Victory at Sea
Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
ISBN: PB: 9780300276787,
ISBN: HB: 9780300219173,
Yale University Press,
June 2024
644 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 83 colour illus.
644 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 83 colour illus.
A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II.
In this engaging narrative, brought to life by marine artist Ian Marshall's beautiful full‑color paintings, historian Paul Kennedy grapples...
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18.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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Belfast
The Story of a City and its People
ISBN: PB: 9780300278675,
ISBN: HB: 9780300264449,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
320 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 colour illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 colour illus.
A lively and inviting history of Belfast – exploring the highs and lows of a resilient city.
Modern Belfast is a beautiful city with a vibrant tradition of radicalism, industry, architectural innovation, and cultural achievement. But the city's man...
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11.99 GBP
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20.00 GBP
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Five Days in London, May 1940
ISBN: PB: 9780300276510,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
256 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
256 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940, altered the course of the history of the twentieth century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue what became known as the Second World War. The decisiv...
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9.99 GBP
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Supremacy at Sea
Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory
ISBN: HB: 9780300255454,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 50 black&white illus., 9 maps
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 50 black&white illus., 9 maps
The gripping account of the U.S. Navy's fast carrier force – and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the achievement of American naval supremacy.
Task Force 58 was World War II's most powerful battle fleet. Made up in mid-1944 of sixtee...
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20.00 GBP
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Contest for the Indian Ocean
And the Return of Great Power Politics
ISBN: HB: 9780300270914,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
240 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 25 colour illus., 4 maps
240 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 25 colour illus., 4 maps
A major new examination of the Indian Ocean, revealing how the region has become a hotly contested geopolitical flashpoint.
Throughout history, the Indian Ocean has been an essential space for trade, commerce, and culture. Every European power has...
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20.00 GBP
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Yale and Slavery
A History
ISBN: HB: 9780300273847,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 54 black&white illus.
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 54 black&white illus.
A comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University.
Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investigate Yale University's historical involvement with...
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25.00 GBP
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What Really Went Wrong
The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9780300259575,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
An ambitious revisionist history of the modern Middle East.
"What Really Went Wrong" offers a fresh and incisive assessment of American foreign policy's impact on the history and politics of the modern Middle East. Looking at flashpoints in Iranian...
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20.00 GBP
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Lost Fatherland
Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939
ISBN: HB: 9780300267556,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
How the demise of the Habsburg Empire, postwar sovereignty, and new diplomatic frontiers shaped the nature of citizenship, identity, and belonging across Europe.
This book is a collective portrait of twenty-one key statesmen who came of age during...
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25.00 GBP
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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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14.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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Normandy: the Sailors' Story
A Naval History of D-Day and the Normandy Campaign
ISBN: HB: 9780300256734,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
448 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 30 black&white illus., 12 maps and tables
448 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 30 black&white illus., 12 maps and tables
The first account of the Allied navies' vital contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and the Normandy campaign.
The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe is one of the most widely recognised events of modern history. The assault phas...
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