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Jewish Studies

Deadly Legacy German Jews and the Great War

Grady Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780300192049, Yale University Press, August 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany's endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim Grady examines the efforts of the 100,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the German military...

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Europe

General

Family Politics Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950

Ginsborg Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219470, ISBN: HB: 9780300112115, Yale University Press, April 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., images, 36 black&white illus.

In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at centre stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation...

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Europe

Hitler's Geographies The Spatialities of the Third Reich

Giaccaria Paolo, Minca Claudio

ISBN: HB: 9780226274423, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

"Lebensraum": the entitlement of "legitimate" Germans to living space. "Entfernung": the expulsion of "undesirables" to create empty space for German resettlement. During his thirteen years leading Germany, Hitler developed and made use of a number...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Generalissimo Stalin The Myth of Stalin as a Great Military Strategist

Gorbachevsky Boris

ISBN: PB: 9781909384255, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2014
350 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus, maps

This new book from the author of Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front reveals a bitter truth about that war, which has thrown neo-Stalinists in Russia today into a fury. A frontline veteran who survived the most savage...

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Europe

Practicing Stalinism Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition

Getty J. Arch

ISBN: HB: 9780300169294, Yale University Press, September 2013
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white tables

In old Russia, patron/client relations, "clan" politics, and a variety of other informal practices spanned the centuries. Government was understood to be patrimonial and personal rather than legal, and office-holding was far less important than proxi...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire

Gauci Perry

ISBN: HB: 9780300166750, Yale University Press, June 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

This first-ever biography of William Beckford provides a unique look at eighteenth-century British history from the perspective of the colonies. Even in his own time, Beckford was seen as a metaphor for the dramatic changes occurring during this era....

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Europe

Polonica

Chasing Warsaw Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990

Grubbauer Monika, Kusiak Joanna

ISBN: PB: 9783593397788, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
336 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Warsaw is one of the most dynamically developing cities in Europe, and its rich history has marked it as an epicenter of many modes of urbanism: Tzarist, modernist, socialist, and – in the past two decades – aggressively neoliberal. Focusing on Warsa...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Hitler's Hangman The Life of Heydrich

Gerwarth Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300187724, Yale University Press, August 2012
336 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruth...

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Europe

Political Science

Hour of Europe Western Powers and the Breakup of Yugoslavia

Glaurdic Josip

ISBN: HB: 9780300166293, Yale University Press, October 2011
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

By looking through the prism of the West's involvement in the breakup of Yugoslavia, this book presents a new examination of the end of the Cold War in Europe. Incorporating declassified documents from the CIA, the administration of George H. W. Bush...

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Fiction

Europe

Stricken Field A Novel

Gellhorn Martha

ISBN: PB: 9780226286969, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
328 pp., 20.5x13 cm

Martha Gellhorn was one of the first – and most widely read – female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during WWII and for her brief marriage to Ernest Hemingway, but she wa...

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