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SETTING THE EAST ABLAZE
Lenin’s Dream of an Empire in AsiaPETER HOPKIRK
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You Save: 46%'Let us turn our faces towards Asia', exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialise. 'The East will help us conquer the West.' Hopkirk's book tells the story of the B... Learn More -
KURSK
The Greatest BattleLLOYD CLARK
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You Save: 46%The epic confrontation between German and Soviet forces around the town of Kursk in Russia in July 1943 was one of the most important military engagements in history and epitomised 'total war'. It was... Learn More -
THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
How the North Sea Made Us Who We AreMICHAEL PYE
£9.95A closely-researched characterisation of the richness of life and the underestimated interconnections of the peoples all around the medieval and early modern North Sea. It is a story of saints and spi... Learn More -
THE CONQUEST OF JERUSALEM AND THE THIRD CRUSADE
Sources in TranslationPETER W EDBURY
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You Save: 48%This is a complete collection in modern English of the key texts describing Saladin’s conquest of Jerusalem in October 1187 and the Third Crusade, which was Christendom’s response to the catastrop... Learn More -
IMAGINING ARMENIA
Orientalism, Ambiguity and Intervention, 1879-1925JOANNE LAYCOCK
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You Save: 81%This book examines how Armenia and Armenians were portrayed in Britain at a decisive moment in modern history. It illustrates how observers represented the 'in-between' position of Armenians and consi... Learn More -
FROM VICTORY TO VICHY
Veterans in Interwar FranceCHRIS MILLINGTON
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You Save: 81%This study explores the political mobilisation of the two largest French veterans' associations during the interwar years, the Union fédérale (UF) and the Union nationale des combattants (UNC). It a... Learn More -
STREETLIFE
The Untold Story of Europe’s Twentieth CenturyLEIF JERRAM
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You Save: 50%This study presents a totally new history of the twentieth century, with the city at its heart, showing how everything distinctive about it, from revolution and dictatorship to sexual liberation, was ... Learn More -
EMPIRE’S CROSSROADS
A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present DayCARRIE GIBSON
£4.95For the author, everything was created in the West Indies. Europe’s financial foundations were cemented and extended with sugar money; its factories and mills were built from the toil of slaves thou... Learn More -
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE PRUSSIAN CRUSADE
Holy War and ColonisationALEKSANDER PLUSKOWSKI
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You Save: 43%This volume explores the archaeology and material culture of the Baltic crusades against Prussian tribes in the thirteenth century, and the subsequent society created by the Teutonic Order which laste... Learn More -
ON THE EVE
The Jews of Europe before the Second World WarBERNARD WASSERSTEIN
£14.00This is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilisation before the Nazi onslaught and World War ... Learn More
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