History: Postwar 20th Century History
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F-104 Starfighter
Schiffer Military History£22.99| /Lockheed developed the F-104 Starfighter in the late 1950s. The plane was designed to be an all-weather interceptor. Speed, climb, and altitude all...
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Jerusalem Diaries
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£17.99| /This is a compelling and moving account of life in Israel today. In a series of essays, author and Jerusalem resident Judy Lash Balint travels to t...
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Kath Williams
Spinifex Press£19.95| /Kath Williams, who emerges as a feisty and quietly determined woman, was the major force behind the struggle for equal pay for women. She was elect...
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Legerdemain
History Publishing Co. Llc (US)£15.99| /This is a true story of a barely trained and inexperienced Air Force undercover agent who is sent to Morocco to assist the nationalist movement in ...
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Live By the Sword
Bancroft (US)£27.99| /In this fascinating and masterful work of research, Gus Russo finally unmasks the hidden secrets that have surrounded the Kennedy assassination for...
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M42 Duster
Schiffer Military History£22.99| /The M42 Duster was a tracked antiaircraft vehicle developed by Cadillac for the US Army in the early 1950s. The vehicle adapted the Bofors 40 mm AA...
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M48 Patton
Schiffer Military History£22.99| /The M48 Patton entered production in 1952 and remains in service with several major militaries today, a great testament to the design and how it ha...
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M60 Tank
Schiffer Military History£22.99| /The M60 was deployed by the US military from 1960 until it was phased out and replaced with the M1 Abrams during/after Operation Desert Storm. More...
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Perforating the Iron Curtain
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£50.00| /Cold War history research of the recent years suggests that the East-West détente process of the 1970s was a more significant element than previous...
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Raja of Mahmudabad
Sama Editorial & Publishing Services (PK)£4.50| /The Raja of Mahmudabad (1914-1973) was the only Treasurer of the All-India Muslim League, as well as the founding President of both its main subsid...
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Real Modern
Te Papa Press£57.99| /The decades of the 1950s and 60s continue to exert a powerful fascination, as seen in the lasting popularity of Mad Men, Crown Lynn collectibles a...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ČZ Models 50 and 70
Schiffer Military History£40.99| /The CZ handgun models 50 and 70 are available to Western collectors today but were both developed and produced behind the Iron Curtain. In the year...
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The ČZ Models 50 and 70
Schiffer Military History£40.99| /The ČZ handgun models 50 and 70 are available to Western collectors today but were both developed and produced behind the Iron Curtain. These pisto...
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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 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 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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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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Vikings in Vietnam
Schiffer Military History£27.99| /In a little-known episode of the Vietnam War, the CIA hired Norwegian skippers to command fast patrol boats to land South Vietnamese commandos and ...
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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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