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Africa

Revolution Undone Egypt's Road Beyond Revolt

Hellyer H. A.

ISBN: HB: 9781849046848, Hurst Publishers, October 2016
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Amid the turbulence of the Arab Spring, the revolutionary uprising that played out in Cairo's Tahrir Square created high expectations before dashing many of its participants' hopes. The unpredictable events and rapid upheaval t...

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Europe

Real Lives of Roman Britain

Bedoyere Guy de la

ISBN: PB: 9780300223491, Yale University Press, September 2016
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 41 black&white illus.

<p>The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little disputed, and the archaeological remains of villas, forts, walls, and cities explain a great deal, we lack a clear s...

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Europe

Rise of Thomas Cromwell Power and Politics in the Reign of Henry VIII, 1485-1534

Everett Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300223514, ISBN: HB: 9780300207422, Yale University Press, September 2016
376 pp., 22.9x14.4 cm, 16 black&white illus.

How much does the Thomas Cromwell of popular novels and television series resemble the real Cromwell? This meticulous study of Cromwell's early political career expands and revises what has been understood concerning the life and talents of Henry VII...

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Military

Recce Small Team Missions Behind Enemy Lines

Stadler Koos

ISBN: HB: 9781612004044, Casemate, September 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 illus.

South African Special Forces, known as the "Recces", are an elite group of soldiers that few can aspire to join. Shrouded in secrecy due to the covert nature of their work, the legendary Recces have long fascinated, but little is known about how they...

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Biography & Memoires

Aviation

Ruddy Awful Waste Eric Lock DSO, DFC & Bar: The Brief Life of a Battle of Britain Ace

Brew Steve, Bradbury Mike

ISBN: HB: 9780993415234, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, August 2016
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 illus.

In early 1939, 19-year-old Salopian Eric Lock joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve to fulfil his dream of flying. Within eighteen months, he found himself pitted against one of the largest air forces in the world, fighting for the survival of his homelan...

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Asia

Rural Modern Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China

Merkel-Hess Kate

ISBN: HB: 9780226383279, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Discussions of China's early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there. As a result, the communist peasant revolution appears as a decisive historical...

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America

Revolutions Without Borders The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World

Polasky Janet

ISBN: PB: 9780300219845, ISBN: HB: 9780300208948, Yale University Press, July 2016
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804. National borders were powerless to restrict the flow of enticing new visions of human rights...

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Europe

Russia's Path Toward Enlightenment Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500-1801

Hamburg Gary M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300113136, Yale University Press, July 2016
864 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This book, focusing on the history of religious and political thinking in early modern Russia, demonstrates that Russia's path toward enlightenment began long before Peter the Great's opening to the West. Examining a broad range of writings, G. M. Ha...

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Middle East

Rock Between Hard Places Afghanistan as an Arena of Regional Insecurity

Harpviken Berg Kristian, Tadjbakhsh Shahrbanou

ISBN: PB: 9781849045698, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! What has driven neighbouring states to intervene in the Afghan conflict? This book challenges mainstream analyses which place Afghanistan at the centre – the so-called "heart" – of a large pan-Asian region whose fate is predica...

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World

Romans and Their World A Short Introduction

Campbell Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780300220261, Yale University Press, May 2016
304 pp., 22.6x14.6 cm, 42 black&white illus., 10 maps, 5 plans

This one-volume history of the Roman world begins with the early years of the republic and carries the story nearly a thousand years forward to 476, when Romulus Augustus, the last Western Roman emperor, was deposed. Brian Campbell, respected scholar...

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