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Parachutes, Patriots, Partisans The Special Operations Executive and Yugoslavia, 1941-1945
ISBN: HB: 9781850655923, Hurst Publishers, January 2004
300 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The story of the political and military activities of SOE, especially its relationship with British policy-makers, the Foreign Office and the military high command. It also analyzes SOE's relationship with the Yugoslav guerrill...
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£30,00
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Paradoxical Kingdom Saudi Arabia and the Momentum of Reform
ISBN: PB: 9781850656685, ISBN: HB: 9781850656470, Hurst Publishers, August 2003
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Saudi Arabia remains a closed society with its own interpretation of Islamic Law, an insistence on royal privilege and an uneven record on human rights. This study examines the paradoxes and considers the pressure for reform.
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£22,00
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Search for Greater Albania
ISBN: PB: 9781850655961, Hurst Publishers, July 2003
416 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In this topical text Paulin Kola challenges the accepted notion that there is widespread support for a 'Greater Albania' among the Albanian-speaking people of the Balkans, and argues that Albanians do not wish to join a single,...
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£18,99
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Unsettling Memories Narratives of the Emergency in Delhi
ISBN: PB: 9781850654537, Hurst Publishers, June 2003
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Focusing on India's 'Emergency' of 1975-7, when democracy was temporarily suspended in favour of an authoritarian regime, this book explores the avenues through which this event is remembered and forgotten. Based on fieldwork a...
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£20,00
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Serbian Project and Its Adversaries A Strategy of War Crimes
ISBN: PB: 9781850654995, Hurst Publishers, May 2003
322 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This work offers a military-political analysis of the Yugoslav war. James Gow identifies the core of the war in Slobodan Milosevic's Serbian strategic project to create and consolidate borders through ethnic cleansing, and at t...
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£20,00
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Hungarians A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat
ISBN: PB: 9781850656821, ISBN: HB: 9781850656739, Hurst Publishers, December 2002
572 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This is a comprehensive history of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as 'child-devouring cannibals' and 'bloodthirsty Huns' but it was not long before the Hungarians became stea...
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£18,99
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£50,00
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Balkan Exchange of Minorities and Its Impact on Greece
ISBN: PB: 9781850656746, ISBN: HB: 9781850657026, Hurst Publishers, October 2002
220 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The defeat of the Greek armies in Asia Minor in August 1922, led directly to the flight of Greek refugees from Asia Minor, the compulsory exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey and the resettlement in Greece of 1.3 m...
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£25,00
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£50,00
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Greece: The Modern Sequel From 1821 to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9781850654636, Hurst Publishers, October 2002
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This historical essay explores Greece in the 1990s. It seeks to illuminate vital aspects of the Greek phenomenon using themes such as politics, institutions, society, ideology, foreign policy, geography and culture. Founding pr...
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£16,99
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Japan The Burden of Success
ISBN: PB: 9781850655695, Hurst Publishers, September 2002
349 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! On publication in France, Bouissou's depiction of modern Japan was acclaimed as `the best of its kind', and this translation has been updated to cover events up till 1999, and augmented by an overview of the Japanese historical...
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£16,99
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Jordan in Transition, 1900-2000
ISBN: PB: 9781850654889, Hurst Publishers, November 2001
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! A discussion of transition in Jordan between 1990-2000, showing it to be a multi-faceted process, in which each facet interacts with the other, forming a coherent interdependent system. Economic transition has been a consequenc...
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£19,99
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