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Amritsar Voices from Between India and Pakistan
ISBN: PB: 9781905422333, ISBN: HB: 9781905422326, Seagull Books, December 2006
264 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm
The city of Amritsar stands on the volatile border between India and Pakistan. It has been a focus for political and religious conflict since the partition of 1947. "Amritsar" brings together 25 first-hand accounts of life in a city at the epicentre...
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£24,00
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£79,00
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Sprawl A Compact History
ISBN: PB: 9780226076911, ISBN: HB: 9780226076904, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
306 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones, 3 line drawings, 5 maps, 1 table
As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with the...
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£13,00
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£34,00
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Numbered Days Diaries and the Holocaust
ISBN: HB: 9780300112528, Yale University Press, October 2006
320 pp., 24.1x16.6 cm
As the Nazis swept across Europe during World War II, Jewish victims wrote diaries in which they grappled with the terror unfolding around them. Some wrote simply to process the contradictory bits of news they received; some wrote so that their child...
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£47,00
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Dragons on Bird Wings The Combat History of the 812th Fighter Air Regiment, Volume 1: Liberation of the Motherland
ISBN: PB: 9780978069605, Casemate, Aviaeology, October 2006
160 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 black&white illus.
Follow the 3rd Fighter Aviation Corps along its Combat Path during the Liberation of the Motherland through the experiences of one of its units – the 812th. The first volume in this series, "Dragons on Bird Wings" is illustrated throughout with photo...
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£24,00
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Histories for the Subordinated
ISBN: PB: 9781905422388, ISBN: HB: 9781905422371, Seagull Books, October 2006
408 pp., 22.8x15.6 cm
"Histories for the Subordinated" brings together the key writings of David Hardiman, one of the foremost contemporary historians of the subcontinent. Hardiman's practice as a historian – his enormously rich empiricism, archival work, and fieldwork, a...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Ghost Plane The Inside Story of the CIA's Secret Rendition Programme
ISBN: HB: 9781850658504, Hurst Publishers, October 2006
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In December 2005, Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, assured the world that the flights of CIA private jets that have criss-crossed Europe since 9/11 had no role in the sending of prisoners to be tortured. 'The United...
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£25,00
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Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia, 1942
ISBN: HB: 9781851243952, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2006
64 pp., 14.8x10 cm
Nearly 1 million American soldiers passed through Australia between 1942 and 1945 as part of America's strategy to recapture the Philippines and defeat Japan. They encountered a country full of reassuring similarities and strange differences. Here wa...
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£4,99
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Crosses of Auschwitz Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland
ISBN: PB: 9780226993041, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 map, 5 tables, 39 halftones
In the summer and fall of 1998, ultranationalist Polish Catholics erected hundreds of crosses outside Auschwitz, setting off a fierce debate that pitted Catholics and Jews against one another. While this controversy had ramifications that extended we...
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£28,00
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Iraq in Fragments The Occupation and its Legacy
ISBN: HB: 9781850657774, Hurst Publishers, September 2006
366 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The project to transform Iraq from an impoverished dictatorship into a prosperous, functioning, multi-ethnic democracy that would act as a role-model to the states of the Arab Middle East will stand as one of the most ambitious...
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£22,00
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Barbarisation of Warfare
ISBN: PB: 9781850657996, Hurst Publishers, August 2006
334 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Images from Baghdad's now notorious Abu Ghraib prison have come to define the ill-starred occupation of Iraq, but they also remind us of war's undiminished brutality and indiscriminate excess. Yet, what happened in Abu Ghraib t...
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£20,00
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