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Medieval

Battle of Val Es Dunes Summer 1047, when the "Batard" became the Duke

Hauguel Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9782815102995, Casemate, OREP, July 2016
48 pp., 24x17 cm

Duke William of Normandy (1027-1087) is best known for his conquest of England but his eventful and chaotic youth is often forgotten. William inherited the Dukedom at the age of eight when his father, Robert the Magnificent, died in 1035 on his retur...

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Political Science

Military

Blinking Red Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11

Allen Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781612348230, ISBN: HB: 9781612346151, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
280 pp., 23x15 cm

After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies into a singular enterprise to vanquish America's new enemies – stateless intern...

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Aviation

Black Hawks Rising The Story of AMISOM's Successful War against Somali Insurgents, 2007-2014

Oloya Opiyo

ISBN: HB: 9781910777695, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2016
286 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Black Hawks Rising – the title of this book – acknowledges the formation and deployment of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) in March 2007. Initially confined to peacekeeping within the Mogadishu enclave, it transformed into a peace-makin...

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Political Science

Military

Bosnia's Paralysed Peace

Bennett Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781849040549, ISBN: HB: 9781849040532, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Two decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement came into force, Bosnia is not at war. However, the absence of war is not peace. Bosnia has failed to move on from conflict. Political processes are deadlocked. The country is in a s...

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World

British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society A History, 1838-1956

Heartfield James

ISBN: HB: 9781849046336, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! After West Indian slavery was abolished in 1833, the anti-slavery campaign turned to the wider world and the goal of Universal Emancipation. Veteran agitators Joseph Sturge, Lord Brougham and John Scoble launched the British an...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Military

British Soldier Collection 1914-1918

Brown Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9782815102858, Casemate, OREP, April 2016
32 pp., 24x17 cm

Almost a century has passed since the signing of the armistice on 11 November 1918. Of all the soldiers who went through that hell on earth, photographs, letters, stories and old uniforms kept in attics are all that is left. Thanks to a collection of...

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America

Blood Runs Green The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago

O'Brien Gillian

ISBN: PB: 9780226379999, ISBN: HB: 9780226248950, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and...

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Islam

Military

Blood Year Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror

Kilcullen David

ISBN: PB: 9781849045551, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
124 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Blood Year" is an unsparingly honest, self-critical analysis of the collapse of western counterterrorism strategy, by one of its original architects. As a soldier, counterterrorism official, and Chief Strategist in the US Stat...

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Africa

Burundi The Biography of a Small African Country

Watt Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9781849045094, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Little known in the English-speaking world, Burundi is Rwanda's twin, a small Central African country with a complex history of ethnic tension between its Hutu and Tutsi populations that has itself experienced traumatic events,...

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Military

Polonica

Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 1: The German Advance, The Encirclement Battle And The First And Second Soviet Counteroffensives, 10 July-24 August 1941

Glantz David M.

ISBN: PB: 9781911096092, ISBN: HB: 9781906033729, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2016
656 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white photos, 107 maps

At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorised infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany's Third Reich, and most German of...

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