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Last Knight The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I

Terjanian Pierre

ISBN: HB: 9781588396747, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2019
304 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 266 colour illus.

Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) crafted a public persona and personal mythology that earned him the romantic sobriquet the "Last Knight" and that perpetuates his legend to this day. In his lifelong quest to establish himself as Europe's n...

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Military

Bletchley Park and D-Day

Kenyon David

ISBN: HB: 9780300243574, Yale University Press, May 2019
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus., 2 maps

Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis' codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelli...

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Military

Hannibal A Hellenistic Life

MacDonald Eve

ISBN: PB: 9780300240306, ISBN: HB: 9780300152043, Yale University Press, August 2018
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Hannibal lived a life of incredible feats of daring and survival, massive military engagements, and ultimate defeat. A citizen of Carthage and military commander in Punic Spain, he famously marched his war elephants and huge army over the Alps into R...

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Biography & Memoires

William the Conqueror

Bates David

ISBN: PB: 9780300234169, Yale University Press, May 2018
616 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Fifteen years in the making, a landmark reinterpretation of the life of a pivotal figure in British and European history In this magisterial addition to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates combines biography and a multidisciplinary approach...

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Military

Six Day War The Breaking of the Middle East

Laron Guy

ISBN: PB: 9780300234558, ISBN: HB: 9780300222708, Yale University Press, April 2018
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

An enthralling, big-picture history that examines the Six-Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context. One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day W...

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Military

Media Studies

Reporting War How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture, and Death to Cover World War II

Moseley Ray

ISBN: PB: 9780300234152, ISBN: HB: 9780300224665, Yale University Press, February 2018
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a for...

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Military

Islam

Crusade and Jihad The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North

Polk William R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222906, Yale University Press, February 2018
656 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking book is the first to address the catastrophic results of centuries of conflict, imperialism, and colonialism by the global north – China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America – in the Muslim world. We see this legacy in the flood...

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Military

Civil Wars A History in Ideas

Armitage David

ISBN: PB: 9780300234244, Yale University Press, February 2018
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and isn't, have a long and contested history. Defining the term is acutely political, for ideas about what makes a war "civil" often depend on whether one is ruler or rebel, victor o...

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Military

Middle East

Words are Weapons Inside ISIS's Rhetoric of Terror

Salazar Philippe-Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300223224, Yale University Press, October 2017
256 pp., 21x14 cm

ISIS wages war not only on the battlefield but also online and in the media. Through a close examination of the words and images ISIS uses, with particular attention to the "digital caliphate" on the web, Philippe-Joseph Salazar theorizes an aestheti...

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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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