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Polonica

Fragmented Lives Chronicles of the Gulag

Rossi Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9788024637006, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In "Fragmented Lives", Gulag survivor Jacques Rossi opens a window onto everyday life inside the notorious Soviet prison camp through a series of portraits of inmates and camp personnel ac...

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Business & Economics

America

Forgotten Americans An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation

Sawhill Isabel

ISBN: HB: 9780300230369, Yale University Press, January 2019
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white graphs

One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society – economic, cultural, and political – and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of...

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Military

First World War in the Middle East

Coates Ulrichsen Kristian

ISBN: PB: 9781787380295, Hurst Publishers, January 2019
280 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The First World War in the Middle East" is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus. Coates Ulrichsen demonst...

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America

Military

Fighting for General Lee Confederate General Rufus Barringer and the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade

Barringer Sheridan

ISBN: PB: 9781611213850, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 21 images, 10 maps

Rufus Barringer fought on horseback during the Civil War with General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and rose to lead the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade in some of the war's most difficult combats. Now in paperback, Fighting for General Lee: Confed...

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Middle East

Freedom and Despair Notes from the South Hebron Hills

Shulman David

ISBN: PB: 9780226566658, ISBN: HB: 9780226566511, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Lately, it seems as if we wake up to a new atrocity each day. Every morning is now a ritual of scrolling through our Twitter feeds or scanning our newspapers for the latest updates on fresh horrors around the globe. Despite the countless protests we...

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Aviation

Forgotten Heroes Aces of the Royal Hungarian Air Force in the Second World War

Stenge Csaba B.

ISBN: HB: 9781911512684, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
464 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 400 black&white and colour photos, 40 tables

Prior to the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces – including the Air Force – prepared to engage the Little Entente forces; however, after a short skirmish prior to the war with the Slovaks, during the war, their oppone...

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Military

For Queen and Company Vignettes of the Irish Soldier in the Indian Mutiny

Truesdale David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512790, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
112 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 60 illus.

This book records the actions of those Irish soldiers (and others) who were awarded the Victoria Cross in the event known to the British public in 1857 as "The Indian Mutiny". Since then, revisionist historians have applied other names to what occurr...

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Europe

French and Germans, Germans and French A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944

Cobb Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781512603378, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2018
222 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The noted historian Richard Cobb presents an engaging synthesis of research, combined with highly original observations and analyses of the war years in France. The reader is given access to a unique private chronicle of the relations between occupan...

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Africa

First Raise a Flag How South Sudan Won the Longest War but Lost the Peace

Martell Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781849049597, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africa's longest war, the continent's biggest country spli...

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Military

Europe

First Bridge Too Far The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943

Saliger Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781612006895, Casemate, July 2018
256 pp., 22.9x15 cm

The full story of the British airborne forces attempt to take the strategically important Primosole Bridge, published for the 75th anniversary of the battle Shows how this battle was a precursor to the Battle of Arnhem – and the lessons that were and...

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