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Europe

Molotov Stalin's Cold Warrior

Roberts Geoffrey

ISBN: HB: 9781574889451, Casemate, Potomac Books, December 2009
254 pp., 23x15 cm

The orthodox view of Vyacheslav Molotov is that he was no more than Stalin's faithful servant; a dogmatic conservative communist of little or no imagination. Molotov was, indeed, Stalin's right-hand man while from the 1920s the two men presided over...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

Men of Barbarossa Battles and Leaders of the German Invasion of Russia, 1941

Mitcham Jr. Samuel W.

ISBN: HB: 9781935149156, Casemate, December 2009
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This book not only tells the story of Operation Barbarossa but describes the expertise, skills, and decision-making powers of the men who directed it. The result is an illuminating look at the personalities behind the carnage, as summer triumph turne...

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Military

Military Orientalism Eastern War Through Western Eyes

Porter Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9781850659594, ISBN: HB: 9781850659600, Hurst Publishers, July 2009
274 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! From the Ancient Greeks' obsession with the armies of the Persians, Westerners have been irresistibly drawn to the exotic nature of 'Oriental' warfare and have sought either to emulate their enemies' imagined ways of fighting o...

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Africa

Madagascar A Short History

Ellis Stephen, Randrianja Solofo

ISBN: PB: 9781850659471, Hurst Publishers, April 2009
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Two thousand years ago, Madagascar was probably uninhabited. An isl and twice the size of Great Britain, it was home to unique species of flora and fauna that were undisturbed by humanity until the first navigators landed on it...

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Europe

Master of the House Stalin and His Inner Circle

Khlevniuk Oleg V., Seligman Favorov Nora

ISBN: HB: 9780300110661, Yale University Press, January 2009
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Based on meticulous research in previously unavailable documents in the Soviet archives, this compelling book illuminates the secret inner mechanisms of power in the Soviet Union during the years when Stalin established his notorious dictatorship. Ol...

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Europe

Matters of Exchange Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age

Cook Harold J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300143218, Yale University Press, August 2008
578 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 black&white illus.

In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce-not religion-inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold J. Coo...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew An Italian Story

Vittorio Segre Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226744773, University of Chicago Press, April 2008
284 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm

"I was probably less than five years old when my father fired a shot at my head". From this first line, Dan Vittorio Segre's memoir moves from one startling turning point to the next. The child of aristocratic parents, Segre fled Fascist Italy and Mu...

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Aviation

Macchi MC 205 Veltro

Di Terlizzi Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788886815550, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2007
64 pp., 24x17 cm, 22 colour illus., 37 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

Unmissable Italian/English volume that tells the story of the Macchi MC205, the II WW Italian aircraft that was meant to take the place of MC202. Complete and rich of technical details, with coloured photos both wartime and current (the modern shots...

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World

Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow The Life and Times of a Slave Trade Captain

Pinfold John

ISBN: HB: 9781851243211, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2007
304 pp., 23x15.5 cm

Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its "human cargo". This is a highly engaging, rare, first-hand account written by a staunch defender of the slave trade. Crow depic...

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Political Science

Middle East

Muslims, Dalits, and the Fabrications of History

Mayaram Shail, Skaria Ajay

ISBN: PB: 9781905422128, ISBN: HB: 9781905422111, Seagull Books, June 2006
350 pp., 21.2x14 cm

How have the dominant histories of the Indian subcontinent been constructed and how do they deal with the subject of Muslims and Dalits or 'Untouchables"? Taking a subaltern approach – the view from below – "Muslims, Dalits, and the Fabrications of H...

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