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Far from Home Memories of World War II and Afterward

Herring Wright Mary

ISBN: PB: 9781563683190, Gallaudet University Press, March 2005
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos

"She's got no more business there than a pig has with a Bibl". That's what her father said when Mary Herring announced that she would be moving to Washington, DC, in late1942. Recently graduated from the North Carolina School for Black Deaf and Blin...

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Middle East

Political Science

Revolution Unending Afghanistan 1979 to the Present

Dorronsoro Gilles

ISBN: HB: 9781850656838, Hurst Publishers, January 2005
370 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The defeat of the Greek armies in Asia Minor in August 1922, leading to what the Greeks call 'the Asia Minor Catastrophe', led directly to the flight of Greek refugees from Asia Minor, the compulsory exchange of populations bet...

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America

Jewish Studies

American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise

Reinharz Shulamit, Raider Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9781584654391, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2004
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Despite a historical record that shows sustained involvement of American Jewish women with early Zionism and Palestine, this topic has received scant scholarly attention. A major contribution to Zionist history, women's history, and American history,...

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Europe

Polonica

Reconstruction of Nations Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999

Snyder Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300105865, Yale University Press, September 2004
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 34 illus.

Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood o...

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Europe

Resilience and Courage Women, Men, and the Holocaust

Tec Nechama

ISBN: PB: 9780300105193, Yale University Press, September 2004
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this volume, Nechama Tec offers insights into the differences between the experiences of Jewish women and men during the Holocaust.

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Culture Studies

Europe

Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942 Reproduced from the Original Typescript, War Department, Washington, DC

ISBN: HB: 9781851240852, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2004
48 pp., 14.8x10 cm

In 1942 the United States War Department distributed a handbook to American Servicemen advising them on the peculiarities of the "British, their country, and their ways". The guide was intended to lessen the culture shock for those embarking on their...

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Aviation

Macchi MC 200 Saetta, Part 2

Di Terlizzi Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788875650056, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2004
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 38 colour illus., 97 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

The volume starts retracing the role of this fighter during the IIWW. The historical dealing encloses a lot of photographs with commented captions. Particularly interesting is the part eferring to the manufacturing of the Pack model kit Mc 200 (1/48...

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Aviation

North American P/F 51 Mustang in Italian Service

Di Massimo Patroncino

ISBN: PB: 9788875650193, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2004
64 pp., 28x20 cm, 46 colour illus., 80 black&white (including threeviews and profiles)

A bilingual text rich in black & white and colour photographs, colour profiles and an appendix. The book retraces the development and the characteristics of this marvellous fighter, one of the best out of World War II, not only for its effectiveness...

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Aviation

Campini Caproni The History and the Technical Development of the First Italian Jet Aircraft

ISBN: PB: 9788875650568, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2004
176 pp., 24x17 cm, 14 colour illus., 164 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

The book is based on all the informations contained in the archives of engineer Campini thank to the heirs who kindly allowed the authours to consult the material. Generously filled with precious antique photos, several were even drawn from Campinis...

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Aviation

North American (FIAT) F-86 K

Nicola Malizia

ISBN: PB: 9788875650087, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2004
223 pp., 24x17 cm, 48 colour illus., 147 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

An excellent monography dealing with one of the most ancient fighter of the Italian Aeronautica Militare, treated in every detail. The layout is the usual, bilingual text (Italian/English) and standard format. The volume starts retracing the history...

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