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Darfur and the British

O'Fahey R. S.

ISBN: HB: 9781850659488, Hurst Publishers, January 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This volume presents annotated selections from the British records that were copied in situ by the author in al-Fashir and Kutum in 1970 and 1974 and of which the originals were subsequently destroyed by accident. The British w...

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Europe

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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Biography & Memoires

Military

You Never Know Your Luck Battle of Britain to the Great Escape: The Extraordinary Life of Keith "Skeets" Ogilvie DFC

Ogilvie Keith C.

ISBN: HB: 9780993415227, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, July 2016
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.

When the Royal Canadian Air Force wouldn't accept him as a pilot in the summer of 1939, Keith "Skeets" Ogilvie walked across the street in Ottawa and joined the Royal Air Force. A week later he was on a boat to England and a future he could not have...

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Last Road North A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign, 1863

Orrison Robert, Welch Dan

ISBN: PB: 9781611212433, Casemate, Savas Beatie, July 2016
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 14 maps, 100 illus.

A string of battlefield victories through 1862 had culminated in the spring of 1863 with Lee's greatest victory yet: the battle of Chancellorsville. Propelled by the momentum of that supreme moment, confident in the abilities of his men, Lee decided...

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Aviation

Black Hawks Rising The Story of AMISOM's Successful War against Somali Insurgents, 2007-2014

Oloya Opiyo

ISBN: HB: 9781910777695, Casemate, Helion and Company, June 2016
286 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Black Hawks Rising – the title of this book – acknowledges the formation and deployment of the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) in March 2007. Initially confined to peacekeeping within the Mogadishu enclave, it transformed into a peace-makin...

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Europe

Hope Springs Eternal French Bondholders and the Repudiation of Russian Sovereign Debt

Oosterlinck Kim, Bulger Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300190915, Yale University Press, May 2016
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

In 1918, the Soviet revolutionary government repudiated the Tsarist regime's sovereign debt, triggering one of the biggest sovereign defaults ever. Yet the price of Russian bonds remained high for years. Combing French archival records, Kim Oosterlin...

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America

Blood Runs Green The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago

O'Brien Gillian

ISBN: PB: 9780226379999, ISBN: HB: 9780226248950, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and...

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Africa

Political Science

Petro-Developmental State in Africa Making Oil Work in Angola, Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea

Ovadia Jesse Salah

ISBN: HB: 9781849044769, Hurst Publishers, February 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Focusing on local content in the oil and oil service sectors and the changing accumulation strategies of the domestic elite, this book questions what kinds of development are possible through natural resource extraction and arg...

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America

Iconoclastic Imagination Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11

O'Gorman Ned

ISBN: PB: 9780226310237, ISBN: HB: 9780226310060, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 2 line drawings

Bloody, fiery spectacles – the Challenger disaster, 9/11, JFK's assassination – have given us moments of catastrophe that make it easy to answer the "where were you when" question and shape our ways of seeing what came before and after. Why are these...

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Ancient World

Ancient Egypt Transformed The Middle Kingdom

Oppenheim Adela, Arnold Dorothea, Arnold Dieter, Yamamoto Kei

ISBN: HB: 9781588395641, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
400 pp., 31.1x24.9 cm, 365 colour illus., 42 black&white illus., 6 maps

The Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030-1700 B.C.), the second great era of ancient Egyptian culture, was a transformational period during which the artistic conventions, cultural principles, religious beliefs, and political systems formed during earlier dynast...

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