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Journey to Freedom Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement
ISBN: PB: 9780300255188, Yale University Press, October 2020
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.
<p>A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, the brilliant, charismatic Native American leader who was instrumental in the takeovers of Alcatraz, Fort Lawton, and Pit River and whose assassination in 1972 galvanized the Trail of Broken Treaties march on...
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£25,00
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Jerusalem City of the Book
ISBN: HB: 9780300222852, Yale University Press, June 2019
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.
In this enchanting book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem's libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world o...
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£20,00
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Jack and Hopit, Comrades in Arms An Officer of the 9th Lancers in the Great War and his War Horse
ISBN: PB: 9781911512806, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2017
120 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 125 black&white photos and maps
A chance discovery of the existence of the gravestone carved with the battle honours of Hopit – the Tipperary-foaled hunter – led the author to research the Great War relationship of Hopit and 19-year-old Second Lieutenant John (Jack) Forrester Colvi...
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£16,00
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Japanese Battleships 1905-1942
ISBN: HB: 9788365437280, Casemate, Kagero, July 2017
392 pp., 29.7x21.1 cm, 100 illus.
Not for sale in Poland! This book of "The Japanese Battleships" is devoted to a technical description of the vessels built between 1911 (Kong?) and 1942 (Musashi) and their upgrades. But before we commence we must go back to the Washington Conferen...
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£29,00
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Jerusalem 1900 The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities
ISBN: HB: 9780226188232, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 1 table
Perhaps the most contested patch of earth in the world, Jerusalem's Old City experiences consistent violent unrest between Israeli and Palestinian residents, with seemingly no end in sight. Today, Jerusalem's endless cycle of riots and arrests appear...
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£34,00
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Jihad and Death The Global Appeal of Islamic State
ISBN: HB: 9781849046985, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! How has ISIS been able to muster support far beyond its initial constituency in the Arab world and attract tens of thousands of foreign volunteers, including converts to Islam, and seemingly countless supporters online? In this...
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£15,99
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Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present History, Representation, and Memory
ISBN: PB: 9781512600100, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2017
306 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children....
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£32,00
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Juno Beach Port-Juno Normandy 44
ISBN: PB: 9782815103367, Casemate, OREP, July 2016
40 pp., 20x20 cm
The use of images is a device used by war correspondents to recall the actions of the armed forces of their countries. This book looks back to June 6th 1944 and the landings by the Canadians on Juno Beach, immortalised by these images of the tense fi...
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£11,00
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John Knox
ISBN: PB: 9780300219708, Yale University Press, May 2016
384 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 11 black&white illus.
Jane Dawson has written the definitive life of John Knox, a leader of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Scotland. Based in large part on previously unavailable sources, including the recently discovered papers of Knox's close friend and...
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£14,99
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John Bell Hood The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General
ISBN: PB: 9781611213300, Casemate, Savas Beatie, May 2016
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 images, 3 maps
John Bell Hood was one of the Confederacy's most enigmatic generals. He died at 48 after a brief illness in August of 1879, leaving behind the first draft of his memoirs Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate S...
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