkable, if often turbulent, history. Guinea is also exce...

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America

New Math A Political History

Phillips Christopher J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421490, ISBN: HB: 9780226184968, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 line drawings

An era of sweeping cultural change in America, the postwar years saw the rise of beatniks and hippies, the birth of feminism, and the release of the first video game. It was also the era of new math. Introduced to US schools in the late 1950s and 196...

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Military

Beyond Adversity "U" Company, 15th Battalion 1941-1942

Park William

ISBN: HB: 9780980658279, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
384 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

In November 1941, about 100 university students began their short-term compulsory military training with the 15th Infantry Battalion. Most were aged 19-22, had daytime jobs and were evening or external students from the arts, commerce and law faculti...

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Military

New Approaches to the Military History of the English Civil War Proceedings of the First Helion And Company "Century of the Soldier" Conference, 2015

Pells Ismini

ISBN: HB: 9781911096443, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 colour illus., 3 diags, 2 maps, 5 statistical tables

In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the military history of the English Civil War and its associated conflicts in Ireland and Scotland. Historians are increasingly paying attention to the "actualities of war" (to use Sir Basil Lidde...

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Aviation

Military

Green Leader Operation Gatling, the Rhodesian Military's Response to the Viscount Tragedy

Pringle Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781911096726, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
242 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 colour and black&white photos, maps

On 3 September 1978, a Russian-supplied heat-seeking missile shot down an Air Rhodesia Viscount civilian airliner shortly after it took off from the lakeside holiday resort of Kariba in the Zambezi Valley. Miraculously, 18 people, including small chi...

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Africa

Understanding Eritrea Inside Africa's Most Repressive State

Plaut Martin

ISBN: PB: 9781849046916, Hurst Publishers, October 2016
264 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The most secretive, repressive state in Africa is haemorrhaging its citizens. In some months as many Eritreans as Syrians arrive on European shores, yet the country is not convulsed by civil war. Young men and women risk all to...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Camouflage and Markings of Commonwealth and Greek Armor in the Balkans Campaign April - May 1941

Plowman Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9788360672273, Casemate, Model Centrum Progres, September 2016
72 pp., 29x20.5 cm, 24 colour illus., 148 black&white illus.

Published to coincide with the 75th Anniversary of the battle of Greece, this is an authoritative guide to the armor deployed by Commonwealth and Greek troops in continental Greece and in Crete. Covering wide variety of armored vehicles fielded by Br...

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Military

Passchendaele The Untold Story

Prior Robin, Wilson Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780300221213, Yale University Press, August 2016
280 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 16 black&white illus.

No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied...

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America

Military

Omaha Beach Tuesday 6th June 1944

Prime Christophe

ISBN: PB: 9782815103046, Casemate, OREP, August 2016
128 pp., 26.5x20 cm

Tuesday, June 6th 1944. It is dawn and the German lookouts on sentry along the beach of Sables d'Or at the Pointe du Hoc spot some worrying silhouettes in the distance. An incredible number of masts and ships begin to appear as the mist rises. It is...

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America

Revolutions Without Borders The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World

Polasky Janet

ISBN: PB: 9780300219845, ISBN: HB: 9780300208948, Yale University Press, July 2016
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804. National borders were powerless to restrict the flow of enticing new visions of human rights...

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