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Paperback. This is the first complete story, long hidden by the Soviet Union, of the attack by government forces on striking workers in 1962, resulting in 21 dead and hundreds of others wounded or imprisoned. Only with the advent of glasnost in the 1980s did the tight lid of secrecy placed on the entire episode by the Soviets begin slowly to lift. Num Pages: 264 pages, 32 illustrations, 3 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBLW3; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804752312
ISBN
9780804752312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardback. This is the first complete story, long hidden by the Soviet Union, of the attack by government forces on striking workers in 1962, resulting in 21 dead and hundreds of others wounded or imprisoned. Only with the advent of glasnost in the 1980s did the tight lid of secrecy placed on the entire episode by the Soviets begin slowly to lift. Num Pages: 264 pages, 32 illustrations, 3 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBLW3; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804740937
ISBN
9780804740937
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.78

Hardcover. This book tells the story of the largest British bomber of World War 1 and the men who flew them. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; HBWN; JWG; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Fonthill Media United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781550809
ISBN
9781781550809
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.72

Paperback. Based on countless diaries and letters, Schrijvers recounts American GIs' experiences in Asia and the Pacific. From the daunting spaces of the China-India theatre to the fortress islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, he brings to life their struggle with suffocating wilderness, devastating diseases, and Japanese soldiers who preferred death over life. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBJM; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380. American Soldiers at War with Japan. 304 pages, 16, 16 black & white plates. Based on countless diaries and letters, Schrijvers recounts American GIs' experiences in Asia and the Pacific. From the daunting spaces of the China-India theatre to the fortress islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, he brings to life their struggle with suffocating wilderness, devastating diseases, and Japanese soldiers who preferred death over life. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBJM; HBWQ; JWLF. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 17. Weight: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Second Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230274365
ISBN
9780230274365
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.61

Hardcover. Allen J. Frantzen traces chivalric ideals from the Great War back to their origins in the Middle Ages and shows how they resulted in highly influential models of behaviour for men in combat. Num Pages: 360 pages, 26 colour plates, 93 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBJD; HBWN; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226260853
ISBN
9780226260853
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.41
€ 46.16

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, 55 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750969819
ISBN
9780750969819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.91

Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 184 illustrations, 62 in colour. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; 3JM; ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 300 x 240. .
Publisher
Skira
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9788857232737
ISBN
9788857232737
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.83
€ 64.75

Paperback. Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. The killing fields extended from central Polads to western Russia. This book gives voice to the testimony of the victims through the letters home, the notes flung from trains, the diaries on corpses. Num Pages: 544 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVUA; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 42. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099551799
ISBN
9780099551799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard & Judy pick, 'Netherland'. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1DVT; 3JJH; BGH; HBT; JPVR; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers London
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007309252
ISBN
9780007309252
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.87

Hardcover. 41 Squadron is one of the oldest RAF Squadrons still in existence and has seen service from the First World War, policing the Middle East in the 1930s, throughout the Second World War, and more recently in the First Gulf War and Yugoslavia. This is the first comprehensive study, concentrating on its Second World War between August 1942 - May 1945 Num Pages: 1088 pages, 350 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ; JWF; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 254 x 50. Weight in Grams: 2074.
Publisher
Fonthill Media Ltd
Number of pages
1088
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781551936
ISBN
9781781551936
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 36.62

Hardcover. A comprehensive study of 41 Squadron RAF, concentrating on its wartime activity between September 1939 and July 1942 Num Pages: 960 pages, 300 black and white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 177 x 47. Weight in Grams: 2024.
Publisher
Fonthill Media Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781552964
ISBN
9781781552964
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 37.38

Paperback. Why the British forces fought so badly in World War II and who was to blame Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780304367382
ISBN
9780304367382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.51

Hardback. A Christmas hardback with tremendous sales potential. Blood, Iron and Gold tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's railways, stimulating economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2x8 colour, 1x4 colour. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBTK; KNGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 164 x 36. Weight in Grams: 809. Good copy with some minor shelf wear. Dustwrapper with minor edge wear but remains good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
SKU
KKD0008858
ISBN
9781848871700
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FM; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJF; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300225976
ISBN
9780300225976
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.40

Hardback. Covering a wide variety of topics, including science, citizenship, gender, and anti-Semitism, the author demonstrates how sin which rhetoric tied to blood and vampires permeated political discourse and transcended the disparate cultures of Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, forming a cohesive political and cultural metaphor. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; JFHF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934843611
ISBN
9781934843611
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.61

Paperback. An In Cold Blood for our time, a chilling, compulsive story of a writer unwittingly caught in the wake of a grifter-turned-murderer. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; BG; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 322. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Publication date
2014
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
SKU
KSS0008460
ISBN
9781472119353
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. An In Cold Blood for our time, a chilling, compulsive story of a writer unwittingly caught in the wake of a grifter-turned-murderer. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; BM; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Paperback Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472115898
ISBN
9781472115898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.31

Paperback. It's 1983 and best friends Vicky and Lucy swear that they will always be there for each other, that they'll never let anyone come between them. But fast forward 4 years and life on the Canterbury Estate has gotten very messy. Series: Tales of the Notorious Hudson Family. Num Pages: 336 pages, (1x8pp plates). BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3JJPN; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0020001
ISBN
9780008142797
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Explores the tale of political corruption and repression and immigrants' struggles against dominant social codes of race, ethnicity, and class. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813544199
ISBN
9780813544199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.19

hardcover. Murder is an effective way to gain power over others. Kill its leaders, and a country can be yours. Kill the people or ruthlessly intimidate them, and you can control their territory. Kill the journalists-or the story-and the truth of what is happening can be buried. Num Pages: 320 pages, b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JJP; AJRD; BGBA; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597971249
ISBN
9781597971249
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.18

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