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Ulrike Meinhof and the Red Army Faction
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Leith Passmore |
"Ulrike Meinhof's entrance into the West German terrorist underground was both a footnote to the waning student movement of the late 1960s, and a preamble to the bloodiest period in Germany's post-wa… |
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World War I
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Lawrence Sondhaus |
"World War One was the cause, catalyst, trigger, and accelerator of revolutionary change on an unprecedented scale. This is an indispensable new introduction to the global history of the conflict and… |
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Reinstating the Ottomans
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Isa Blumı |
"This book is inspired by recent scholarship that reexamines the dramatic changes affecting heterogeneous societies in late nineteenth century empires. It expands the analysis of transformation beyon… |
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Genocide since 1945
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Philip Spencer |
"In 1948 the United Nations passed the Genocide Convention. The international community was now obligated to prevent or halt what had hitherto, in Winston Churchill's words, been a "crime without a n… |
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Remembering Diana
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Victor J. Seidler |
"Analysing the events surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, Vic Seidler considers the public outpourings of grief and displays of emotion which prompted new kinds of identificat… |
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Soviet women on the frontline in the Second World War
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Roger D. Markwick |
"More than 800,000 Soviet women fought against Hitler's onslaught during the 'Great Patriotic War,' 1941-45. Female participation in military conflict on such a scale is historically unique. This is … |
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Wartime kiss
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Alexander Nemerov |
"Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a powerful reinterpretation of one of the most famo… |
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Faisal I of Iraq
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Ali A. Allawi |
Born in 1885, King Faisal I of Iraq was a seminal figure not only in the founding of the state of Iraq but also in the making of the modern Middle East. In all the tumult leading to the dissolution o… |
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Artists under Hitler
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Jonathan Petropoulos |
""What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime?" Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration … |
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Hitler's monsters
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Eric Kurlander |
"The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, exploring the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power. The Nazi fascination… |
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The Tastemaker
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Edward White |
"A revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an era"-- |
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A bold and dangerous family
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Caroline Moorehead |
Mussolini was not only ruthless- he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him- arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes, intimidation and the forcible… |
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Wilfred Owen
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Guy Cuthbertson |
"One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at age 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite… |
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Operation Gladio
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Paul L. Williams |
"This disturbing expose describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Eu… |
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Homintern
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Gregory Woods |
"In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the t… |
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American Oligarchs
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Andrea Bernstein |
A multigenerational saga of two families, who rose from immigrant roots to the pinnacle of wealth and power, that tracks the unraveling of American democracy.
In American Oligarchs, award-winning … |
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Perpetrators
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Guenter Lewy |
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The art of peacemaking
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István Bibó |
"István Bibó (1911-1979) was a Hungarian lawyer, political thinker, prolific essayist, and minister of state for the Hungarian national government during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. This magis… |
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