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Poilu The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
ISBN: PB: 9780300212488, Yale University Press, May 2015
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceas...
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£14,99
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Allure of the Archives
ISBN: PB: 9780300198935, Yale University Press, April 2015
150 pp., 21x14 cm
Arlette Farge's Le Gout de l'archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portraya...
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Dispatches from Dystopia Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten
ISBN: HB: 9780226242798, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 7 maps
"Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?" asks one chapter of Kate Brown's surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. It turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte, Montan...
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£19,00
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Postcoloniality-Decoloniality-Black Critique Joints and Fissures
ISBN: PB: 9783593501925, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
398 pp., 21x13.9 cm
Can Western modernity be analyzed and critiqued through the lens of enslavement and colonial history? As this volume reveals, such analysis is not only possible, it is essential to our understanding of contemporary race relations and society generall...
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£45,00
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WWII A Chronicle of Soldiering
ISBN: PB: 9780226180939, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 3 maps, 1 line drawing
In 1975, James Jones – the American author whose novels "From Here to Eternity" and "The Thin Red Line" had made him the preeminent voice of the enlisted man in World War II – was chosen to write the text for an oversized coffee table book edited by...
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£13,00
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Global Rules America, Britain and a Disordered World
ISBN: HB: 9780300151480, Yale University Press, September 2014
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The Second World War created and the Cold War sustained a "special relationship" between America and Britain, and the terms on which that decades-long conflict ended would become the foundation of a new world order. In this penetrating analysis, a ne...
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£25,00
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Global Crisis War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780300208634, Yale University Press, August 2014
672 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 black&white illus.
Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses – the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and extent. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from E...
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Ye Berlyn Tapestrie John Hassall's Satirical First World War Panorama
ISBN: HB: 9781851244164, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2014
64 pp., 14.5x17.5 cm, 30 colour illus.
The horror of the First World War brought out a characteristic response in a group of English artists, who resorted to black humour. Among these, John Hassall, a pioneering British illustrator and creator of the influential 'Skegness is so bracing' p...
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£9,99
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Making of the First World War
ISBN: PB: 9780300206647, ISBN: HB: 9780300162028, Yale University Press, April 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Nearly a century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed echo still. In this provocative book, historian Ian Beckett turns the spotlight on twe...
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Great War for Peace
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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