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Military

Vanished Hero The Life, War, and Mysterious Disappearance of America's WWII Strafing King

Stout Jay A.

ISBN: HB: 9781612003955, Casemate, November 2016
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 illus.

A hell-bent-for-leather fighter pilot, Elwyn G. Righetti remains one of the most elusive, yet compelling, colorful and controversial commanders of World War II. Arriving late to the war, he led the England-based 55th Fighter Group against the Nazis d...

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Europe

Anthropology

Value of Labor The Science of Commodification in Hungary, 1920-1956

Lampland Martha

ISBN: PB: 9780226314600, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 5 tables

At the heart of today's fierce political anger over income inequality is a feature of capitalism that Karl Marx famously obsessed over: the commodification of labor. Most of us think wage-labor economics is at odds with socialist thinking, but as Mar...

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Europe

Violent Sensations Sex, Crime, and Utopia in Vienna and Berlin, 1860-1914

Spector Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226196787, ISBN: HB: 9780226196640, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones

Around the turn of the twentieth century, Vienna and Berlin were centers of scientific knowledge, accompanied by a sense of triumphalism and confidence in progress. Yet they were also sites of fascination with urban decay, often focused on sexual and...

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Military

Vivid Courage Victoria Crosses: Antecedent and Allied Regiments of the Staffordshire Regiment

Hope Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781911096375, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2016
232 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 75 black&white photos, 1 map, 1 regimental tree & 3 registers

In the history of the Victoria Cross, this is the first book exclusively written about the recipients of this prestigious award who were members of this famous regiment. This is the fifth book written by the author – and like his previous works, cont...

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Asia

Visions of Development Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75

Sutoris Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781849045711, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Visions of Development" examines the Indian state's postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975-77. Sutoris pioneers a novel methodology for the study of development thought and its...

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Ancient World

Variety The Life of a Roman Concept

Fitzgerald William

ISBN: HB: 9780226299495, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The idea of variety may seem too diffuse, obvious, or nebulous to be worth scrutinizing, but modern usage masks the rich history of the term. This book examines the meaning, value, and practice of variety from the vantage point of Latin literature an...

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Asia

Veiled and Unveiled in Chechnya and Daghestan

Kaliszewska Iwona, Falkowski Maciej

ISBN: HB: 9781849045575, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
192 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Offering an unflinching portrait of life in Daghestan and Chechnya, focusing on its girls and women, this book presents the north Caucasus today through the eyes of two Poles, an anthropologist and a writer, who travelled there...

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Europe

Vital Minimum Need, Science, and Politics in Modern France

Simmons Dana

ISBN: HB: 9780226251561, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 tables

What constitutes a need? Who gets to decide what people do or do not need? In modern France, scientists, both amateur and professional, were engaged in defining and measuring human needs. These scientists did not trust in a providential economy to di...

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Military

Victory Was Beyond Their Grasp With the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division from the Huertgen Forest to the Heart of the Reich

Nash Douglas

ISBN: HB: 9781612003054, Casemate, April 2015
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, photos throughout

As the Allies were approaching the German frontier at the beginning of September 1944, the German Armed Forces responded with a variety of initiatives designed to regain the strategic initiative. While the "Wonder Weapons" such as the V-1 flying bomb...

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Europe

Voice of the People Letters from the Soviet Village, 1918-1932

Sokolov A. K., Storella C. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300112337, Yale University Press, January 2013
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This book presents the first comprehensive collection in English of peasant writings during the early years of the Bolshevik regime. Drawn entirely from Russian archival sources, it presents more than 150 previously unpublished letters addressed to n...

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