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The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of
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A brilliant and revealing biography of the two most important Americans during the Cold War era--written by the grandson of one of them Only two Americans held positions of great...
The Unfree French: Life under the Occupation
In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that...
Paper Empires: A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005
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" . . . It is highly recommended to anyone who thinks they have a serious interest in the book . . . or would like to discover to discover...
The Seekers
The Seekers is a history of our great Western heritage of ideas, told through the lives of the speakers from Moses and Aristotle and Plato through Thucydides, Machiavelli, Marx, Carlyle...
A Dictionary of Nineteenth-century World History
This dictionary serves as a first point of reference for all aspects of political, diplomatic, military, social and economic history, and provides overviews of the cultural and artistic developments of...
The Dawn of Universal History
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...
Oxford and Empire: The Last Lost Cause?
The book titled Oxford and Empire: The Last Lost Cause? by the author Richard Symonds. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Gorky's Tolstoy and Other Reminiscences: Key Writings by and about
Superb new translations of Gorky's classic memoirs of Tolstoy and other remarkable Russians, along with unforgettable characterizations of Gorky himself by his contemporaries Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) enjoyed worldwide fame of...
A Life with Alan: The Diary of A.J.P.Taylor's Wife, Eva, from 1978 to
The book titled A Life with Alan: The Diary of A.J.P.Taylor's Wife, Eva, from 1978 to by the author Eva Haraszti Taylor. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us...
The Arabs in History
This account of the history of the Arabs, from pre-Islamic times to the present day, considers Arabic culture, society and politics, as well as the place of the Arabs in...
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
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Originally published in 1983, Modern Times was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review. This new edition contains a new final...
Against the Odds: Poverty in Addis Ababa
Klaus Serr, Associate Professor of Sociology at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, explores the conditions facing some of the world's most deprived people - the poor in Ethiopia. This book...
The History Gossip: Was Anne of Cleves a Minger? and 365 Other
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'History's hottest gossip' - You Magazine 'A tongue-in-cheek whirlwind through 365 days of history' - Sunday Post TikTok sensation Katie Kennedy, aka @TheHistoryGossip, serves up a delicious blend of fascinating,...
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times
The distinguished author of Working explores the theme of hope in the midst of challenging times in a collection of oral histories that links hope with a spirit of activism,...
Empire's End
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The book titled Empire's End by the author Keay. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations
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The book titled Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations by the author Walter Laqueur (Center for Strategic and International Studies). This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme
The shadow of the Somme has lain across the 20th century. For many it is the ultimate symbol of the folly and futility of war. Others see it as a...
The Web of Disinformation: Churchill's Yugoslav Blunder
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The book titled The Web of Disinformation: Churchill's Yugoslav Blunder by the author David Martin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades
The volume comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them.
Retreat from the Finland Station: The Moral Journeys of the Men Who
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In 1940, Edmund Wilson published "To the Finland Station", a study of the growth of the idea of communism. This book examines the lives of such men as Bukharin, Koestler,...
Keith Kyle, Reporting the World
Keith Kyle was 'the epitome of the intellectual journalist' and the foremost historian of the Suez War. In this, his posthumously published autobiography, he takes the reader on a spectacular...
Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made
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The book titled Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made by the author Jonathon Green (Independent scholar). This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
MI6
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An intelligence agency expose so explosive that the British government tried to stop its publication or the first time ever, MI6, Britain's legendary player at the chessboard of international intelligence-gathering,...
Vanishing Diaspora - the Jews in Europe since 1945 (Cobee) (Cloth)
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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...
World War One: A Short History
In 1914, a new kind of war came about, bringing with it a new kind of world. World War One began on horseback, with generals employing bayonet charges to gain...
Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History
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The book titled Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History by the author John Clive. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz
These 26 essays range over the history of working men and women between the late18th century and the present day. They include Hobsbawm's pioneering studies in labour history and social...
Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist...
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller
'Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER 'A novel and fascinating perspective on world history' BILL BRYSON 'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four...
American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan,
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...
India: A Million Mutinies Now
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All Things are Possible
This is many of the old books which has been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work is...
Historical Atlas of Empires: From 4000 BC to the 21st Century
The concept of 'empire' has existed since King Sargon of Akkad conquered Mesopotamia more than 4,000 years ago. Since his Akkadian dynasty many other empires have risen and fallen; Assyrian,...
The Fall of Singapore
The book titled The Fall of Singapore by the author Timothy Hall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Inner Sea: The Mediterranean and Its People
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The book titled The Inner Sea: The Mediterranean and Its People by the author Robert Fox. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow: The Life and Times of a Slave Trade
Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its 'human cargo'. This is a highly engaging, rare,...
Book of Obituaries
The obituaries that appear in The Economist are remarkable because of the unpredictable selection of people to be written about, the surprising lives they lead - but also for the...
Roman Conquests: Asia Minor, Syria and Armenia
While conquering Greece and Macedonia the Romans defeated an intervention by the Seleucid Empire, the most powerful of the Hellenistic states founded by Alexander the Great's successors. Soon Roman armies...
From the Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the 20th Century
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 Illustrated Guide to the History of the 20th Century
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The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish
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...
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times , New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times 'A...
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958
The #1 Irish Times bestseller WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Toibin, Guardian 'With the pace...
Nation in Arms: The British Army in the First World War
The Great War was the first conflict to draw men and women into uniform on a massive scale. From a small regular force of barely 250,000, the British Army rapidly...
Crusaders
A history of the Crusades. From the bestselling author of The Templars . 'Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades is one of...