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Shadow Factories Britain's Production Facilities and the Second World War

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781910294468, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

Wartime is costly. Whilst the human cost is a burden which remains part of our every waking thoughts for many years after the end of the conflict, the physical cost, at least in some cases, is easier to deal with. Some, if not most of the physical c...

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Who Freed the Slaves? The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment

Richards Leonard L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226178202, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones

In the popular imagination, slavery in the United States ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation may have been limited – freeing only slaves within Confederate states who were able to make their way to Union lines – b...

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Freedom as Marronage

Roberts Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226201047, ISBN: HB: 9780226127460, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

What is the opposite of freedom? In "Freedom as Marronage", Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood between these poles. Cruci...

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Photosniper, No. 16 AMX-30 Family

Robinson M. P.

ISBN: PB: 9788364596247, Casemate, Kagero, January 2015
96 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 263 colour and black&white illus.

Not for sale in Poland! The AMX-30 was used as the basis for a range of armoured vehicles that have seen extensive service in the French army and elsewhere. In this Photosniper, which completes the study of the AMX-30 series by M.P. Robinson, the s...

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Photosniper, No. 12 AMX-30, Volume 2: Char de Bataille 1966-2006

Robinson M. P.

ISBN: PB: 9788364596049, Casemate, Kagero, August 2014
88 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus., 8 colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! The second volume of Kagero's AMX-30: Char de Bataille covers the later part of the long career of the AMX-30 in French Army service. The text and photographic coverage is focused on the improvement of the AMX-30B, which res...

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Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789-1848

Rose Sven-Erik

ISBN: PB: 9781611685794, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this book Rose illuminates the extraordinary creativity of Jewish intellectuals as they reevaluated Judaism with the tools of a German philosophical tradition fast emerging as central to modern intellectual life. While previous work emphasizes the...

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What Soldiers Do Sex and the American GI in World War II France

Roberts Mary Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780226923116, ISBN: HB: 9780226923093, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones

How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly – but if you're the US Army...

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Photosniper, No. 10 AMX-30, Volume 1: Char de Bataille 1966-2006

Robinson M. P.

ISBN: PB: 9788362878994, Casemate, Kagero, May 2014
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 110 colour and black&white illus., 8 colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! The AMX-30 was France's principal battle tank for over 30 years and continues to serve the French Army in later forms even to this day. In this first work of a two volume study examining the history of the AMX-30 battle tank...

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D-Day Through French Eyes Normandy 1944

Roberts Mary Louise

ISBN: HB: 9780226136998, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 2 line drawings

"Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges". Silent parachutes dotting the night sky – that's how one woman in Normandy in June of 1944 learned that the D-Day invasio...

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Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920 Second Edition

Rodgers Daniel T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226136233, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
336 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

The phrase "a strong work ethic" conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in America's Puritan heri...

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