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Surge My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War

Mansoor Peter R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209372, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus., 2 maps

In February 2007, U.S. Army General David Petraeus took command of the multinational coalition forces in Iraq, some 140,000 troops, to be joined by 20,000 additional American soldiers newly deployed to support the controversial strategy known as the...

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Europe

Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics

Morris Marilyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300208450, Yale University Press, November 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus.

How, and why, did the Anglo-American world become so obsessed with the private lives and public character of its political leaders? Marilyn Morris finds answers in eighteenth-century Britain, when a long tradition of court intrigue and gossip spread...

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America

Steaming to the North The First Summer Cruise of the US Revenue Cutter Bear, Alaska and Chukotka, Siberia, 1886

Donahue Katherine C., Switzer David C.

ISBN: HB: 9781602232389, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2014
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 74 halftones

On a rugged frontier where the ocean was king, most laws came from those who ruled the sea – and few ships policed the western Arctic like the revenue cutter Bear. Commissioned into the organization that would eventually become the US Coast Guard, th...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

SMI Library, No. 09 Grumman F6F Hellcat, Volume I

Szlagor Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9788364596056, Casemate, Kagero, September 2014
96 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 135 photos, 5 colour photos, 4 colour profiles

Not for sale in Poland! Grumman F6F Hellcat was one of the best fighter aircraft of the World War Two era and the most effective fighter of the US Navy. There is no doubt that Hellcats won complete air superiority for the Americans over the vast ar...

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Biography & Memoires

Soviet Women Snipers of the Second World War

Obraztsov Youri, Anders Maud

ISBN: PB: 9782352503880, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, September 2014
145 pp., 25x21 cm, illus.

The commitment of Soviet women to their country during World War II was unprecedented, both in terms of their sheer numbers and also in terms of their unique roles. More than 100,000 of them would join the regular army, or the partisans. Of all the j...

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Asia

Shanghai Future Modernity Remade

Greenspan Anna

ISBN: PB: 9781849043601, ISBN: HB: 9781849043274, Hurst Publishers, September 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! China is in the midst of the fastest and most intense process of urbanisation the world has ever known, and Shanghai – its biggest, richest and most cosmopolitan city – is positioned for acceleration into the twenty-first centu...

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Africa

Sri Lanka in the Modern Age A History

Wickramasinghe Nira

ISBN: PB: 9781849044462, ISBN: HB: 9781850657590, Hurst Publishers, September 2014
416 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Sri Lanka in the Modern Age" recounts the modern history of the island in an accessible yet unconventional manner. Where other histories have tended to focus on the state's failure to accommodate the needs and demands of minor...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Heavy Cruiser Lutzow

Draminski Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9788364596070, Casemate, Kagero, August 2014
80 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 140 renders

Not for sale in Poland! The text part of this book describes technical specifications of the ship and her operational history in detail. This is accompanied by more than 100 color illustrations showing Lutzow's appearance during Operation Rosselspr...

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Europe

Spanish Inquisition A Historical Revision

Kamen Henry

ISBN: PB: 9780300180510, Yale University Press, July 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen's classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, he incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new – and thought-provoking – view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the notoriou...

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Europe

Secret Cables of the Comintern, 1933-1943

Firsov Fridrikh Igorevich, Klehr Harvey, Haynes John Earl

ISBN: HB: 9780300198225, Yale University Press, July 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Drawing on secret and therefore candid coded telegraphs exchanged between Communist Party leaders around the world and their overseers at the Communist International (Comintern) headquarters in Moscow, this book uncovers key aspects of the history of...

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