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Forgotten Revolution The 1919 Hungarian Republic of Councils
ISBN: PB: 9781551647159, ISBN: HB: 9781551647173, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
225 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
After the ravages of World War I and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Budapest was engulfed by revolution and marauding foreign armies in 1919. Factory workers, disillusioned ex-soldiers, landless peasants, artists, and intellectuals bega...
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£18,99
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£45,99
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From Old Regime to Industrial State A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I
ISBN: HB: 9780226725437, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 maps, 23 line drawings, 66 tables
In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany's industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead co...
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£60,00
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Field of Cloth of Gold
ISBN: PB: 9780300248029, ISBN: HB: 9780300148862, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy and mystery. Throughout most of the late...
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£12,99
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£35,00
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First Soldier Hitler as Military Leader
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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£12,99
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Fragmented Lives Chronicles of the Gulag
ISBN: PB: 9788024637006, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2019
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In "Fragmented Lives", Gulag survivor Jacques Rossi opens a window onto everyday life inside the notorious Soviet prison camp through a series of portraits of inmates and camp personnel ac...
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£14,00
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French and Germans, Germans and French A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944
ISBN: PB: 9781512603378, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2018
222 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The noted historian Richard Cobb presents an engaging synthesis of research, combined with highly original observations and analyses of the war years in France. The reader is given access to a unique private chronicle of the relations between occupan...
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£20,00
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First Bridge Too Far The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943
ISBN: HB: 9781612006895, Casemate, July 2018
256 pp., 22.9x15 cm
The full story of the British airborne forces attempt to take the strategically important Primosole Bridge, published for the 75th anniversary of the battle Shows how this battle was a precursor to the Battle of Arnhem – and the lessons that were and...
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£22,00
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From Moscow to Stalingrad The Eastern Front, 1941-1942
ISBN: PB: 9781612006093, Casemate, May 2018
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 black&white and colour photos
The path from Moscow to Stalingrad was littered with successes and losses for both the Red Army and the Wehrmacht, with tensions remaining high and culminating in one of the harshest battles of the Second World War. Part of the Casemate Illustrated s...
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£19,00
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From Conquest to Deportation The North Caucasus under Russian Rule
ISBN: HB: 9781849048941, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
480 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book is about a region on the fringes of empire, which neither Tsarist Russia, nor the Soviet Union, nor in fact the Russian Federation, ever really managed to control. Starting with the nineteenth century, it analyses the...
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£65,00
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Fullness of Time Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries
ISBN: HB: 9780226514796, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 32 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings
The Low Countries were at the heart of innovation in Europe in the fifteenth century. Throughout this period, the flourishing cultures of the Low Countries were also wrestling with time itself".The Fullness of Time" explores that struggle, and the ch...
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£41,50
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