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Military

Battle of Montgomery, 1644 The English Civil War in the Welsh Borderlands

Worton Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9781911096238, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
120 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 8 maps, 8 black&white illus., 42 colour illus.

Reflecting on the Battle of Montgomery, Sir Thomas Myddelton – who had jointly commanded the victorious Parliamentarian Army – later described it as: "as great a victory as hath been gained in any part of the kingdom". Fought on 18 September 1644 in...

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Sentimental Savants Philosophical Families in Enlightenment France

Roberts Meghan K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226384115, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Though the public may retain a hoary image of the lone scientific or philosophical genius generating insights in isolation, scholars discarded it long ago. In reality, the families of scientists and philosophers in the Enlightenment played a substant...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Berlin for Jews A Twenty-First-Century Companion

Barkan Leonard

ISBN: HB: 9780226010663, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 2 maps

What is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you the baggage of history? And what happens when an American Jew, raised by a secular family, falls in love with Berlin not in spite of his being a Jew but because of i...

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Sins of the Fathers Germany, Memory, Method

Olick Jeffrey K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226386492, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 2 tables

National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over – the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed...

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Travel

River Effra South London's Secret Spine

Newman Jon

ISBN: PB: 9781909930421, Signal Books, November 2016
146 pp., 21.9x16.5 cm, 8 colour illus.

For sale in CIS only! London was once a city awash with watercourses. Most of these streams and small rivers have long since disappeared underground and their void has been filled by myth, legend and an enduring yet uncertain fascination. The River...

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Real Lives of Roman Britain

Bedoyere Guy de la

ISBN: PB: 9780300223491, Yale University Press, September 2016
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 41 black&white illus.

<p>The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little disputed, and the archaeological remains of villas, forts, walls, and cities explain a great deal, we lack a clear s...

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Biography & Memoires

Henry V The Conscience of a King

Vale Malcolm

ISBN: HB: 9780300148732, Yale University Press, September 2016
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters and his subjects' welfare Shakespeare's centuries-old portrayal of Henry V established the king's reputa...

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Rise of Thomas Cromwell Power and Politics in the Reign of Henry VIII, 1485-1534

Everett Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300223514, ISBN: HB: 9780300207422, Yale University Press, September 2016
376 pp., 22.9x14.4 cm, 16 black&white illus.

How much does the Thomas Cromwell of popular novels and television series resemble the real Cromwell? This meticulous study of Cromwell's early political career expands and revises what has been understood concerning the life and talents of Henry VII...

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Military

Hitler's Compromises Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany

Stoltzfus Nathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300217506, Yale University Press, September 2016
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A comprehensive and eye-opening examination of Hitler's regime, revealing the numerous strategic compromises he made in order to manage dissent History has focused on Hitler's use of charisma and terror, asserting that the dictator made few concessio...

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Europe

Photography

Liberation of Europe 1944-1945 The Photographers who Captured History from D-Day to Berlin

Barnes Mark

ISBN: HB: 9781612004020, Casemate, September 2016
336 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 400 illus.

The Second World War presented a huge range of challenges to press photography both in terms of its execution and getting the results in print. Life on the home front was the main subject until the invasion of France changed everything in 1944. Pho...

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