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Liberty or Death The French Revolution

McPhee Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300228694, Yale University Press, July 2017
488 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 40 colour illus.

The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a li...

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Faith in Conflict The Impact of the Great War on the Faith of the People of Britain

Bell Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9781911512677, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos

It may seem obvious that the Great War, with its immense cost in terms of lives lost and injuries of body and mind incurred, must have had a significant impact on the religious faith of the British people. There is much anecdotal evidence to support...

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Biography & Memoires

Revolution! Sayings of Vladimir Lenin

ISBN: PB: 9781851244706, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2017
112 pp., 19x17 cm, 50 colour illus.

"Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement". Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and founder of the USSR, was profoundly aware of the power of words. As a zealous orator and prolific writer, he used...

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Military

D-Day, What We Haven't Told You The Secrets of D-Day

Bauduin Philippe

ISBN: PB: 9782840484806, Casemate, Heimdal, June 2017
128 pp., 29.7x21 cm

The Normandy Landings of 6 June 1944 were a major and decisive episode of the Second World War and have been, for more than sixty years, the object of countless books, films, investigations, reports and television series. However, is it known that D-...

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Struggle for Catalonia Rebel Politics in Spain

Minder Raphael

ISBN: PB: 9781849048033, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Every year on 11 September, Catalonia celebrates its Diada, its National Day. But the Diada of 2012 was like none other, as an enormous crowd calling for Catalan independence took over the heart of Barcelona. Despite the carni...

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Hitler at Home

Stratigakos Despina

ISBN: PB: 9780300222920, Yale University Press, May 2017
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 colour illus., 71 black&white illus.

Adolf Hitler's makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. This provocative book exposes the dictator's preoccupation with his private persona, which was shaped by t...

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Europe

Travel

Backpack Ambassadors How Youth Travel Integrated Europe

Jobs Richard Ivan

ISBN: PB: 9780226462035, ISBN: HB: 9780226438979, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 halftones, 1 line drawing

Even today, in an era of cheap travel and constant connection, the image of young people backpacking across Europe remains seductively romantic. In "Backpack Ambassadors", Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the...

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Europe

History's Spoiled Children The Formation of the Modern Greek State

Kostis Kostas

ISBN: HB: 9781849048255, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "History's Spoiled Children" is the story of a small Ottoman province and its transformation into a modern European state. In some respects, the challenges to the formation of the Greek state could be likened to those encounter...

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Europe

Colonial Violence European Empires and the Use of Force

Walter Dierk

ISBN: HB: 9781849048071, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Western interventions today have much in common with the countless violent conflicts that have occurred on Europe's periphery since the conquest of the Americas. Like their predecessors, modern imperial wars are shaped by geogr...

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Europe

Nazis The Hidden History

Moore Jonathon J.

ISBN: PB: 9781742579733, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, April 2017
312 pp., 24.3x15.3 cm, black&white illus.

"The Nazi's: The Hidden History" draws on the latest research to answer many of the unanswered questions about the Nazi state and provides many fascinating and original insights into the period. The book places in perspective how early racial and eug...

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