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Learning from Foreign Wars Russian Military Thinking 1859-73

Persson Gudrun

ISBN: PB: 9781906033613, ISBN: HB: 9781908916983, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2010
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 illus.

"Learning from Foreign Wars" examines how the Russian army interpreted the wars in Europe between 1859 and 1871, and the American Civil War. This was a time marked by rapid change – political, social, economic and technological. By raising the questi...

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Aviation

Lockheed T/RT-33A The Story of a Trainer

Nicola Malizia

ISBN: PB: 9788886815925, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2009
136 pp., 24x17 cm, 35 colour illus., 92 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

The text is bilingual (Italian/English), rich in colour and b&n photos and colour profiles. In the monography the author illustrates 30 years of aeronautical history, lived by the T-Bird itself in its use by the Italians. This aircraft, like the RT-3...

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World

Little Histories

Little History of the World

Gombrich E. H., Harper Clifford, Mustill Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780300143324, ISBN: HB: 9780300108835, Yale University Press, August 2008
304 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and "Eine kurze Weltgeschic...

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Military

Life and Death in the Balkans A Family Saga in a Century of Conflict

Tomasevic Bato

ISBN: HB: 9781850659136, Hurst Publishers, April 2008
544 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This compellingly written autobiography covers the past century and more in the life of Bato Tomasevic's Montenegrin family in the harsh and ever-turbulent mountains of southern Yugoslavia. The narrative begins some fifty years...

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Africa

Libyan Paradox

Martinez Luis

ISBN: HB: 9781850658351, Hurst Publishers, August 2007
196 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1992 United Nations sanctions were imposed on Libya after it refused to hand over for judgement in an international court two Libyan citizens suspected of involvement in the bombing of a passenger plane over Lockerbie in Sco...

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America

Looking for Los Angeles Architecture, Film, Photography and the Urban Landscape

Salas Charles G., Roth Michael S.

ISBN: PB: 9780892366163, Getty Publications, March 2006
344 pp., 25.5x17.8 cm, 24 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

Often referred to as the city of the future, Los Angeles is known for its sprawl, its constant change, and its special relationship to the film industry. The twelve contributors to "Looking for Los Angeles" focus on dramatic shifts in the urban lands...

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Military

Lone Wolf and Bear Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule

Gammer Moshe

ISBN: PB: 9781850657484, Hurst Publishers, November 2005
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The two Russo-Chechen wars (1994-6 and 1999-onwards) have brought the country and its people to the centre of world attention, most recently when separatists stormed a Moscow theatre, taking hundreds of people hostage. This boo...

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Aviation

Lockheed P-38 Lightning in Italian Service 1943-1955

Mattioli Marco

ISBN: PB: 9788875650100, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2004
136 pp., 24x17 cm, 29 colour illus., 50 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

A monography for modellers and for all those interested in the history of Lockheed P-38! One of the most famous fighters of the Second World War, used by many air forces in the world. Fighters that helped the Italian Air Force to rise up from the ash...

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Europe

Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944

Kruk Herman, Harshav Barbara, Harshav Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780300044942, Yale University Press, September 2002
808 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For five horrifying years in Vilna, the Vilna ghetto, and concentration camps in Estonia, Herman Kruk recorded his own experiences as well as the life and death of the Jewish community of the city symbolically called "The Jerusalem of Lithuania". Thi...

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Africa

Layers of Time History of Ethiopia

Henze Paul B.

ISBN: PB: 9781850655220, ISBN: HB: 9781850653936, Hurst Publishers, September 2000
387 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in the world. As the Aksumite Empire, it became a world power, its Emperor Ezana coverting to Christianity in 330 AD. Alone in sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopians developed coinage and writing...

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