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Biography & Memoires

Chig Sky Pilot to the Glider Pilots of Arnhem

Vockins Mike

ISBN: HB: 9781911512332, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2017
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps, 23 illus.

New, hitherto unseen, first-hand accounts of the battle of Arnhem, the heroic Allied military operation known as "Market Garden", become rarer as time passes. "Chig: Sky Pilot to the Glider Pilots of Arnhem" is the story of a choir boy, who became a...

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Africa

Revolution and Authoritarianism in North Africa

Volpi Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9781849046961, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book offers a much-needed corrective to dominant approaches to understanding political causality during episodes of intense social mobilisation in North Africa. Drawing on analyses of routine governance and of "revolution...

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Military

Africa

Battle for Angola The End of the Cold War in Africa c 1975-89

Venter Al J.

ISBN: HB: 9781911096412, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
496 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 200 black&white photos, 2 x 16 pp colour sections

Following the publication of Al Venter's successful Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa – shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium's "Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013" – his Battle for Angola delves still further into the troubled hi...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Henry V The Conscience of a King

Vale Malcolm

ISBN: HB: 9780300148732, Yale University Press, September 2016
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters and his subjects' welfare Shakespeare's centuries-old portrayal of Henry V established the king's reputa...

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Contemporary Art

Europe

Art of the Multitude Jochen Gerz-Participation and the European Experience

Vickery Jonathen P., Manus Mechtild

ISBN: PB: 9783593505640, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2016
200 pp., 21.6x17.1 cm, 50 colour plates

Contemporary European public art often addresses the past and future of European unity, democracy, immigration, and civil rights".The Art of the Multitude" explores how participation in art works affects the formation of public memory, the commemorat...

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Military

Spearhead of the Fifth Army The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Italy, from the Winter Line to Anzio

van Lunteren Frank

ISBN: HB: 9781612004273, Casemate, August 2016
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 illus.

Upon the completion of the Sicily and Salerno Campaigns in 1943, the paratroopers of Colonel Reuben Tucker's 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment were among the first Allied troops to enter Naples. A ghost town at first sight, the residents soon express...

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Europe

Politics of Cultural Retreat Imperial Bureaucracy in Austrian Galicia, 1772-1867

Vushko Iryna

ISBN: HB: 9780300207279, Yale University Press, August 2015
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

An illuminating history of state-building, nationalism, and bureaucracy, this book tells the story of how an international cohort of Austrian officials from Bohemia, Hungary, the Hapsburg Netherlands, Italy, and several German states administered Gal...

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Europe

Magna Carta Origins and Legacy

Vincent Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9781851243631, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2015
160 pp., 25x21 cm, 40 colour illus.

Magna Carta is arguably the most famous document in world history. 2015 marks its 800th anniversary. Yet, until relatively recently, it was unknown how many versions of the document survive, the means by which they were distributed, or the relationsh...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Androids in the Enlightenment Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self

Voskuhl Adelheid

ISBN: PB: 9780226034164, ISBN: HB: 9780226034027, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 4 line illus.

The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the Ger...

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America

Changing Wind Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta

Venet Wendy Hamand

ISBN: HB: 9780300192162, Yale University Press, July 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

In 1845, Atlanta was the last stop at the end of a railroad line, the home of just twelve families and three general stores. By the 1860s, it was a thriving Confederate city, second only to Richmond in importance. "A Changing Wind" is the first histo...

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