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She Being Dead Yet Speaketh The Franklin Family Papers

Franklin Mary, Burton Hannah

ISBN: PB: 9780866986236, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, December 2020
349 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 33 halftones, 40 figures

On Black Bartholomew's Day – August 24, 1662 – nearly two thousand ministers denied the authority of the Church of England and were subsequently removed from their posts. Mary Franklin was the wife of Presbyterian minister Robert Franklin, one of the...

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MI9 A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two

Fry Helen

ISBN: HB: 9780300233209, Yale University Press, September 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 map, 26 black&white illus.

When Allied fighters were trapped behind enemy lines, one branch of military intelligence helped them escape: MI9. The organization set up clandestine routes that zig-zagged across Nazi-occupied Europe, enabling soldiers and airmen to make their way...

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Walls Have Ears The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II

Fry Helen

ISBN: PB: 9780300254853, ISBN: HB: 9780300238600, Yale University Press, September 2020
336 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 24 black&white illus.

At the outbreak of World War II, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation: German prisoners' cells were to be bugged and listeners installed behind the walls to record and transcribe their private...

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First Soldier Hitler as Military Leader

Fritz Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300251463, Yale University Press, February 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus., 10 maps

After Germany's humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country's brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Fuhrer's erratic decision making. The author of three highly acclaimed...

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Renaissance Prague

Fucikova Eliska

ISBN: PB: 9788024638577, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
190 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 129 colour plates, 15 halftones, 2 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At the end of the fifteenth century, when the Jagiellons and first Habsburg rulers sat on Prague's throne, the character of the city's municipalities began to transition from medieval to R...

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Marketable Values Inventing the Property Market in Modern Britain

Fitz-Gibbon Desmond

ISBN: PB: 9780226584331, ISBN: HB: 9780226584164, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

The idea that land should be – or even could be – treated like any other commodity has not always been a given. For much of British history, land was bought and sold in ways that emphasized its role in complex networks of social obligation and politi...

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Republic of Letters

Fumaroli Marc, Vergnaud Lara

ISBN: HB: 9780300221602, Yale University Press, November 2018
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this fascinating study, preeminent historian Marc Fumaroli reveals how an imagined "republic" of ideas and interchange fostered the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. He follows exchanges among Petrarch, Erasmus, De...

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London Cage The Secret History of Britain's World War II Interrogation Centre

Fry Helen

ISBN: PB: 9780300238655, Yale University Press, August 2018
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Behind the locked doors of three mansions in London's exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens neighborhood, the British Secret Service established a highly secret prison in 1940: the London Cage. Here recalcitrant German prisoners of war were subjected t...

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Medieval

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Mercenary Mediterranean Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Fancy Hussein

ISBN: PB: 9780226597898, ISBN: HB: 9780226329642, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 5 maps, 1 table

Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Aragon to meet with the king of Aragon, who showered them with gifts, including sumptuous cloth and decorative saddles,...

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Governor's Residence in Tranquebar The House and the Daily Life of Its People, 1750-1845

Fihl Esther

ISBN: HB: 9788763543880, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, February 2018
432 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm

The history of contacts between India and Europe tends to be dominated by the British, but Denmark also played a role on the subcontinent in the colonial era. This book offers insight into that history via a close look at one very specific part of it...

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