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Reminiscences 1808-1815 Under Wellington The Peninsular and Waterloo Memoirs of William Hay

Bamford Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781911512325, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
164 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, maps, 3 black&white illus.

William Hay had a varied and exciting military career during the later years of the Napoleonic Wars, which took him to the Peninsula, to Waterloo, and, after 1815, to Canada. Graduating from the Royal Military College at Marlow, of which he begins hi...

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History

Asia

Red Revolution, Green Revolution Scientific Farming in Socialist China

Schmalzer Sigrid

ISBN: HB: 9780226330150, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 30 halftones

In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term "green revolution" to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world – and forestall the spread of more "red", or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where mode...

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Military

Rebooting Clausewitz "On War" in the Twenty-First Century

Coker Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781849047142, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Rebooting Clausewitz" offers an entirely new take on the work of history's greatest theorist of war. Written for an undergraduate readership that often struggles with Clausewitz's master work On War – a book that is often cons...

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Islam

Current Affairs

Republic of Islamophobia The Rise of Respectable Racism in France

Wolfreys Jim

ISBN: PB: 9781849046886, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Islamophobia in France is on the increase. Muslims are being subjected to unprecedented scrutiny of what they wear, eat and say. Racist acts and rhetoric are increasingly common. Leading public figures, meanwhile, continue to c...

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Africa

Revolution and Authoritarianism in North Africa

Volpi Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9781849046961, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book offers a much-needed corrective to dominant approaches to understanding political causality during episodes of intense social mobilisation in North Africa. Drawing on analyses of routine governance and of "revolution...

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Asia

Rivers Divided Indus Basin Waters in the Making of India and Pakistan

Haines Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9781849047166, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Indus Waters Treaty is considered a key example of India-Pakistan cooperation, but less has been said about its critical influence on state-making in both countries. "Rivers Divided" reveals the importance of the Indus Basi...

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Media Studies

Asia

Reporting the Retreat War Correspondents in Burma, 1942

Woods Philip

ISBN: HB: 9781849047173, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The British defeat in Burma at the hands of the Japanese in 1942 precipitated the longest retreat in British military history and the onset of its most drawn-out campaign of World War II. It also marked the beginning of the end...

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Military

Reconographers Intelligence and Reconnaissance in British Tank Operations on the Western Front 1916-18

Hardy Colin

ISBN: HB: 9781911096344, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
144 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 34 photos, 9 maps, 10 pencil sketches, 3 diags

This is the first book devoted to the subject of reconnaissance in the nascent Tank Corps in the Great War. It is a neglected field in spite of passing references to reconnaissance in a number of early books on the history of the Tank Corps. This is...

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Military

Rout of the German Forces in Belorussia Operation Bagration, 23 June - 29 August 1944

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781911096597, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2016
416 pp., 24.4x17 cm, 4 maps

"The Rout of the German-Fascist Troops in Belorussia in 1944" covers the Red Army's Belorussian strategic operation: the linchpin of the 10 major Soviet offensive efforts launched that year to clear the country of the invader. During the course of th...

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Europe

Travel

River Effra South London's Secret Spine

Newman Jon

ISBN: PB: 9781909930421, Signal Books, November 2016
146 pp., 21.9x16.5 cm, 8 colour illus.

For sale in CIS only! London was once a city awash with watercourses. Most of these streams and small rivers have long since disappeared underground and their void has been filled by myth, legend and an enduring yet uncertain fascination. The River...

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