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Battle of the Selle Fourth Army Operations on the Western Front in the Hundred Days, 9-24 October 1918

Hodgkinson Peter

ISBN: HB: 9781911512639, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2017
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white photos, 13 maps

This book considers a relatively unknown series of actions of the victorious Hundred Days of 1918: the operations at the River Selle. Between 9-24 October, the British Fourth Army drove elements of two German armies back from the Hindenburg support l...

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America

Military

Blue & Gray Almanac The Civil War in Facts and Figures, Recipes and Slang

Nofi Albert

ISBN: HB: 9781612005522, Casemate, November 2017
304 pp., 21x15 cm

Albert Nofi tells the story of the American War through a range of insightful essays, anecdotes, and facts. Did you know... - During the final days of the war some Richmond citizens were wont to throw "Starvation Parties", at which elegantly attired...

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Europe

Battle of Agincourt

Curry Anne, Mercer Malcolm

ISBN: PB: 9780300228779, Yale University Press, October 2017
344 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 120 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.

Published in partnership with the Royal Armouries, this comprehensive, sumptuously illustrated volume provides a defining reassessment of England's legendary victory on the fields of Agincourt on October 25, 1415. Dramatized by William Shakespeare in...

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World

Business & Economics

Bourgeois Equality How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226527932, ISBN: HB: 9780226333991, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
768 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables

There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The...

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Anthropology

Africa

Bottleneck Moving, Building, and Belonging in an African City

Melly Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780226488905, ISBN: HB: 9780226488875, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

In "Bottleneck", anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal – a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a succ...

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Middle East

Islam

Black Banners of Isis The Roots of the New Caliphate

Wasserstein David J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300228359, Yale University Press, September 2017
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

With tremendous speed, the Islamic State has moved from the margins to the center of life in the Middle East. Despite recent setbacks, its ability to conquer and retain huge swaths of territory has demonstrated its skillful tactical maneuvering, ambi...

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Europe

Bodleian Library Treasures

Vaisey David

ISBN: PB: 9781851244089, ISBN: HB: 9781851244775, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2017
240 pp., 27x27 cm, 180 colour illus.

Since its foundation in 1602, the Bodleian Library has acquired manuscripts, printed books, maps, music and ephemera in all languages, from all ages and from all corners of the globe. From this huge collection David Vaisey, former Bodley's Librarian...

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Aviation

Military

Brazilians at War Brazilian Aviation in the Second World War

Rivas Santiago

ISBN: PB: 9781911512585, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 270 black&white photos, 35 colour photos, 6 maps, 10 tables

When the Second World War erupted, Latin America – despite being initially neutral – became part of it. Brazil, with its large provision of goods to the Allied Powers, was soon a victim of the Axis submarines – leading to the urgent development of an...

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America

Military

Battle above the Clouds Lifting the Siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Lookout Mountain, October 16 - November 24, 1863

Powell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213775, Casemate, Savas Beatie, August 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images and maps

In October 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland was besieged in Chattanooga, all but surrounded by familiar opponents: The Confederate Army of Tennessee. The Federals were surviving by the narrowest of margins, thanks only to a trickle of supplies...

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Military

Bullets, Bombs and Poison Gas Supplying the Troops on the Western Front 1914-1918 (Documentary Sources)

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512080, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 39 tables, 32 colour illus.

Soldiers in the trenches were issued with four bullets a day unless they were either snipers or manned a machine gun. This does not seem like a lot of bullets. However, four bullets a day is 28 per week. Therefore a million soldiers need 28 million b...

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