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US Military Vehicles: Normandy 1944

Pauleian Erwan

ISBN: PB: 9782915762204, Casemate, OREP, July 2009
48 pp., 24x17 cm, illustrated throughout

During the Battle of Normandy, the US Army used a striking array of different vehicles for various purposes, from motorcycles to tanks. Many of them survived the war to either continue service within different armies or to become the pride of their c...

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Military

Military Orientalism Eastern War Through Western Eyes

Porter Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9781850659594, ISBN: HB: 9781850659600, Hurst Publishers, July 2009
274 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! From the Ancient Greeks' obsession with the armies of the Persians, Westerners have been irresistibly drawn to the exotic nature of 'Oriental' warfare and have sought either to emulate their enemies' imagined ways of fighting o...

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Africa

Not-So Natural Disaster Niger '05

Jezequel Jean-Herve, Crombe Xavier

ISBN: PB: 9781850659549, Hurst Publishers, July 2009
278 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Although the term 'natural disaster' applies to the December 2004 tsunami, the images of huge devastation that were televised after the tragedy probably seemed a good deal less 'natural' to us than those of starving African chi...

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Aviation

Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon

ISBN: PB: 9788875650421, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2009
96 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 187 colour illus., 21 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

A brilliant monography on the EF-2000 Typhoon analyzed through the various prototypes, the development, the versions, the technical data, the operations, its exportation, its weaponery, liveries and insignias. The authours made a great job adding ple...

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Aviation

Lockheed T/RT-33A The Story of a Trainer

Nicola Malizia

ISBN: PB: 9788886815925, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2009
136 pp., 24x17 cm, 35 colour illus., 92 black&white (including three-views and profiles)

The text is bilingual (Italian/English), rich in colour and b&n photos and colour profiles. In the monography the author illustrates 30 years of aeronautical history, lived by the T-Bird itself in its use by the Italians. This aircraft, like the RT-3...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

Kershaw Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780300151275, Yale University Press, June 2009
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw'...

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Military

All-Out for Victory! Magazine Advertising and the World War II Home Front

Bush Jones John

ISBN: HB: 9781584657682, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2009
340 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, many commercial advertisers and their Madison Avenue ad agencies instantly switched from selling products and services to selling the home front on ways to sup...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Architect of Global Jihad The Life of Al-Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri

Lia Brynjar

ISBN: PB: 9781850659914, Hurst Publishers, May 2009
510 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! With more than 35 years experience of jihadist activism, Abu Mus'ab al-Suri remains the foremost theoretician in the global jihadist movement today, despite his capture in Pakistan in late 2005. After having participated in the...

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Criminology

Talking to Terrorists Making Peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country

Bew John, Frampton Martyn, Gurruchaga Inigo

ISBN: PB: 9781850659679, Hurst Publishers, May 2009
344 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The peace agreement in Northern Ireland is now held up as a beacon for conflict resolution around the world. The 'lessons of Ulster' have been applied by prime ministers, presidents, diplomats and intelligence agencies to numer...

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Africa

Madagascar A Short History

Ellis Stephen, Randrianja Solofo

ISBN: PB: 9781850659471, Hurst Publishers, April 2009
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Two thousand years ago, Madagascar was probably uninhabited. An isl and twice the size of Great Britain, it was home to unique species of flora and fauna that were undisturbed by humanity until the first navigators landed on it...

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