HABERLANDT, Dr Michael (trans. J. H. Loewe)

Ethnology. The Temple Primers.

London, Dent, 1900. Usual maroon cloth, spine lettered gilt, 10x15cm. viii+169pp. Tissue protected frontis. In excellent condition. Clean, bright and tight. Used; Very Good 56 b/w illustrations - mainly woodcuts, full page and in-text. Victorian introduction to 'the races of man'. Hardback.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Ethnology|Europe

HALL, Coryne

Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928). Revised Reprint. Best Edition.

London, Shepheard-Walwyn, 2006. Tall p/b. xviii+398pp. genealogical trees, many b/w illustrations from photographs. In very good condition, light crease to spine. Using information from the Royal Archives and previously unavailable material from Scandinavia, this biography offers a re-appraisal of the life of Empress Marie Feodorovna, whose son Nicholas II was the last Tsar of Russia.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Featured|Russia|Royalty|History|Biography

(Hazel Napier: Friends of Abyssinia League)

Education in Ethiopia (Abyssinia) to-Day.

London, Friends of Abyssinia League, 1946. Stapled pamphlet, 8pp. 12cmx15cm, not dated but just post-war. In excellent condition with a little rusting of staples. Collectable; Very Good Compiled from information sent by the Ethiopian Minister of the Pen with the Ethiopian Minister of Education in Addis Ababa. One of the letters cited is by Mignon Innis Ford (widow of Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford). Paperback.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Languages|Africa|Education|Abyssinia|Ethiopia|Ephemera|Featured

HEPPELL, Muriel & F.B. SINGLETON

Yugoslavia. Nations of the Modern World.

London, Ernest Benn Ltd, 1961. A good copy in original dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. xiii + 236pp. With 3 maps and guide to pronunciation. Navy blue boards slightly damp marked but otherwise very good. Very good standard history up to 1959. An excellent introduction to the history of the region. Hardcover.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Balkans|Turkey|Yugoslavia|Featured

HILLS, Alice

Britain and the Occupation of Austria, 1943-45. Studies in Military and Strategic History.

London, Macmillan, 2000. 8vo. hardback in dust-wrapper, xi+222pp. notes bibliography, index. A very good bright copy, clean in original dust-wrapper. Very slightly cocked (lean). British planning for the occupation of Austria in 1945. Providing a case-study in the practicalities of "liberating" enemy territory. Examining how policy was developed and how negotiations were affected and how the military was involved in the reconstruction of Austria.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Austria|Central Europe|Featured|World War II|History|Germany

HINGLEY, Ronald.

Joseph Stalin: Man and Legend.

Hutchinson, London, 1974. xxii+482pp. 53 b/w plates, index, in excellent dust-wrapper. In very good condition. "In this process of deiconizing the tyrant, Hingley's work offers a magnificent exercise in demolishing the legend built for so long and intensively.." With many rare photographs which "underscore the conflict between the legend and reality". Horak, 1974. Hardcover.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Russia|Ussr|Stalin|Biography|Soviet Union|Featured

HMSO German-Polish documents 1939.

Documents Concerning German-Polish Relations [the British Blue Book] and the Outbreak of Hostilities between Great Britain and Germany on September 3, 1939. Presented by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs to Parliament by Command of His Majesty. Miscellaneous No. 9 (1939). Cmd. 6106.

London, HMSO, 1939. Original printed blue wrappers, xxviii+195pp. Very light signs of age and use, a little foxed but clean and tight.

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Sonstige Stichworte: History|Central Europe|World War II|Poland|Featured|Germany

HUGHES-HALLETT, Lucy

The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War.

London, Fourth Estate, Collins, 2013. Hardback, 8vo. in original dust-wrapper, 694pp. in-text b/w illustrations from photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Fair to good condition. Very light water damage to leading corner affecting dust-wrapper, upper board and front free endpaper and occasional minor cockling. Spine ends, corners bruised. Else all clean and tight. 'Not only an inspired telling of a life that becomes more repellent with each page, it illuminates early 20th-century Europe in brilliant, unexpected ways' Observer. 'Hard to beat - a biographical tour de force - a rich, voluptuous treat - a triumph, the biography of the year' Robert McCrum.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Biography|Italy|Yugoslavia|World War I|Military|Croatia|Austria-Hungary|Featured

JAROWIECKI, Jerzy, MYSLINSKI, Jerzy

Prasa Polska W Latach 1939 - 1945, Polska Prasa Emigracyjna... History of the Polish Press During Wwii.

Warsaw Warszawa, PWN, 1980. Original decorated dust-wrapper, 196pp. 92 pp. b/w plates. Text in Polish. 5000 copies printed. Dust-wrapper a little softened at edges, else in very good condition. Tight and clean. Study of the Polish Press during the Occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany as well as the Polish emigré press during that time.

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Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Featured|Journal|Journalism|Media|First World War|Poland|Emigré Literature

JOLL, James

The Anarchists.

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1964. A very nice bright hardcover copy in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Clean and tight but top-edge dusty and a little damp-spotted. 303pp. index. Used; Very Good An introduction and study of the historical development of libertarian ideas leading to the 'modern' concept of Anarchism in the 19th Century. In three sections. I: deals with the more abstract and ancient origins of anarchism in Europe. II: covers the creation of Anarchist ideology and theory in the 19th Century. III: examines the practical application of this theory. Hardback.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Anarchism|Russia|Germany|Bakunin|Featured|Utopia

JONES, Adrian

Late-Imperial Russia an Interpretation: Three Visions, Two Cultures, One Peasantry

Berne, Verlag Peter Lang, 1997. P/b. 457pp. Used; Like New . Paperback.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Imperial Russia|Peasants|Featured

KARDELJ, Edvard

Socialism and War. A Survey of Chinese Criticism of the Policy of Coexistence.

London, Methuen & Co, 1961. A good copy in original dust-wrapper. 238pp. Covers Mylar covered, owner name inside cover. Clean and tight. Used; Very Good Pre-War Yugoslav revolutionary and later politician, a close colleague and chosen successor of Tito. Kardelj was the chief ideological theoretician of Yugoslav Marxism. He is considered the main creator of the Yugoslav system of establishing workers' self-management. Translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Alec Brown. Hardcover.

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Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Balkans|Yugoslavia|China|Kardelj|Tito|Featured

KARTUN, Derek

Tito's Plot Against Europe. The Story of the Rajk Conspiracy.

London, Lawrence & Wishart, 1949. Original pink covers printed in blue. 124pp. Spine sunned, covers a little marked but a good, tight copy. Used; Good The author was ".. son of a Russian-French father and a Polish-English mother was born into the world of the cultured bourgeoisie.. he (went) first to a prep school in Redhill, where the combination of being bookish, Jewish and French proved a hindrance to wide popularity, and then to St Paul's, where he flourished and claimed to be the school's first Jewish boy.. (later) becoming a contributor to Cockburn's scurrilous news-sheet The Week led him into the Communist Party for the next two decades of his life. Bad eyesight confined him to civilian duties during the war but he wrote several books while in the Communist Party, including 'Tito's plot against Europe' " Later in life, after many years of publishing communist books and pamphlets, he produced half a dozen spy thrillers! . Paperback.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Tito|Yugoslavia|Udba|Rajk|World War II

KARTUN, Derek

Tito's Plot Against Europe. The Story of the Rajk Conspiracy.

London, Lawrence & Wishart, 1949. Original pink covers printed in blue. 124pp. A very good copy. Used; Very Good The author was ".. son of a Russian-French father and a Polish-English mother was born into the world of the cultured bourgeoisie.. he (went) first to a prep school in Redhill, where the combination of being bookish, Jewish and French proved a hindrance to wide popularity, and then to St Paul's, where he flourished and claimed to be the school's first Jewish boy.. (later) becoming a contributor to Cockburn's scurrilous news-sheet The Week led him into the Communist Party for the next two decades of his life. Bad eyesight confined him to civilian duties during the war but he wrote several books while in the Communist Party, including 'Tito's plot against Europe' " Later in life, after many years of publishing communist books and pamphlets, he produced half a dozen spy thrillers! . Paperback.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Tito|Yugoslavia|Udba|Rajk|World War II

KELLNER, L.Madame Paul Arnold and Arthur L. Delisle.

Austria of the Austrians and Hungary of the Hungarians: Reprint.

London, Sir Isaac Pitman, 1914. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in blind. [iv]+304pp. b/w plates, folding map in back. Ex Amalgamated Press Library with neat stamps to endpapers. Spine age darkened, shelf number removed, mild foxing here and there. Howevre a good tight copy. Text clean. Covers the lands of Austria-Hungary including Austrian-Galicia, Bukovina, Fiume and Dalmatia, political parties, education, commerce, agriculture and mining as well as culture and the press. First published in 1914, the present copy reprinted in December that year. An interesting publication introducing the Dual Monarchy at the outbreak of the war which culminating in that empire's demise.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Austria-Hungary|Austria|History|Featured|Royalty|Hungary|Dalmatia