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Soviet Autogyros 1929-1942

Maslov Mikhail

ISBN: PB: 9781910294659, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2015
144 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 186 black&white and colour photos, profiles

The material presented in this book describes the history of the development, testing and limited operations of early Soviet autogyros. As in the rest of the world, autogyros appeared in the Soviet Union in a period of full exploration of the skies b...

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Europe

Days of Adversity The Warsaw Uprising 1944

McGilvray Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781911096733, ISBN: HB: 9781909982956, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2015
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps, 100 black&white illus.

This work is a re-examination of the decisions regarding the 1944 Warsaw Uprising made by the leadership of the underground Polish Army (AK), as well as the questionable attitudes of senior Polish commanders in exile in London. The questions raised a...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

Adam's Armour 1 Modelling Guide

Wilder Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780955541384, Casemate, AFV Modeller, October 2015
192 pp., 29.5x20.8 cm, illustrated throughout

Adam's Armour 1 and 2 the ultimate in armour modelling guides! Adam's Armour 1 modelling guide is the ultimate in the construction of armour modelling! Adam Wilder's pioneering processes and techniques are described by him in the greatest of detail....

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America

Concrete Revolution Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation

Sneddon Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780226284316, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Water may seem innocuous, but as a universal necessity, it inevitably intersects with politics when it comes to acquisition, control, and associated technologies. While we know a great deal about the socioecological costs and benefits of modern dams,...

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Law

Europe

Czech Law in Historical Contexts

Kuklik Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024628608, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2015
240 pp., 24x16.5 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The legal system of the present-day Czech Republic cannot be understood without sufficient knowledge of its historical roots and evolution. Kuklik traces the development of Czech law from...

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America

Back to the Breast Natural Motherhood and Breastfeeding in America

Martucci Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780226288031, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

After decades of decline during the twentieth century, breastfeeding rates began to rise again in the 1970s, a rebound that has continued to the present. While it would be easy to see this reemergence as simply part of the naturalism movement of the...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Theodore Roosevelt in the Field

Canfield Michael R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226298375, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 108 colour plates, 1 line drawing

Never has there been a president less content to sit still behind a desk than Theodore Roosevelt. When we picture him, he's on horseback or standing at a cliff's edge or dressed for safari. And Roosevelt was more than just an adventurer – he was also...

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America

Legendary Detective The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction

Walton John

ISBN: HB: 9780226308265, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

"I'm in a business where people come to me with troubles. Big troubles, little troubles, but always troubles they don't want to take to the cops". That's Raymond Chandler's "Philip Marlowe", succinctly setting out our image of the private eye. A no-n...

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Military

Europe

First World War Unseen Glass Plate Photographs of the Western Front

De Keyzer Carl, Van Reybrouck David

ISBN: HB: 9780226284286, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
280 pp., 32x22.8 cm, 20 colour plates, 80 halftones

A century after it began, we still struggle with the terrible reality of the First World War, often through republished photographs of its horrors: the muddy trenches, the devastated battlefields, the maimed survivors. Due to the crude film cameras u...

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America

Married to the Empire Three Governors' Wives in Russian America 1829-1864

Rabow-Edling Susanna

ISBN: HB: 9781602232648, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2015
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 map

The Russian Empire had a problem. While they had established successful colonies in their territory of Alaska, life in the settlements was anything but civilized. The settlers of the Russian-America Company were drunk, disorderly, and corrupt. Worst...

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