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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Buchzahl: 32524

Katalog: History

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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Buchzahl: 38519

Katalog: History

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

King, David (Stephen Cohen).

The Commissar Vanishes. The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia. Preface by Stephen F Cohen. Photographs from the David King Collection.

New York, An Owl Book. Henry Holt, 1999. P/b. quarto. 192pp. illustrated in b/w and colour. A very good, barely used copy. Clean and tight. Examining how Stalin manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and to erase the memory of his victims. On Stalin's orders, purged rivals were erased from group portraits, and crowd scenes of the faithful were altered to depict far larger numbers than had actually been present.

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Buchzahl: 37257

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Stalin|Russia|History|Photography|Featured

KINGSTON-MANN, Esther & MIXTER, Timothy (Eds.)

Peasant Economy, Culture and Politics of European Russia, 1800-1921

Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1990. A very nice bright copy. 468pp. Clean and tight almost as new. Neat and unobtrusive owner name inside cover. Used; Like New Unusually well-organised and integrated selection of papers which provide a richly textured analysis challenging older evolutionary and class conflict perspectives. Paperback.

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Buchzahl: 32768

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Russian History|Russia|European Russia|Peasant|Agrarian|Featured

KOVACS, Frederic W L.. (Pseud. Franz Carl Weiskopf )

The Untamed Balkans.

London, Robert Hale, 1942. Original 8vo. hardback in rare illustrated dust-wrapper. vii+183pp. folding map. War Economy paper. In very good condition, clean and tight. Fragile dust-wrapper just a little chipped at edges. Czech Jewish writer and member of Confederation of Proletarian Revolutionary Writers. Weiskopf left for New York in 1939 and survived the war. He later entered the Czechoslovak diplomatic service. 'Kovacs' was one of a number of pseudonyms.

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Buchzahl: 38279

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: World War II|Yugoslavia|Featured|Germany|History|Balkans|Southeast Europe|Greece|Romania|Bulgaria

KÜHN, Joachim Ed., Alexandra Feodorovna Romanov

Die Letzte Zarin. Ihre Briefe an Nikolaus II. Und Ihre Tagebuchblätter Von 1914 Bis Zur Ermordung. [German Edition of the Letters from the Tsaritsa or Tsarina, Alexandra Feodorovna, to the Tsar, Nicholas II, and Her Diaries]

Berlin, Ullstein, n.d. Probably 1922. Cloth backed decorated boards, 256pp. Photo-onlay of Alexandra and Alexis. Boards a little rubbed, very nice copy. V. G. Collectable; Very Good Letters from the Tsaritsa to the Tsar in German . Hardcover.

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Buchzahl: 27197

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Russia|Nicholas II|Alexandra Feodorovna|Last Tsar|Last Tsarina|Diaries Letters|Romanovs|Russian Royalty|Russian Monarchy|Russian Empire|Royalty

KWASNIK, Elizabeth (Ed.)

Bulgaria Tradition and Beauty

National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside, 1989. As new. Clean, bright and tight. Unused. Used; Like New Exhibition catalogue covering architecture, woodcarving, cermaics, church art, textiles and much more. With map, bibliography and colour illustrated throughout. Hardback.

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Buchzahl: 31424

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Folk Art|Bulgaria|Architecture|Textiles|Costume|Balkans|Catalogue

LAFFAN, Rev. R. G. D.

Jugoslavia Since 1918. (Yugoslavia)

London, The Jugoslav Society of Great Britain. 1929. Original printed wrappers chipped at edges and detaching, 32pp. internally sound. Collectable; Good With committee list. An uncommon title. By the author of 'The Serbs'. Paperback.

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Buchzahl: 27409

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Balkans|Turkey|Yugoslavia|Jugoslavija|Serbia|Croatia|Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes|Balkans|Ottoman Empire|Austria-Hungary|Balkanicus|Interwar

LAMPE, John R., JACKSON, Marvin R.

Balkan Economic History, 1550-1950. From Imperial Borderlands to Developing Nations.

Bloomington, Indiana, 1982. Original hardback edition in original dust-wrapper. xviii+728pp. Used; Very Good I: New Markets in the old empires from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, II: Modernization in the new nation states 1860-1914. III: War and economic development, 1912-1950. four maps, very many tables. Hardcover.

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Buchzahl: 27408

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Featured|Turkey|Economics|History|Balkan Economic History|Balkans|Turkey|Economics|History|Balkanicus|Povijest

LANDI, Countess Zanardi.

The Secret of an Empress: With Fourteen Photogravure Illustrations.

London etc. Cassell and Company, 1914. Original cloth, lettered gilt, 370pp. (14) tissue-protected photogravures. Fair copy. Spine sunned and bubbling, splitting at sides, spine ends nicked. light wear internally but tight and clean. Including a number of chapters on the Mayerling incident. With photogravures of Marie Vetsera, Crown Prince Rudolf, Archduke Karl-Franz-Joseph and Archduchess Zita and Archduke Franz-Ferdinand amongst others.

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Buchzahl: 38536

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Central Europe|History|Royalty|Austria-Hungary|Austria|Germany|Featured

LANG, David Marshall

The First Russian Radical: Alexander Radishchev 1749 - 1802.

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1959. A good copy in original dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. Owner name to fep. 298pp. 11 b/w plates, index, bibliography. Dust-wrappers showing a little light wear at edges. Used; Very Good . Hardback.

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Buchzahl: 34112

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Russia|History|Politics|Featured

LAURENT, Etienne

Skoplié Et la Serbie Du Sud. (Skopje and Southern Serbia)

Belgrade Beograd, M Karitch, 1925. Original wrappers, a little browned and chipped at edges else very good. Used; Very Good Summary in French of a much longer article published in a special edition of 'Glasnik', the organ for the society of secondary school teachers in the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Aimed at non-Serb speakers attending an international congress in Belgrade that year. Paperback.

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Buchzahl: 27396

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Serbia|Macedonia|History|Balkans||Austria-Hungary|Featured

LEWIS, Flora

The Polish Volcano. A Case History of Hope.

London, Secker & Warburg, 1959. A good copy in original dust-wrapper. xiv+267pp. mapped end-papers. Clean and tight. Much contemporary related material loosely inside. Underscoring to a couple of pages and to blurb. Tape to dust-wrapper edges. Used; Very Good . Hardback.

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Buchzahl: 34551

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Featured|Poland|History|Central Europe

MALLET, Mary.

A Short History of the Yugoslav Peoples.

Denmark, Silkeborg Bogtrykkeri, n.d. One copy in COPAC. Appears scarce. Not dated. Post WWII. Textured card covers, lettered in blue, 56pp with in-text maps. Used; Very Good Brief history; giving a summary of each Federal Republic up to the beginning of WWII in Yugoslavia. Paperback.

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Buchzahl: 32616

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Balkans|Yugoslavia|History|Povijest

MARCH, Thomas

The History of the Paris Commune of 1871.

London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1896. A good, clean tight copy. Original brown cloth lettered gilt to spine. viii+372pp. folding map. Cloth a little dulled, spine ends bruised, book a little cocked. Used; Very Good . Hardback.

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Buchzahl: 37216

Katalog: History

Sonstige Stichworte: Paris Commune|Featured|France|History