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Beheading the Saint Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec

Zubrzycki Genevieve

ISBN: PB: 9780226391687, ISBN: HB: 9780226391540, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 54 halftones, 1 line drawing

Through much of its existence, Quebec's neighbors called it the "priest-ridden province". Today, however, Quebec society is staunchly secular, with a modern welfare state built on lay provision of social services – a transformation rooted in the "Qui...

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Islam

Boko Haram Nigeria's Islamist Insurgency

Comolli Virginia

ISBN: PB: 9781849046619, ISBN: HB: 9781849044912, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Northern and central Nigeria have been engulfed in a violent insurgency campaign waged by Jama'atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda'awati w'al Jihad, a.k.a. "Boko Haram", and for a time, its splinter group "Ansaru". From its inception an inw...

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Criminology

America

Bad Moon Rising How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution

Eckstein Arthur M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300221183, Yale University Press, February 2017
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A startling history of the forlorn war between the Weather Underground and the FBI, based on interviews and 30,000 pages of previously unreleased FBI documents In the summer of 1970 and for years after, photos of Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jon...

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Europe

Britain's Civilian Armies in World War II The Fight on the Home Front

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781911096313, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
232 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus., 20 tables

Whilst the men and women of national service age were called to arms in the various Services, a parallel process was being undertaken involving the civilian population. This initiative relied in the main on volunteers accepting challenges and committ...

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Military

Budapest Operation (29 October 1944 - 13 February 1945) An Operational-Strategic Study

Harrison Richard W.

ISBN: HB: 9781911512424, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
336 pp., 24.4x17 cm, 2 maps

"The Budapest Operation (29 October 1944-13 February 1945): An Operational-Strategic Study" examines in detail the Red Army's operations on the approaches to Budapest and the city's ultimate capture following a long siege. The first part of the stu...

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Military

Blood in the Forest The End of the Second World War in the Courland Pocket

Hunt Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9781911512066, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 maps, 19 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

"Blood in the Forest" tells the brutal story of the forgotten battles of the final months of the Second World War. While the eyes of the world were on Hitler's bunker, more than half a million men fought six cataclysmic battles along a front line of...

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Africa

Battle for Angola The End of the Cold War in Africa c 1975-89

Venter Al J.

ISBN: HB: 9781911096412, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
496 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 200 black&white photos, 2 x 16 pp colour sections

Following the publication of Al Venter's successful Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa – shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium's "Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013" – his Battle for Angola delves still further into the troubled hi...

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Military

Britain's Quest for Oil The First World War and the Peace Conferences

Gibson Martin

ISBN: HB: 9781911512073, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 chart, 22 tables, 3 black&white illus.

The First World War showed the vital importance of oil. Use of oil fuelled aircraft, tanks, motor vehicles and especially warships increased greatly during the war. The war made it clear that major powers had to have secure oil supplies. Britain and...

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Europe

Blood and Faith ;

Carr Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781849048019, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
440 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1609, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory or else be killed. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families were forced to abandon the homes and villages where they had li...

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Military

Battles Before Case Studies of Australian Army Leadership after the Vietnam War

Connery David

ISBN: PB: 9781925520194, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
136 pp., 24.7x17.5 cm, 50 colour illus.

Much of Australia's military history literature focuses on battles and the way generals plan and prosecute an action or campaign. But what do generals do when they are not fighting battles? "The Battles Before" examines the role of senior leaders in...

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