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Maisky Diaries The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London
ISBN: PB: 9780300221701, Yale University Press, November 2016
632 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.
<p>Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries....
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£12,99
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August 1914 France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever
ISBN: HB: 9780300208276, Yale University Press, November 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A haunting portrait of France at war On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks. Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldier...
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£18,99
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Battle of Montgomery, 1644 The English Civil War in the Welsh Borderlands
ISBN: PB: 9781911096238, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2016
120 pp., 24.8x18 cm, 8 maps, 8 black&white illus., 42 colour illus.
Reflecting on the Battle of Montgomery, Sir Thomas Myddelton – who had jointly commanded the victorious Parliamentarian Army – later described it as: "as great a victory as hath been gained in any part of the kingdom". Fought on 18 September 1644 in...
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£19,00
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Sentimental Savants Philosophical Families in Enlightenment France
ISBN: HB: 9780226384115, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
Though the public may retain a hoary image of the lone scientific or philosophical genius generating insights in isolation, scholars discarded it long ago. In reality, the families of scientists and philosophers in the Enlightenment played a substant...
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£36,00
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Berlin for Jews A Twenty-First-Century Companion
ISBN: HB: 9780226010663, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 2 maps
What is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you the baggage of history? And what happens when an American Jew, raised by a secular family, falls in love with Berlin not in spite of his being a Jew but because of i...
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£20,50
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Sins of the Fathers Germany, Memory, Method
ISBN: HB: 9780226386492, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 2 tables
National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over – the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed...
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£40,00
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River Effra South London's Secret Spine
ISBN: PB: 9781909930421, Signal Books, November 2016
146 pp., 21.9x16.5 cm, 8 colour illus.
For sale in CIS only! London was once a city awash with watercourses. Most of these streams and small rivers have long since disappeared underground and their void has been filled by myth, legend and an enduring yet uncertain fascination. The River...
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£9,99
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Real Lives of Roman Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780300223491, Yale University Press, September 2016
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 41 black&white illus.
<p>The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little disputed, and the archaeological remains of villas, forts, walls, and cities explain a great deal, we lack a clear s...
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£12,99
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Henry V The Conscience of a King
ISBN: HB: 9780300148732, Yale University Press, September 2016
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters and his subjects' welfare Shakespeare's centuries-old portrayal of Henry V established the king's reputa...
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Rise of Thomas Cromwell Power and Politics in the Reign of Henry VIII, 1485-1534
ISBN: PB: 9780300223514, ISBN: HB: 9780300207422, Yale University Press, September 2016
376 pp., 22.9x14.4 cm, 16 black&white illus.
How much does the Thomas Cromwell of popular novels and television series resemble the real Cromwell? This meticulous study of Cromwell's early political career expands and revises what has been understood concerning the life and talents of Henry VII...
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£30,00
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