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Political Science

My Enemy's Enemy India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal

Paliwal Avinash

ISBN: HB: 9781849048347, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The archetype of 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', India's political and economic presence in Afghanistan is often viewed as a Machiavellian ploy aimed against Pakistan. The first of its kind, this book interrogates that simplis...

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Literary Criticism

Medieval

Medievalism The Middle Ages in Modern England

Alexander Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300227307, Yale University Press, April 2017
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 27 colour illus.

Now reissued in an updated paperback edition, this groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period was re-established in post-Enlightenment England – from Walpole and Scott, Pugin, R...

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Medieval

Travel

Medieval Invention of Travel

Legassie Shayne Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226446622, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During...

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Aviation

Modelling - Military Drawings

Monographs, No. 63 Focke-Wulf Ta 152

Murawski Marek J.

ISBN: HB: 9788364596933, Casemate, Kagero, March 2017
80 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 110 archival photos

Not for sale in Poland! The events of World War 2 proved beyond any doubt that the strategic bombing campaign greatly contributed to the Allies' ultimate victory over Nazi Germany. British night bombing raids and daylight carpet bombing missions fl...

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Military

Magyar Warriors Volume 2: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces, 1919-1945

Bernad Denes, Kliment Charles K.

ISBN: HB: 9781910777923, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
432 pp., 24.6x17.8 cm

The Hungarian armed forces (known as the Honvedseg) were built up from the 1920s, their expansion gaining momentum once Hungary became free of the strict post-First World War Trianon treaty limitations in August 1938. Politically, Hungary was looking...

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Military

Miners at War 1914-1919 South Wales Miners in the Tunneling Companies on the Western Front

Wood Ritchie

ISBN: HB: 9781911096498, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 54 black&white illus., 24 maps, 26 tables

The author's compilation of a unique register identifying those individual South Wales miners who served in the tunnelling companies has allowed a remarkable story to be told. For the first time, the lives of individual South Wales miners are highlig...

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Europe

Maisky Diaries The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London

Maisky Ivan, Gorodetsky Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780300221701, Yale University Press, November 2016
632 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.

<p>Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries....

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America

Criminology

Murder at the Fort A Double Homicide Cold Case and Cover Up!

Marmion Bob

ISBN: PB: 9781925520118, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
324 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm, 50 black&white illus. and maps

Early one cold, wintry morning in late May 1942, the bullet-ridden body of Driver Roy Willis was found on the side of the road. He had been shot a number of times with a military revolver. Despite extensive enquiries by some of the Victoria Police's...

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Military

More Than Bombs and Bandages Australian Army Nurses at Work in World War I

Harris Kirsty

ISBN: HB: 9780980814057, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
352 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

"More than Bombs and Bandages" exposes the false assumption that military nurses only nursed. Based on author Kirsty Harris' CEW Bean Prize winning PhD thesis, this is a book that is far removed from the 'devotion to duty' stereotyping offering an in...

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Military

History

Making Jet Engines in World War II Britain, Germany, and the United States

Giffard Hermione

ISBN: HB: 9780226388595, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 2 line drawings, 3 tables

Our stories of industrial innovation tend to focus on individual initiative and breakthroughs. With "Making Jet Engines in World War II", Hermione Giffard uses the case of the development of jet engines to offer a different way of understanding techn...

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