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Colonial Violence European Empires and the Use of Force
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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£20,00
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Nazis The Hidden History
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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£14,99
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Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag The Violence of Stalin's Labor Camps
ISBN: HB: 9780300179415, Yale University Press, April 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror. In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin's Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labo...
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£45,00
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Strange Bird The Albatross Press and the Third Reich
ISBN: HB: 9780300215687, Yale University Press, April 2017
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.
The first book about Albatross Press, a Penguin precursor that entered into an uneasy relationship with the Nazi regime to keep Anglo-American literature alive under fascism The Albatross Press was, from its beginnings in 1932, a "strange bird": a c...
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£25,00
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Lions and Lambs Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany
ISBN: HB: 9780300219050, Yale University Press, April 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A bold new interpretation of Germany's democratic transformation in the twentieth century, focusing on a group of intellectuals who shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction. Not long after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Germans rebuilt th...
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£30,00
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For the Motherland! For Stalin! A Red Army Officer's Memoir of the Eastern Front
ISBN: HB: 9781849047975, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Boris Bogachev's highly readable account of life as a young platoon commander in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 is both a riveting tale of hardship and courage and a deeply informative military history. The son of a Sovi...
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£25,00
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Petrograd, 1917 Witnesses to the Russian Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9781851244607, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2017
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.
"It's damned hard lines asking for bread and only getting a bullet!" The dramatic and chaotic events surrounding the Russian Revolution have been studied and written about extensively for the last hundred years, by historians and journalists alike....
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£25,00
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Inglorious Empire What the British Did to India
ISBN: HB: 9781849048088, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Inglorious Empire" tells the real story of the British in India, from the arrival of the East India Company in 1757 to the end of the Raj, and reveals how Britain's rise was built upon its depredations in India. India was Bri...
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£20,00
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Crimean Nexus Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations
ISBN: HB: 9780300214888, Yale University Press, February 2017
216 pp., 21x14 cm
How the West sleepwalked into another Cold War A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea's ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flash points in cu...
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£20,00
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Claretta Mussolini's Last Lover
ISBN: HB: 9780300214277, Yale University Press, February 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
A master historian illuminates the tumultuous relationship of Il Duce and his young lover Claretta, whose extraordinarily intimate diaries only recently have become available. Few deaths are as gruesome and infamous as those of Benito Mussolini, Ita...
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£18,99
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