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Numbered Days Diaries and the Holocaust
ISBN: HB: 9780300112528, Yale University Press, October 2006
320 pp., 24.1x16.6 cm
As the Nazis swept across Europe during World War II, Jewish victims wrote diaries in which they grappled with the terror unfolding around them. Some wrote simply to process the contradictory bits of news they received; some wrote so that their child...
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£47,00
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Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia, 1942
ISBN: HB: 9781851243952, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2006
64 pp., 14.8x10 cm
Nearly 1 million American soldiers passed through Australia between 1942 and 1945 as part of America's strategy to recapture the Philippines and defeat Japan. They encountered a country full of reassuring similarities and strange differences. Here wa...
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£4,99
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Crosses of Auschwitz Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland
ISBN: PB: 9780226993041, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 map, 5 tables, 39 halftones
In the summer and fall of 1998, ultranationalist Polish Catholics erected hundreds of crosses outside Auschwitz, setting off a fierce debate that pitted Catholics and Jews against one another. While this controversy had ramifications that extended we...
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£28,00
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Ivan the Terrible
ISBN: PB: 9780300119732, Yale University Press, July 2006
526 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
This compelling biography is the first to encompass the entire life of Ivan the Terrible and to view him in the context of his own time. Notorious for a policy of unrestrained terror – and for killing his own son – his reign was devastating for Russi...
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£19,99
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When God Looked the Other Way An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption
ISBN: PB: 9780226004440, University of Chicago Press, May 2006
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 3 maps
Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments only recently admitted culpability. S...
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£13,00
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Armenians From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Commissars
ISBN: PB: 9781850657880, Hurst Publishers, May 2006
442 pp., 21.5x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The book traces the evolution of Armenia and Armenian collective identity, in the homeland and in the diaspora, from its beginnings to the eve of the Armenian nationalist movement over Gharabagh in 1988. The emphasis is on the...
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£17,95
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Appian Way From Its Foundation to the Middle Ages
ISBN: HB: 9780892367528, Getty Publications, March 2006
208 pp., 26.5x22.5 cm, 220 colour illus.
The Appian Way was the first great artery from Rome to southern Italy and the model for all roads originating in the ancient capital. Conceived by Appius Claudius in 312 BC, the thoroughfare provided easy access to Capua, the most important junction...
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£35,00
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Etruscans Outside Etruria
ISBN: HB: 9780892367672, Getty Publications, March 2006
314 pp., 26.4x21.7 cm, illus.
During the last millennium BC, before the coming of the Romans, the Etruscans built a thriving civilization in the western Mediterranean basin, which was rich in natural resources. From the eighth century BC, Etruria became a destination on the Itali...
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£40,00
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Ponary Diary, July 1941 - November 1943 A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder
ISBN: HB: 9780300108538, Yale University Press, January 2006
192 pp., 21x14 cm
About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius), present-day Lithuania, and surrounding townships were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators in huge pits on the outskirts of Ponary. Over a period of several years, Kazimierz Sakowicz...
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£44,00
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Queen Elizabeth's Book of Oxford Ms Bodley 13a, a Facsimile with Introduction and Translation
ISBN: HB: 9781851243150, Bodleian Library Publishing, January 2006
112 pp., 25x17.6 cm, 50 colour illus.
Among the many gifts presented to Queen Elizabeth during her week-long visit to Oxford in the summer of 1566, none is more remarkable than this manuscript history of the University illustrated with exceptionally fine drawings of its buildings. Though...
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£14,99
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