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The Stalin and Molotov Lines
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 13.95During the Russian Civil War, the Red Army created a series of fortified areas, or ukreplinnyje rajony (UR), which were to be used not only for defence but were also to act as staging points for offensive operations. Following the end of the war these defences were extended, creating a front that stretched over 2,000km from the Baltic to the Black... more...
The Badlands
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 3.99More tales of intrigue in Old Peking from bestselling author Paul French Through portraits of eight residents of Peking?s infamous Badlands district, Paul French brings the area and 1930s Peking vividly to life. A small warren of narrow hutongs, the Badlands sat just inside the eastern flank of the Tartar Wall, which at that time enclosed the... more...
Patriot's History of the Modern World Vol. II
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 19.99The bestselling historians turn their focus to America?s role in the world since the end of World War II Schweikart, author of the number one New York Times bestseller A Patriot?s History of the United States , and Dougherty take a critical look at America, from the postwar boom to her search for identity in the twenty-first century. The... more...
The British Army 1939-45 (3)
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 13.95The lightning Japanese offensives in the Far East in 1941/42 inflicted a series of costly defeats on the ill-prepared and badly supported British Commonwealth forces in Malaya and Burma. The 'forgotten' 14th Army on the India-Burma border slowly built up its strength and its tactical expertise; and Wingate's 'Chindits' proved that units supplied from... more...
Brewster F2A Buffalo Aces of World War 2
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 15.95Entering service with the US Navy as a carrier-borne fighter, the Brewster F2A, later named Buffalo by the British and simply the Brewster by the Finns, saw relatively little service with its own nation. Indeed, it was to see action on just one occasion in US colors: the engagement off Midway by USMC F2As saw a number of Japanese carrier aircraft shot... more...
The Trial of Pope Benedict
Arsenal Pulp Press 2013; US$ 15.95A powerful indictment of Pope Benedict and the Vatican, and a searing assessment of the future of the Catholic Church. more...
Breaking Open Japan
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 20.99On July 14, 1853, the four warships of America's East Asia Squadron made for Kurihama, 30 miles south of the Japanese capital, then called Edo. It had come to pry open Japan after her two and a half centuries of isolation and nearly a decade of intense planning by Matthew Perry, the squadron commander. The spoils of the recent Mexican Spanish?American... more...
Breaking Open Japan
HarperCollins 2013; Not AvailableOn July 14, 1853, the four warships of America's East Asia Squadron made for Kurihama, 30 miles south of the Japanese capital, then called Edo. It had come to pry open Japan after her two and a half centuries of isolation and nearly a decade of intense planning by Matthew Perry, the squadron commander. The spoils of the recent Mexican Spanish?American... more...
Inventing Japan
Random House Publishing Group 2003; US$ 12.95In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan?s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated... more...









