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Demobbed Coming Home After World War Two

Allport Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300168860, Yale University Press, August 2010
288 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Snapshots of gaiety and celebration – the street parties, the victory speeches – are how some people today think of Britain in 1945. But the years following the end of World War II were far from a 'golden age' of pride and self-confidence. The countr...

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Ancient World

Death in Babylon Alexander the Great and Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient

Barletta Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780226037363, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
272 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 2 halftones

Though Alexander the Great lived more than seventeen centuries before the onset of Iberian expansion into Muslim Africa and Asia, he loomed large in the literature of late medieval and early modern Portugal and Spain. Exploring little-studied chronic...

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Political Science

Middle East

Dubai Gilded Cage

Ali Syed

ISBN: PB: 9780300152173, Yale University Press, March 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 illus.

In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure Gulf emirate into a global centre for business, tourism, and luxury living. It is a fascinating case study in light-speed urban development, hyperconsumerism, massive immigration,...

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America

Defying Empire Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York

Truxes Thomas M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164251, ISBN: HB: 9780300118407, Yale University Press, February 2010
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years' War (also known as the French and Indian War). Ignoring British prohibitions designed...

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Military

Dismantling the West Russia's Atlantic Agenda

Bugajski Janusz

ISBN: HB: 9781597972109, Casemate, Potomac Books, October 2009
268 pp., 23x15 cm

As the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008 demonstrated in no uncertain terms, Russia has developed into a neo-imperialist power seeking to restore its spheres of dominance, to undermine the emergence of a wider Europe, and to prevent the deve...

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Sign Language

Europe

Deaf Identity and Social Images in Nineteenth-Century France

Quartararo Anne T.

ISBN: HB: 9781563683671, Gallaudet University Press, June 2008
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 photos

Since the French Revolution in1789, Deaf French people have struggled to preserve their cultural heritage, to win full civil rights, and to gain access to society through their sign language. Anne T. Quartararo depicts this struggle in her new book "...

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Military

Darfur Sultanate A History of Contested Identities

O'Fahey R. S.

ISBN: HB: 9781850658535, Hurst Publishers, June 2008
360 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This text presents an analytical narrative of Darfur, from the beginnings of its recorded history to the present. Three themes dominate: Darfur's complex history and its equally complex ethnic and ecological issues. The various...

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Aviation

Dal Sai Ambrosini Sagittario All'aerfer Leone The History of the First Italian Supersonic Fighters Created by Sergio Stefanutti

Ciampaglia Giuseppe

ISBN: PB: 9788875650001, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2007
160 pp., 24x17 cm, 31 colour illus., 64 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

The text is addressed to modellers as well as those interested in the Italian aviation history. The volume deals with the history of the first supersonic fighters created by the eng. Sergio Stefanutti, one of the most original and innovative Italian...

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Aviation

Dragons on Bird Wings The Combat History of the 812th Fighter Air Regiment, Volume 1: Liberation of the Motherland

Antipov Vlad, Utkin Igor

ISBN: PB: 9780978069605, Casemate, Aviaeology, October 2006
160 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 black&white illus.

Follow the 3rd Fighter Aviation Corps along its Combat Path during the Liberation of the Motherland through the experiences of one of its units – the 812th. The first volume in this series, "Dragons on Bird Wings" is illustrated throughout with photo...

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Aviation

De Havilland Vampire in Italian Service

Di Terlizzi Maurizio, Mattioli Marco

ISBN: PB: 9788875650209, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2006
248 pp., 24x17 cm, 60 colour illus., 159 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

Thanks to these aircrafts Italy entered into the jet era. The De Havilland DH.100 Vampire was in fact the second jet engine fighter to be used in service in Great Britain and at the same time the first single-engine jet plane of the type mass-produce...

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