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History: earliest times to present day

Paperback. This is the moving story of how people lived in the forced labour camps and died in the gas chambers. It gives a unique insight into how the camps were run, by the SS commandants down to privileged prisoners. Num Pages: 144 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473827981
ISBN
9781473827981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.93

Paperback. Written by a mamber of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the post-war experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies classes. Translator(s): Lamont, Rosette C. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 151 x 27. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300190779
ISBN
9780300190779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.85

Paperback. .
Publisher
Verso
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781688045
ISBN
9781781688045
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.11

Paperback. When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform scientific research on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous Angel of Death: Dr Josef Mengele. Translator(s): Kremer, Tibere; Sevear, Richard. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BGHA; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 200 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141392219
ISBN
9780141392219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

paperback. The groundbreaking series that will tell the story of Britain from VE Day in 1945 to the coming of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 as never before Series: Tales of a New Jerusalem. Num Pages: 704 pages, B&W Inserts. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 46. Weight in Grams: 532. Series: Tales of a New Jerusalem. 704 pages, B&W Inserts. The groundbreaking series that will tell the story of Britain from VE Day in 1945 to the coming of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 as never before. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 46. Weight: 518.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747599234
ISBN
9780747599234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.49

Paperback. This title details the famous "Battle of the Three Emperors", featuring the three most powerful individuals and armies in Europe. It examines the attacks and counterattacks at Austerlitz with accompanying illustrations on the movements of the opposing armies. Illustrator(s): Hook, Christa. Series: Osprey Campaign S. Num Pages: 96 pages, 70 b&w and 14 colour illustrations, maps, chronology, index. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH; JWD; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 184 x 6. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Edition
2nd
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841761367
ISBN
9781841761367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.56

Paperback. Part history, part travelogue, part memoir, this book tells the inspiring story of how a one time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. This book describes Australia's journey through the eyes of ordinary people, from the trauma of the WW-I to the decline of the relationship with Britain, and more. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBJM; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099772910
ISBN
9780099772910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBJM; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 37. Weight in Grams: 634.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781742234083
ISBN
9781742234083
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.41

Paperback. This text is a comprehensive military history of frontier conflict in Australia. Covering the first 50 years of British occupation in Australia, the book examines in detail how both sides fought on the frontier and examines how Aborigines developed a form of warfare differing from tradition. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JF; 3JH; HBJM; HBLL; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780868407562
ISBN
9780868407562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.26

Hardcover. This volume, the first of its kind in English, brings together scholars from different disciplines who address the history of women in Austria, as well as their place in contemporary Austrian society, from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, thus shedding new light on contemporary Austria. Editor(s): Good, David F.; Grandner, Margarete; Maynes, Mary Jo. Num Pages: 250 pages, 3 tables, 3 graphs, Bibliog., Index. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454. Very good copy in very good cloth covers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0016004
ISBN
9781571810656
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Wistrich, Robert S. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HRJ; JFF; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1992
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349223800
ISBN
9781349223800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 193.63

hardcover. Explores the development of the unique symbiosis between Austrians and Jews which culminated in the Anschluss of 1938 and the Holocaust. It also explores the post-war period of Austria and how anti-Semitism survived the war and led to the international isolation of Austria over the Waldheim affair. Editor(s): Wistrich, Robert S. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JFFJ; JFSL; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
Edition
1992nd Edition
SKU
V9780333532096
ISBN
9780333532096
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.60

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472814708
ISBN
9781472814708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349471430
ISBN
9781349471430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 150.78

Hardback. A study of Malaysian socio-economic and political issues within a chronological historical framework, spanning the period from 1940 to 1995. The state is examined from the perspective of social class as well as communism, so as to explain the dominance of the ruling coalition since independence. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMM; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; JPA; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333644911
ISBN
9780333644911
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.60

Hardcover. Focuses on the changes undergone by Mapai, Israel's first ruling party, during Israel's first years of Independence, and then analyses the effects of these changes in relation to Israeli political culture. Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJPG; HBJF1; HBLW3; JPL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 167 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936235278
ISBN
9781936235278
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.71

Paperback. The Christianization of the Roman world lies at the root of modern Europe, yet at the time it was a tentative and piecemeal process. This study examines the factors which proved decisive and the compromises which made the emergence of the Christian "thought world" possible. Series: Canto Original Series. Num Pages: 108 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 157 x 7. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
108
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521595575
ISBN
9780521595575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.03

paperback. Daniel Hobbins argues for a new understanding of Jean Gerson as a public intellectual and a man of letters and publicist, actively managing the diffusion of his works in a period of rapid expansion in written culture. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, 21 illus. BIC Classification: 3H; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812222746
ISBN
9780812222746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. Editor(s): Seavey, Ormond. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGHA; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199554904
ISBN
9780199554904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Chronicles a harsh world in which young women faced the realities of sex for sale and were deprived of their freedom and identity. This work also tells of the author's life after leaving the geisha house, painting a panorama of the grinding poverty of rural life in wartime Japan. Translator(s): Rowley, G. G. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; BGA; HBJF; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168. Clean copy with some shelf wear
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KOC0012729
ISBN
9780099462040
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Cecelia Ferrazzi's inquisitorial autobiography and the transcripts of her preceding testimony are here transcribed and translated into English, allowing the reader an insight into an unfamiliar sector of the past. Editor(s): Schutte, Anne Jacobson (Professor of History, University of Virginia, USA). Translator(s): Schutte, Anne Jacobson (Professor of History, University of Virginia, USA). Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 134 pages, 1 halftone, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DST; BGHA; HBJD; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 168 x 10. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226244471
ISBN
9780226244471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.43

Paperback / so. Editor(s): Vickers, Daniel (University of California, San Diego). Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 140 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 3JH; BGA; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 239.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551117812
ISBN
9781551117812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.87

Hardback. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 315 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
315
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403985958
ISBN
9781403985958
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.99

Hardback. In this text, the authors argue that Chairman Mao can best be compared to a specific imperial predecessor, Ming Taizu, the 14th century peasant rebel who founded the Ming dynasty. They examine imperial predecessors and the elements linking Mao and Taizu. Editor(s): Andrew, Anita M.; Rapp, John A. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLC; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 617.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847695799
ISBN
9780847695799
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 176.20

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