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Gardens of War British Cemeteries on the Western Front

Rambert Franck

ISBN: PB: 9782889153947, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, April 2021
276 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 1919, after five years of brutal conflict, World War I ended. And while the living soldiers returned home, the dead stayed where they had fallen, in war graves throughout Europe. This book takes readers to many of the graveyards that serve as the...

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Gender Studies

Military

Sheer Misery Soldiers in Battle in WWII

Roberts Mary Louise

ISBN: HB: 9780226753140, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 maps

Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear. "I ran into a new problem when we walked", Stewart wrote, "the shorts and I didn't get along. They would c...

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Biography & Memoires

Schoolmaster's War Harry Ree - A British Agent in the French Resistance

Ree Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300245660, Yale University Press, March 2020
192 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 24 black&white illus.

A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Ree renounced his former pacifism with the fall of France in 1940. He was deployed into a secret branch of the British army and parachuted into central France in April 1943. Harry showed a particular t...

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Stalin's Secret Weapon The Origins of Soviet Biological Warfare

Rimmington Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9781849048958, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
240 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Stalin's Secret Weapon" is a gripping account of the early history of the globally significant Soviet biological weapons programme, including its key scientists, its secret experimental bases and the role of intelligence speci...

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Polonica

Frantic 7 The American Effort to Aid the Warsaw Uprising and the Origins of the Cold War, 1944

Radzilowski John, Szczesniak Jerzy

ISBN: HB: 9781612005607, Casemate, February 2018
224 pp., 21x15 cm, 40 colour and black&white illus.

The Frantic operations were conceived in late 1943 as Soviet advances made Soviet airfields accessible to Allied long-range aircraft. American aircraft could hit targets in central Europe, refuel and rearm at Soviet bases, then fly back to bomb addit...

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Defending Island Britain in the Second World War Documentary Sources

Rogers David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512592, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 illus.

Historically, one could argue that island nations were presented with a degree of comfort in being surrounded by water (especially so before the invention of flight and submarines); however, technological advances in the early part of the 20th centur...

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Biography & Memoires

Flag The Story of Revd David Railton MC and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

Richards Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781612004471, Casemate, November 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 pages of photos

Reverend David Railton MC served as a chaplain on the Western Front during World War I. Attached to three divisions between 1916 and 1918, Railton supported the soldiers in their worst moments, he buried the fallen, comforted the wounded, wrote to th...

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Last Ironsides The English Expedition to Portugal, 1662-1668

Riley Jonathon

ISBN: PB: 9781912174102, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2017
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 illus., 22 maps

When Charles II returned home he began the search for a dynastic marriage. He fixed upon the Infanta of Portugal, Catherine of Braganza, whose dowry included the possession of Tangier, Bombay and valuable trade concessions. The Portuguese had been fi...

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Aviation

Military

Brazilians at War Brazilian Aviation in the Second World War

Rivas Santiago

ISBN: PB: 9781911512585, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
112 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 270 black&white photos, 35 colour photos, 6 maps, 10 tables

When the Second World War erupted, Latin America – despite being initially neutral – became part of it. Brazil, with its large provision of goods to the Allied Powers, was soon a victim of the Axis submarines – leading to the urgent development of an...

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Political Science

Middle East

Struggle for Iraq A View from the Ground Up

Renahan Thomas M.

ISBN: HB: 9781612348827, Casemate, Potomac Books, June 2017
536 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Struggle for Iraq" is a vivid personal account of the Iraqi people's fight for democracy and justice by an American political scientist. Thomas M. Renahan arrived in southern Iraq just three days before the capture of Saddam Hussein in 2003; lat...

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