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Britain and Europe A Short History

Black Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9781787381186, Hurst Publishers, February 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, both sides are appealing to Britain's past relationship with Europe to justify their positions. But much specious history is presented to argue for either the closeness or distance of our politic...

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Military

Europe

Berlin Operation 1945 Soviet General Staff

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: PB: 9781912390496, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2018
420 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 4 maps

Berlin Operation, 1945, tells the story of the Red Army's penultimate offensive operation in the war in Europe. Here the forces of three fronts (Second and First Belorussian and First Ukrainian) forced the Oder River and surrounded the defenders of t...

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America

Bulls Markets Chicago's Basketball Business and the New Inequality

Dinces Sean

ISBN: HB: 9780226583211, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones, 25 tables

The 1990s were a glorious time for the Chicago Bulls, an age of historic championships and all-time basketball greats like Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan. It seemed only fitting that city, county, and state officials would assist the team owners i...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Benjamin Franklin The Religious Life of a Founding Father

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240177, ISBN: HB: 9780300217490, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin's faith. Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson....

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Military

Battleships The War at Sea

Bauernfeind Ingo

ISBN: PB: 9781612006178, Casemate, October 2018
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Battleships conjure a golden age of naval history, when these floating powerhouses ruled the waves, carrying the military might of their respective countries around the globe. The battleship was the ultimate embodiment of naval power during the lat...

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Battle of Kursk The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counter-Offensive, July-August 1943

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: PB: 9781912390502, ISBN: HB: 9781910777671, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
390 pp., 24.6x16.8 cm, 6 maps

"The Battle of Kursk: The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counter- Offensive, July-August 1943", offers a peculiarly Soviet view of one of the Second World War's most critical events. While the Germans defeat s at Moscow and Stalingrad showed tha...

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Military

Europe

Battle of Moscow 1941-42 The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counter-Offensive along the Moscow Strategic Direction

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: PB: 9781912390458, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
476 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 12 maps

Written by the Soviet General Staff in 1943 Reveals the strategy and tactics that went into the Soviet defence of Moscow Edited and translated by one of the world's experts on the Soviet contribution to World War II "The Battle of Moscow, 1941-1942:...

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Battle of Cherkassy

von Vormann Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9781612006031, Casemate, September 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 maps

In 1943 the tide began to turn against Germany on the Eastern Front. Their summer offensive, Operation Citadel, was a failure, and the Red Army seized the initiative, despite appallingly high losses. Waging a war of attrition, the Russians gradually...

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America

Bankers and Empire How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

Hudson Peter James

ISBN: PB: 9780226598116, ISBN: HB: 9780226459110, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table

From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. The precursors to institutions like Citibank and J...

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America

Building a Revolutionary State The Legal Transformation of New York, 1776-1783

Pashman Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780226544014, ISBN: HB: 9780226334356, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

How does a popular uprising transform itself from the disorder of revolution into a legal system that carries out the daily administration required to govern? Americans faced this question during the Revolution as colonial legal structures collapsed...

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