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Edward II

Phillips Seymour

ISBN: PB: 9780300178029, Yale University Press, October 2011
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Edward II (1284-1327), King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his lifetime and calumny since it. Conventionally viewed as worthless, incapable of sustained policy, and significant only for his spora...

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Biography & Memoires

Middle East

Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen of France, Queen of England

Turner Ralph V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300178203, Yale University Press, October 2011
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Eleanor of Aquitaine's extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a distinguished French dynasty, she married the king of France, Louis VII, then the king of England, Henry II, and gave birth to two so...

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Biography & Memoires

Invisible Harry Gold The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb

Hornblum Allen M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300177572, ISBN: HB: 9780300156768, Yale University Press, October 2011
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 38 black&white illus.

In the history of Soviet espionage in America, few people figure more crucially than Harry Gold. A Russian Jewish immigrant who spied for the Soviets from 1935 until 1950, Gold was an accomplished industrial and military espionage agent. He was assig...

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Military

America

Unwarranted Influence Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military Industrial Complex

Ledbetter James

ISBN: PB: 9780300177626, Yale University Press, October 2011
280 pp., 21x14 cm

In "Dwight" D. Eisenhower's last speech as president, on January 17, 1961, he warned America about the "military-industrial complex", a mutual dependency between the nation's industrial base and its military structure that had developed during World...

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Ancient World

Military

Battle of Marathon

Krentz Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300177664, Yale University Press, October 2011
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.

How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this s...

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Europe

Political Science

Hour of Europe Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia

Glaurdic Josip

ISBN: HB: 9780300166293, Yale University Press, October 2011
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

By looking through the prism of the West's involvement in the breakup of Yugoslavia, this book presents a new examination of the end of the Cold War in Europe. Incorporating declassified documents from the CIA, the administration of George H. W. Bush...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Gun Power, No. 26 Volume 1: Churchill

Moczulski Leszek, Zajaczkowski Slawomir, Przybysz Piotr

ISBN: PB: 9788372371959, Casemate, AJ Press, October 2011
176 pp., 29.5x21 cm, 190 black&white photos, 3 colour photos, scale plans, 28 colour plates

Not for sale in Poland! A fantastic new addition to the Gun Powder series, Churchill is the first of three volumes describing the British infantry tank. Production of the Churchill began in 1941 with the development of the A20 tank by Harland & Wol...

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Crossing the Berezina

Hourtoulle Francois-Guy, Jouineau Andre

ISBN: HB: 9782352500445, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, October 2011
100 pp., 31.7x23.5 cm, fully illustrated, 10 maps

The Battle of Berezina (near Borisov, Belarus) took place on November 26-29, 1812 between the French army of Napoleon, retreating after his invasion of Russia, and the Russian armies, under Mikhail Kutuzov, Peter Wittgenstein and Admiral Pavel Chicha...

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World

Caribbean A History of the Region and Its Peoples

Palmie Stephan, Scarano Francisco A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226645087, ISBN: HB: 9780226645063, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
624 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 2 figures, 1 table, 71 halftones

Combining fertile soils, vital trade routes, and a coveted strategic location, the islands and surrounding continental lowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe's earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the co...

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Ancient World

History of Trust in Ancient Greece

Johnstone Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780226405094, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm

An enormous amount of literature exists on Greek law, economics, and political philosophy. Yet no one has written a history of trust, one of the most fundamental aspects of social and economic interaction in the ancient world. In this fresh look at a...

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