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Ecologies of Witnessing Language, Place, and Holocaust Testimony

Pollin-Galay Hannah

ISBN: HB: 9780300226041, Yale University Press, June 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking work rethinks conventional wisdom about Holocaust testimony, focusing on the power of language and place to shape personal narrative. Oral histories of Lithuanian Jews serve as the textual base for this exploration. Comparing the...

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Political Science

Europe

English Nationalism A Short History

Black Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9781849049856, Hurst Publishers, June 2018
224 pp., 19.2x13.2 cm

For sale in CIS only! There is no English state within the UK – no English passport, Parliament or currency; nor is there any immediate prospect of one. But that does not mean that England lacks an identity. The extent to which English nationalism...

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Europe

Exile in London The Experience of Czechoslovakia and the Other Occupied Nations, 1939-1945

Smetana Vit, Geaney Kathleen Brenda

ISBN: PB: 9788024637013, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2018
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! During World War II, London experienced not just the Blitz and the arrival of continental refugees, but also an influx of displaced foreign governments. Drawing together renowned historian...

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Europe

Eleanor Crosses The Story of King Edward I's Lost Queen and her Architectural Legacy

Warrington Decca

ISBN: PB: 9781909930650, Signal Books, May 2018
196 pp., 21.7x13.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Eleanor Crosses" begins in November 1290 with the untimely death in a Lincolnshire village of Queen Eleanor of Castile, beloved consort of King Edward I of England. A sombre journey of more than 200 miles must follow, to t...

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America

Executing Freedom The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States

LaChance Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226583181, ISBN: HB: 9780226066691, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn't trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless...

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Europe

Empire's New Clothes The Myth of the Commonwealth

Murphy Philip

ISBN: HB: 9781849049467, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In the wake of Brexit, the Commonwealth has been identified as an important body for future British trade and diplomacy, but few know what it actually does. How is it organised and what has held it together for so long? How imp...

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America

Empire in Retreat The Past, Present, and Future of the United States

Bulmer-Thomas Victor

ISBN: HB: 9780300210002, Yale University Press, March 2018
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

A respected authority on international relations and foreign policy, Victor Bulmer-Thomas offers a grand survey of the United States as an empire. From its territorial expansion after independence, through hegemonic rule following World War II, to th...

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Europe

Evelyn Waugh's Oxford

Cooke Barbara, Dodd Amy

ISBN: HB: 9781851244874, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2018
192 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 65 illus.

Oxford held a special place in Evelyn Waugh's imagination. So formative were his Oxford years that the city never left him, appearing again and again in his novels in various forms. This book explores in rich visual detail the abiding importance of O...

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Modelling - Military Drawings

Aviation

EMB-312 Tucano Brazil's Turboprop Success Story

Moralez Zeitoun, Paulo Joao

ISBN: PB: 9780997309232, Casemate, Harpia Publishing, February 2018
256 pp., 27.7x21.1 cm, colour and black&white illus.

Harpia Publishing is proud to announce the launch of a new title for 2017, EMB-312 Tucano: Brazil's turboprop success story, set to become the definitive English-language reference work on this revolutionary Latin American aerospace product. Written...

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Military

End of the Gallop The Battle for Kharkov, February-March 1943

Isaev Aleksei

ISBN: HB: 9781911512974, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
120 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 75 black&white photos, 3 maps, 5 tables

Based heavily on inaccessible Soviet records, this book presents a lively account of a pivotal battle on the Eastern Front, heavily illustrated with rare photographs. In the history of war there are not that many battles that changed one side's stra...

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