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Stalin and the Lubianka A Documentary History of the Political Police and Security Organs in the Soviet Union, 1922-1953

Shearer David R., Khaustov Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9780300171891, Yale University Press, February 2015
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization and fortunes of the politica...

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Pagan Britain

Hutton Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9780300205466, Yale University Press, February 2015
496 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 103 black&white illus.

Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscriptions, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century. In this ambitious and thoroughl...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Washingtons: A Family History Volume One: Seven Generations of the Presidential Branch

Glenn Justin

ISBN: HB: 9781611212853, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2015
692 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, illus.

This ground-breaking series is a comprehensive history that traces the "Presidential line" of the Washingtons. Volume one begins with the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and was the great-gr...

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Military

Operation Dynamo The Evacuation from Dunkirk, May-June 1940

Benbow Tim

ISBN: HB: 9781910294598, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2015
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 3 tables, 4 colour maps

Few episodes in warfare are as famous as the evacuation of the British expeditionary force and many French troops from Dunkirk. It was a very British success, pulling something of a victory from the jaws of defeat – a triumph in the face of catastrop...

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Military

Last Blood on Pomerania Leon Degrelle and the Walloon Waffen SS Volunteers, February-May 1945

Borowski Tomasz

ISBN: PB: 9781910294482, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2015
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 140 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., maps

The 28th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "Wallonien", which mostly consisted of French-speaking citizens of the Kingdom of Belgium – first as part of the Wehrmacht, and later in the ranks of the Waffen SS – fought as one of the national legions again...

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Pyramids and Poppies The 1st South African Infantry Brigade in Libya, France and Flanders 1915-1919

Digby Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781910294628, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2015
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus., maps

This re-issue of Pyramids and Poppies coincides with the hundredth anniversary of the formation of the First SA Brigade, in August 1915. No book has been written that covers the whole spectrum of the 1st SA Brigade in the First World War. Pyramids an...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Varyag

Draminski Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9788361220640, Casemate, Kagero, February 2015
58 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 3D colour artwork, close-up views, photos, scale line

Not for sale in Poland! In-depth look the Imperial Russian cruiser Varyag, famed for her crew's heroic defiance during the Russo-Japanese War, including design and construction notes, technical characteristics, data tables, machinery, propulsion, a...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Serbian Army in the Wars for Independence Against Turkey, 1876-1878

Babac Dusan

ISBN: HB: 9781909982246, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2015
280 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

The Wars for Independence, also called the First and the Second Serbo-Turkish Wars 1876-1878, were the first military conflicts in the modern history of the Serbian state, after which the Principality of Serbia gained full independence at the Berlin...

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Medieval

Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

Cohen Thomas V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226269719, ISBN: HB: 9780226112589, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
316 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 map

Gratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in which Italian magistrates meted out justice to the vicious and the villainous, the scabro...

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America

Freedom as Marronage

Roberts Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226201047, ISBN: HB: 9780226127460, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

What is the opposite of freedom? In "Freedom as Marronage", Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood between these poles. Cruci...

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