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Artists Under Hitler Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany
ISBN: HB: 9780300197471, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.
What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime? Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration of some of the most acute moral questions of the Third...
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£30,00
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Stalin's World Dictating the Soviet Order
ISBN: HB: 9780300182811, Yale University Press, December 2014
360 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Drawing on declassified material from Stalin's personal archive, this is the first systematic attempt to analyze how Stalin saw his world – both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Stalin rarely left his offi...
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£65,00
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Works in Progress Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963
ISBN: HB: 9780300200690, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
This book is the first to investigate the gap between the plans and the reality of the Soviet Union's mid-twentieth-century project to industrialize and modernize its agricultural system. Historians agree that the project failed badly: agriculture wa...
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Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics
ISBN: HB: 9780300208450, Yale University Press, November 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus.
How, and why, did the Anglo-American world become so obsessed with the private lives and public character of its political leaders? Marilyn Morris finds answers in eighteenth-century Britain, when a long tradition of court intrigue and gossip spread...
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£65,00
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Auschwitz and After
ISBN: PB: 9780300190779, Yale University Press, November 2014
384 pp., 21x14 cm
Written by a mamber of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the post-war experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies clas...
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£16,99
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Disease, War, and the Imperial State The Welfare of the British Armed Forces during the Seven Years' War
ISBN: HB: 9780226180007, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 map, 1 table
The Seven Years' War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, the West Indies, Europe, and India. In these locations diseases such as scurvy, smallpox, and yellow fever killed far more than combat did, stretching the resources of Eu...
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£40,00
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Frontline Madrid Battlefield Tours of the Spanish Civil War
ISBN: PB: 9781909930094, Signal Books, November 2014
208 pp., 21.7x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! In July 1936 insurgent Spanish troops organized a military coup to oust the elected Republican government in Madrid. The rebel generals expected to force a quick, clean regime change but they failed. The botched uprising turned...
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£9,99
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Men from the Ministry How Britain Saved Its Heritage
ISBN: PB: 9780300205244, ISBN: HB: 9780300195729, Yale University Press, September 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 50 black&white illus.
Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments and historic sites and opened them to the public. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. Of course, collections of paintings, sculptures,...
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£10,99
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£18,99
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Between History and Myth Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State
ISBN: HB: 9780226140926, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 12 line drawings, 29 tables
All groups tell stories about their beginnings. Such tales are oft-repeated, finely wrought, and usually much beloved. Among those institutions most in need of an impressive creation account is the state: it's one of the primary ways states attempt t...
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£44,00
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Belgium Long United, Long Divided
ISBN: PB: 9781849041461, Hurst Publishers, September 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This concise history describes the traditions and transitions that over two thousand years have developed in Belgium a sense of shared identity, common government, and a centralised nation-state – and then over a few recent dec...
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£16,99
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