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Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War
ISBN: PB: 9780300187700, ISBN: HB: 9780300148855, Yale University Press, September 2012
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 20 black&white illus.
The Battle of Britain. Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad. D-Day. These defining events of the Second World War exemplify both the immense heroism and the grievous costs of global conflict. They are the tense, thrilling moments that had the potential to swing...
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£12,99
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December 1941 Twelve Days That Began a World War
ISBN: PB: 9780300187878, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 maps, 16 pages of black&white illus.
In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of international events took place between December 1 and December 12, 1941. In this riveting book, historian Evan Mawdsley explores how the story unfolded. He demonstrates how these d...
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£12,99
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Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin
ISBN: PB: 9780226005959, ISBN: HB: 9780226441740, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 77 halftones
"The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal" examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political and physical realities of sprawl, urban decay, and urban renewal. With a sweep...
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£25,00
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£42,00
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Limits of Detente The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973
ISBN: HB: 9780300167139, Yale University Press, July 2012
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.
In this first book-length analysis of the origins of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Craig Daigle draws on documents only recently made available to show how the war resulted not only from tension and competing interest between Arabs and Israelis,...
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£56,00
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Problem of Slavery as History A Global Approach
ISBN: PB: 9780300113150, Yale University Press, February 2012
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Why did slavery – an accepted evil for thousands of years – suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so compelling that Western governments took up the cause of abolition in ways that transformed the modern world? Jose...
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£29,00
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