European History

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.

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2014 224 p. 73/4 x 91/2 250 color plates 4 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-904897-83-5 $50.00

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28 June

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

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2014 412 p. 61/4 x 91/2 2 maps 5 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-908323-75-0 $40.00

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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

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2015 275 p. 5 x 73/4 4 maps 6 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-908323-92-7 $49.95

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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

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

2014 112 p. 4 x 6 50 halftones 8 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-399-0 $15.00

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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

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2014 288 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-274-4 $39.00

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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

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2008 256 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-86189-340-6 $45.00

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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

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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

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2017 256 p. 6 x 9 13 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-852-4 $29.95

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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. 63/4 x 71/2 50 color plates 14 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-470-6 $17.50

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WWII

A Chronicle of Soldiering

James Jones

“Even now, after a perpetually surging Noah’s flood of ‘Good War’ literature, WWII stands out as one of the most vivid documents ever produced on how the war looked and felt to those who experienced it firsthand. . . . Readers will discover unexpected, alarming, dazzling or horrifying observations on every page.”—Wall Street Journal

1975 240 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones, 3 maps, 1 line drawing 15 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-18093-9 $17.00

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Somewhere in England

American Airmen in the Second World War

Imperial War Museums

Somewhere in England celebrates the Americans who served as part of the USAAF in England, offering an unprecedented look at this group of airmen and their support staff. Drawing on the 15,000 photographs in the Roger Freeman collection, this book shows us the USAAF at work and play.

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2015 160 p. 82/3 x 101/4 12 color plates, 63 halftones 16 Paper ISBN: 978-1-904897-54-5 $30.00

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Jews in Nazi Berlin

From Kristallnacht to Liberation

Edited by Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon, and Chana Schütz

“The book’s team of editors, historians, and researchers succeeded with a great number of photographs to restore some features of wartime Berlin and its Jewish community in a frank and direct manner, adding another important volume to our growing Holocaust library.” —Jerusalem Post

“An amazing volume of facts and personal accounts. . . . Accompanying these accounts of destruction is a stunning collection of photos and documents.” —Publishers Weekly

2009 416 p. 71/2 x 91/2 50 color plates, 138 halftones, 6 tables 17 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-52157-2 $40.00

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The End of a Legend

Ralf Georg Reuth

Reuth unveils the real Rommel, stripping away the layers of propaganda created by both the Nazis and Allies for their own political ends. He portrays a Rommel contrary to the post-war myth—a man who remained loyal to the Führer until forced to commit suicide.

“Reuth reveals the truth in a brilliant book.”—Independent

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2009 235 p. 6 x 9 18 Paper ISBN: 978-1-905791-95-8 $14.95

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Serving the Reich

The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

Philip Ball

“An outstanding work about the social responsibility of scientists, exemplified by considering the actions of three Nobelist physicists during the Nazi regime in Germany: Max Planck, Peter Debye, and Werner Heisenberg. . . . This is a stunning cautionary tale, well researched and told. Essential.”—Choice

2014 320 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones 19 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20457-4 $30.00

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A Few Planes for China

The Birth of the Flying Tigers

Eugenie Buchan

“This is an impressive revisionist monograph that unpicks one of the more mythic events in the history of World War II in Asia: the founding of the ‘Flying Tigers’, the nickname for the American Volunteer Group (AVG) that operated in China in the years before Pearl Harbor. . . . A compellingly-written and deeply researched account.”—Aerospace

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2017 272 p. 6 x 9 20 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-866-5 $35.00

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Kiska

The Japanese Occupation of an Alaska Island

Brendan Coyle

“What the Japanese left behind in 1943 is worthy of exploration, not just to catch echoes of history before they fade, but to grasp the new strategic relevance of this area. Coyle’s Kiska helps us understand what this most remote spot in North America has to offer.”—Mead Treadwell, former lieutenant governor of Alaska

“Coyle recounts his 51-day stay on the island in which he documented the remaining ghosts of this farflung battlefield—from pairs of shoes strewn among wildflowers to rusting submarines.”—Japan Times

The First Battle of the Cold War

Christian Jennings

This is the inside story of how Trieste found itself poised on a knife edge at the end of World War II. Situated near the boundaries of Italy, Austria, and Yugoslavia, this pivotal port city was caught in May 1945 between advancing Allied, Russian, and Yugoslav armies. Told through the stories of twelve men and women from seven different countries, Flashpoint Trieste chronicles, on a human scale, the beginning of the Cold War.

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2017 302 p. 6 x 9 22 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-5126-0172-5 $29.95

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The Heroic City

Paris, 1945-1958

Rosemary Wakeman

“[A] very far ranging and charming book about imagined, poetic Paris, but also about everyday Paris, as the city moved from left to right, from penury to consumerism, from Stalinist Communism to Debord’s Situationism, and from historical Paris to Paris as it is today, the capital of world nostalgia.” —Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University

2009 416 p. 6 x 9 31 halftones 23 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-87023-6 $46.00

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The Other Americans in Paris

Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941

Nancy L. Green

“Fascinating, compelling, and sometimes hilarious. . . . Green’s wonderful book tells the untold story of the American businessmen, lawyers, renters, heiresses, and slackers who created the ‘American colony’ in Paris and never thought of writing the Great American Novel.”—Edward Berenson, New York University

2014 352 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones, 11 line drawings 24 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30688-9 $40.00

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Imperial City

Rome under Napoleon

Susan Vandiver Nicassio

“[Imperial City] is meticulously researched, drawing on a host of original manuscripts, memoirs, personal letters, and secondary sources, enabling [Nicassio] to bring her story to life. . . . Probably the best work on the topic in print.” —History Today

2005 256 p. 6 x 91/4 54 halftones, 3 maps 25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-57973-3 $19.00

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