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Maisky Diaries The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London

Maisky Ivan, Gorodetsky Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780300221701, Yale University Press, November 2016
632 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.

<p>Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries....

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Habitual Offenders A True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Monson Craig A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226335339, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones

In April 1644, two nuns fled Bologna's convent for reformed prostitutes. A perfunctory archiepiscopal investigation went nowhere, and the nuns were quickly forgotten. By June of the next year, however, an overwhelming stench drew a woman to the wine...

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Massacre The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871

Merriman John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219449, Yale University Press, March 2016
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an eclectic revolutionary government that held power in Paris across eight weeks between 18 March and 28 May. Its brief rule ended in "Bloody Week"...

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Days of Adversity The Warsaw Uprising 1944

McGilvray Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781911096733, ISBN: HB: 9781909982956, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2015
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps, 100 black&white illus.

This work is a re-examination of the decisions regarding the 1944 Warsaw Uprising made by the leadership of the underground Polish Army (AK), as well as the questionable attitudes of senior Polish commanders in exile in London. The questions raised a...

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Polonica

Trouble with History Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution

Michnik Adam, Gross Irena Grudzinska, Matynia Elzbieta, Marczyk Agnieszka, Czarny Roman S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300185973, Yale University Press, July 2015
192 pp., 21x14 cm

Renowned Eastern European author Adam Michnik was jailed for more than six years by the communist regime in Poland for his dissident activities. He was an outspoken voice for democracy in the world divided by the Iron Curtain and has remained so to t...

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Wellington The Path to Victory 1769-1814

Muir Rory

ISBN: PB: 9780300205480, Yale University Press, March 2015
744 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 32 illus., maps, plans

The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain's greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became the stuff of British national legend. Wellington was much more: a m...

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Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics

Morris Marilyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300208450, Yale University Press, November 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus.

How, and why, did the Anglo-American world become so obsessed with the private lives and public character of its political leaders? Marilyn Morris finds answers in eighteenth-century Britain, when a long tradition of court intrigue and gossip spread...

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Frontline Madrid Battlefield Tours of the Spanish Civil War

Mathieson David

ISBN: PB: 9781909930094, Signal Books, November 2014
208 pp., 21.7x13.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! In July 1936 insurgent Spanish troops organized a military coup to oust the elected Republican government in Madrid. The rebel generals expected to force a quick, clean regime change but they failed. The botched uprising turned...

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World

Great War for Peace

Mulligan William

ISBN: HB: 9780300173772, Yale University Press, April 2014
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

"The war to end all wars" rings out a bitter mockery of the First World War, often viewed as the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century, the crucible from which Soviet, Fascist and Nazi dictatorships emerged. Today's conventional wisdom is that...

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Military

On the Precipice Stalin, the Red Army Leadership and the Road to Stalingrad , 1931-1942

Mezhiritsky Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781909384958, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2014
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Like some astronomers, who discover cosmic objects not by direct observation, but by watching the deviations of known heavenly bodies from their calculated trajectories, Peter Mezhiritsky makes his findings in history through thoughtful reading and t...

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