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Liberty or Death The French Revolution

McPhee Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300228694, Yale University Press, July 2017
488 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 40 colour illus.

The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a li...

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Aviation

Light Airplane Design Example Design Rules, Technical Specifications, Structural Dimensioning

Pajno Vittorio

ISBN: PB: 9788875652951, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2017
438 pp., 24x17 cm, illus.

This book was written for young aviation enthusiasts and is especially meant as a guide for students of technical universities and high schools, but also for young engineers involved in both designing and building light aeroplanes.

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Military

Lost Opportunity The Battle of the Ardennes 22 August 1914

House Simon J.

ISBN: HB: 9781911096429, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
256 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 50 colour maps

On 22 August 1914 – on a battlefield 100 kilometres wide stretching from Luxembourg to the River Meuse – two French and two German armies clashed in a series of encounters known collectively as the Battle of the Ardennes. On that day, 27,000 young Fr...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 2: From Glory to Defeat 1942-1945

Cony Christophe, Roba Jean-Louis

ISBN: PB: 9781612004556, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 400 colour illus.

Eighty years after its creation, the Luftwaffe is still one of the most fascinating forces in the history of aviation. A companion to Luftwaffe in Colour Volume 1, which covered the victory years from 1939 up to Spring 1942, this volume with nearly 4...

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World

Middle East

Lawrence of Arabia's War The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI

Faulkner Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780300226393, Yale University Press, April 2017
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus., maps

Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbreaking volume makes just such a contribution. Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research to offer the first...

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Europe

Lions and Lambs Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany

Strote Noah Benezra

ISBN: HB: 9780300219050, Yale University Press, April 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A bold new interpretation of Germany's democratic transformation in the twentieth century, focusing on a group of intellectuals who shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction. Not long after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Germans rebuilt th...

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Military

Lutzen and Bautzen Napoleon's Spring Campaign of 1813

Nafziger George

ISBN: HB: 9781911512271, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
388 pp., 24.5x17 cm, maps, 100 illus.

One army lost in the Russian winter, Napoleon raised another to keep his grip on Europe. A tired Russian Army and a raw Prussian force marched to meet him. "Lutzen and Bautzen" is a detailed and masterful study of a misunderstood and little covered c...

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Military

Losing Small Wars British Military Failure in the 9/11 Wars

Ledwidge Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780300227512, Yale University Press, February 2017
344 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh chapters assessing and enumerating the overall mili...

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America

Little Histories

Little History of the United States

Davidson James West

ISBN: PB: 9780300223484, ISBN: HB: 9780300181418, Yale University Press, February 2017
344 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 11 maps, 40 black&white illus.

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered i...

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Military

Lobositz to Leuthen Horace St Paul and the Seven Years War, 1756-1757

Cogswell Neil

ISBN: HB: 9781911096672, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
536 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 219 maps, plans, charts, diagrams

In 1751, at the age of 22 and then a law student, Horace St Paul had, as he described it, "a difference" with an older man over the favour of a lady. This "difference" resulted in the death of the older man in an impromptu duel to which there were no...

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