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War without End

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael Schwartz

£9.99 19 Nov 2008 Paperback Haymarket Books

In this analysis, commentator Michael Schwartz demolishes the myths used to sell the U.S. public on the idea of an endless "war on terror" centered in Iraq. He shows how the U.S. occupation is fueling civil war in Iraq and beyond and how U.S. officials dismantled the Iraqi state and economy, helping to destroy rather than rebuild the country.

Ultra Versus U-Boats

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Enigma Decrypts in the National Archives

By Roy Conyers Nesbit

£19.99 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Red Tobruk

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Memoirs of a World War II Destroyer Commander

By Gregory Smith

£19.99 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Coastal Convoys 1939-1945

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Indestructible Highway

By Nick Hewitt

£19.99 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Thetis Down

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Slow Death of a Submarine

By Tony Booth, Len Deighton

£19.99 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

The War on Hospital Ships 1914-1918

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stephen McGreal

£19.99 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Spirit of Resistance

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Life of Harry Peuleve DSO

By Nigel Perrin

£19.99 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Dowding and Churchill

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Dark Side of the Battle of Britain

By Jack Dixon

£25.00 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

No Mercy from the Japanese

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Survivors Account of the Burma Railway and the Hellships 1942-1945

By John Wyatt, Cecil Lowry

£19.99 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

The March to Kandahar

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Rodney Atwood

£19.99 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Letters from the Horn of Africa 1923-1945

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Sandy Curle, Soldier and Diplomat Extraordinary

By Christian Curtis

£25.00 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

In Love and War

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Lives and Marriage of General Harry and Lady Smith

By David Rooney, Michael Scott

£19.99 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Upward and Onward

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Life of Air Vice-Marshal John Howe CB, CBE, AFC

By Bob Cossey, George Black

£25.00 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

The Crusading General

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Life of General Sir Bernard Paget GCB DSO MC

By Julian Paget

£19.99 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Flying to Norway, Grounded in Burma

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Hudson Pilot in World War II

By Goronwy 'Gron' Edwards, DFC

£19.99 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Periscope Patrol

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Frayn Turner

£19.99 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Northern Ireland

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Triumph of Politics

By Frank Millar

£45.00 19 Nov 2008 Hardback Irish Academic Press Ltd

Focuses on the evolution of the peace process and the slow triumph of constitutional politics, and of Anglo-Irish diplomacy, over a counsel of despair about a Province long perceived as a problem without solution.

The Conquest of Nature

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany

By David Blackbourn

£11.99 19 Nov 2008 Paperback W W Norton & Co Ltd

The Victorian Eye

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800-1910

By Chris Otter

£38.00 19 Nov 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

During the nineteenth century, Britain became the first gaslit society, with electric lighting arriving in 1878. At the same time, the British government significantly expanded its power to observe and monitor its subjects. This title explores how light facilitated such practices as safe transportation and private reading.

Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New

19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Philip V. Bohlman

£18.00 19 Nov 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Tackling the myriad issues raised by Sander L Gilman's provocative opening salvo - "Are Jews Musical?" - this volume presents a series of essays that trace the intersections of Jewish history and music from the late nineteenth century to the present. It recasts the established history of Jewish culture and its influences on modernity.

The Hustyn Chronicle

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£51.95 18 Nov 2008 Hardback Harvard University Press

Written in the early 17th Century, this work represents the first attempt of early modern chroniclers to write a systematic history of Ukraine. It describes the history of Kyivan Rus' and Ukraine from biblical times until the Union of Brest in 1596. It is suitable for scholars interested in medieval and early-modern Ukrainian history.

Sutton Hoo and Its Landscape

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Context of Monuments

By Tom Williamson

£20.00 18 Nov 2008 Paperback Windgather Press

Combining an understanding of local and regional geography, Anglo-Saxon history, and debates about approaches to past landscapes, this book offers an exploration of the context and meaning of an iconic set of monuments.

Porthmadog Ships

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Emrys Hughes, Aled Eames

£15.00 18 Nov 2008 Paperback Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

American Christians and Islam

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of

By Thomas S. Kidd (Assistant Professor of History at Baylor University)

£17.95 18 Nov 2008 Hardback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

Tracing Islam's role in the imagination of American Christians from the colonial period to today, this title demonstrates that Protestant evangelicals have viewed Islam as a global threat - while also actively seeking to convert Muslims to the Christian faith - since the nation's founding.

Taoism, Bureaucracy and Popular Religion in Early Medieval China

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter Nickerson

£25.95 18 Nov 2008 Hardback Harvard University, Asia Center

For those to whom "Taoism" is the Tao teaching and Chuangtzu, nothing could seem more foreign to Taoism than bureaucracy. This study focuses on early Taoism's most bureaucratised aspects - its social organisation, healing ritual, and cosmology - and applies its findings to an analysis of Taoism's relationship to popular religious traditions.

The Great Arab Conquests

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in

By Hugh Kennedy

£9.99 18 Nov 2008 Paperback The Perseus Books Group

From a leading expert in Arabic history, an engaging history of the great Islamic expansion that carved out an empire from Spain to Asia

Napoleon

17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Biography

By Sir Walter Scott

£20.00 17 Nov 2008 Hardback Gibson Square Books Ltd

The Health Seekers of Southern California, 1870-1900

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John E. Baur

£12.95 16 Nov 2008 Paperback Huntington Library Press,US

The nineteenth-century notion that Southern California's sunny climate could cure tuberculosis, asthma, rheumatism, and other diseases triggered a rush of health seekers to the region. This book investigates this migration's effect on the development of Southern California, focusing on boosterism, medicine and pseudomedicine, and sanitariums.

The Aigina Treasure

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Fitton, J. Lesley.

£50.00 16 Nov 2008 Hardback British Museum Press

Since its arrival at the British Museum in 1891 the Aigina Treasure, a group of Greek Bronze Age gold jewellery and other objects that is believed to come from the island of Aigina, has been shrouded in speculation. This book features essays complemented by a catalogue of the Treasure, which incorporates the results of a technological examination.

In a Dark Time

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Memory, Community, and Gendered Nationalism in Postwar Okinawa

By Linda Isako Angst

£25.95 16 Nov 2008 Hardback Harvard University, Asia Center

Since the reversion of Okinawa from American occupation to Japanese sovereignty in 1972, these islands have become the site of a colonial and postcolonial relationship of resistance and dependence between Okinawa, Japan and the United States. This work provides a glimpse behind the historical and geopolitical dimensions of the Okinawan experience.

Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marcel Detienne

£11.95 16 Nov 2008 Paperback Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies

Looks at the anthropology of the Greeks and other cultures across space and time, and in the process discovers aspects of the art of comparability. This book tries to see how cultural systems react not just to a touchstone category, but also to the questions and concepts that arise from the reaction.

Becoming Hebrew

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Creation of a Jewish National Culture in Ottoman Palestine

By Arieh B. Saposnik

£34.99 16 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Becoming Hebrew is a study of the creation of a Zionist national culture in Jewish Palestine between 1900 and 1914. Conceived as a revolution in Jewish life, the new culture maintained a tensely intricate relationship with traditional Judaism. Of interest to students of nationalism, Israel, identity politics, and cultural history.

Bittersweet

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Memoir of a Chinese Indonesian Family in the Twentieth Century

By Stuart Pearson

£23.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Singapore University Press

A story of one Chinese family's life in Indonesia, and of their eventual emigration to Australia. It is suitable for scholars of Indonesia and for students of the Chinese diaspora.

To the North of the Cotentin Peninsular, Jean-Francois Millet at Home in

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Pierre Leberruyer

£25.00 15 Nov 2008 Paperback OREP

An Incautious Man

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Life of Gouverneur Morris

By Melanie Randolph Miller

£21.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback ISI Books

One of George Washington's 'surrogate sons', Gouverneur Morris played a profound role in ensuring the success of the American Revolution and the creation of the Constitution. This book presents an account of the life of Morris, one of the most engaging Founding Fathers.

Letters from Verdun

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Frontline Experiences of an American Volunteer in World War 1 France

By Avery Royce Wolfe

£30.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Casemate Books

Top Nazi

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

SS General Karl Wolff: the Man Between Hitler and Himmler

By Jochen Von Lang

£17.99 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Enigma Books

While deeply involved in the Holocaust as Heinrich Himmler's deputy for administration, Karl Wolff arranged for the transportation of three hundred thousand Jews from Poland to the Treblinka death camp in 1943. He was tried and given a short prison sentence in 1964. Wolff, even more than Reinhard Heydrich, could boast of having Hitler's confidence. The Fhrer appointed Wolff as SS and police chief in northern Italy in 19431945 and ordered that he kidnap and take the Pope and the cardinals to Germany. Wolff was able to talk Hitler out of the plan and saved himself by negotiating the surrender of German armies with the OSS in Switzerland.

The Cicero Spy Affair

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

German Access to British Secrets in World War II

By Richard Wires

£14.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Enigma Books

"Richard Wires takes us to the heart of the Cicero Affair."-David Kahn, author of "The Codebreakers"

The valet of the British ambassador to Ankara in 1943 was an enterprising young man who understood he could steal and photograph vitally important documents of great interest to the Nazi war machine. The spy story became immensely popular with the film "Five Fingers "starring James Mason. Author Richard Wires has written the definitive account of the Cicero case and placed it in its proper historical context in neutral Turkey at the turning point of World War II. Intrigue, mystery, and greed form the background to the classic account of a famous spy case.

Target Hitler

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Plots to Kill Adolf Hitler

By James P. Duffy

£12.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Enigma Books

"Target Hitler "is a thriller-style chronicle of all the plots and conspiracies to kill Adolf Hitler, culminating in the July 20, 1944, bomb plot set by Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg. "Valkyrie," a film starring Tom Cruise as Hitler's would-be assassin, is set to be released in 2008. The fi lm has already had a considerable amount of publicity because of the lavish United Artists production at the famous Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and the controversy surrounding its star. The many plots to kill Hitler all failed, and the final plot that almost succeeded was the most spectacular of them all.

This is the first paperback edition.

Weapons and Fighting Techniques of the Medieval Warrior

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Martin J. Dougherty

£19.99 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Amber Books Ltd

Prifysgol Y Werin

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

1900-1918

By Alan Llwyd

£10.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Cyhoeddiadau'r Gair

Hoofprints in the Clouds - Jeep Tracks in the Mud

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Geoffrey Tudor

£8.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Pen Press Publishers

An account of how a group of men came together in Scotland in the late summer of 1943 to form a new mountain battery.

In the Fire of the Eastern Front

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Experiences of a Dutch Waffen-SS Volunteer on the Eastern Front 1941-45

By Hendrick C. Verton

£25.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Helion & Company

Covers recruitment, training, and frontline service with 5th SS Panzer Division 'Wiking', and with SS Regiment Besslein. This book informs and illustrates the general politics of the time, and also explains how Dutch views of the Third Reich changed so radically.

Diary of a Red Devil

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Glider to Arnhem with the 7th King's Own Scottish Borderers

By Albert Blockwell

£19.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Helion & Company

Relates the war time experiences of a young man, Albert Blockwell from the north-east of England, who in February 1940 was called up for service with the Army.

Hitler's Miracle Weapons (v. 3)

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Friedrich Georg

£34.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Helion & Company

The third volume in this now-established series expand its coverage to examine Nazi Germany's efforts to develop intercontinental weapons and nothing short of a space program. The author begins by examining whether the V2 rocket was the final development produced by Hitler. He then proceeds to examine, in great detail, Germany's efforts to develop what was called the 'America Rocket', an intercontinental weapon.
Much evidence is produced to suggest that planning and preparation were underway for an attempted intercontinental rocket launch against New York at war's end. A final section of the book examines further German rocketry projects that were on the drawing board by the end of the war, including sophisticated orbital craft.
The text is supported by a selection of photographs and diagrams, as well as 16 superb pages of color artwork, including profiles, computer-generated images of drawing board designs, and pictures of the author's own models.

King Cotton

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Tribute to Douglas A.Farnie

By John F. Wilson

£24.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Crucible Books

Women's Voices from the Spanish Civil War

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jim Fyrth, Sally Alexander

£14.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Lawrence and Wishart Ltd

Includes writing by women from Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand - and from unsung nurses and relief workers as well as celebrated writers. Bringing together extracts from memoirs, letters, diaries and poems, this collection provides an overview of the Spanish Civil War from the perspective of women participants.

Ideology, Absolutism and the English Revolution

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Debates of the British Communist Historians, 1940-1956

By David Parker

£18.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Lawrence and Wishart Ltd

Offers a glimpse into some of the early debates inside the History Group of the Communist Party of Great Britain, whose members included Christopher Hill, Rodney Hilton and Eric Hobsbawm. This book focuses on the debates of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century section of the group and their work on ideology and absolutism.

Beirdd Y Rhos

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Catherine M. Roberts

£8.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Gwasg y Bwthyn

Commander of the Faithful, the Life and Times of Emir Abd El-Kader

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Story of True Jihad

By John Kiser

£14.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Archetype

Under Himmler's Command

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Personal Recollections of Oberst Hans-Georg Eismann, Operations Officer,

By Hans-Georg Eismann

£25.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Helion & Company

Under Himmler's Command addresses two areas of World War II hitherto neglected - Heinrich Himmler as a military commander, and the German staff officer corps during the last months of the war on the Eastern Front.

The author, Hans-Georg Eismann, was the Operations Officer for Army Group Vistula, a German formation created in late January 1945 to which Heinrich Himmler was appointed as commander. Eismann's memoir of this period has remained unpublished for over fifty years, and its wider circulation is long overdue. Full of fascinating detail he recounts the disturbing and sometimes bizarre atmosphere that pervaded the German high command in the East during the final months of the war.

Much light is thereby thrown on Himmler the military commander, and on the final climactic battles fought on the Eastern Front during 1945.

Real Lancashire

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Journey Through the History of the Old County

By Phil Smith

£9.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Carnegie Publishing Ltd

Whores, Harlots and Wanton Women

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Petrina Brown

£20.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Amberley Publishing

Jet Provost

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Little Plane with the Big History

By Bob Clarke

£19.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Amberley Publishing

Glencoe, the Infamous Massacre 1692

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Sadler

£25.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Amberley Publishing

Doodlebugs, Gas Masks and Gum, Children's Voices from the Second World War

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Christina Rex

£14.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Amberley Publishing

Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's Obsession

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Elizabeth Norton

£20.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Amberley Publishing

Richard III

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Young King to be

By Josephine Wilkinson

£25.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Amberley Publishing

The House That Jack Built

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael J. Hallowell

£20.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Amberley Publishing

Most Secret - The Cockleshell Canoes

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

British Military Canoes of World War Two

By Quentin Rees

£19.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Amberley Publishing

Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Francis Grose

£12.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Amberley Publishing

My Life as an Explorer

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Roald Amundsen

£16.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Amberley Publishing

Mersey Shipping

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Photographic History

By Ian Collard

£12.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Amberley Publishing

The Mespot Letters of a Cotswold Soldier

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Frederick Witts

£25.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Amberley Publishing

Victorian and Edwardian Cotswolds

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Alan Sutton

£14.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Amberley Publishing

Little Holocaust survivors : and the English school that saved them

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

And the English School That Saved Them

By Wolfenden, Barbara.

£19.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Greenwood World Publ, UK/Greenwood Publ Grp Inc

As Europe prepared for war, the Stoatley Rough School began to shelter hundreds of traumatized Jewish children fleeing (usually alone) from Nazi persecution. Based on dozens of original interviews, this title tells their stories and the stories of the teachers and benefactors who created this refuge in a country house on al hillside in Surrey.

Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Sally Crawford

£19.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Greenwood Press

Explores the daily life of ordinary men, women and children of Anglo-Saxon England. This book covers domestic and family life, work and leisure, education, clothing and housing, food, religion, magic and superstition, health and sickness, warfare, crime and punishment, ethnic and national identity, the creation of kingship, and slavery.

Am Y Tywydd

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Twm Elias

£12.00 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

How Well Do You Know Eryri?

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Margaret Hughes

£5.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Llygad Gwalch Cyf

How Well Do You Know Anglesey?

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Margaret Hughes

£5.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Llygad Gwalch Cyf

History of Policing in Northern Wales

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kenneth Birch

£11.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Llygad Gwalch Cyf

Anglesey and Gwynedd, the War Years 1939-45

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Reg Chambers Jones

£19.99 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Bridge Books

Becoming Roman, Being Gallic, Staying British

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Research and Excavations at Ditches Hillfort and Villa 1984-2006

By Stephen Trow, Tom Moore, Simon James

£25.00 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxbow Books

Excavations carried out from 1984-1985 at Ditches in Gloucestershire identified a large, late Iron Age enclosure which contained a remarkably early Roman villa. This excavation report extends our understanding of the Ditches-Bagendon-Cirencester oppida complex, and corroborates the thinking on the nature of Romanisation.

Northern Ireland since 1921

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By SABINE WICHERT

£15.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Taylor & Francis Ltd

More Zeal Than Discretion

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Westward Adventures of Walter P. Lane

By Jimmy L. Bryan

£29.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Texas A & M University Press

Walter P Lane emigrated from Ireland as a young boy, fought in three wars, sailed the Texas coast with a privateer, and traveled to California and Arizona in search of gold. This title presents portrait of the man who charged across the field at San Jacinto, and aided in the removal of Indians and Tejano settlers from the East Texas Redlands.

It's a Long Way from Llano

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Journey of a Wildlife Biologist

By James G. Teer

£25.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Texas A & M University Press

A pioneer in managing land for deer, James G Teer became truly global in his conservation efforts. This memoir offers homage to the men who mentored and taught him and to those whose friendships lasted a lifetime. It salutes his colleagues and his students, and confirms his lifelong commitment to the care and stewardship of animals.

Battles of the Red River War

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Archeological Perspectives on the Indian Campaign of 1874

By J.Brett Cruse

£25.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Texas A & M University Press

In 1874, US forces led by Col Ranald S Mackenzie carried out a surprise attack on several Cheyenne, Comanche, and Kiowa bands that had taken refuge in the Palo Duro Canyon of the Texas panhandle and destroyed their winter stores and horses. This title unearths a record of the collision of two cultures.

On the Corps

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

USMC Wisdom from the Pages of Leatherneck, Marine Corps Gazette, and

By Neimeyer, Lt Col Charles P.

£16.99 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Naval Institute Press

Bound for Africa

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Cold War Fight Along the Zambezi

By Douglass H. Hubbard

£20.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Naval Institute Press

Narrating the Nile

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Politics, Cultures, Identities

By Israel Gershoni, Meir Hatina

£46.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc,US

Seeks to encourage the study of Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia as part of the Nile region, a shared theater of experiences, national identities, and collective memories. Combining historical studies and interdisciplinary discussions, this book provides different perspectives on the region's politics and cultures - and on the role of the river.

When War Becomes Personal

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq

By Donald Anderson

£18.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback University of Iowa Press

An anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare. It tells the enduring truths of battle, stripping away much of the romance, myth, and fantasy.

Abraham Lincoln : great American historians on our sixteenth president

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Great American Historians on Our Sixteenth President

By Lamb, Brian Swain, Susan C-Span

£16.99 15 Nov 2008 Hardback PublicAffairs/Perseus Distribution, US

Published in conjunction with C-SPANs year-long celebration of the Lincoln bicentennial, Lincoln 200 Years: An enlightening, wide-ranging anthology of essays on Lincoln by top historians

A great idea at the time : the rise, fall, and curious afterlife of the great books

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books

By Beam, Alex.

£14.99 15 Nov 2008 Hardback PublicAffairs/Perseus Books Group

By the author of the Boston Globe #1 bestseller Gracefully Insane: A wry, witty history of an unlikely literary fad, and of American pop culture in the 1950s and early 1960s

In Words and Deeds

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Battle Speeches in History

By Richard F. Miller

£29.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback University Press of New England

Offers a systemic classification of battle speeches, exploring how their contents have changed over time. This book classifies speeches based on their chronological relation to the battle or tactical circumstance the speaker seeks to address.

The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Steven Ericson, Allen Hockley

£42.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback University Press of New England

On the centennial of the peace treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, Dartmouth College hosted a conference to examine the background and making of that treaty and its long-term implications for international relations. This title includes conference papers that illuminate diplomacy before and after the war, and the peace process.

Andersonvilles of the North

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate

By James M. Gillispie

£21.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback University of North Texas Press,U.S.

Argues that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed. This study presents a less negative, picture of Northern prison life.

Texas Civil War artifacts : a photographic guide to the physical culture of Texas Civil War soldiers

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Photographic Guide to the Physical Culture of Texas Civil War Soldiers

By Ahlstrom, Richard Mather, 1934-

£51.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback U North Texas Pr/Texas A & M Univ Pr

A guide to the physical culture of Texas Civil War soldiers. It describes more than five hundred Texas-related artifacts. It shows the diverse use of the Lone Star on hat pins, waist-belt plates, buckles, horse equipment, side knives, buttons, and canteens.

Men of Granite

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

New Hampshire's Soldiers in the Civil War

By Duane E. Shaffer

£34.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback University of South Carolina Press

During the Civil War, some thirty-five thousand New Hampshire soldiers were dispatched to serve the Union in seventeen infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, three artillery batteries, and three companies of sharpshooters and as members of miscellaneous naval and marine units. This book tells the story of these forces.

When Conscience and Power Meet

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Memoir

By Eugene N. Zeigler

£34.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback University of South Carolina Press

After more than a decade in the South Carolina legislature, Eugene N Zeigler, Jr, made a name for himself in politics through his campaign for the US Senate in 1972 against incumbent Strom Thurmond and a subsequent candidacy in the state's 1974 Democratic gubernatorial primary. This memoir presents an account of a political maverick.

Blowing the Whistle on Genocide

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Josiah E. Dubois, Jr. and the Struggle for a U.S. Response to the Holocaust

By Medoff, Rafael

£15.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Purdue University Press

Tells the story of Josiah E DuBois, Jr, a young Treasury Department lawyer who risked his career to alert the world to the Holocaust. This book tells how Dubois exposed the inequities in America's refugee policy and forced the United States government to take action to rescue the displaced Jews.

New York's Poop Scoop Law

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Dogs, the Dirt, and Due Process

By Michael Brandow

£25.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Purdue University Press

Chronicles the integration of dog owners, a much-maligned subculture, into mainstream society by tracing the history of the legislation. This book shows how a combination of science and politics, fact and fear, altruism and self-interest led to the adoption and enforcement of legislation that became a shining success.

Adventures along borders : personal reminiscences

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mount, Graeme S.

£10.98 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Black Rose Bks, CN/Consortium Bk Sales Dst

For decades, Graeme S. Mount taught a course on twentieth-century global history. Lesson preparation and research took him to all continents, and he pursued a lifelong interest in international borders. Most border crossings were uneventful, others highly memorable. These pages recount his most noteworthy adventures at, and along, international borders.

The stories are timely. Borders, border controls, and the absence of border controls have repercussions on the lives of ordinary people.

Graeme S. Mount is the author of thirteen books, the most recent being "895 Days That Changed the World: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford "(2005).

Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

BC's Japanese Canadian Fishermen

By Masako Fukawa, Stanley Fukawa

£26.99 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Harbour Publishing

The 130-year history of the Nikkei is full of drama, epic struggles against injustice, failures and triumphs. Leaving Japan to escape a life of poverty, they arrived in Canada with dreams for a better future. This title presents a collection of stories of Japanese Canadians on the water, from the first Japanese immigrant's arrival in 1877.

New Deal or raw deal? : how FDR's economic legacy has damaged America

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Folsom, Burton W.

£14.84 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Threshold Editions, US/Simon & Schuster

In this revisionist look at Franklin Roosevelt's presidency and the New Deal, historian Folsom sheds light on how government programs such as social security, minimum wage, and taxation, originally put in place in the 1930s, didn't work then to get America out of the Great Depression--and aren't working now.

Mental Institutions in America

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Social Policy to 1875

By Gerald N. Grob

£29.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Transaction Publishers,U.S.

Examines how American society responded to complex problems arising out of mental illness in the nineteenth century. This work attempts to interpret the mental hospital as a social as well as a medical institution and to illuminate the evolution of policy toward dependent groups such as the mentally ill.

Jewish Power in America

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Myth and Reality

By Henry L. Feingold

£34.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Transaction Publishers,U.S.

Presents the reader with a comprehensive and informative picture of American Jewish participation in the American polity.

The Chief Rabbi, the Pope, and the Holocaust

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Era in Vatican-Jewish Relations

By Robert G. Weisbord, Wallace P. Sillanpoa

£24.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Transaction Publishers,U.S.

In February 1945, Israele Zolli, chief rabbi of Rome's ancient Jewish community, converted to Catholicism. Zolli evokes anger and embarrassment in Italy's Jewish community. This book explains why Zolli left the Jewish fold and joined the Catholic Church.

The French Revolution in Russian Intellectual Life

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

1865-1905

By Dmitry Shlapentokh

£25.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Transaction Publishers,U.S.

Describes the role that the French democratic revolution played in Russia's intellectual development. This work argues the French Revolution was only a phenomenon of Western civilization and hence transitory. It explains why Russia turned away from democratic to autocratic styles.

Negotiating identities: voices of Africa, women of Alberta

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£4.12 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Cornell U Inst African

George Washington's Sacred Fire

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter A. Lillback

£21.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback The Providence Forum

George Washington set the cornerstone for what would become one of the most prosperous and free nations in the history of civilization. This book presents a man driven by the highest of ideals and uses Washington's own writings, journals, letters, manuscripts, and those of his closest family to reveal the truth of this awe-inspiring role model.

Slate Quarry Railways of Gwynedd

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael Messenger

£14.00 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Twelveheads Press

For all we have and are : Regina and the experience of the great war

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Pitsula, James M. (James Michael), 1950-

£13.71 15 Nov 2008 Paperback U of Manitoba Pr, CN

For all we have and are : Regina and the experience of the great war

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Pitsula, James M. (James Michael), 1950-

£27.47 15 Nov 2008 Hardback U of Manitoba Pr, CN