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Aviation

Lockheed P-38 Lightning in Italian Service 1943-1955

Mattioli Marco

ISBN: PB: 9788875650100, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2004
136 pp., 24x17 cm, 29 colour illus., 50 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

A monography for modellers and for all those interested in the history of Lockheed P-38! One of the most famous fighters of the Second World War, used by many air forces in the world. Fighters that helped the Italian Air Force to rise up from the ash...

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Sign Language

Europe

Crying Hands Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany

Biesold Horst

ISBN: PB: 9781563682551, Gallaudet University Press, March 2004
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Horst Biesold's 'Crying Hands' treats a neglected aspect of the Holocaust: the fate of the deaf in Nazi Germany. His book covers a story that has remained almost unknown. In the United States, even in Germany, few are aware that during the Nazi era...

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Military

Political Science

In the Shadow of Just Wars Violence, Politics and Humanitarian Action

Weissman Fabrice

ISBN: PB: 9781850657378, ISBN: HB: 9781850657361, Hurst Publishers, March 2004
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! While military intervention in Iraq was being planned, humanitarian organizations were offered US government funds to join the Coalition and operate under the umbrella of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'. In Kosavo, Timor, Sierra Leon...

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Military

Parachutes, Patriots, Partisans The Special Operations Executive and Yugoslavia, 1941-1945

Williams Heather

ISBN: HB: 9781850655923, Hurst Publishers, January 2004
300 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The story of the political and military activities of SOE, especially its relationship with British policy-makers, the Foreign Office and the military high command. It also analyzes SOE's relationship with the Yugoslav guerrill...

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Europe

Justice in the Balkans Prosecuting War Crimes in the Hague Tribunal

Hagan John

ISBN: HB: 9780226312286, University of Chicago Press, November 2003
304 pp., 23.6x16.2 cm, 7 illus.

Called a fig leaf for inaction by many at its inception, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has surprised its critics by growing from an unfunded U. N. Security Council resolution to an institution with more than 1,000 empl...

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Europe

Catastrophe and Meaning The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century

Postone Moishe, Santner Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226676111, ISBN: HB: 9780226676104, University of Chicago Press, November 2003
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

How should we understand the relation of the Holocaust to the broader historical processes of the century just ended? How do we explain the bearing of the Holocaust on problems of representation, memory, memorialization, and historical practice? Thes...

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Polonica

Europe

Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922

Pacyga Dominic A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226644240, University of Chicago Press, November 2003
322 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

How did working-class immigrants from Poland create new communities in Chicago during the industrial age? This book explores the lives of immigrants in two iconic South Side Polish neighborhoods – the Back of the Yards and South Chicago – and the sto...

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Europe

Polonica

Women and the Nazi East Agents and Witnesses of Germanization

Harvey Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300100402, Yale University Press, September 2003
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 maps, 37 illus.

This book examines the role of women in Nazi Germany's "nationality struggle" during the 1930s and in measures to Germanize occupied Poland during World War II. Drawing on previously untapped material from Polish and German archives, as well as memoi...

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Middle East

Paradoxical Kingdom Saudi Arabia and the Momentum of Reform

Champion Daryl

ISBN: PB: 9781850656685, ISBN: HB: 9781850656470, Hurst Publishers, August 2003
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Saudi Arabia remains a closed society with its own interpretation of Islamic Law, an insistence on royal privilege and an uneven record on human rights. This study examines the paradoxes and considers the pressure for reform.

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America

Deaf President Now! The 1988 Revolution at Gallaudet University

Christiansen John B., Barnartt Sharon N.

ISBN: PB: 9781563681523, Gallaudet University Press, July 2003
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Deaf President Now!" reveals the groundswell leading up to the history-making week in 1988 when the students at Gallaudet University seized the campus and closed it down until their demands were met. To research this probing study, the authors inter...

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