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Village with My Name A Family History of China's Opening to the World

Tong Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226636955, ISBN: HB: 9780226338866, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start up the first full-time China bureau for "Marketplace", the daily business and economics program on public radio stations across the United States. But for Tong the move became...

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Ancient World

It's All Greek Borrowed Words and their Histories

Tulloch Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9781851245055, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2018
224 pp., 18.4x11.8 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Most of us are aware that words such as geometry, mathematics, phobia and hypochondria derive from ancient Greek, but did you know that marmalade, pirate, sketch and purse can also trace their linguistic origins back to the Athens of 500 bce? This b...

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Military

For Queen and Company Vignettes of the Irish Soldier in the Indian Mutiny

Truesdale David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512790, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
112 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 60 illus.

This book records the actions of those Irish soldiers (and others) who were awarded the Victoria Cross in the event known to the British public in 1857 as "The Indian Mutiny". Since then, revisionist historians have applied other names to what occurr...

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World

Biography & Memoires

Empress Queen Victoria and India

Taylor Miles

ISBN: HB: 9780300118094, Yale University Press, August 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

In this engaging and controversial book, Miles Taylor shows how both Victoria and Albert were spellbound by India, and argues that the Queen was humanely, intelligently, and passionately involved with the country throughout her reign and not just in...

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Europe

Estonia A Modern History

Taylor Neil

ISBN: PB: 9781849049573, Hurst Publishers, July 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! With only 1.3 million inhabitants, Estonia is one of Europe's least populous nations – yet it boasts one of the continent's fastest growing economies. In the first serious English-language history of this small Baltic state, Ne...

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Military

America

Generals of Shiloh Character in Leadership, April 6-7, 1862

Tagg Larry

ISBN: HB: 9781611213690, Casemate, Savas Beatie, April 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 58 images

"Character is destiny" wrote Greek Philosopher Heraclitus more than twenty-five centuries ago. Douglas Southall Freeman, the Army of Northern Virginia's preeminent historian, echoed that view when he wrote, "Further study... may prove both more profi...

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Africa

Rwanda From Genocide to Precarious Peace

Thomson Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300197396, Yale University Press, March 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus., 5 figures, 2 maps

The brutal civil war between Hutu and Tutsi factions in Rwanda ended in 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front came to power and embarked on an ambitious social, political, and economic project to remake the devastated central-east African nation. Sus...

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Military

Europe

Kursk 1943 The Greatest Battle of the Second World War

Toeppel Roman

ISBN: HB: 9781912390038, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2018
184 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos, 8 colour maps, 1 table

The Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 was one of the greatest battles in military history involving more than 3 million soldiers, 10,000 tanks and 8,000 aircraft. While many books have been written on this allegedly most decisive battle of the Se...

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Aviation

Air Battles over the Baltic 1941 The Air War on 22 June 1941 - The Battle for Stalin's Baltic Region

Timin Mikhail

ISBN: HB: 9781911512561, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
528 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 500 black&white photos, 28 tables, 14 maps, 111 colour illus.

This unique work is the first in a series of publications dedicated to the condition of the air forces of the Red Army prior to the Nazi invasion of 22 June 1941. The author describes in detail the composition and the capabilities of the Soviet avi...

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Military

Photosniper, No. 23 British Infantry Tanks in World War II

Tylor Dick

ISBN: PB: 9788365437129, Casemate, Kagero, July 2017
96 pp., 29.7x21 cm, archive photos, colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! Before the start of the Second World War, British armoured doctrine was in a terrible muddle. Opinion had been divided between the proponents of the tank who saw it as the weapon of break-in, using it as an infantry support...

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