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Hundred Years War A People's History

Green David

ISBN: PB: 9780300216103, ISBN: HB: 9780300134513, Yale University Press, October 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus., 5 maps

The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story of the longest military conflict in h...

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America

Other Americans in Paris Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941

Green Nancy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324463, ISBN: HB: 9780226306889, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 11 line drawings

While Gertrude Stein hosted the literati of the Left Bank, Mrs. Bates-Batcheller, an American socialite and concert singer in Paris, held sumptuous receptions for the Daughters of the American Revolution in her suburban villa. History may remember th...

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World

Human Shore Seacoasts in History

Gillis John R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324296, ISBN: HB: 9780226922232, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 50 halftones

Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun...

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Biography & Memoires

Washingtons: A Family History Volume Three: Royal Descents of the Presidential Branch

Glenn Justin

ISBN: HB: 9781611212358, Casemate, Savas Beatie, August 2015
238 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, illus.

The Royal Descents comprises Volume Three of Dr. Justin Glenn's "The Washingtons: A Family History", a comprehensive multi-volume work covering fifteen generations of the "Presidential Branch" of the Washingtons. This study includes more than 63,000...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Super Drawings in 3D Japanese Cruiser Chikuma

Goralski Waldemar

ISBN: PB: 9788364596629, Casemate, Kagero, June 2015
80 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, double sheet B2 withe the plans (680x480 mm), 140 renders

Not for sale in Poland! The Japanese cruiser Chikuma According to the provisions of the Treaty of London light cruisers could be armed with cannons with a maximum caliber of 155mm in quantities up to 15 pieces. Japanese engineers, admirals and Fuku...

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Middle East

Fires of Babylon Eagle Troop and the Battle of 73 Easting

Guardia Mike

ISBN: HB: 9781612002927, Casemate, May 2015
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

As a new generation of main battle tanks came on line during the 1980s, neither the US nor USSR had the chance to pit them in combat. But once the Cold War between the superpowers waned, Iraq's Saddam Hussein provided that chance with his invasion of...

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America

Attu Boy A Young Alaskan's WWII Memoir

Golodoff Nick

ISBN: PB: 9781602232495, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2015
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 photos, 2 maps, 2 charts

In the quiet of morning, exactly six months after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese touched down on American soil. Landing on the remote Alaska island of Attu, they assailed an entire village, holding the Alaskan villagers for two months and eventually corr...

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War's Nomads A Mobile Radar Unit in Pursuit of Rommel during the Western Desert Campaign, 1942-1943

Grice Frederick

ISBN: HB: 9781612002880, Casemate, March 2015
240 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 25 black&white illus.

"War's Nomads" is an evocative account of one man's experience of life in a mobile radar unit after the battle of El Alamein as Rommel's AfrikaKorps was relentlessly pursued across the desert through Egypt, Libya and Tunisia by the Eighth Army. It is...

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Biography & Memoires

Washingtons: A Family History Volume One: Seven Generations of the Presidential Branch

Glenn Justin

ISBN: HB: 9781611212853, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2015
692 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, illus.

This ground-breaking series is a comprehensive history that traces the "Presidential line" of the Washingtons. Volume one begins with the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and was the great-gr...

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Washingtons: A Family History Volume Four, Part One: Generation Eight of the Presidential Branch

Glenn Justin

ISBN: HB: 9781611212365, Casemate, Savas Beatie, January 2015
468 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, illus.

This ground-breaking series is a comprehensive history that traces the "Presidential line" of the Washingtons. Volume one begins with the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and was the great-gr...

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