20th Century History: c1900 to c2000
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The Shadow of the Strongman
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £56.99Current price £37.04| /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 HistoryOriginal price £40.99Current price £26.64| /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
SchifferOriginal price £27.99Current price £18.19| /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 PressOriginal price £38.99Current price £25.34| /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)Original price £34.99Current price £22.74| /"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)Original price £80.99Current price £52.64| /"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: The Fate of a Czechoslovak Family in 20th Century Central Europe (1918–1989)
ibidemOriginal price £22.00Current price £16.50| /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 Kübelwagen Type 82 in World War II
Schiffer MilitaryOriginal price £40.99Current price £26.64| /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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Third in Line
Schiffer MilitaryOriginal price £63.99Current price £41.59| /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 MilitaryOriginal price £45.99Current price £29.89| /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)Original price £35.99Current price £23.39| /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 £38.99Current price £25.34| /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 MilitaryOriginal price £22.99Current price £17.24| /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 £75.99Current price £49.39| /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)Original price £28.99Current price £18.84| /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 MilitaryOriginal price £27.99Current price £18.19| /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)Original price £50.00Current price £32.50| /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 MilitaryOriginal price £45.99Current price £29.89| /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 MilitaryOriginal price £27.99Current price £18.19| /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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Under Three Flags
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)Original price £29.95Current price £19.47| /Military historian Andris Kursietis' new book Under Three Flags is his latest work covering the 20th Century. The book provides an analysis of the ...
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Uniforms & Equipment of U.S. Military Advisors in Vietnam
Schiffer MilitaryOriginal price £54.99Current price £35.74| /This new, extensively researched volume (volume two in the series) is a comprehensive guide to the history, development, wear, and use of uniforms ...
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Unknown Reich
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)Original price £12.50Current price £11.50| /The Kommandostab Reichsfuhrer-SS, the Hohere SS and the Polizeifuhrer in occupied Russia, the infamous Einsatzgruppen in cooperation with Sicherung...
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Urban Maori
Oratia BooksOriginal price £30.99Current price £20.14| /The post-1945 migration to the cities by Māori transformed Aotearoa New Zealand forever. Before the Second World War 90% of Māori lived in rural tr...
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Verhandelte Demokratisierung
V & R Unipress GmbH£30.99| /So far, the multi-faceted engagement at the round tables of the districts has been overshadowed by the achievements of the Central Round Table of t...
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Verschrankungen
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£21.99| /With this translation of the essay Harpaja lezorech negia ("Let go to touch") published in Hebrew in 2005, for which he wrote the "portraits" anew,...
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Victor Kugler
Gefen Publishing House (IS)Original price £15.99Current price £11.99| /Of all the personalities associated with Anne Frank, the most important figure, without whom Anne Frank would never have been able to write her dia...
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Voices of Freedom Western Interference?
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KGOriginal price £47.99Current price £31.19| /In the clashes between "West" and "East" in the Cold War, broadcasters took on a new meaning: unlike traditional print media, radio waves were able...
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Vom Ende der Emanzipation
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£23.99| /One of the philosophical self-understanding texts of the 20th century that has so far received little attention is the fundamental debate that Jewi...
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Vom Scheitern der kybernetischen Utopie
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£28.99| /Obtaining and processing information is a central task of every secret service. The Stasi, however, by no means wanted to know 'everything' in an u...
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Vorbereitung zur WeltGeschichte fur Kinder
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£42.99| /One of the most popular books of the 18th century was Preparation for World History for Children (1779) by August Ludwig von Schlözer (17351809). ...
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War and the Intellectuals
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £12.99Current price £11.99| /Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...
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War and the Intellectuals
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £33.99Current price £22.09| /Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...
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Westdeutsche und italienische Historiker als Intellektuelle?
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£75.99| /Following the Second World War West German and Italian historians tried to influence the "culture of remembrance" via the mass media. But how succe...
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