Ukrainian Night
An Intimate History of Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9780300276831,
ISBN: HB: 9780300218688,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day...
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44 Days in Prague
The Runciman Mission and the Race to Save Europe
ISBN: HB: 9781911723042,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2024
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
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The dramatic story of a last-ditch attempt to avert catastrophe in Europe, on the eve of the Second World War.
After discovering that her grandmother had pro-German sympathies, Ann Shukman resolved to investigate her grandfat...
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25.00 GBP
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Harfleur to Hamburg
Five Centuries of English and British Violence in Europe
ISBN: HB: 9781911723172,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2024
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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From the Hundred Years War to the Second World War, a definitive volume exploring military violence waged across the British Isles and the European continent.
Britain has historically been seen as an upholder of international...
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45.00 GBP
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Backbone of the Nation
Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85
ISBN: PB: 9780300277906,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
496 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 8 colour illus.
496 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 8 colour illus.
A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners' own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families.
Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes in Br...
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11.99 GBP
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Tudor Children
ISBN: PB: 9780300276114,
ISBN: HB: 9780300267969,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
288 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 60 colour illus.
288 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 60 colour illus.
The first history of childhood in Tudor England.
What was it like to grow up in England under the Tudors? How were children cared for, what did they play with, and what dangers did they face?
In this beautifully illustrated and characteristically l...
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Tyne Bridge
Icon of North-East England
ISBN: PB: 9781911723387,
ISBN: HB: 9781787387935,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2024
304 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 65 illus.
304 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 65 illus.
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A compelling account of how engineering, architectural ingenuity, a region's great industrial tradition, and the labour of thousands came to span the Tyne.
The Tyne Bridge, opened in 1928 by King George V, is one of Britain's...
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Goering's Man in Paris
The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World
ISBN: PB: 9780300274264,
ISBN: HB: 9780300251920,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
456 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 47 black&white illus.
456 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 47 black&white illus.
Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Goring to Hitler's special art looting agency, he went on to supervise the systematic theft and distribution of over 22,000 artworks, largely from F...
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Gulag Doctors
Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps
ISBN: HB: 9780300187137,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
368 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 35 black&white illus.
368 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 35 black&white illus.
A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin's Gulag – showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions.
A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work harder...
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Western Rising of 1549
ISBN: PB: 9780300276886,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
400 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 16 black&white illus., 7 maps
400 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 16 black&white illus., 7 maps
The fascinating story of the so-called "Prayer Book Rebellion" of 1549 which saw the people of Devon and Cornwall rise up against the Crown.
The Western Rising of 1549 was the most catastrophic event to occur in Devon and Cornwall between the Black...
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Serbia
A Modern History
ISBN: HB: 9781787385474,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2024
720 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
720 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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A definitive account of a fiercely independent Balkan people, whose fate was long shaped by the Great Powers.
This is the first in-depth, English-language history of modern Serbia in nearly half a century. It covers the period...
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