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Life and Death in the Balkans A Family Saga in a Century of Conflict
ISBN: HB: 9781850659136, Hurst Publishers, April 2008
544 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This compellingly written autobiography covers the past century and more in the life of Bato Tomasevic's Montenegrin family in the harsh and ever-turbulent mountains of southern Yugoslavia. The narrative begins some fifty years...
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£20,00
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War and the Liberal Conscience
ISBN: PB: 9781850658917, Hurst Publishers, March 2008
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Isn't war rooted in the vested interests of the ruling classes? (But have not democracies proved as bellicose as other states?) Should not political disputes be settled by civilised negotiations? (But what if the adversary is n...
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£14,99
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Tormented by History Nationalism in Greece and Turkey
ISBN: PB: 9781850658993, ISBN: HB: 9781850659051, Hurst Publishers, January 2008
220 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Tormented" by Historyis the first comparative study of nationalism in Greece and Turkey. Grounded in an extensive critical review of the popular and scholarly historiography and literature on Greek and Turkish nationalisms, it...
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£18,99
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£40,00
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Hitler's New Disorder The Second World War in Yugoslavia
ISBN: HB: 9781850658955, Hurst Publishers, January 2008
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The history of the Second World War in Yugoslavia was for a long time the preserve of the Communist regime led by Marshal Tito. It was written by those who had battled hard to come out on top of the many-sided war fought across...
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£30,00
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Elusive Compromise A History of Interwar Yugoslavia
ISBN: PB: 9781850658641, ISBN: HB: 9781850658511, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
310 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Before Tito's Yugoslavia, which disintegrated violently in the 1990s, there was another Yugoslav state. This book is about the original, interwar Yugoslavia (1918-41), and is based on the author's research in Croatian, Serbian,...
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£35,00
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£45,00
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Playing Politics with Terrorism A User's Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781850658634, ISBN: HB: 9781850658474, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
334 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! While governments are obliged to protect society and bring terrorists to justice, their effectiveness in tackling terrorism without undermining the support of the population for law and order or jeopardising basic liberties is...
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£17,99
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£45,00
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Iran and the Bomb The Abdication of International Responsibility
ISBN: HB: 9781850658443, Hurst Publishers, March 2007
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Iranian regime is in the midst of a dangerous nuclear poker game with the West, playing for the highest possible stakes. Iran, ruled today by Ali Khamenei, the Guide of the Revolution, and the recently elected President Ahm...
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£25,00
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Ghost Plane The Inside Story of the CIA's Secret Rendition Programme
ISBN: HB: 9781850658504, Hurst Publishers, October 2006
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In December 2005, Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, assured the world that the flights of CIA private jets that have criss-crossed Europe since 9/11 had no role in the sending of prisoners to be tortured. 'The United...
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£25,00
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Iraq in Fragments The Occupation and its Legacy
ISBN: HB: 9781850657774, Hurst Publishers, September 2006
366 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The project to transform Iraq from an impoverished dictatorship into a prosperous, functioning, multi-ethnic democracy that would act as a role-model to the states of the Arab Middle East will stand as one of the most ambitious...
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£22,00
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Barbarisation of Warfare
ISBN: PB: 9781850657996, Hurst Publishers, August 2006
334 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Images from Baghdad's now notorious Abu Ghraib prison have come to define the ill-starred occupation of Iraq, but they also remind us of war's undiminished brutality and indiscriminate excess. Yet, what happened in Abu Ghraib t...
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£20,00
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