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The First World War Galleries
Paul Cornish The First World War Galleries revisits this historic event on the occasion of the centenary of its onset, drawing on the unparalleled archives of the Imperial War Museum. Cornish offers a carefully researched and compelling account of this crucial period of world history, told through a stunning array of artifacts from the museum's collections. Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group 2014 224 p. 73/4 x 91/2 250 color plates 4 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-904897-83-5 $50.00 Your Price: $15.00
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The Huns Have Got my Gramophone! Advertisements from the Great War
Amanda Jane Doran and Andrew McCarthy This book collects some of the most original advertisements created between 1914 and 1918. The advertisements reveal how advertisers sought to create new markets for products that took into account social change throughout the course of World War I. “Cigarettes, gramophones, even guard dogs. There was nothing that the Great War didn't provide a good excuse to buy.”—Atlantic Distributed for the Bodleian Library
Sarajevo 1914 - Versailles 1919: The War and Peace That Made the Modern World
Edited by Alan Sharp 28 June looks in greater depth at the smaller nations that are often ignored in general histories of WWI. “A superb one-stop-shop book for the causes, influences on entry, and diplomatic finale of the First World War.”—The Historian Distributed for Haus Publishing 61/4
European History 1
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2014 412 p. x 2 maps 5 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-908323-75-0 $40.00 Your Price: $11.00
The Consequences of the Peace The Versailles Settlement: Aftermath and Legacy 1919-2015
Alan Sharp “As a glance at the table of contents shows, there are always more and interesting things to be said on the perennially fascinating question of the Paris Peace Conference. Sadly, too, there is much that is still relevant for our own troubled world.”—Margaret Macmillan Warden, author of Paris 1919 Distributed for Haus Publishing
2015 275 p. 5 x 73/4 4 maps 6 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-908323-92-7 $49.95 Your Price: $12.00
The Makers of the Modern World Complete 32-Volume Set
Edited by Alan Sharp A 32-volume boxed set, The Makers of the Modern World is a monumental look at all the signatories of the Versailles treaty. “Makers of the Modern World is to be welcomed because it is designed to provide concise biographies, around 200 pages long, of major politicians and intellectuals from all over the world. All of them are also put into the larger context of the age and the often momentous decisions that they were involved in.” —V.R. Berghahn, H-Diplo Distributed for Haus Publishing
7 Boxed Set ISBN: 978-1-907822-02-5 $595.00 Your Price: $119.00
2014 112 p. 4 x 6 50 halftones 8 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-399-0 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00
The Habsburgs
Dynasty, Culture and Politics
Paula Sutter Fichtner “Fichtner has produced a lucid and succinct account of a complicated history, and a readable and persuasive synthesis of recent research. . . . [Hers is] an argument that has the great virtue of making coherent a dynastic history that pursued a similar cultural agenda across the course of hundreds of years.” —BBC History Magazine Distributed for Reaktion Books
2014 288 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-274-4 $39.00 Your Price: $12.00
Terror and Toleration
The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, 1526-1850
Paula Sutter Fichtner “Provides a good survey of early modern Habsburg representations of the ‘Turkish’ other and gives the reader a fascinating insight into Habsburg anti-Ottoman propaganda.”—Times Higher Education Distributed for Reaktion Books
2008 256 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-340-6 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00
Secrets in a Dead Fish
The Spying Game in the First World War
Melanie King A fascinating compendium of clever and long-forgotten ruses, interspersed with the stories of the spies themselves, Secrets in a Dead Fish sheds new light on the shadowy world of Great War espionage. “An engaging, small format, short book about espionage during World War I. In nine chapters with pleasing illustrations . . . [King] seeks to illustrate the tools and tradecraft of espionage as practiced at the time.” —Military History
The First World War
Unseen Glass Plate Photographs of the Western Front
Edited by Carl De Keyzer and David Van Reybrouck “The book is a collection of previously unseen and restored WWI photographs of lesser-seen photo subjects, such as training, African colonial troops and postmortem portraits of Belgian soldiers.” —Chicago Tribune “The amount of detail that you see in each [glass plate image] is stunning.”—Slate 2015 280 p. 91/2 x 123/4 20 color plates, 80 halftones 12 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28428-6 $65.00 Your Price: $21.00
Arc of Utopia
The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution
Lesley Chamberlain “Chamberlain’s book broadens our understanding of the roots of the Bolshevik Revolution, describing how German Idealism, which first emerged from Immanuel Kant’s reaction to the French Revolution, came to inspire philosophers and cultural figures throughout nineteenth-century Europe and Russia.”—New York Times Book Review Distributed for Reaktion Books
2017 256 p. 6 x 9 13 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-852-4 $29.95 Your Price: $10.00
Revolution!
Sayings of Vladimir Lenin
Edited by the Bodleian Library Revolution! is a compilation of Lenin’s most famous sayings, taken from speeches, lectures, letters, and recorded conversations. Together, they show his views on topics ranging from democracy to terrorism, from religion to Stalin’s untrustworthiness, and from education to music. Distributed for the Bodleian Library
2017 112 p. 6 3/4 x 71/2 50 color plates 14 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-470-6 $17.50 Your Price: $7.00
Distributed for the Bodleian Library
2014 128 p. 4 x 6 20 halftones 11 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-260-3 $15.00 Your Price: $5.00
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