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Media Studies

Reporting War How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture, and Death to Cover World War II

Moseley Ray

ISBN: PB: 9780300234152, ISBN: HB: 9780300224665, Yale University Press, February 2018
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a for...

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Military

Islam

Crusade and Jihad The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North

Polk William R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222906, Yale University Press, February 2018
656 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking book is the first to address the catastrophic results of centuries of conflict, imperialism, and colonialism by the global north – China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America – in the Muslim world. We see this legacy in the flood...

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Europe

Christianity

Catholics on the Barricades Poland, France, and "Revolution", 1939-1956

Kosicki Piotr H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300225518, Yale University Press, February 2018
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

This collective intellectual biography examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including Karol Wojty³a, future Pope John Paul II, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the future prime minister who would dismantle...

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Political Science

Europe

Ukrainian Night An Intimate History of Revolution

Shore Marci

ISBN: HB: 9780300218688, Yale University Press, February 2018
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day...

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History of Art

Ancient World

Horse in Ancient Greek Art

Stribling Nicole, Schertz Peter, Hemingway Sean, Mattusch Carol C., Oakley John, Pevnick Seth

ISBN: HB: 9780300230574, Yale University Press, February 2018
160 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 130 colour illus.

Horses were revered in ancient Greece as symbols of wealth, power, and status. On stunning black- and red-figure vases, in sculpture, and in other media, Greek artists depicted the daily care of horses, chariot and horseback races, scenes of combat,...

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Military

Civil Wars A History in Ideas

Armitage David

ISBN: PB: 9780300234244, Yale University Press, February 2018
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and isn't, have a long and contested history. Defining the term is acutely political, for ideas about what makes a war "civil" often depend on whether one is ruler or rebel, victor o...

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Europe

Claiming Crimea A History of Catherine the Great's Southern Empire

O'Neill Kelly

ISBN: HB: 9780300218299, Yale University Press, February 2018
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 29 black&white illus.

Russia's long-standing claims to Crimea date back to the eighteenth-century reign of Catherine II. Historian Kelly O'Neill has written the first archive-based, multi-dimensional study of the initial "quiet conquest" of a region that has once again mo...

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Literary Criticism

Middle East

Other Middle East An Anthology of Modern Levantine Literature

Salameh Franck

ISBN: HB: 9780300204445, Yale University Press, February 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This unique literary collection offers a window on the contemporary Levant, a region comprising most of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, parts of southern Turkey and northwestern Iraq, and the Sinai Peninsula. Originally written in...

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Asia

America

Cold War Monks Buddhism and America's Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia

Ford Eugene

ISBN: HB: 9780300218565, Yale University Press, February 2018
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

How did the U.S. government make use of a "Buddhist policy" in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that the state should not meddle with religion? To answer this question, Eugene Ford delved deep into an unprecedented ra...

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Military

Most Secret War R. V. Jones and the Genesis of British Scientific Intelligence 1939-45

Goodchild James

ISBN: HB: 9781911512554, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 23 illus., 13 diagrams, 3 tables

The history of scientific intelligence – its birth, its importance during the Second World War and its unique wartime qualities – has relied almost entirely on the memories of its pioneer, R.V. Jones. Through scrutiny of Jones' post-war literature (e...

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