20th Century History: c1900 to c2000
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Russians in the Waffen-SS
Schiffer Military£27.99| /From summer 1941, some 100,000 Russians served in the German Wehrmacht, mostly as so called Schutzmannschaften under the command of the German Poli...
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Sane in Damascus
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /A story of sacrifice and heroism, Sane in Damascus tells the compelling and engaging tale of Amnon Sharon, an officer in the Israel Defense Forces ...
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Scandinavian Middle Classes 1840-1940
Unipub/Oslo Academic Press (NZ)£25.00| /Who were the new social groups situated between the top and bottom of society, between capitalists and workers, between the bourgeoisie and the com...
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Sea Planes of the Legion Condor
Schiffer Military£40.99| /Among the different Luftwaffe units that formed the Legion Condor, one in particular stands out for its important Naval Air contribution: the Aufkl...
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Seawomen of Iceland
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£42.99| /The first large-scale study of the important, but as yet largely invisible, group of Icelandic women who live on the sea -- their lives, contributi...
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Selbstorganisation und Burgerlichkeit
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£35.99| /The port city of Odessa is a special place of remembrance of Jewish history. More than in other metropolises of the tsarist empire, at the end of t...
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Seven Slovak Women
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£22.99| /This engaging and insightful book is the first historical study in English portraying the lives and fates of Slovak women. The seven life stories, ...
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Sexy Sixties
Birch Brook Press (US)£19.99| /Outrageous pronouncements on lies, love and politics, including "our dark leaders", such as JFK and Malcolm X, in the most outrageous decade of all...
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Silences & Secrets
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /The Weintraubs Syncopators, international musical celebrities of the 1930s, embarked on a four-year journey across Europe, Russia and the Far East ...
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Slow Catastrophes
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Living with drought is one of the biggest issues of our times. Climate change scenarios suggest that in the next fifty years global warming will in...
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Slow Ride into the Past
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /The trishaw was introduced to Singapore after the surrender of the British in 1942. After the end of the war, the trishaw continued to be a popular...
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So Help Me God
History Publishing Co. Llc (US)£19.99| /Since George Washington used one in his 1789 inauguration, the Bible has become an indelible part of almost every American presidential inauguratio...
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Social and Political Thought of American Progressivism
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Through a variety of primary sources--including speeches, poems, magazine articles, and book excerpts--this collection illustrates the origins, amb...
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Social and Political Thought of American Progressivism
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£45.99| /Through a variety of primary sources--including speeches, poems, magazine articles, and book excerpts--this collection illustrates the origins, amb...
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South Pacific Air War
Schiffer Military History£40.99| /In 1943 the Allies chipped away at the defensive outer barrier of the Japanese Pacific empire, particularly in the Solomon Islands. US Marine and A...
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Soviet Communists & Russian History
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£75.99| /This book describes some of the key characters involved and their deeds. The second part is about some leaders of Imperial Russia. It seems clear t...
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Spy of David
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /Winston Churchill's description of Stalinist Russia in 1939 -- he called it a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma -- easily could have b...
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Staatsburgerschaft und Nation
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£71.99| /Regula Argast's study examines the development of Swiss citizenship between the founding of the federal state in 1848 and the anchoring of a restri...
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Star Mountains Expedition to Dutch New Guinea in 1959
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)£21.95| /In 1959, the Royal Dutch Geographical Society (KNAG) organised a multidisciplinary expedition (Geology, Anthropology, Linguistics, Zoology and Bota...
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Steel & Silk
Cune Press (US)£30.99| /Consists of profiles of 341 men and women. Syria has led the Arab World in many ways for the past 100 years. It was the headquarters of the Arab na...
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Storfall fur die gute Nachbarschaft?
V & R Unipress GmbH£61.99| /The oil crisis in autumn 1973 is considered to be the decisive turning point in the 1970s. It painfully demonstrated the dependence of the western ...
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Strangling of Persia
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£23.50| /In 1911, an ambitious American was invited by a budding Iranian democracy to bring financial stability to the country. He went with the blessing of...
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Stronger than Iron
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /This eye-witness account details the destruction of Vilna Jewry at the hands of the Nazis. Its chronicle of life in the two Vilna ghettos is the on...
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Superpowers' Involvement in the Iran-Iraq War
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£69.99| /This superb book describes the superpowers' involvement in the Iran-Iraq war. The study shows how the superpowers, particularly the United States, ...
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Synchrone Welten
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£20.99| /With Synchrone Worlds a new series of the Leipzig Simon Dubnow Institute is starting, which presents essays on Jewish history and culture. The firs...
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Tangata o le Moana
Te Papa Press£61.99| /This richly illustrated history tells the fascinating story of Pacific people and their relationships with, and contributions to, New Zealand socie...
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Text zu Land
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£54.99| /How did Palestine become "Palestine," that is, its own historical and political-geographic entity? This question is at the center of the study, whi...
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The 10th SS-Panzer-Division âFrundsbergâ
Schiffer Military£31.99| /The 10th Waffen-SS Division "Frundsberg" was formed at the beginning of 1943 as a reserve for the expected Allied invasion of France. However, thei...
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The 1924 Coolidge-Dawes Lincoln Tour
Schiffer£27.99| /âA cross-country road rally of 100,000 automobiles âA continuous political parade from the Atlantic to the Pacific âA story about the famous Lin...
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The Book of Great American Firecrackers
Schiffer£22.99| /Including 183 color and black-and-white images of vintage photos and packaging, plus values for American firecracker collectibles, this is the firs...
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The Changing North
CCI Press£26.99| /Imagine living through an arctic winter in shelter with no plumbing, not even an outhouse. For two months, the sun does not rise above the horizon,...
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The Cost of War
Sydney University Press£26.99| /War has shaped Australian society profoundly. When we commemorate the sacrifices of the Anzacs, we rightly celebrate their bravery, but we do not a...
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The Crisis of Socialist Modernity
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£57.99| /In the 1970s industry in the West had reached its limits, precipitating a major discussion about how to solve the crisis. But what was going on in ...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /In October 1962, when the Soviet Union deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba, the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War ensued, bringing the wor...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£55.99| /In October 1962, when the Soviet Union deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba, the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War ensued, bringing the wor...
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