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Lions and Lambs Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany
ISBN: HB: 9780300219050, Yale University Press, April 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A bold new interpretation of Germany's democratic transformation in the twentieth century, focusing on a group of intellectuals who shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction. Not long after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Germans rebuilt th...
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£30,00
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Crimean Nexus Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations
ISBN: HB: 9780300214888, Yale University Press, February 2017
216 pp., 21x14 cm
How the West sleepwalked into another Cold War A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea's ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flash points in cu...
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£20,00
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Claretta Mussolini's Last Lover
ISBN: HB: 9780300214277, Yale University Press, February 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
A master historian illuminates the tumultuous relationship of Il Duce and his young lover Claretta, whose extraordinarily intimate diaries only recently have become available. Few deaths are as gruesome and infamous as those of Benito Mussolini, Ita...
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£18,99
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Indigenous London Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300206302, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metrop...
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£25,00
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Art of the Bribe Corruption Under Stalin, 1943-1953
ISBN: HB: 9780300175257, Yale University Press, January 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
The first archive-based study of official corruption under Stalin and a compelling new look at the textures of everyday Soviet life after World War II In the Soviet Union, bribery was a skill with its own practices and culture. James Heinzen's innova...
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£54,00
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Spanish Resurgence, 1713-1748
ISBN: HB: 9780300216899, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A major reassessment of Philip V's leadership and what it meant for the modern Spanish state Often dismissed as ineffective, indolent, and dominated by his second wife, Philip V of Spain (1700-1746), the first Bourbon king, was in fact the greatest t...
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£30,00
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Scorched Earth Stalin's Reign of Terror
ISBN: HB: 9780300136982, Yale University Press, January 2017
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
German scholar Jorg Baberowski is one of the world's leading experts on the Stalin era, but his work has seldom been translated into English. This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad violence with which Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts S...
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£25,00
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Maisky Diaries The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London
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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£12,99
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August 1914 France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever
ISBN: HB: 9780300208276, Yale University Press, November 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A haunting portrait of France at war On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks. Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldier...
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£18,99
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Real Lives of Roman Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780300223491, Yale University Press, September 2016
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 41 black&white illus.
<p>The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little disputed, and the archaeological remains of villas, forts, walls, and cities explain a great deal, we lack a clear s...
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