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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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War and Peace in Somalia National Grievances, Local Conflict and Al-Shabaab
ISBN: PB: 9781787380189, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
480 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! For the last thirty years Somalia has experienced violence and upheaval. Today, the international effort to help Somalis build a federal state and achieve stability is challenged by deep-rooted grievances, local conflicts and a...
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£25,00
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Revisiting the Arab Uprisings The Politics of a Revolutionary Moment
ISBN: PB: 9781849048873, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Since 2013, the Middle East has experienced a double trend of chaos and civil war, on the one hand, and the return of authoritarianism, on the other. That convergence has eclipsed the political transitions that occurred in the...
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£25,00
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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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Nonviolent Struggle for Indian Freedom, 1905-19
ISBN: HB: 9781849049702, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Much of the recent surge in writing about the practice of nonviolent forms of resistance has focused on movements that occurred after the end of the Second World War, many of which have been extremely successful. Although the f...
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£35,00
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Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China Domestic and Foreign Policy Dimensions
ISBN: HB: 9781849048774, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
280 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! China's problem with terrorism has historically been considered an outgrowth of Beijing's efforts to integrate the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region into the People's Republic of China. Since the end of the Cold War, however, t...
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£35,00
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This Present Darkness A History of Nigerian Organised Crime
ISBN: PB: 9781787380271, ISBN: HB: 9781849046305, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired an unfortunate reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of criminal activity. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a global reach, interacting...
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£14,99
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£20,00
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Towards a Westphalia for the Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9781787380233, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! It was the original forever war, which went on interminably, fuelled by religious fanaticism, personal ambition, fear of hegemony, and communal suspicion. It dragged in all the neighbouring powers. It was punctuated by repeated...
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£30,00
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