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Kangzhan Guide to Chinese Ground Forces 1937-1945

Ness Leland, Shih Bin

ISBN: PB: 9781910294420, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
624 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 maps, 100 tables, 300 black&white illus.

"Kangzhan: Guide to Chinese Ground Forces 1937-1945" is the first ready reference to the organization and armament of Chinese ground forces during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945. The work integrates Chinese, Japanese and Western sources to examin...

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Military

Hitler's Last Levy in East Prussia Volkssturm Einsatz Batallion Goldap (25/235), 1944-45

Just Bruno

ISBN: PB: 9781909982727, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2015
72 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 black&white photos, 1 map

On 16 October, 1944, the 3rd White Russian Front launched its massive offensive against Heeresgruppe Mitte. The German 4th Armee, whose line of defense stretched from Nowograd on the Narew to Memel, was quickly broken through. This is the very pers...

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Military

You Can't Get Much Closer Than This Combat with the 80th "Blue Ridge" Division in World War II Europe

Adkins Andrew Z.

ISBN: PB: 9781612003108, Casemate, March 2015
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In 1943, Andrew Z. Adkins, Jr. joined the 80th Infantry Division, then undergoing its final training cycle in the California-Arizona desert. Upon reaching the division, 2nd Lieutenant Adkins was assigned as an 81 mm mortar section leader in Company H...

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Aviation

Legends of Aviation, No. 01 Fokker Dr. I - The Aces' Aircraft

Kowalski Tomasz J., Rys Marek

ISBN: HB: 9788364596292, Casemate, Kagero, March 2015
144 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 9 anaglyphs, 182 renders, 49 photos

Not for sale in Poland! The Fokker Dr. I was built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke in 1917 and saw service during World War I. Manfred Von Richthofen, better known as the the Red Baron, is perhaps the most widely recognised Fokker pilot, gaining his final...

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Ancient World

Persius A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural

Bartsch Shadi

ISBN: HB: 9780226241845, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Roman poet and satirist Persius (34-62 CE) was unique among his peers for lampooning literary and social conventions from a distinctly Stoic point of view. A curious amalgam of mocking wit and philosophy, his Satires are rife with violent metapho...

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America

Beyond Redemption Race, Violence, and the American South after the Civil War

Emberton Carole

ISBN: PB: 9780226269993, ISBN: HB: 9780226024271, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 halftones

In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone's lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worke...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Androids in the Enlightenment Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self

Voskuhl Adelheid

ISBN: PB: 9780226034164, ISBN: HB: 9780226034027, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 4 line illus.

The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the Ger...

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Medieval

Feast for the Eyes Art, Performance, and the Late Medieval Banquet

Normore Christina

ISBN: HB: 9780226242200, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 35 halftones

To read accounts of late medieval banquets is to enter a fantastic world where live lions guard nude statues, gilded stags burst into song, and musicians play from within pies. Such vivid works of art and performance required collaboration among arti...

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Education

America

Trying Biology The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools

Shapiro Adam R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226273440, ISBN: HB: 9780226029450, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

In "Trying Biology", Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes "monkey" trial. Most view it as an event driven primarily by a conflict between science and religion. Countering this, Shapiro shows the imp...

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Africa

Unpopular Sovereignty Rhodesian Independence and African Decolonization

White Luise

ISBN: PB: 9780226235196, ISBN: HB: 9780226235059, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia (after 1980 Zimbabwe) issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, rather than negotiate a transition to majority rule. In doing so, Rhodesia became the exception, if not anathema, to...

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