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Middle East

Towards a Westphalia for the Middle East

Milton Patrick, Axworthy Michael, Simms Brendan

ISBN: HB: 9781787380233, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! It was the original forever war, which went on interminably, fuelled by religious fanaticism, personal ambition, fear of hegemony, and communal suspicion. It dragged in all the neighbouring powers. It was punctuated by repeated...

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Military

Polonica

Tank Battles in East Prussia and Poland 1944-1945 Vilkavishkis, Gumbinnen/Nemmersdorf, Elbing, Wormditt/Frauenburg, Kielce/Lisow

Nebolsin Igor

ISBN: HB: 9781912174065, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
504 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 400 photos and maps

This new study by Igor Nebolsin covers, in remarkable detail, a number of forgotten and overlooked armoured engagements on the Eastern Front during the final year of the war, based firmly on Soviet and German archival records. After defeating Germa...

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America

This Land Is Your Land The Story of Field Biology in America

Lannoo Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226580890, ISBN: HB: 9780226358475, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones, 9 line drawings, 1 table

Field biology is enjoying a resurgence due to several factors, the most important being the realization that there is no ecology, no conservation, and no ecosystem restoration without an understanding of the basic relationships between species and th...

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America

Turncoat Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty

Brumwell Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300210996, Yale University Press, May 2018
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 2 maps

General Benedict Arnold's failed attempt to betray the fortress of West Point to the British in 1780 stands as one of the most infamous episodes in American history. In the light of a shining record of bravery and unquestioned commitment to the Revol...

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Europe

Trading in War London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson

Lincoln Margarette

ISBN: HB: 9780300227482, Yale University Press, April 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 colour illus.

In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britain's military campaigns in North America and Napoleonic Europe. The unruly riverside parishes east of the Towe...

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Earth Sciences

America

Taken by Storm, 1938 A Social and Meteorological History of the Great New England Hurricane

Aviles Lourdes B.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970246, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
384 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 3 maps, 30 halftones

On September 21, 1938, one of the most powerful storms of the twentieth century came unannounced into the lives of New Yorkers and New Englanders, leaving utter devastation in its wake. The Great Hurricane, as it came to be known, changed everything,...

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America

Tanana Chiefs Native Rights and Western Law

Schneider William

ISBN: PB: 9781602233447, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2018
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 halftones

At the turn of the twentieth century, life was changing drastically in Alaska. The gold rush brought an onslaught of white settlers to the area, railroad companies were pushing into the territory, and telegraph lines opened up new lines of communicat...

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Asia

Terracotta Army Legacy of the First Emperor of China

Jian Li, Sung Hou-Mei, Weixing Zhang, Neer William

ISBN: HB: 9780300230567, Yale University Press, February 2018
120 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 137 colour illus.

First discovered by a farmer in 1974, the burial site of China's first emperor, Ying Zheng, has yielded thousands of life-size terracotta figures and artifacts, and continues to be excavated today. This fascinating publication features more than 130...

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Europe

Townshend Moment The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century

Griffin Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780300218978, Yale University Press, February 2018
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Patrick Griffin chronicles the attempts of brothers Charles and George Townshend to control the forces of history in the heady days after Britain's mythic victory over France in the mid-eighteenth century, and the historic and unintended consequences...

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Military

That Field of Blood The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862

Vermilya Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781611213751, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images and maps

September 17, 1862 – one of the most consequential days in the history of the United States – was a moment in time when the future of the country could have veered in two starkly different directions. Confederates under General Robert E. Lee had em...

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