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Inequality Knowledge - The Making of the Numbers about the Gap between Rich and Poor in Contemporary Britain

Poverty and inequality have pervaded British society to this day, but this has not always been self-evident to contemporaries - popular u...

Spies, Lives and Eras - The Story of Erica Glaser Wallach and Noel H. Field

The book presents a selection of documents related to the life of Noel H. Field, the American communist spy, and his foster daughter, the...

From Grand Estates to Grand Corruption - The battle over the possessions of Prince Albert of Thurn and Taxis in interwar Yugoslavia

When Yugoslavia was created in 1918, noble landowners still possessed vast parts of its territory especially in the northwestern half of ...

Eleanor Roosevelt: The Early Years - Volume 1. - 1884-1933

The first volume in the life of America's greatest First Lady, a woman who changed the lives of millions (Washington Post). Eleanor Ro...

Under Fire - Untold Stories from the Front Line of the Iraq War

My silent war - First Edition

Football and Fascism - The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal

Football and Fascism. The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal tells the hidden history of football and discusses its political, socia...

Diplomacy

Unwinding - An Inner History of the New America

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK AN NPR BEST BOOK Selected by New York Times' critic ...

Equal Security - Europe and the SALT Process, 1969-1976

Superpower détente during the Nixon-Ford Administration led to the formation of an East-West regime aimed at conflict control and systemi...

Beyond the Wall - East Germany, 1949-1990

AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES * TELEGRAPH * SPECTATOR * PROSPECT * IRISH IN...

The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson

2019 - the year that Boris took on the 'lingering gloomadon-poppers', pledged to steer the UK between the 'Scylla and Charybdis of Corbyn...

Placing Islam - Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul

"Timur Hammond's reimagining of Eyüp is lively and erudite, bringing readers a fresh understanding of the spaces and tempos in Istanbul a...

Conversations with Stalin

Faith and Power - Religion and Politics in the Middle East

Short collection of previously unpublished in English works by the doyen of Middle Eastern history.

Born in the GDR - Living in the Shadow of the Wall

The real life stories of eight East Germans caught up in the dramatic transition from Communism to Capitalism by the fall of the Berlin W...

The Cold War

In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimis...

Fear - Trump in the White House

THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT. 'I think you've always been fair.' - President Donald J. Trump,...

Another Country - Jewish in the GDR

Between Anti-Fascist Society, Socialist Utopia and Lived Jewishness: What did it mean to be Jewish in the GDR? After the Shoah, many Jews...

Partitioning Palestine - Legal Fundamentalism in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Law lies at the roots of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Jews sought a national home by 'Public Law' while Palestinians reject the proj...

The INF Treaty of 1987 - A Reappraisal

Der von Ronald Reagan und Michail Gorbatschow am 8. Dezember 1987 unterzeichnete »Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty«, kurz INF-Ver...

Africa on the Move - Shifting Identities, Histories, Boundaries

Africa is on the move. New geopolitical constellations have prompted individuals and groups to escape war, authoritarian regimes, environ...

Trotsky, the eternal revolutionary - Saját kép.

The Other October Revolution: Poland, 1956-57

The cautious expansion of freedoms in the sign of de-Stalinization is remembered in Poland as the "October Thaw of 1956". The renowned hi...

Caesar's women

Beyond the Wall - East Germany, 1949-1990

AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES * TELEGRAPH * SPECTATOR * PROSPECT 'Utterly b...

Young Elizabeth - Princess. Prisoner. Queen.

The first fully comprehensive biography of the young Elizabeth I in over twenty years, drawing on a rich variety of primary sources from ...

British Civilization - An Introduction

Thoroughly updated and revised, the ninth-edition of the highly-regarded British Civilization: An Introduction continues to be the ideal ...

The Strange Death of Europe

The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, ...

From Transition to Globalization: New Challenges for Politics...

From Transition to Globalization: New Challenges for Politics, the Media and Society. Tartalom: József Bayer: Introduction. The Trials of...

From the Volhynian Massacre to Operation Vistula - The Polish-Ukrainian Conflict 1943-1947

This is the first book available in English to comprehensively address the complicated subject of Polish-Ukrainian relations during and i...

It takes a village

The East Side Gallery - The site. The stories. The exhibition

In summer 1990, 118 artists from 21 countries designed the Berlin Wall in Berlin-Friedrichshain with their art. The open-air gallery has ...

Crises in Authoritarian Regimes - Fragile Orders and Contested Power

Krisen offenbaren die Fragilität der Ordnung und fordern die Macht heraus. Wie gehen autoritäre Regime mit ihnen um? Welche Stärken und S...

Das alte Berlin in Farbe

Bis zu seiner Zerstörung in den Bombennächten der Jahre 1943 bis 1945 gehörte Berlin zu den architektonisch reizvollsten Hauptstädten Eur...

Helen of Troy

Daughter of a god. Wife of a king. Prize of antiquity's bloodiest war Bestselling novelist, Margaret George, here imagines the story of H...

The Russo-Ukrainian War - The Return of History

Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the ...

Nuclear Folly - A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear a...

Hell and Other Destinations - A 21st-Century Memoir

?Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat.? ?New Yorker Now in paperback with a new epilogue In this revealing, funny, and...

The Last Card - Inside George W. Bush's Decision to Surge in Iraq

Jeffrey A. Engel is Director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.

Between Trade and Aid: Theories, Practices, and Results of Attempts at Exporting State-Socialist Development Models to the Third World

Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung rückt Themen einer innovativen Weltgeschichte in de...

Investigating, Punishing, Agitating - Nazi Perpetrator Trials in the Eastern Bloc

Über die NS-Prozesse in Osteuropa in den 1960er Jahren und den Stellenwert des Holocaust darin Etwa 15 Jahre nach Kriegsende kam es in vi...

The last days of Pompeii

Eight Years in Kosovo - A personal account of the European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX)

The European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) was launched in 2008 as the largest civilian mission under the Common Security a...

Our Enemies Will Vanish - The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence

"Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, offers an eyewitness account of Russia...

No Room for Small Dreams - Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel

No Room for Small Dreams is the remarkable autobiography of President Shimon Peres. In this inspiring account, Peres explores the challen...

The Fifth Act - America's End in Afghanistan

“The American betrayal of Afghanistan took twenty years. Elliot Ackerman, a participant and witness, tells the story with unsparing hones...

God Save Texas - A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State

A New York Times Notable Book National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist An NPR Best Book of the Year God Save Texas is a journey throug...

The Kennedys an american drama

German History Unbound - From 1750 to the Present

"A polycentric German history that pointedly decenters the nation-state. It includes communities of Germans far beyond its borders, and i...

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific terrorist attack on Japanese soil th...

Ost Places - Vom Verschwinden und Wiederfinden der DDR

Was vom Osten übrig blieb: Ein Bildband über das Verschwinden und Wiederfinden der DDR Dreißig Jahre nach der Wende ist Andreas Metz im O...

The GDR - A History of the "Arbeiter- und Bauernstaat"

Jenseits der üblichen Pfade erzählt Jens Schöne die Geschichte der DDR. Nicht nur Parteifunktionäre, Staatssicherheit und aktive Oppositi...

A History of Chile 1808-2018

"This new edition investigates the various reasons for Chileans spurning the Pinochet Constitution in favor of another system, and covers...

At Canaan's Edge - America in the King Years, 1965-68

The final volume of Branch's magisterial history of the Civil Rights movement is a powerful rendering of Martin Luther King Jr.'s final y...

Life on the Run - One Family's Search for Peace in War-torn Ukraine

Driven from Ukraine by Russia in 2022, author Sergey Maidukov and his family joined millions of refugees trying to piece together their l...

Voll der Osten / Totally East - Leben in der DDR / Life in East Germany

"Voll der Osten. Leben in der DDR" ist der Begleitband zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung der Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur...

Diary of an Invasion

This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant wr...

Tunnel 29 - Love, Espionage and Betrayal: the True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

Acclaim for the TUNNEL 29 podcast: 'Combining the fun of a thriller that we know will end happily with grim perspective on history and ty...

America on Fire - The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a mass...