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Festung Guernsey, Volumes 2.3 & 2.4 Deployment of Artillery and Anti-Aircraft Artillery

ISBN: PB: 9780992667146, Casemate, Clear Vue Publishing, October 2014
144 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 122 illus.

This book is unique amongst all volumes on German fortifications of the Second World War, in that it was written by the German forces themselves. It is the ultimate guide to their defensive planning and mindset. The Channel Islands of Guernsey and J...

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America

Friends Disappear The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston

Barr Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780226156460, ISBN: HB: 9780226156323, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 3 maps, 4 line drawings

Mary Barr thinks a lot about the old photograph hanging on her refrigerator door. In it, she and a dozen or so of her friends from the Chicago suburb of Evanston sit on a porch. It's 1974, the summer after they graduated from Nichols Middle School,...

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Women Studies

Asia

Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union

Wemheuer Felix

ISBN: HB: 9780300195811, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political roots of these socialist era famines, in which ov...

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Europe

Fortune Hunter A German Prince in Regency England

Bowman Peter James

ISBN: PB: 9781909930032, Signal Books, August 2014
256 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm

For sale in CIS only! The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year brought a new influx of impecunious Continental noblemen to the world's richest country, and the more brides they carried off,...

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Europe

From Downing Street to the Trenches First-Hand Accounts from the Great War, 1914-1916

Webb Mike, Strachan Hew

ISBN: HB: 9781851243938, Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2014
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus., 16 colour plates

Why did Asquith take Britain to war in 1914? What did educated young men believe their role should be? What was it like to fly over the Somme battlefield? How could a trench on the front line be "the safest place"? These compelling eye-witness accoun...

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Music

Jewish Studies

Forbidden Music The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis

Haas Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300205350, Yale University Press, June 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

When National Socialism arrived in Germany in 1933, Jews were dominating music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. The party's policy on music brought about a cultur...

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Military

Festung Guernsey, Volume 1.2 Information about Guernsey

ISBN: PB: 9780992667115, Casemate, Clear Vue Publishing, June 2014
76 pp., 29.7x21 cm, approx. 200 illus.

This book is unique amongst all volumes on German fortifications of the Second World War, in that it was written by the German forces themselves. It is the ultimate guide to their defensive planning and mindset. The Channel Islands of Guernsey and J...

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Military

First World War in Middle East

Ulrichsen Kristian Coates

ISBN: HB: 9781849042741, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The First World War in the Middle East" is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus. Coates Ulrichsen demonst...

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Military

Festung Guernsey, Volume 1.1 The English Garrisons on Guernsey

ISBN: PB: 9780992667108, Casemate, Clear Vue Publishing, March 2014
84 pp., 29.7x21 cm, approx. 200 illus.

This book is unique amongst all volumes on German fortifications of the Second World War, in that it was written by the German forces themselves. It is the ultimate guide to their defensive planning and mindset. The Channel Islands of Guernsey and J...

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Europe

Women Studies

Female Alliances Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain

Herbert Amanda E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300177404, Yale University Press, February 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially c...

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