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World

Love and Freedom Three Lives in Hitler's Germany and Gandhi's India

Tendulkar Dhaul Laxmi

ISBN: PB: 9789381017661, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 30 halftones

In the early 1930s, Ayii Tendulkar, a young journalist from a small town in Maharashtra, traveled to Germany to pursue a doctorate in statistics. There, Ayii, eventually became well-known journalist in Berlin and he met and fell in love with the reno...

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From Kutch to Tashkent The Indo-Pakistan War of 1965

Bajwa Farooq

ISBN: HB: 9781849042307, Hurst Publishers, September 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Decades of Pakistani resentment over India's stance on Kashmir, and its subsequent attempt to force a military solution on the issue, led to the 1965 war between the two neighbours. It ended in a stalemate on the battlefield, a...

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October 1973 War Politics, Diplomacy, Legacy

Siniver Asaf

ISBN: HB: 9781849042963, Hurst Publishers, September 2013
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The October War of 1973 (also known as the 'Yom Kippur War') was a watershed moment in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the modern Middle East more broadly. It marked the beginning of a US-led peace process between...

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Confronting the Colonies British Intelligence and Counterinsurgency

Cormac Rory

ISBN: HB: 9781849042932, Hurst Publishers, September 2013
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Moving the debate beyond the place of tactical intelligence in counterinsurgency warfare, "Confronting the Colonies" considers the view from Whitehall, where the biggest decisions were made. It reveals the evolving impact of st...

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Inside Greek Terrorism

Kassimeris George

ISBN: PB: 9781849042833, Hurst Publishers, September 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The long story of Greek terrorism was meant to have ended in the summer of 2002 with the collapse of the country's premier terrorist organisation and one of Europe's longest-running gangs, the notorious 17 November group (17N)....

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America

Borderlines in Borderlands James Madison and the Spanish-American Frontier, 1776-1821

Stagg J. C. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205541, Yale University Press, August 2013
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

In examining how the United States gained control over the northern borderlands of Spanish America, this work reassesses the diplomacy of President James Madison. Historians have assumed Madison's motive in sending agents into the Spanish borderlands...

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In Irons Britains Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy

Buel Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300204988, Yale University Press, August 2013
412 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

A sailing ship that becomes stalled with its bow to the wind is said to be "in irons". In this groundbreaking examination of America's Revolutionary War economy, the phrase is an apt metaphor for the inability of that economy to free itself from the...

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World

Fortunes of History Historical Inquiry from Herder to Huizinga

Kelley Donald R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205022, Yale University Press, August 2013
442 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

"In Fortunes of History" Donald R. Kelley offers an authoritative examination of historical writing during the "long nineteenth century" – the years from the French Revolution to those just after the First World War. He provides a comprehensive analy...

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Europe

History of the Gulag From Collectivization to the Great Terror

Khlevniuk Oleg V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205039, Yale University Press, August 2013
442 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

The human cost of the Gulag, the Soviet labor camp system in which millions of people were imprisoned between 1920 and 1956, was staggering. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and others after him have written movingly about the Gulag, yet never has there been a...

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Military

Thunder at Prokhorovka A Combat History of Operation Citadel, Kursk, July 1943

Schranck David

ISBN: HB: 9781909384545, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2013
612 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 colour maps, 7 fold-out colour maps, 9 tables

After the defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler had lost his momentum and was looking for a way to regain it. Operation Citadel was the intended means to fulfil that objective. If successful a number of Soviet armies would be destroyed and the front line shor...

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