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Ecology

Environmental Politics in the Middle East Local Struggles, Global Connections

Verhoeven Harry

ISBN: PB: 9781849049672, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book investigates how ecology and politics meet in the Middle East and how those interactions connect to the global political economy. Through region-wide analyses and case studies from the Arabian Peninsula, the Gulf of A...

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Military

Military History of Modern South Africa

van der Waag Ian

ISBN: HB: 9781612005829, Casemate, April 2018
420 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 illus.

Twentieth-century South Africa saw continuous, often rapid and fundamental socio-economic and political change. The century started with a brief but total war. Less than ten years later Britain brought the conquered Boer republics and the Cape and Na...

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Military

Africa

Biafra's War 1967-1970 A Tribal Conflict in Nigeria That Left a Million Dead

Venter Al J.

ISBN: PB: 9781912174720, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 100 black&white and colour photos, 4 maps

Almost half a century has passed since the Nigerian Civil War ended. But memories die hard, because a million or more people perished in that internecine struggle, the majority women and children, who were starved to death. Biafra's war was modern A...

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Military

That Field of Blood The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862

Vermilya Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781611213751, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images and maps

September 17, 1862 – one of the most consequential days in the history of the United States – was a moment in time when the future of the country could have veered in two starkly different directions. Confederates under General Robert E. Lee had em...

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Africa

Oman Politics and Society in the Qaboos State

Valeri Marc

ISBN: PB: 9781849044851, ISBN: HB: 9781850659334, Hurst Publishers, November 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When Sultan Qaboos overthrew his father as ruler of the Persian Gulf state of Oman in 1970, with the help of British advisers, few expected him to survive long. He was unknown to his own population, and the country was poor and...

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Europe

Bodleian Library Treasures

Vaisey David

ISBN: PB: 9781851244089, ISBN: HB: 9781851244775, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2017
240 pp., 27x27 cm, 180 colour illus.

Since its foundation in 1602, the Bodleian Library has acquired manuscripts, printed books, maps, music and ephemera in all languages, from all ages and from all corners of the globe. From this huge collection David Vaisey, former Bodley's Librarian...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

Teenage Resistance Fighter With the Maquisards in Occupied France

Verneret Hubert

ISBN: HB: 9781612005508, Casemate, September 2017
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

September 5, 1944 "The Americans are approaching; we follow their progress impatiently on the radio, by intercepting messages reserved for the commandos. They cannot be beaten now. But it is up to us to do the impossible to speed up the progression o...

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Poetry

Ancient World

Aeneid

Virgil

ISBN: HB: 9780226450186, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

So begins the "Aeneid", greatest of Western epic poems. Virgil's story of the journey of Aeneas has been a part of our cultural heritage for so many centuries that it's all too easy to lose sight of the poem itself – of its brilliantly cinematic depi...

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Political Science

Military

Why Comrades Go to War Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict

Verhoeven Harry, Roessler Philip

ISBN: PB: 9781849049085, ISBN: HB: 9781849046527, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In October 1996, a motley crew of ageing Marxists and unemployed youth coalesced to revolt against Mobutu Seso Seko, president of Zaire/Congo since 1965. Backed by a Rwanda-led regional coalition that drew support from Asmara t...

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Military

Battle of the Bridges The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Operation Market Garden

van Lunteren Frank

ISBN: PB: 9781612004778, ISBN: HB: 9781612002323, Casemate, June 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Operation Market Garden has been recorded as a complete Allied failure in World War II, an overreach that resulted in an entire airborne division being destroyed at its apex. However, within that operation were episodes of heroism that still remain u...

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