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STEEL POTS THE HISTORY OF AMERICA'S STEEL COMBAT HELMETS
Written by Chris Armold.
Stock no. 2132192
Published by R. James Bender.
1st USA
1997.
Very good condition.
Colour pictorial boards. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 091213870X. Some bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Page edge browning.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (AMERICAN)
- USA
- MILITARY
- UNIFORMS
THE WAR IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS THEN AND NOW
Written by Winston G. Ramsey.
Stock no. 1819016
Published by Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd..
1989.
Slightly better than very good condition in a fine dustwrapper.
Large format. B/w photos. 254 pages. ISBN: 0900913223. Second impression. Light mottling to boards.
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- CHANNEL ISLANDS
- WORLD WAR II
THE TRAMWAYS OF SOUTH LONDON & CROYDON 1899-1949
Written by K.G. Harvie.
Stock no. 1818997
4th
1968.
Almost very good condition.
Fourth Edition. White cardwraps with blue title to front & b/w photo of tram. B/w photos. 122 text pages. Spine worn with loss to top & tail, spine covering appears to be missing. Card covers grubby. Worm damage to margins of last few pages, affecting text at margin edges.
NAZI POLICY, JEWISH WORKERS, GERMAN KILLERS
Written by Christopher R. Browning.
Stock no. 1818903
Published by Cambridge University Press.
1st
2000.
Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Focusing on controversial issues in current Holocaust scholarship. How did Nazi Jewish policy evolve during the first years of the war? When did the Nazi regime cross the historic watershed from population expulsion and decimation ("ethnic cleansing") to total and systematic extermination? How did Nazi authorities attempt to reconcile policies of expulsion and extermination with the wartime urge to exploit Jewish labour? This work attempts to shed light on these important questions. ISBN: 0521772990. Light scuffing to dustwrapper which is in a protective laminate film attached to verso with clear tape.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- HISTORY (GERMAN)
- WORLD WAR II
- JEWS AND JUDAISM
- NAZIS
- POLAND
BRITISH RELATIONS WITH SIND 1799-1843: AN ANATOMY OF IMPERIALISM
Written by Robert A. Huttenback.
Stock no. 1818899
Published by Oxford University Press.
1st
2007.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
A study of British relations with an independent Sind from 1799-1843 gives valuable insight into the complexities of nineteenth-century British imperialism. Blue cloth spine with gilt title, light blue paper boards. ISBN: 9780195473995. Bump to vertical edge of boards. Pictorial dustwrapper has laminate film stuck to it on the verso with tape (for protection).
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- ASIA
- INDIA
- PAKISTAN
A HISTORY OF BRITISH GARDENING
Written by Miles Hadfield.
Stock no. 2132141
Published by John Murray.
3rd
1979.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
3rd edition, revised and expanded. Green cloth with red title label, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0719536448. Spotting along edge of rear cover. Wrapper is edge-creased with bottom corner of front flap cut off. Foxing to outer page edges.
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- GARDENING
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
ODESSA, 1941-1944: A CASE STUDY OF SOVIET TERRITORY UNDER FOREIGN RULE
Written by Alexander Dallin.
Stock no. 1818890
Published by The Center For Romanian Studies.
1st
1998.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
originally prepared as a Rand Corporation report, this book is a comprehensive study of the Romanian administration in Odessa and Transnistria. Black boards, gilt titles. White ribbon page marker. ISBN: 9739839118. Corners lightly bumped. White dustwrapper is lightly creased at corners.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- RUSSIA
- UKRAINE
- WORLD WAR II
- ROMANIA
ISLAM AND THE ARMY IN COLONIAL INDIA: SEPOY RELIGION IN THE SERVICE OF EMPIRE
Written by Nile Green.
Stock no. 1818887
Published by Cambridge University Press.
1st
2009.
Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.
A ground-breaking study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India. Set in Hyderabad in the mid nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book focuses on the soldiers' relationships with the faqir holy men who protected them and the British officers they served. Black boards, silver title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780521898454.
IRAQ A HISTORY
Written by John Robertson.
Stock no. 2132129
Published by Oneworld.
1st
2015.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781851685868. Small knock to base of spine.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- MIDDLE EAST
- ASIA
- IRAQ
THE LEGACY OF ISRAEL
Written by I. Abrahams.
Stock no. 1818856
Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press.
1948.
Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
The Legacy series. Companion to The Legacy of Greece and The Legacy of Rome. This volume deals with those elements that Western Civilization has drawn from Israel throughout the ages. A collection of essays concerned with the history and character of Israel only in so far as these have determined Israel's gifts to the World. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. White marks to front edge of spine. Heavy foxing to text block and browning to endpapers. Musty odour present. Price-cut white pictorial dustwrapper has a few edge-chips and is heavily scuffed/grubby.
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- ASIA
- JEWS AND JUDAISM
- ISRAEL
THE MODERN STEAM CAR AND ITS BACKGROUND
Written by Thomas S. Derr; Floyd Clymer.
Stock no. 1818834
Published by Lindsay Publications.
1st thus
1998.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Reprint of the 1932 publication with a supplement on historical steam cars by Floyd Clymer to the rear. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations. An interesting little book. 148 pages. ISBN: 1559182172. Covers lightly browned, contents clean.
THE THIRD REICH BETWEEN VISION AND REALITY: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON GERMAN HISTORY 1918-1945
Written by Hans Mommsen.
Stock no. 1818770
Published by Berg.
1st
2001.
Fine condition.
German Historical Perspectives vol XII. Edited by Mommsen. This book covers such topics as the Viennese background to Hitler's career; the development of fascist tendencies among the German population during the Weimar period; the nature of popular support for national socialism; the myth of the Nazi economic boom and the ideological concepts and political developments which culminated in the mass murder of European Jews. Matt pictorial boards. ISBN: 1859732542.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- HISTORY (GERMAN)
- NAZIS