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America

Domestic Subjects Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature

Piatote Beth H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227079, Yale University Press, August 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

Amid the decline of U.S. military campaigns against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, assimilation policy arose as the new front in the Indian Wars, with its weapons the deployment of culture and law, and its locus the American Indian...

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Europe

Jewish Studies

Deadly Legacy German Jews and the Great War

Grady Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780300192049, Yale University Press, August 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany's endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim Grady examines the efforts of the 100,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the German military...

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Military

Discovering Gettysburg An Unconventional Introduction to the Greatest Little Town in America and the Monumental Battle that Made It Famous

Coleman Stephen W.

ISBN: HB: 9781611213539, Casemate, Savas Beatie, August 2017
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 180 caricatures, 200 photos, 9 maps

Gettysburg. Does any other single word in any language invoke so much passion and angst, enthusiasm and sadness, as do those ten letters? But what IS Gettysburg, exactly? I am almost embarrassed to say I discovered the answer to that question – or at...

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Military

D-Day, What We Haven't Told You The Secrets of D-Day

Bauduin Philippe

ISBN: PB: 9782840484806, Casemate, Heimdal, June 2017
128 pp., 29.7x21 cm

The Normandy Landings of 6 June 1944 were a major and decisive episode of the Second World War and have been, for more than sixty years, the object of countless books, films, investigations, reports and television series. However, is it known that D-...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Dubno 1941 The Greatest Tank Battle of the Second World War

Isaev Aleksei

ISBN: HB: 9781910777749, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2017
256 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 9 colour illus., 134 black&white photos, 15 maps

In June 1941 – during the first week of the Nazi invasion in the Soviet Union – the quiet cornfields and towns of Western Ukraine were awakened by the clanking of steel and thunder of explosions; this was the greatest tank battle of the Second World...

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Polonica

Divided Loyalty Britain's Polish Ally During World War II

Rogalski Wieslaw

ISBN: PB: 9781911096641, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus., 3 maps

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Poland was a quasi-military State undergoing rapid political and social change. Nevertheless, Britain signed an agreement with the country as part of its decision to adopt a policy of encircling Germany: a res...

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Duty Nobly Done The South Wales Borderers at Gallipoli 1915

Ashwood Rodney

ISBN: HB: 9781911512172, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
364 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 maps, 2 colour illus., 41 black&white illus.

While the main emphasis of the Great War was on the Western Front of France and Belgium, the British Army also took part in what was a lesser known conflict, but one of equal intensity and drama. This was at Gallipoli, on the shores of Turkey, betwee...

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Military

Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict Ethical, Legal, and Strategic Implications

Cortright David, Fairhurst Rachel, Wall Kristen

ISBN: PB: 9780226478364, ISBN: HB: 9780226258058, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 tables

During the past decade, armed drones have entered the American military arsenal as a core tactic for countering terrorism. When coupled with access to reliable information, they make it possible to deploy lethal force accurately across borders while...

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Dark Path to Freedom Rusi Nazar, from the Red Army to the CIA

Altayli Enver

ISBN: HB: 9781849046978, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Born in Margilan, Central Asia on the eve of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Rusi Nazar had one of the most exciting lives of the twentieth century. Charming, intellectually brilliant and passionately committed to the liberatio...

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Demolition Means Progress Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis

Highsmith Andrew R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226419558, ISBN: HB: 9780226050058, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
398 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 17 maps, 3 tables

In 1997, after General Motors shuttered a massive complex of factories in the gritty industrial city of Flint, Michigan, workers placed signs around the empty facility reading, "Demolition Means Progress", suggesting that the struggling city could no...

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