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Mobility Conquers The Story of 61 Mechanised Battalion Group 1978-2005

Steenkamp Willem, Heitman Helmoed-Romer

ISBN: HB: 9781911096528, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2016
1152 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 61 maps, 400 photos, 2 pp of colour badges & insignia

More than two years in the writing, this book is the warts-and-all story of the birth, career and death of the South African Defence Force's 61 Mechanised Battalion Group (1979-2005) – generally acknowledged as the best fighting unit in Africa in its...

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Europe

Military

"Russian" Civil Wars, 1916-1926 Ten Years That Shook the World

Smele Jonathan D.

ISBN: PB: 9781849047210, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
480 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualisation of the compendium of struggles that wracked the collapsing Tsarist empire and the emergent USSR, profoundly affecting the history of the twentieth...

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Military

Aviation

Eyes All Over the Sky Aerial Reconnaissance in the First World War

Streckfuss James

ISBN: HB: 9781612003672, Casemate, June 2016
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

After the first successful flight by the Wright brothers in 1903, the age of aviation was born, and by 1910 army commanders in the United States and Europe began ordering aircraft and experimenting with them. But at the outbreak of World War I in 191...

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Political Science

America

Madison's Nightmare How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy

Shane Peter M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226380704, ISBN: HB: 9780226749396, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
255 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The George W. Bush administration's ambitious – even breathtaking – claims of unilateral executive authority raised deep concerns among constitutional scholars, civil libertarians, and ordinary citizens alike. But Bush's attempts to assert his power...

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Asia

Visions of Development Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75

Sutoris Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781849045711, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Visions of Development" examines the Indian state's postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975-77. Sutoris pioneers a novel methodology for the study of development thought and its...

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History of Art

Military

Civil War in Art and Memory

Savage Kirk

ISBN: HB: 9780300214680, Yale University Press, May 2016
292 pp., 28x22.2 cm, 88 colour illus., 57 black&white illus.

Reflecting on the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, this notable book brings together a range of media and perspectives that show how the conflict has been recorded and remembered over time. Fifteen essays written by leading scholars in a v...

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Travel

Military

Normandy War Cemeteries A Guide Book

Stewart Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9782815102933, Casemate, OREP, April 2016
48 pp., 24x17 cm

Normandy, North, South, East and West, has numerous war cemeteries, mostly from World War Two but also from World War One. The coastline of western Normandy, through the history of one pivotal day – D-Day June 6th 1944, has made it one of the most vi...

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Contemporary Art

America

Lofts of SoHo Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950-1980

Shkuda Aaron

ISBN: HB: 9780226334189, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 3 tables

American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the 1950s, artists and developers looked upon a decaying industrial zone in Lower Manhattan and saw, not blight, but opportunity: cheap rents, lax regulation, and wide open spaces. Thus, SoHo was...

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Europe

England's Great Transformation Law, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution

Steinberg Marc W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226329956, ISBN: HB: 9780226329819, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 tables

With "England's Great Transformation", Marc W. Steinberg throws a wrench into our understanding of the English Industrial Revolution, largely revising the thesis at heart of Karl Polanyi's landmark "The Great Transformation". The conventional wisdom...

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Europe

Savage Shore Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery

Seal Graham

ISBN: HB: 9780300220414, Yale University Press, March 2016
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled "Great Southland". In this enthralling history of early discover...

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