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Elusive Compromise A History of Interwar Yugoslavia
ISBN: PB: 9781850658641, ISBN: HB: 9781850658511, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
310 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Before Tito's Yugoslavia, which disintegrated violently in the 1990s, there was another Yugoslav state. This book is about the original, interwar Yugoslavia (1918-41), and is based on the author's research in Croatian, Serbian,...
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£35,00
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£45,00
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German Invasion Plans for the British Isles, 1940
ISBN: HB: 9781851243563, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2007
80 pp., 17x11 cm, 12 maps, 24 black&white illus.
"I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England, and if necessary to carry it" – Adolph Hitler, 16 July 1940. Immediately after the fall of France in June 1940, Hitler ordered his generals to organize the invasion of Britain under a pl...
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£6,99
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Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany, 1944
ISBN: HB: 9781851243518, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2007
64 pp., 14.8x10 cm
Nine-and-a-half months after D-Day, 30,000 British troops crossed the Rhine as part of the Allied assault on Germany. Two years earlier, work had already started on a guide to assist them in negotiating everyday life in what then was still enemy terr...
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£4,99
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Prison Manuscripts Socialism and its Culture
ISBN: PB: 9781905422227, ISBN: HB: 9781905422210, Seagull Books, April 2007
336 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm
Bukharin's "Prison Manuscripts" were written in Moscow's Lubyanka prison during 1937-1938 while awaiting his inevitable liquidation. Like Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, Bukharin's Manuscripts too have their central emphasis on issues such as cul...
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£24,00
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£79,00
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Slave Trade Debate Contemporary Writings for and Against
ISBN: PB: 9781851243167, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2007
180 pp., 19.6x12.9 cm
At the height of the debate about the slave trade and its abolition in the 1780s and '90s, each side issued pamphlets in support of its position. This publication reproduces a selection of representative pamphlets encompassing the arguments put forwa...
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£12,99
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Kremlin Rising Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution (Updated Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781597971225, Casemate, Potomac Books, March 2007
478 pp., 23x15 cm
With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on a fitful transition to Western-style democracy and a market economy. But a decade later, Boris Yeltsin's handpicked successor – Vladimir Putin, a self-described childhood hooligan...
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£11,00
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One Must Also Be Hungarian
ISBN: HB: 9780226052120, University of Chicago Press, February 2007
168 pp., 20.7x15.3 cm, 29 halftones, 1 figure
The only country in the world with a line in its national anthem as desperate as "this people has already suffered for its past and its future", Hungary is a nation defined by poverty, despair, and conflict. Its history, of course, took an even darke...
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£16,00
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Realm of the Black Mountain A History of Montenegro
ISBN: PB: 9781850658689, Hurst Publishers, February 2007
520 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Montenegro was admitted to the UN as its 192nd member in June 2006, thus recovering the independence it had lost nearly ninety years earlier at the Versailles Peace Conference. This is the first full-length history of the count...
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£18,99
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