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War by Land, Sea, and Air Dwight Eisenhower and the Concept of Unified Command

Jablonsky David

ISBN: PB: 9780300171358, Yale University Press, June 2011
400 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm

Examining Eisenhower's career from his West Point years to the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act, David Jablonsky explores Eisenhower's efforts to implement a unified command in the U. S. military – a concept that eventually led to the c...

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Military

After Stalingrad The Red Army's Winter Offensive 1942-1943

Glantz David M.

ISBN: PB: 9781907677052, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2011
536 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 photos, 117 maps, 6 tables

In the wake of the Red Army's signal victory at Stalingrad, the Soviet High Command expanded its counteroffensive into a full-fledged winter offensive which nearly collapsed German defences in southern Russia. History has recorded the many dramatic t...

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Russian

Russian World War 2 Dictionary A Russian-English Glossary of Special Terms, Expressions, and Soldiers' Slang

Kobylyanskiy Isaak, Britton Stuart

ISBN: PB: 9781907677335, ISBN: HB: 9781909384064, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2011
48 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people against Nazi Germany, known as the Eastern Front of World War II, continues to attract a number of military historians from different countries around the world. The frontline veterans' reminiscences occup...

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Military

Resisting Genocide The Multiple Forms of Rescue

Semelin Jacques, Andrieu Claire, Gensburger Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9781849040594, Hurst Publishers, June 2011
456 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Every genocide in history has been notable for the minority of brave individuals and groups who put their own lives at risk to rescue its would be victims. Based on three case studies – the genocides of the Armenians, the Jews...

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Military

Music

Windfall of Musicians Hitler's Emigres and Exiles in Southern California

Crawford Dorothy Lamb

ISBN: PB: 9780300171235, Yale University Press, May 2011
336 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 27 black&white illus.

This book is the first to examine the brilliant gathering of composers, conductors, and other musicians who fled Nazi Germany and arrived in the Los Angeles area. Musicologist Dorothy Lamb Crawford looks closely at the lives, creative work, and influ...

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Military

Making War in Cote d'Ivoire

McGovern Mike

ISBN: PB: 9781850658160, Hurst Publishers, May 2011
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The conflict in Cote d'Ivoire has the characteristics of Shakespearean drama – the key figures are larger than life, each with a fatal flaw, and the self-destructive path each is following is clearly visible to all but themselv...

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Military

Middle East

Afghanistan How the West Lost Its Way

Bird Tim, Marshall Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780300154573, Yale University Press, April 2011
304 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm, 30 black&white illus.

In October 2001, NATO forces invaded Afghanistan. Their initial aim, to topple the Taliban regime and replace it with a more democratic government aligned to Western interests, was swiftly achieved. However, stabilizing the country in the ensuing yea...

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Military

Asia

Dead Reckoning Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War

Bose Sarmila

ISBN: PB: 9781849040495, ISBN: HB: 9781849040488, Hurst Publishers, April 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This ground-breaking book chronicles the 1971 war in South Asia by reconstituting the memories of those on opposing sides of the conflict. 1971 was marked by a bitter civil war within Pakistan and war between India and Pakista...

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Military

Amazons of Black Sparta The Women Warriors of Dahomey

Alpern Stanley B.

ISBN: PB: 9781849041089, Hurst Publishers, April 2011
304 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African kingdom. Once dubbed a "small black Sparta", residents of Dahomey shared with the...

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Military

World

Legacy of the Second World War

Lukacs John

ISBN: PB: 9780300171389, Yale University Press, March 2011
208 pp., 20.8x13.7 cm

Sixty-five years after the conclusion of World War II, its consequences are still with us. In this probing book, the acclaimed historian John Lukacs raises perplexing questions about World War II that have yet to be explored. In a work that brilliant...

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