20th Century History: c1900 to c2000
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The Diplomat
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /The story of the incident that forged Canada's reputation as a broker of peace and a player with outsized influence in world affairs. In a world on...
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The Endless Battle
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /Shortlisted, 2018 Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingSuggested Reading by the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative AssociationNear...
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The First World War
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Co.KG£61.99| /The well-respected historian Manfried Rauchensteiner analyses the outbreak of World War I, Emperor Franz Josephs role in the conflict, and how the...
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The German Secret Service in America 1914-1918
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£172.99| /A nation at war wants nothing less than complete information of her enemy. It is hard for the mind to conceive exactly what "complete information" ...
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The Graveyard of the Pacific
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /On January 22, 1906, the passenger ship Valencia lost her way in heavy fog and rain and rammed into the deadly rocks at Pachena Point on the west c...
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The History of Scientific Atheism
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£66.99| /The book analyses under what conditions was it possible to develop scientific atheism which was by the contemporaries in the Soviet Union and Czech...
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The Land Girls
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /This book tells the story of New Zealand's land girls during the Second World War. Drawing on the oral histories of 130 women and the written inter...
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The Moscow Bombings of September 1999
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£33.99| /The five chapters contained in this volume focus on the complex and tumultuous events occurring in Russia during the five months from May through S...
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The New University of Cologne
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£19.99| /The University of Cologne has an unusual history: It was founded - for the second time - by the city council in 1919, more than 100 years after its...
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The Peak
Blacksmith Books (HK)£24.95| /The Peak is Hong Kongs top residential district, where property prices are as high as the altitude. How did it become an exclusive enclave in the ...
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The Road to Socialism
V & R Unipress GmbH£47.99| /The book is the first comprehensive empirical study of transport infrastructure in two socialist countries in the years 19451989. In the case stud...
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The Russian Military Air Fleet in World War I
Schiffer Military£72.99| /The Russian Military Air Fleet in World War I two volume set is a prodigious scholarly endeavor, offering for the first time in the English languag...
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The Secret History of KGB Spy Cameras
Schiffer Military£40.99| /This lavishly photographed and authoritative book presents the secret history of Soviet subminiature spy cameras during the Cold War. It is a histo...
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The Shadow of the Strongman
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /A searing novel of the post-1910 Mexican revolutionary era that itself challenged the Mexican political establishment, Guzmàn's The Shadow of the S...
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The Shadow of the Strongman
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£56.99| /A searing novel of the post-1910 Mexican revolutionary era that itself challenged the Mexican political establishment, Guzmàn's The Shadow of the S...
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The Spray and Pray Squadron
Schiffer Military History£40.99| /This book chronicles exploits of the 3rd Bomb Squadron of Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault's experimental Chinese-American Composite Wing, in which young...
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The Ties that Blind
Schiffer£27.99| /Take a look at the wild, bold, colorful, and naughty designs that have swelled men's chests throughout necktie history. Follow the development of t...
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The Ukrainian-Polish Defensive Alliance, 1919-1921
CIUS Press£38.99| /Michael Palij introduces the English-language reader and students of history to a relatively little-known aspect of the revolutionary upheavals tha...
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The United States in World War II
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£34.99| /"Outstanding . . . the best short history I have read of America's role in World War II . Stoler and Michelmore draw on a judicious selection of hi...
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The United States in World War II
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£80.99| /"Outstanding . . . the best short history I have read of America's role in World War II . Stoler and Michelmore draw on a judicious selection of hi...
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The Vesels
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£22.00| /This book deals with the Slovak National Uprising (SNP) that was launched on 29 August 1944 in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. In the West, the uprising...
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The Volkswagen KÃ"belwagen Type 82 in World War II
Schiffer Military£40.99| /The famed World War II vehicle - the German equivalent of the American "Jeep" â is presented here in a superb collection of vintage photographs, a...
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Then Horror Came Into Her Eyes...
V & R Unipress GmbH£42.99| /The contributions of the volume focus on the First World War from a gender perspective, whereby the complex relationship between the front and the ...
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Third in Line
Schiffer Military£63.99| /What was successively titled the 4th Bomb Wing, 3rd Bomb Division and finally 3rd Air Division entered combat with the VIII Bomber Command in May 1...
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Tip of the Spear:
Schiffer Military£45.99| /This book presents a detailed tabular review of U.S. carriers and squadrons between the end of Vietnam and the start of the new millennium. Over 20...
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Tobacco, Arms & Politics
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£35.99| /Analyses the politico-economic effects of Germany's policy towards Greece leading up to occupation in 1941. Looking in particular at the trade in t...
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Tooth and Veil
Massey University PressOriginal price £41.99Current price £38.99| /In 1921, the School Dental Service was established. A social experiment unique to New Zealand, it was lauded around the world and later modelled in...
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Totalitarismus und Transformation
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£65.99| /The focus of the volume is on the negative factors for the establishment and consolidation of democratic constitutional states resulting from previ...
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Touching Space
Schiffer Military£22.99| /Project Manhigh took humans to the threshold of space using balloons. In the 1950s, a small band of Air Force doctors were on the cutting edge of t...
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Towards Friendship
Unipub/Oslo Academic Press (NZ)£43.00| /Japanese culture appears to be found 'everywhere' in the West today. Sushi, sudoku, origami, sumo, manga, anime, and pókemon have become familiar i...
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Translating Late Ottoman Modernity in Palestine
V & R Unipress GmbHOriginal price £72.99Current price £71.99| /The study examines local debates about political order, collective identity, and relationships between ethnic and denominational groups in the pre-...
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Transnational America
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£28.99| /This is an interdisciplinary analysis of the interaction between today's globalisation and Americanisation. Transnationalism involves a loosening o...
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Trawniki Guards
Schiffer Military£27.99| /This is a study of some of the rank-and-file men, the foot soldiers, who carried out the "Final Solution." The Trawniki concentration camp in Polan...
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Tying Greece to the West
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£50.00| /The author examines the reconstruction of Greece in the post war era and the role of the United States and West Germany. He deals with the Marshall...
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U.S. Military War Dogs in World War II
Schiffer Military£45.99| /This book is the first to aid collectors and historians in identifying U.S. Military World War II War Dog equipment. The many World War II-era phot...
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Ukrainians in the Waffen-SS
Schiffer Military£27.99| /With the beginning of the Operation Barbarossa more than 100,000 Ukrainians volunteered for the fight against Stalin and communismn. These voluntee...
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