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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 -
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 -
THE MEDIEVAL NATURAL WORLD
RICHARD JONES
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You Save: 55%How did medieval people make sense of their surroundings, and how did this change over the years as understanding and knowledge expanded? This new study shows how medieval people interpreted the world... Learn More -
GIANTS
The Dwarfs of AuschwitzYEHUDA KOREN and EILAT NEGEV
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You Save: 51%‘Through thick and thin, never separate. Stick together, guard each other and live for one another.’ The Ovitz family had good reason to stand by their mother’s mantra as they descended from the... Learn More
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