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Design

Aviation

Supersonic The Design and Lifestyle of Concorde

Azerrad Lawrence

ISBN: HB: 9783791384092, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
192 pp., 23.5x19 cm, 200 colour illus.

This stylishly illustrated book looks back at the glamour of Concorde air travel and is as sleek and elegant as the aircraft it celebrates. When the first commercial Concordes zoomed off the runways in Paris and London in the late 1960s, crossing th...

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Ancient World

Women Studies

Domina The Women Who Made Imperial Rome

de la Bedoyere Guy

ISBN: HB: 9780300230307, Yale University Press, September 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 maps

Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero – these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a prominent scholar of t...

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America

Against the Grain A Deep History of the Earliest States

James C. Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780300240214, Yale University Press, September 2018
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle...

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Medieval

King Arthur The Making of the Legend

Higham Nicholas J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300210927, Yale University Press, September 2018
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 7 maps

According to legend, King Arthur saved Britain from the Saxons and reigned over it gloriously sometime around A.D. 500. Whether or not there was a "real" King Arthur has all too often been neglected by scholars; most period specialists today declare...

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America

American Enlightenments Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason

Winterer Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780300240269, Yale University Press, September 2018
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War The accepted myth of the "American Enlightenment" suggests that the rejection of monar...

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Military

Magyar Warriors Volume 1: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces, 1919-1945

Bernad Denes, Kliment Charles K.

ISBN: PB: 9781912174164, ISBN: HB: 9781906033880, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
404 pp., 24.6x17.8 cm, 500 black&white photos, 43 tables, 13 maps

The Hungarian armed forces, known as the Honvedseg, were built up in the 1930s, their expansion gaining momentum once Hungary became free of the strict post- World War I Trianon treaty limitations in August 1938. Politically, Hungary was looking for...

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Military

Europe

Operation Kinetic Stabilizing Kosovo

Maloney Sean M.

ISBN: HB: 9781612349640, Casemate, Potomac Books, September 2018
512 pp., 24.1x15.9 cm

Foreword by Sir Mike Jackson, KFOR commander and later Chief of the General Staff in the UK A detailed history of an overlooked and largely forgotten, yet highly successful, operation in the Balkans during the 1990s Yugoslav conflict Includes intervi...

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Military

Cartography

Maps of Fredericksburg An Atlas of the Fredericksburg Campaign, Including all Cavalry Operations, September 18, 1862 - January 22, 1863

Gottfried Bradley

ISBN: HB: 9781611213713, Casemate, Savas Beatie, September 2018
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 122 maps

"The Maps of Fredericksburg: An Atlas of the Fredericksburg Campaign, Including all Cavalry Operations, September 18, 1862 – January 22, 1863" continues Bradley M. Gottfried's efforts to study and illustrate the major campaigns of the Civil War's Eas...

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Military

Europe

German Ground Forces of World War II Complete Orders of Battle for Army Groups, Armies, Army Corps, and Other Commands of the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS, September 1, 1939, to May 8, 1945

McCroden William T., Nutter Thomas E.

ISBN: HB: 9781611211092, Casemate, Savas Beatie, September 2018
624 pp., 24.3x16.8 cm, 6 black&white photos, 1 map

This massive new reference work is broken up into sections presenting a detailed analysis of each corresponding order of battle for every German field formation above division. Additional new ground is broken by describing the orders of battle of the...

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Military

Opening the Black Box The Turkish Military Before and After July 2016

Gurcan Metin

ISBN: HB: 9781912390151, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
196 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 26 illus.

As any other modern militaries of the world, Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) is a complex organization relying on human force and other resources provided by society, being strictly founded on both an institutional setting and a framework of values, norms...

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