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Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia by Chuck Sudetic
$15.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
In July 1995, approximately 7000 Muslim men, women and children died at Serbian hands in and around the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. It was the largest mass execution in Europe since the Nazi era; a stunning failure for the United Nations and the Western powers; and the grim watershed that led to Nato ai ...Show more
Endurance and Endeavour - Russian History, 1812-1992 by J. N. Westwood
$14.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Short Oxford History of the Modern World Ser. | Reading Level: good
In Russia, both rulers and ruled have long endeavoured to transform their country, each in their own forcible way. Their efforts never quite seemed to bring the results hoped for, and despite reform and revolution some things have changed very little. This book sets out to relate Russian tradition and c ...Show more
The 12-Year Reich: A Social History of Nazi Germany 1933-1945 by Richard Grunberger
$14.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
"In chilling detail, this social history brilliantly demonstrates the awesome power of a brutal government to corrode the human spirit."--Wall Street Journal"Invaluable for every student of the Nazi era."--New York Times Book Review The 12-Year Reich, the first comprehensive social study of the Third Re ...Show more
Resistance and Conformity in the Third Reich by Martyn Housden
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Sources in History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is a thematically arranged text illustrating popular resisitance to Nazism in Germany from 1930-1945, and the affect of Nazism on everyday life. The book combines a lucid, synthesized analysis together with a wide selection of integrated source material taken from pamphlets, diaries, recent oral te ...Show more
The Merkel Republic: An Appraisal by Eric Langenbacher
$12.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Chancellor Angela Merkel has dominated German and European politics for almost a decade. Her stellar reputation, sound political and economic management, and popularity inside of Germany resulted in one of the most decisive electoral victories for her conservative parties in postwar Germany-the country ...Show more
Nazism and War by Richard Bessel
$15.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Universal History Ser. | Reading Level: fine
A chilling and powerful account of the rise and fall of the Nazis, emphasising their beliefs in race and war which produced the most terrible killing frenzy in the history of humanity. As this book shows, Nazi ideology was based on two central beliefs: in war and race. Peace was merely a preparatio ...Show more
Berlin - A Modern History by David Clay Large
$15.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
A city of diversity and vigour, Berlin has had to reinvent itself drastically and with startling frequency, from the cold, harsh capital of Prussia to the arrogant "world city" of the German Empire; from the depraved Babylon of the Weimar Republic to the last bastion of Nazism.
Magna Brittania being A Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain, Volume the Third containing Cornwall by Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons
$300.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Series: Magna Brittania | Reading Level: very good
Prisoners of Hope: The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-1974 by H. Stuart Hughes
$15.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
The cultural historian H. Stuart Hughes examines the works of Italo Svevo, Alberto Moravia, Carlo Levi, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, and Giorgio Bassani - six Italian prose writers of Jewish or part-Jewish origin - and shows how these writers combine in various measures their ancestral Jewish heritage ...Show more
After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France by Julian Bourg (Editor); Ethan Kleinberg (Contribution by); Michael Behrent (Contribution by); David Berry (Contribution by); Lucia Bonfreschi (Contribution by); Warren Breckman (Contribution by); Michael Scott Christofferson (Contribution by); Stuart Elden (Contribution by); William Gallois (Contribution by); Ronald Haas (Contribution by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: After the Empire: the Francophone World and Postcolonial France Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Madame de Pompadour's famous quip, "Apr s nous, le deluge," serves as fitting inspiration for this lively discussion of postwar French intellectual and cultural life. Over the past thirty years, North American and European scholarship has been significantly transformed by the absorption of poststructura ...Show more
Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society by Stanley Chojnacki
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Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
In Women and Men in Renaissance Venice Stanley Chojnacki explores the central role played by women in holding Venetian patrician society together. Family relations, marriages, and dowries were the areas in which women interacted dynamically with men. The three parts of the book discuss the involvement o ...Show more
The Case For Auschwitz - Evidence From The Irving Trial by Robert Jan Van Pelt
$30.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: Very Good