History: Specific Events & Topics
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Tuskegee Airmen
Branden Publishing Co (US)£40.99| /Long before Civil Rights, the Tuskegee Airmen fought for equality. First they integrated the Armed Forces, then a whole nation and did it with comp...
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Two Flags
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£20.99| /The Warsaw ghetto uprising was planned and accomplished by two organisations, the ZOB (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa -- Jewish Fighting Organization)...
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Two Witnesses' Testimony. Long Lost Manuscripts from 1938
Ariadne Press (US)£25.99| /The sports journalist Maximilian Reich was arrested on March 17, 1938 in Vienna and sent to the concentration camp in Dachau with the so-called Tra...
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Ukraine's Post-Communist Mass Media
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£25.99| /Natalya Ryabinska calls into question the commonly held opinion that the problems with media reform and press freedom in former Soviet states merel...
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Ukraines Decentralization
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£30.00| /Ukraines 20132014 Revolution of Dignity also became known as The Euromaidan, which literally means European Square and refers to the country...
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Umbrellas in Bloom
Blacksmith Books (HK)£12.99| /This book puts Hong Kong on the world map and elevated this docile, money-minded Asian island to a model for pro-democracy campaigns across the glo...
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Under Swiss Protection
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£18.00| /This volume retraces Carl Lutzs diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Togethe...
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Unearthly Landscapes
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /By the nineteenth century the ancient urban churchyards of Britain, burdened with generations of dead, were unable to cope with rising numbers of ...
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Union & Liberty
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£10.95| /Calhoun's most important constitutional and political writings are now available as complete, unabridged texts and in a single volume, many for the...
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Unmasking ISIS
Progressive Press (US)£13.99| /ISIS started as rebels under the US occupation of Iraq. They grew by ravaging Libya and Syria. Their backers are Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and they ...
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Unredeemed Past
Ariadne Press (US)£27.99| /This book gives voice to experiences by Austrian and Austrian Jewish women during World War II and the Holocaust through a social and historical re...
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Up from the Underworld
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /Why was it that a small mining community in Victoria on the margin of Australian coal mining, with a strong union organisation, was able to exert a...
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Urban Maori
Oratia Books£30.99| /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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Urban Spaces and the complexity of Cities
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£42.99| /For some time the Commission Internationale pour lHistoire des Villes has been working actively on the comprehensive topic of urban space which is...
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USS Missouri (BB-63)
Schiffer Military£18.99| /The story of the USS Missouri, one of America's most famous warships of the twentieth century, and the world's last battleship, is told from her in...
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USS North Carolina (BB-55)
Schiffer Military£18.99| /As lead ship of America’s first “fast battleship” class, and the US Navy’s newest battleship when America entered WWII, the construction of the USS...
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Victims & Executioners
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£84.99| /In recent years, much has been written on how the moral meaning and significance of the Holocaust has been appropriated in popular and political di...
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Victor Kugler
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /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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Videotape Your Memoirs
Quill Driver Books (US)£13.99| /Every one of us has a story to tell, yet writing is often such a daunting task that most people never get around to starting their memoirs -- let a...
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Violence in Between
Monash University Publishing£31.99| /A recent series of terrorist attacks, the uncovering of a large terrorist network, and a string of continuing regional conflicts have raised an awa...
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Voice Called
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /This is a collection of articles about some of the great Jewish heroes of modern times. The book is a collage of role-models and inspiring makers o...
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Voices of the Elders
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /There is a special place on the south-eastern shores of Barkley Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. It is a magnificent landscape of rock...
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Voyages of Hope
Horsdal & Schubart Publishers Ltd (CA)£16.99| /A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One ...
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Wagon-Making in the United States
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US)£23.99| /This is perhaps the best available description of the tools, materials, technology, and process of wagon-making in the US during the late pre-autom...
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