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Waffen-SS: Kursk 1943, Volume 6

Spezzano Remy

ISBN: HB: 9780974838915, Casemate, RZM Publishing, January 2006
116 pp., 20x20 cm

This sixth volume follows soldiers of the 1st SS LAH and 2nd SS Das Reich Panzer Division in combat during the Battle of Kursk, July 1943. Formed by Heinrich Himmler in 1940 from the Leibstandarte, SS Verfungstruppe and the Totenkopfe Standarten, th...

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Islam

Current Affairs

Anti-Americanism in the Islamic World

Faath Sigrid

ISBN: PB: 9781850657897, Hurst Publishers, January 2006
318 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Anti-Americanism is a far from homogenous phenomenon, even in the Islamic world, where, the press would sometimes have us believe, there exists a near unanimous hostility to the United States. This book, by dint of on the groun...

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Travel

Europe

In Search of Cluny God's Lost Empire

Mullins Edwin

ISBN: HB: 9781904955047, Signal Books, January 2006
256 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm

For sale in CIS only! A thousand years ago the French abbey of Cluny was the hub of one of the most powerful empires of the Middle Ages, and the spiritual heart of Europe. Nearly 1,500 religious houses were subject to its authority, and it was the s...

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Middle East

Publish It Not The Middle East Cover-Up

Mayhew Christopher, Adams Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781904955191, Signal Books, January 2006
302 pp., 19.8x13.2 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1975 Christopher Mayhew and Michael Adams delivered their powerful indictment of Western media coverage of the Israel-Palestine issue. Both men, politician and journalist, had direct experience of the situation in Palestine...

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Military

Lone Wolf and Bear Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule

Gammer Moshe

ISBN: PB: 9781850657484, Hurst Publishers, November 2005
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The two Russo-Chechen wars (1994-6 and 1999-onwards) have brought the country and its people to the centre of world attention, most recently when separatists stormed a Moscow theatre, taking hundreds of people hostage. This boo...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Stalin's Secret Pogrom The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-fascist Committee

Rubensteln Joshua, Naumov Vladimir P., Wolfson Laura Esther

ISBN: PB: 9780300104523, Yale University Press, October 2005
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 51 black&white illus.

In 1952 fifteen Soviet Jews, including five prominent poets and writers, were falsely accused, secretly tried, and convicted of treason and espionage. Thirteen were executed, one died in a prison hospital and one was exiled. This book presents the lo...

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Culture Studies

Europe

Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944

ISBN: HB: 9781851243358, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2005
64 pp., 14.8x10 cm

In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to expect and how to behave in a newly-liberated France. Containing candid descriptions of this war-ravaged society (widespread malnourishment, rampant tube...

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Africa

Military

Dirty War in West Africa The R.U.F. and the Destruction of Sierra Leone

Gberie Lansana

ISBN: PB: 9781850657422, Hurst Publishers, October 2005
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "A Dirty War in West Africa" charts, in gripping detail based on first-band experience, the decade long civil war that brought Sierra Leone to its knees from 1991-2001. The group spearheading the violence, the Revolutionary Uni...

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Military

Modelling - Military Drawings

Encyclopaedia of Soviet Fighters, 1939-1951

Leonard Herbert, Jouineau Andre

ISBN: HB: 9782915239607, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, August 2005
192 pp., 32.3x23.4 cm, photos, line drawings and illustrations throughout

The Soviet aircraft industry of the 1940-1950 period has been incredibly productive, while Russian manufacturers, stimulated by the huge needs stressed by World War Two, competed with each other in design and creativeness. This book offers an exhaust...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Holocaust Controversy The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France

Moyn Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9781584655091, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2005
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How has the world come to focus on the Holocaust and why has it invariably done so in the heat of controversy, scandal, and polemics about the past? These questions are at the heart of this unique investigation of the Treblinka affair that occurred i...

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