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In the House of the Hangman The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949

Olick Jeffrey K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226103341, ISBN: HB: 9780226626383, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

The central question for both the victors and the vanquished of World War II was just how widely the stain of guilt would spread over Germany. Political leaders and intellectuals on both sides of the conflict debated whether support for National Soci...

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Sandzak A History

Morrison Kenneth, Roberts Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9781849042451, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
356 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! One of the few remaining unexamined pieces of the Balkan jigsaw, the Sandzak – a multi-ethnic region straddling the border between Serbia and Montenegro – is heir to a complex and contested history. From the emergence and colla...

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Anarchic Sea Maritime Security in the Twenty-First Century

Sloggett Dave

ISBN: HB: 9781849041003, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Maritime security covers many issues including disputes over ownership of the continental shelf and of the boundaries of Exclusive Economic Zones, as well as protecting citizens from ballistic missile attacks using sea-based pl...

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Europe

Black Oxford The Untold Stories of Oxford University's Black Scholars

Roberts Pamela

ISBN: PB: 9781908493835, Signal Books, October 2013
104 pp., 21.4x14.3 cm

For sale in CIS only! Oxford University has attracted and produced many of the world's most original thinkers over the centuries. It boasts heads of states, academics, writers, actors, scientists, philosophers and many other luminaries among its alu...

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Bosnian Muslims in Second World War A History

Hoare Marko Attila

ISBN: HB: 9781849042413, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
512 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The story of the Bosnian Muslims in World War II is an epic frequently alluded to in discussions of the 1990s Balkan conflicts, but almost as frequently misunderstood or falsified. This first comprehensive study of the topic in...

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Asia

Political Science

Chinese Question in Central Asia Domestic Order, Social Change, and the Chinese Factor

Laruelle Marlene, Peyrouse Sebastien

ISBN: HB: 9781849041799, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since the start of the 2000s, the People's Republic of China has become an increasingly important player on the Central Asian scene, both diplomatically and strategically, in particular through the Shanghai Cooperation Organiza...

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Remapping India New States and their Political Origins

Tillin Louise

ISBN: PB: 9781849042291, Hurst Publishers, October 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! There is a widespread consensus today that the constitutional flexibility to alter state boundaries has bolstered the stability of India's democracy. Yet debates persist about whether the creation of more states is desirable. P...

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Military

Europe

This Seat of Mars War and the British Isles, 1485-1746

Carlton Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300197143, Yale University Press, September 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 24 black&white illus.

Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom went to war, often – and most bloodily – ag...

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World

Perilous Glory The Rise of Western Military Power

France John

ISBN: PB: 9780300197174, ISBN: HB: 9780300120745, Yale University Press, September 2013
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

This expansive book surveys the history of warfare from ancient Mesopotamia to the Gulf War in search of a deeper understanding of the origins of Western warfare and the reasons for its eminence today. Historian John France explores the experience of...

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Middle East

Islamic Imperialism A History (Second Edition)

Karsh Efraim

ISBN: PB: 9780300198171, Yale University Press, September 2013
304 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm

From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So a...

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