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Paperback. Graphic account of the most famous episode in the Battle of the Bulge. Tells the story from German and American viewpoints. Full walking and driving tour of the area over which the battle was fought. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 209 x 12. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473827042
- ISBN
- 9781473827042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.90
€ 19.99
€ 15.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 739200 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DND; BJ; HBJD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 181 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1034.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 739200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772892450
- ISBN
- 9788772892450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 91.85€ 71.47
€ 91.85
€ 71.47
Paperback. This is the previously untold story of one of the most ferocious and prolonged air/naval battles in history: the battle at the radar picket stations during the American assault on Okinawa in spring 1945. Num Pages: 448 pages, black and white photos throughout. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 714. Okinawa 1945. 448 pages, black and white photos throughout. This is the untold story of one of the most ferocious and prolonged battles in history: the battle at the radar picket stations during the American assault on Okinawa. It weaves together the experiences of the ships and their crews, Navy, Army, and Marine Corps pilots, and Japanese kamikazes in an account which provides the complete story. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 28. Weight: 714.
- Publisher
- Casemate Publishers
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935149415
- ISBN
- 9781935149415
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.57
€ 27.99
€ 26.57
Paperback. Why did almost 1000 highly educated "student soldiers" volunteer to serve in Japan's kamikaze operations at the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? This study of the role of the state in pushing imperial ideology shows the power of symbolic communication. Num Pages: 376 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJF; HBWQ; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226620916
- ISBN
- 9780226620916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.59
€ 36.99
€ 29.59
Hardcover. Presents diaries and correspondence left by members of the tokkotai and other Japanese student soldiers who perished during the World War II. Outside of Japan, these kamikaze pilots were considered unbridled fanatics who willingly sacrificed their lives for the emperor. This book explores writings, which speak otherwise. Num Pages: 232 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; BTM; HBJF; HBWQ; JWG; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 181 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226619507
- ISBN
- 9780226619507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.82€ 44.70
€ 51.82
€ 44.70
Paperback. Presents diaries and correspondence left by kamikaze pilots and other Japanese student soldiers who perished during the war. These kamikaze pilots were considered unbridled fanatics who willingly sacrificed their lives for the emperor. This work is useful for those interested in the history of Japan and World War II. Num Pages: 246 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; BTM; HBJF; HBWQ; JWG; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226619514
- ISBN
- 9780226619514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.41
€ 23.99
€ 19.41
Paperback. King of Prussia, German Emperor, war leader and defeated exile, Kaiser Wilhelm II was one of the most important figures in the history of twentieth-century Europe. This book presents a fresh interpretation of this contentious figure, focusing on how his thirty-year reign from 1888 to 1918 affected Germany, and the rest of Europe. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BGR; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141039930
- ISBN
- 9780141039930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.95
€ 19.99
€ 14.95
Paperback. This is a concise edition of John Rohl's prize-winning three-volume biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. Num Pages: 261 pages, 31 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107420779
- ISBN
- 9781107420779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.50
€ 31.99
€ 30.50
paperback. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; JPA; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442613263
- ISBN
- 9781442613263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 47.64
€ 52.99
€ 47.64
Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1DVU; BGH; HBJD; HBWQ; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739172704
- ISBN
- 9780739172704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.58
€ 154.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 1KBB; BG; HBJH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Touchstone Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780684848280
- ISBN
- 9780684848280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.98
€ 21.99
€ 18.98
Series: Jewish Cultures of the World. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3F; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HRJS; HRJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813568751
- ISBN
- 9780813568751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 161.16
€ 161.16
Hardcover. This book offers a comprehensive political biography of Kingsley Ozuomba Mbadiwe, (1915-1990), a central figure in Nigerian political history for more than forty years. Num Pages: 294 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; BGH; HBJH; HBLW; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137002617
- ISBN
- 9781137002617
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 294 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: D; HBJH; HBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 387.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349433872
- ISBN
- 9781349433872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Translator(s): Silva, A.; Silvas, Anna. Series: Brepols Medieval Women Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271019543
- ISBN
- 9780271019543
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 34.56
€ 43.99
€ 34.56
Hardback. Editor(s): Epkenhans, Michael; Hillmann, Jorg; Nagler, Frank. Series: Foreign Military Studies. Num Pages: 362 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBWN; JWF; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 35. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813166056
- ISBN
- 9780813166056
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.47
€ 74.47
Paperback. Dramatic, illustrated account of the biggest naval battle of the First World War Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks. Num Pages: 480 pages, 32, 12 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; 1QSF; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBWN; JWF; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780304366484
- ISBN
- 9780304366484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.36
€ 17.99
€ 13.36
Hardback. Series: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture. Num Pages: 228 pages, 10 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 3F; HBJD; HBLC; HBW; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137562036
- ISBN
- 9781137562036
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.59
€ 149.59
paperback. In the middle of the 6th century, the Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that carries bubonic plague, collided with the world's mightiest empire. With the death of 25 million people, the Roman Empire, under her last great emperor, Justinian, was decimated. This book tells the story of that collision. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; 1QDAR; HBJD; HBJF; HBLA; MJCJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Pimlico
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781844137442
- ISBN
- 9781844137442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.29
€ 21.99
€ 15.29
Paperback. A new assessment of the debates about Just War in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the imperial wars of the nineteenth century through the age of total war, the evolution of human rights discourse and international law, to proportionality during the Cold War and the redefinition of authority with the ascendancy of terror groups. Editor(s): Welch, David; Fox, Jo. Num Pages: 397 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJD; HBL; HBTB; JPA; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 397
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349319411
- ISBN
- 9781349319411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24
Hardcover. As Stefan Ihrig shows in this first comprehensive study, many Germans sympathized with the Ottomans longstanding repression of the Armenians and with the Turks program of extermination during World War I. In the Nazis version of history, the Armenian Genocide was justifiable because it had made possible the astonishing rise of the New Turkey." Num Pages: 446 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVUR; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 446
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504790
- ISBN
- 9780674504790
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.39
€ 47.99
€ 40.39
Paperback. Provides the history of the 110 members of the U.S. Supreme. This book addresses the vital questions of why individual justices were nominated to the highest court, how their nominations were received, and whether the appointees ultimately lived up to the expectations of the American public. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white tables, black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 251 x 181 x 27. Weight in Grams: 864.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 5th
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742558953
- ISBN
- 9780742558953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 86.25
€ 86.25
Hardback. The Arab Spring uprising of 2011 is portrayed as a dawn of democracy in the region. But the revolutionaries were--and saw themselves as--heirs to a centuries-long struggle for just government and the rule of law. In Justice Interrupted we see the complex lineage of political idealism, reform, and violence that informs today's Middle East. Num Pages: 380 pages, 30 halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; HBTR; HBTV; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 162 x 42. Weight in Grams: 808.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073135
- ISBN
- 9780674073135
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.76€ 48.55
€ 51.76
€ 48.55
Hardback. This book uses the life and work of lawyer and Supreme Court justice, Benjamin R. Curtis, as a window on the most serious constitutional crisis in American history, the Civil War. The book reassesses Curtis's common-law methods in the context of his times and shows how his views continue to shed light on issues. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923420
- ISBN
- 9780813923420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86