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The Fatherland and the Jews: Two Pamphlets by Alfred Wiener, 1919 and

The Fatherland and the Jews: Two Pamphlets by Alfred Wiener, 1919 and

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The inaugural title in a collaboration between the Wiener Library and Granta Books. These two pamphlets, 'Prelude to Pogroms? Facts for the Thoughtful' and 'German Judaism in Political, Economic and...
Me and Mr Welles: Travelling Europe with a Hollywood Legend

Me and Mr Welles: Travelling Europe with a Hollywood Legend

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A unique memoir featuring one of the most legendary Hollywood figures of all time. In late autumn 1968, callow youth Dorian Bond was charged with travelling to Yugoslavia to deliver...
Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe Since 1945

Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe Since 1945

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In 1939 there were ten million Jews in Europe. After Hitler there were four million. Today in 1996 there are under two million. On current projections the Jews will become...
Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe

Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe

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The book is based on hundreds of oral histories, conducted in Europe and North America, with survivors who were children in the Holocaust, primary documentation uncovered by the author (including...
The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age

The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age

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The disintegration of Europe's post-Cold War consensus in the face of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression Once the world's bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to...
The Dawn of Universal History

The Dawn of Universal History

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This comprehensive anthology of newly translated writings presents some of Aron's most important essays in 20th-century intellectual history and political commentary.. In this collection of essays written over a period...
The Nazi, the Painter and the Forgotten Story of the SS Road

The Nazi, the Painter and the Forgotten Story of the SS Road

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In 2005 an old canister of film was discovered in a Devon church. How it got there was a mystery and its contents were tantalizing. The grainy black and white...
Spheres of Influence: The Great Powers Partition Europe, from Munich

Spheres of Influence: The Great Powers Partition Europe, from Munich

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This is a brilliant reinterpretation of the negotiations between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin that divided Europe and laid the foundations for the cold war. Gardner argues that the quest for...
The Future of a Negation: Reflections on the Question of Genocide

The Future of a Negation: Reflections on the Question of Genocide

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The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust-and on Holocaust denial-from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary Europe. The book...
A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia's Most

A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia's Most

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Moura Budberg: spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century's greatest writers, the Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg was born in 1892 to indulgence, pleasure and selfishness....
American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan,

American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan,

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American Visions of Europe sets three learned and elegantly written portraits against the background of the dramatic events and foreign policy controversies of the twentieth century. John Lamberton Harper's careful...
Strong to Serve: An Australian Spitfire Pilot's war over Europe

Strong to Serve: An Australian Spitfire Pilot's war over Europe

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Following training in Australia, Canada and the UK, Fred Riley flew Spitfires with No 130 (Punjab) Squadron RAF from October 1943 until December 1944. Flying the Spitfire Mk.V, he escorted...
From the Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the 20th Century

From the Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the 20th Century

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The Jewish story is an extraordinary one: of a 'chosen race' but a 'difficult people', living in all countries but until recently without one to call its own. Over the...
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish

The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish

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In his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of...
Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer

Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer

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Cervical cancer kills almost 350,000 women each year. What's more horrifying, is that millions have died of this disease that's nearly 100% preventable. It's no secret that healthcare is full...
Fight for the Sky: Stories of Wartime Fighter Pilots

Fight for the Sky: Stories of Wartime Fighter Pilots

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The book titled Fight for the Sky: Stories of Wartime Fighter Pilots by the author Bruce Barrymore Halpenny. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
The Bourgeois Epoch: Marx and Engels on Britain, France, and Germany

The Bourgeois Epoch: Marx and Engels on Britain, France, and Germany

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Richard Hamilton provides an in-depth critique of the writngs of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on Britain, France, and Germany. Hamilton contends that the validity of their principal historical claims...
Bittersweet: Based on the True Tale of the Berlin Candy Bombers

Bittersweet: Based on the True Tale of the Berlin Candy Bombers

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Soar into the tender true story of how one airman inspired a movement by airdropping little parachutes of candy to kids trapped in occupied Berlin in this nonfiction picture book...
Bittersweet: Based on the True Tale of the Berlin Candy Bombers

Bittersweet: Based on the True Tale of the Berlin Candy Bombers

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Soar into the tender true story of how one airman inspired a movement by airdropping little parachutes of candy to kids trapped in occupied Berlin in this nonfiction picture book...
The Shock of the Light

The Shock of the Light

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'A powerful story, beautifully told' M.L. STEDMAN 'Truly compelling' WILLIAM BOYD 'Exquisitely written and deeply human' CHRIS CLEAVE 'Far-reaching, but also intimate and intensely personal' FLORENCE KNAPP 'Alluring in its...
The Shock of the Light

The Shock of the Light

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'A powerful story, beautifully told' M.L. STEDMAN 'Truly compelling' WILLIAM BOYD 'Exquisitely written and deeply human' CHRIS CLEAVE 'Far-reaching, but also intimate and intensely personal' FLORENCE KNAPP 'Alluring in its...
The Shock of the Light

The Shock of the Light

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'A powerful story, beautifully told' M.L. STEDMAN 'Truly compelling' WILLIAM BOYD 'Exquisitely written and deeply human' CHRIS CLEAVE 'Far-reaching, but also intimate and intensely personal' FLORENCE KNAPP 'Alluring in its...
Falling Upwards: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The

Falling Upwards: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST...
Sophisticated Rebels: The Political Culture of European Dissent,

Sophisticated Rebels: The Political Culture of European Dissent,

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Those who think otherwise, though they may fail, deserve our attention, says H. Stuart Hughes. In Sophisticated Rebels , Hughes shows what happened to the revolutionary spirit after the 1968...
Nationalism

Nationalism

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The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the vast Soviet Empire have led to an unexpected revival of nationalism in Europe. Long-forgotten claims, minority conflicts, and nationalist...
Ivan Bunin: A Portrait from Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs: Vol 3: The

Ivan Bunin: A Portrait from Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs: Vol 3: The

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In this third and concluding volume of his acclaimed portrait, Mr. Marullo relates the struggle of the writer and of the emigr- Russian artistic community in Europe to keep alive...
A Noble Combat: The Letters of Sheila Grant Duff and Adam von Trott zu

A Noble Combat: The Letters of Sheila Grant Duff and Adam von Trott zu

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The letters of Shiela Grant Duff and Adam von Trott zu Solz tell of a friendship - tender, strained, and in the end tragic - between a young Englishwoman who...
Precolumbian Art and the Post-Columbian World: Ancient American

Precolumbian Art and the Post-Columbian World: Ancient American

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An original study of the influence of American art on art of the 20th century and the works of such people as Paul Gauguin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Diego Rivera, Henry...
Cold War Europe, 1945-89: A Political History

Cold War Europe, 1945-89: A Political History

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The book titled Cold War Europe, 1945-89: A Political History by the author John W. Young. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Introducing the Holocaust: A Graphic Guide

Introducing the Holocaust: A Graphic Guide

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Who needs yet another book on the Holocaust? Sadly, most of us. The vast amount of serious research work on the Holocaust never reaches the general public, and our notions...
Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2014 Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years...
European Powers, 1900-1945

European Powers, 1900-1945

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In 1900 the great European Empires stood prosperous and strong in the centre of the world stage, surrounded by an aura of glamour and optimism. By 1945 the old order...
The Flames: A gripping historical novel set in 1900s Vienna, featuring

The Flames: A gripping historical novel set in 1900s Vienna, featuring

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A stunning debut novel about the intertwining lives of four remarkable women, the muses who inspired the artist Egon Schiele. For fans of THE PARIS WIFE, THE FAMILIARS, THE MINIATURIST...
Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century

Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century

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In this remarkable book, Mark Mazower aims to offer a new view of Europe's modern history. The complacent belief that Europe is the natural home of freedom and democracy is...
Holocaust Heroes : Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution

Holocaust Heroes : Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution

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This inspiring book examines the often incredible and nearly always tragic examples of Jewish resistance in ghettos and concentration camps during the Nazis 'Final Solution'. It shows that the Warsaw...
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American

The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American

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A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...
Far from Eutopia: How Europe is failing - and Britain could do better

Far from Eutopia: How Europe is failing - and Britain could do better

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In 2020, after three and a half years of bitter negotiations, Britain left the European Union. For some it was a day of freedom, for others a tragedy which would...
Borderlines: A History of Europe in 29 Borders

Borderlines: A History of Europe in 29 Borders

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THE REST IS HISTORY CLUB BOOK OF THE MONTH 'One of the most engaging and fascinating histories of Europe I've read for years.' DOMINIC SANDBROOK 'Highly original and insightful' PD...
A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the

A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 MARGARET AND COLIN RODERICK LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 LESLIE AND SOPHIE CAPLAN AWARD FOR JEWISH NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 AGE NON-FICTION BOOK OF...
Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to

Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to

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A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies-from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination Early modern Europe was a hotbed of espionage,...
The White Lady: The Story of Two Key British Secret Service Networks

The White Lady: The Story of Two Key British Secret Service Networks

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A major new history of the two most important British secret service networks in the First and Second World Wars Intelligence gathering was essential to both sides in the First...
Can Europe Survive?: The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World

Can Europe Survive?: The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World

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A bold new account of Europe's plight as it faces political fracture, economic stagnation and external challenges from the U.S., China and Russia Today, Europe finds itself in a fast-changing,...
Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty

Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty

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A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Award Winner of the US-Russia Relations Book Prize "The achievement of a lifetime." -Stephen Kotkin,...
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

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The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in...
Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent

Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent

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While Ukraine holds back Russia's onslaught, Moscow has been working hard at rebuilding its army for the next invasion. But for the past 30 years, Britain and Europe have been...
Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust

Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust

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Eighty nine original Hasidic tales which have been collected by the author from survivors of the Holocaust. These tales provide unique witness to the victim's inner experience of unspeakable suffering...