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Modelling - Military Drawings

Top Drawings, No. 22 German Pocket Battleship Admiral Graf Spee

Draminski Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9788364596308, Casemate, Kagero, April 2015
24 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 23 drawings sheets, A4 colour profiles, 2 double B

Not for sale in Poland! The Deutschland-class ships were the first heavy vessels of the German Navy after the First World War. In Germany they were classified as "Panzerschiffe", but in other countries the term "pocket battleships" was very popular...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

German Railway Gun: Leopold 28 cm K5 (E)

Wijnstok Jan Coen

ISBN: PB: 9788360672242, Casemate, Model Centrum Progres, April 2015
56 pp., 29x20.5 cm

Technical/historical background by the Dutch expert, illustrated with 31 b&w period photos and a selection of 224 detailed walkaround photographs highlighting in color all exterior and interior details of the World's only preserved K5(E) railway guns...

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Military

Archaeology & Paleontology

Working in the Killing Fields Forensic Science in Bosnia

Ball Howard

ISBN: HB: 9781612347189, Casemate, Potomac Books, April 2015
232 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 illus.

While the specificities of individual wars vary, they share a ubiquitous aftermath: the task of finding and identifying the "disappeared". The Bosnian war of the early 1990s that destroyed the sovereign state of Yugoslavia is no exception. In Working...

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Jewish Studies

America

Metropolitan Jews Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit

Corwin Berman Lila

ISBN: HB: 9780226247830, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

In this provocative and accessible urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit's Jews played in the city's well-known narrative of migration and decline. Taking its cue from social critics and historians who have long looked tow...

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World

Dispatches from Dystopia Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten

Brown Kate

ISBN: HB: 9780226242798, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 7 maps

"Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?" asks one chapter of Kate Brown's surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. It turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte, Montan...

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America

My Dear Molly The Civil War Letters of Captain James Love

Kodner Molly

ISBN: HB: 9781883982829, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, April 2015
528 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 140 halftones

The Missouri History Museum archives are bursting with collections that provide firsthand accounts of both historic and everyday moments, but when archivist M. E. Kodner came across the James Love letters, she knew she had discovered something extrao...

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Europe

Latvia A Short History

Kalnins Mara

ISBN: PB: 9781849044622, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The history of the Latvian people begins some four and a half millennia ago with the arrival of the proto-Baltic Indo-Europeans to northern Europe. One branch of these migrants coalesced into a community which evolved a distinc...

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Europe

Political Science

Emigration and the Sea An Alternative History of Portugal and the Portuguese

Newitt Malyn

ISBN: PB: 9781849044165, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Today Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world and Brazil is a new economic powerhouse. Both phenomena result from the Portuguese 'Discoveries' of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Catholic missions...

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Military

Sudden Justice America's Secret Drone Wars

Woods Chris

ISBN: HB: 9781849044028, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Sudden Justice" explores the secretive history of the United States' use of armed drones and their key role not only on today's battlefields, but also in a covert targeted killing project that has led to the deaths of thousand...

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Africa

Out of the Mountains The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla

Kilcullen David

ISBN: PB: 9781849045117, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In his third book, David Kilcullen takes us out of the mountains: away from the remote, rural guerrilla warfare of Afghanistan, and into the marginalised slums and complex security threats of the world's coastal cities, where a...

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