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Shias of Pakistan An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority
ISBN: PB: 9781787381513, ISBN: HB: 9781849043557, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
564 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Shias of Pakistan" are the world's second largest Shia community after that of Iran, but comprise only 10-15 per cent of Pakistan's population. In recent decades Sunni extremists have increasingly targeted them with hate p...
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£18,99
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£45,00
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Survival of the Jews in France 1940-44
ISBN: HB: 9781787380141, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
360 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Between the French defeat in 1940 and liberation in 1944, the Nazis killed almost 80,000 of France's Jews, both French and foreign. Since that time, this tragedy has been well-documented. But there are other stories hidden with...
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£30,00
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Savage Frontier The Pyrenees in History
ISBN: HB: 9781787380073, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Savage Frontier" traces the routes over the mountains taken by monks, soldiers, poets, pilgrims and refugees, examining the lives and events that have shaped the Pyrenees across the centuries. Its cast of characters includes N...
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£20,00
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Struggle for Greece, 1941-1949
ISBN: PB: 9781787380264, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! As commander of the Allied Military Mission to the Greek guerrillas in Greece in 1943-1944, C.M. Woodhouse has to hold an uneasy balance between the communist and government sides. Against a background of conflicting communist...
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£18,99
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Sweden's Dark Soul The Unravelling of a Utopia
ISBN: HB: 9781787380097, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracised as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When he revealed the cover-up of mass sexual assaults on teen girls at a...
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£20,00
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Stalin's Secret Weapon The Origins of Soviet Biological Warfare
ISBN: HB: 9781849048958, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
240 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Stalin's Secret Weapon" is a gripping account of the early history of the globally significant Soviet biological weapons programme, including its key scientists, its secret experimental bases and the role of intelligence speci...
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£30,00
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Surviving Biafra A Nigerwife's Story
ISBN: HB: 9781849049580, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 1961, Rosina "Rose" Martin married John Umelo, a young Nigerian she met on a London Tube station platform, eventually moving to Nigeria with him and their children. As Rose taught Classics in Enugu, they found themselves cau...
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£20,00
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Singapore, Singapura From Miracle to Complacency
ISBN: HB: 9781787380103, Hurst Publishers, August 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Modern Singapore is a miracle. Half a century ago, it was thrown out of the Malay Federation and unwillingly became an independent nation. It was tiny, poor, almost devoid of resources, and in a hostile neighbourhood. Now, this...
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£20,00
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Slave Traders by Invitation West Africa's Slave Coast in the Precolonial Era
ISBN: HB: 9781849049061, Hurst Publishers, June 2018
500 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Slave Coast, roughly the shores of present-day Benin and Togo, was the epicentre of the Atlantic Slave Trade. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to crashing breakers and devoid of permanent huma...
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£55,00
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Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
ISBN: PB: 9781849049498, ISBN: HB: 9781849040068, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
392 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post colonial Sunni Muslim world. Lacking a pure understanding of the leader's life and...
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£14,99
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£27,50
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