History: Specific Events & Topics
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Stella
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /A wealthy madam who was known from San Francisco to Victoria in the early part of the 20th century, Stella Carroll was glamorous, worldly and deter...
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Sternwheelers & Canyon Cats
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /The story of men who braved the dangerous waterways of the uppper Fraser River to build the GTP Railway. Forbidding canyons, raging rapids and mena...
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Stories Told
CCI Press£15.99| /Stories Told takes you back into the epic journey of the Berger Inquiry, as Judge Berger travelled from community to community to hear stories told...
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Story of an Underground
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£35.99| /This is the story of the fighting underground of the Jews of Kovno, Lithuania, in World War II. The authors, historians Zvie A Brown and Dov Levin,...
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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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Subverting Syria
Progressive Press (US)£11.99| /The Syrian "uprising" is a cynical US-engineered plot using provocateurs, mercenaries, Wahhabi fanatics, corrupt NGO's and the global media. The US...
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Summers in St. Andrews
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /Summertime in late 19th-century St. Andrews was more than a vacation by the sea, it was a lifestyle. "Discovered" by a wealthy few who felt the nee...
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Sunday Best
Massey University Press£42.99| /The early arrival of the missionaries in Aotearoa set the scene for a new moral colony that would be founded on religious precepts and modern Chr...
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Sunset Survivors
Blacksmith Books (HK)£28.99| /This book tells the stories of Hong Kongs traditional tradesmen and women through stunning imagery and candid interviews. Covering a myriad of cur...
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Surveying Northern British Columbia
Caitlin Press (CA)£23.99| /Surveying the North sets out to recognise -- and celebrate -- Frank Swannell as British Columbia's most famous pioneer surveyor and his important p...
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Surviving Peace
Spinifex Press£19.95| /How do you pick up the pieces after your life is shattered by war? How do you continue living when your country no longer exists, your language is ...
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Surviving the Gulag
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /"The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking ai...
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Survivors
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /This is not just another Holocaust photo album. It is a special work that confirms optimism and vitality. It deals with the cycle of life and its w...
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Teenage Wasteland
Schiffer£40.99| /In February 1968 and March 1976, the Who performed shows in the same venue, almost ten years apart: San Francisco's Winterland. Generally considere...
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The Alberta Supreme Court at 100
University of Alberta Press (CA)£38.99| /This volume marks the 2007 centenary of the Supreme Court of Alberta. These essays examine the extent to which the Court articulated an Albertan re...
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The Arctic Journals of John Rae
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Scottish doctor and explorer John Rae is a controversial figure in the history of the Arctic. He began his career with the Hudson's Bay Company as ...
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The Art and Colour of General Motors
Coachbuilt Press£102.99| /General Motors has been a world leader in automotive design for 100 years. No other large-scale manufacturer has put such energy and resources into...
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The Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£39.00| /"This book on the Auschwitz Concentration Camp provides a chronological account from the camp's beginning in 1940 right up to its liberation in Jan...
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The Ballad of Jacob Peck
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingOn a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hal...
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The Bastard of Fort Stikine
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Winner, Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, Jeanne Clarke Memorial Local History Award, and Prince Edward Island Book Award for Non-Fictio...
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The Camp Men
Schiffer Military£54.99| /nside these pages you will meet over 960 infamous men â the officers of Nazi Germany's Totenkopf (Death's Head). You will encounter the 256 SS off...
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The Chelmno Death Camp
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£36.00| /This book is a comprehensive account of the Chelmno death camp. Chelmno was not only the first Nazi death camp, it also set a horrific example in e...
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The Cowboy Way
Blue Bike Books (CA)£14.99| /For everything cowboy and Wild West, look no further. The Cowboy Way is a tribute to the classic image of old-time lore and its influence on popula...
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The Death of Tidericus the Organist
Viking Society For Northern Research (UK)£10.00| /In the summer of 1350, as a deadly pandemic tore across Europe, nine people were burnt at the stake in the Hanseatic city of Visby on the island of...
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The Essential Jefferson
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /Through substantial selections from Jefferson's writings--including his earliest writings, Notes on Virginia , and key public papers and personal c...
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The Essential Jefferson
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£38.99| /Through substantial selections from Jefferson's writings--including his earliest writings, Notes on Virginia , and key public papers and personal c...
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The Euromaidans Effect on Civil Society
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£30.00| /Sophie Falsini presents a fascinating analysis of the current state and future prospects of Ukrainian civil society in light of the 20132014 event...
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The Expatriate Myth
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /Many New Zealand writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century travelled extensively or lived overseas for a time, and they often led ...
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The First New Chronicle and Good Government, Abridged
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /David Frye's skillful translation and abridgment of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's monumental First New Chronicle and Good Government (composed betw...
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The First New Chronicle and Good Government, Abridged
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£45.99| /David Frye's skillful translation and abridgment of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's monumental First New Chronicle and Good Government (composed betw...
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The French Revolution of 1789 as Viewed in the Light of Republican Institutions
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /For some years the author of this work has been collecting materials for writing the history of the French Revolution. With this object in view he ...
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The Ghetto Men
Schiffer Military£54.99| /The twenty-eight day siege of the Warsaw Ghetto was one of the most protracted large-scale urban battles in World War II. Only the fighting at Leni...
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The Great Metropolis
HVA Press£23.99| /With wit and culture Junius Browne, the prototypical New Yorker, provides a comprehensive tour of his city. Curmudgeonly yet compassionate, Browne ...
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The Holocaust in Czechoslovak and Czech Feature Films
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£26.00| /árka Sladovníková analyzes the depiction of the Holocaust in Czechoslovak and Czech Feature Films and the relevant literary pretexts. While she ch...
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The Holocaust's Ghost
University of Alberta Press (CA)£42.99| /A powerful collection of commentary on the Holocaust by international writers from nine disciplines. The volume forms a response to the Holocaust's...
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The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£35.99| /Occasionally one comes across a book, which is unexpected, delights and inspires. Surinam, known as the Jewish Savannah, where a vibrant Jewish c...
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