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Intimate War An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict

Martin Mike

ISBN: PB: 9781849048910, ISBN: HB: 9781849043366, Hurst Publishers, November 2017
424 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "An Intimate War" tells the story of the last thirty-four years of conflict in Helmand Province, Afghanistan as seen through the eyes of the Helmandis. In the West, this period is often defined through different lenses – the So...

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America

American Genocide The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

Madley Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780300230697, ISBN: HB: 9780300181364, Yale University Press, October 2017
712 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.

Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars tha...

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Military

1st Airborne Market Garden 1944

Marriott Leo, Forty Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781612005409, Casemate, Past & Present, October 2017
64 pp., 23.4x18.4 cm, 130 illus.

While the 6th Airborne Division had landed in France on D-Day and covered itself in glory, its counterpart, the 1st Airborne Division, had last seen action during an amphibious assault at Taranto on September 9, 1943, as part of the invasion of Italy...

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Military

Falaise Gap Battles Normandy 1944

Marriott Leo, Forty Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781612005386, Casemate, Past & Present, October 2017
64 pp., 23.4x18.4 cm, 130 illus.

The denouement of the battle of Normandy, the fighting around Falaise and Chambois in August 1944 and the pursuit of the retreating German armies to the Seine provided the Allies with an immense victory. After ten weeks of hard attritional fighting,...

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Philosophy

World

Thinking About History

Maza Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780226109336, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's "Thinking About History", a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent t...

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World

Business & Economics

Bourgeois Equality How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226527932, ISBN: HB: 9780226333991, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
768 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables

There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The...

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Anthropology

Africa

Bottleneck Moving, Building, and Belonging in an African City

Melly Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780226488905, ISBN: HB: 9780226488875, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

In "Bottleneck", anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal – a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a succ...

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Military

French Army of the Orient 1798-1801 Napoleon's beloved "Egyptians"

Martin Yves

ISBN: PB: 9781911512714, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
200 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 200 illus.

More than 200 years ago – under the inspiration and leadership of Bonaparte – a revolutionary French Army invaded Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire; this presence lasted beyond Bonaparte's own departure and subsequent rise to power as First Cons...

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America

Jack and Hopit, Comrades in Arms An Officer of the 9th Lancers in the Great War and his War Horse

Merton Serena

ISBN: PB: 9781911512806, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
120 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 125 black&white photos and maps

A chance discovery of the existence of the gravestone carved with the battle honours of Hopit – the Tipperary-foaled hunter – led the author to research the Great War relationship of Hopit and 19-year-old Second Lieutenant John (Jack) Forrester Colvi...

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Military

Tanks The History of the Royal Tank Regiment, 1976-2017

Messenger Charles

ISBN: HB: 9781912174003, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 colour & black&white photos, 10 maps

The Royal Tank Regiment celebrates its centenary this year (2017). This, the fourth volume of the Regiment's history, begins in the midst of the Cold War, with the four RTR regiments mainly based in Germany. They experienced NATO's rearmament in the...

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