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Gun Power, No. 20 Volume 4: German Naval Artillery

Skwiot Miroslaw

ISBN: PB: 9788372372178, Casemate, AJ Press, March 2011
216 pp., 29.5x21 cm, 200 black&white photos, 3 colour photos

Not for sale in Poland! The 4th volume of our authoritative series, German Naval Artillery is fully dedicated to calibres from 20mm to 40mm. The first chapter deals with the 40mm Bofors gun, so effective that it was introduced on the decks of warsh...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D VIIC Type U-Boot

Jastrzebski Mieczyslaw

ISBN: PB: 9788361220770, Casemate, Kagero, March 2011
72 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 44 black&white photos, 84 visualisation 3D

Not for sale in Poland! The type VIIC was a slightly modified version of the successful VIIB. They had basically the same engine layout and power, but were slightly larger and heavier which made them not quite as fast as the VIIB. 5 torpedo tubes (...

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Europe

Czech Elites and General Public Leadership, Cohesion and Democracy

Fric Pavol

ISBN: PB: 9788024618449, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2011
188 pp., 19.7x14 cm, 11 tables

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This comprehensive volume examines the relationships between the ruling elites of the Czech Republic and the general public. Sociologist Pavol Fric and other expert contributors consider t...

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Europe

General

Political Epistemics The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism

Glaeser Andreas

ISBN: PB: 9780226297941, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
640 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 17 line illus.

What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? Andreas Glaeser investigates this question in the context of a fascinating historical case: socialist East Germany's unexpected self-dissolution...

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Europe

Euphoria and Exhaustion Modern Sport in Soviet Culture and Society

Katzer Nikolaus, Budy Sandra, Kohring Alexandra, Zeller Manfred

ISBN: PB: 9783593392905, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
320 pp., 21.1x14.2 cm

The architects of the Soviet Union intended not merely to remake their society – they also had an ambitious plan to remake the citizenry physically, with the goal of perfecting the socialist ideal of man. As "Euphoria and Exhaustion" shows, the Sovie...

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America

Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes

Gonzalez Olga M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226302713, ISBN: HB: 9780226302706, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
344 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 4 maps, 1 table, 31 colour illus.

The Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path launched its violent campaign against the government in Peru's Ayacucho region in 1980. When the military and counterinsurgency police forces were dispatched to oppose the insurrection, the violence quickly esc...

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America

Envisioning the Nation The Early American World's Fairs and the Formation of Culture

Boger Astrid

ISBN: PB: 9783593387901, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
321 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

The World's Fairs staged in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries showcased world cultures in peaceful competition and cooperation. But as Astrid Boger shows in "Envisioning the Nation", at the same time the fairs played i...

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Europe

Travel

At the Kremlin Gates A Historical Portrait of Moscow

Skinner Gerald R.

ISBN: PB: 9781904955818, Signal Books, March 2011
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm

For sale in CIS only! By tradition, Moscow is the easternmost bastion of western civilisation. Moscow has stood against invasion and war, pestilence and fire. It has been rejected by its own rulers, and its destruction has been planned by its dreame...

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Middle East

Palestine Betrayed

Karsh Efraim

ISBN: PB: 9780300172348, Yale University Press, February 2011
336 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.

The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably changed the political landscape of the Middle East, giving rise to six full-fledged wars between Arabs and Jews, countless armed clashes, blockades, and terrorism, as well as a profound shatte...

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Military

Hungary 1944-1945 The Panzers' Last Stand

Guillemot Phillippe

ISBN: PB: 9782352501558, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, February 2011
80 pp., 24x20 cm, 16 profiles, 10 maps

Following the dramatic destruction of Army Group Centre and overshadowed by Koniev's and Zhukov's rush on Berlin, this particular theatre of operations in Hungary, 1944-45, including the devastating Siege of Budapest, which was one of the bloodiest s...

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