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First Kills The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot Wladyslaw Gnys
ISBN: HB: 9781612005560, Casemate, December 2017
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, highly illustrated
Polish pilot W³adek Gnyœ was credited with shooting down the first two German aircraft of World War II on September 1, 1939. On 2 September 1939, as Gnys' squadron took off near Krakow to intercept the German invaders, German Stuka pilot Frank Neuber...
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£25,00
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Experimental Self Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science
ISBN: HB: 9780226351360, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, May 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
What did it mean to be a scientist before the profession itself existed? Jan Golinski finds an answer in the remarkable career of Humphry Davy, the foremost chemist of his day and one of the most distinguished British men of science of the nineteenth...
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Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 1: The German Advance, The Encirclement Battle And The First And Second Soviet Counteroffensives, 10 July-24 August 1941
ISBN: PB: 9781911096092, ISBN: HB: 9781906033729, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2016
656 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white photos, 107 maps
At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorised infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany's Third Reich, and most German of...
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Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 4: Atlas
ISBN: HB: 9781909982833, Casemate, Helion and Company, December 2015
272 pp., 26.5x24 cm, 120 colour maps
At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorized infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany's Third Reich, and most German of...
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Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 3: The Documentary Companion, Tables, Orders and Reports Prepared by Participating Red Army Forces
ISBN: HB: 9781909982116, Casemate, Helion and Company, August 2014
568 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 maps
Volume 3, the Documentary Companion to Barbarossa Derailed, contains the documentary evidence for the two volumes of narrative. In addition to key Fuhrer Directives issued by Adolf Hitler to provide direction to his forces during the Barbarossa Campa...
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£59,00
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We Wept Without Tears Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz
ISBN: PB: 9780300211979, Yale University Press, July 2014
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau consisted primarily of Jewish prisoners forced by the Germans to facilitate the mass extermination. Though never involved in the killing itself, they were compelled to be "members of staff" of the Nazi death-f...
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£23,00
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Trans-Atlantyk
ISBN: PB: 9780300175301, Yale University Press, April 2014
192 pp., 21x14 cm
Considered by many to be among the greatest writers of the past hundred years, Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz explores the modern predicament of exile and displacement in a disintegrating world in his acclaimed classic Trans-Atlantyk. Gombrowicz's...
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£12,99
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Chasing Warsaw Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990
ISBN: PB: 9783593397788, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
336 pp., 21.5x14 cm
Warsaw is one of the most dynamically developing cities in Europe, and its rich history has marked it as an epicenter of many modes of urbanism: Tzarist, modernist, socialist, and – in the past two decades – aggressively neoliberal. Focusing on Warsa...
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Diary
ISBN: PB: 9780300118063, Yale University Press, June 2012
800 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in Argentina, he began his "Diary" with one of literature's most memorable openings: Mond...
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Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 2: The German Offensives on the Flanks and the Third Soviet Counteroffensive, 25 August–10 September 1941
ISBN: PB: 9781911096108, ISBN: HB: 9781906033903, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2012
456 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white photos, 50 maps
At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorised infantry of German Army Group Centre's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler and most German officers and soldiers believed would be...
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