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The Anarchist Collectives
Black Rose Books 2011; US$ 14.99A highly important study that reveals a very different understanding of the nature of radical social change, and the means of achieving it. more...
Cruel Crossing
Transworld 2013; US$ 26.69The mountain paths are as treacherous as they are steep - the more so in the dark and in winter. Even for the fit the journey is a formidable challenge. Hundreds of those who climbed through the Pyrenees during the Second World War were malnourished and exhausted after weeks on the run hiding in barns and attics. Many never even reached the Spanish... more...
Seven Years in Tibet
HarperCollins Publishers 2010; Not AvailableA landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer?s escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War. more...
Edith Cavell
Quercus Publishing 2011; US$ 12.99Edith Cavell was born in 1865, daughter of a Norfolk vicar, and shot in Brussels on 12 October 1915 by the Germans for sheltering British and French soldiers and helping them escape over the Belgian border. Following a traditional village childhood in 19th century England, Edith worked as a governess in the UK and abroad, before training as a nurse... more...
Return of a King
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 30.00From William Dalrymple?award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer?a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West?s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time. With access to newly discovered primary sources from archives in Afghanistan,... more...
The Circassian Genocide
Rutgers University Press 2013; US$ 29.95This book chronicles the history of the war between Russia and Circassia, describes in detail the final genocidal campaign, and follows the Circassians in diaspora through five generations as they struggle to survive and return home. It updates the story to the present day as the Circassian community works to gain international recognition of the... more...
Gangraena and the Struggle for the English Revolution
OUP Oxford 2004; US$ 174.99This is the first comprehensive study of Gangraena, an intemperate anti-sectarian polemic written by a London Presbyterian Thomas Edwards and published in three parts in 1646. These books, which bitterly opposed any moves to religious toleration, were the most notorious and widely debated texts in a Revolution in which print was crucial to political... more...
Chianti
Garrett County Press 2012; US$ 9.99Raymond Flower brings the enchanting history of the secluded Italian region Chianti to vivid life. Using meticulous research, Flower presents the engrossing tales of the Etruscans, the Romans, the Lombards, the factions of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines and explores the rise of the communes and the struggles between the Empire and the Papacy. In the... more...
State and Society
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 25.99As a vigorous interpretation of political and social developments in Britain since the late-Victorian era, State and Society has rapidly become one of the most respected and widely read introductions to the history of modern Britain. In this new edition, the account is updated to take in the decline of New Labour, the financial crisis and the Coalition... more...
Savage Continent
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableKeith Lowe's Savage Continent is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII. The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed and pilloried collaborators. Ethnic cleansing, civil... more...









