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Little History of the World
ISBN: PB: 9780300197181, Yale University Press, October 2013
304 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 200 colour illus.
E. H. Gombrich's "Little History of the World", though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book...
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£17,99
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Perilous Glory The Rise of Western Military Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300197174, ISBN: HB: 9780300120745, Yale University Press, September 2013
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
This expansive book surveys the history of warfare from ancient Mesopotamia to the Gulf War in search of a deeper understanding of the origins of Western warfare and the reasons for its eminence today. Historian John France explores the experience of...
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Fortunes of History Historical Inquiry from Herder to Huizinga
ISBN: PB: 9780300205022, Yale University Press, August 2013
442 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
"In Fortunes of History" Donald R. Kelley offers an authoritative examination of historical writing during the "long nineteenth century" – the years from the French Revolution to those just after the First World War. He provides a comprehensive analy...
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£28,50
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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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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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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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Legacy of the Second World War
ISBN: PB: 9780300171389, Yale University Press, March 2011
208 pp., 20.8x13.7 cm
Sixty-five years after the conclusion of World War II, its consequences are still with us. In this probing book, the acclaimed historian John Lukacs raises perplexing questions about World War II that have yet to be explored. In a work that brilliant...
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Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World
ISBN: PB: 9780300168051, ISBN: HB: 9780300145793, Yale University Press, January 2011
352 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm
Jeffrey Herf, a leading scholar in the field, offers the most extensive examination to date of Nazi propaganda activities targeting Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust. He draws extensively on previously unused...
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Spies The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America
ISBN: PB: 9780300164381, Yale University Press, April 2010
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This stunning book, based on KGB archives that have never come to light before, provides the most complete account of Soviet espionage in America ever written. In 1993, former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev was permitted unique access to Stalin-era...
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