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Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World
Gorbachev, Mikhail
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Harper & Row First
Edition 1987 ISBN: 0060390859 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. RUSSIA,SOVIET UNION,COLD WAR Book #1496 |
US$11.50 |
Witness: Voices from the Holocaust
Greene, Joshua M. and Shiva Kumar (edits.)
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Free Press First Edition
2000 ISBN: 0684865254 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "For the past twenty years, the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University has sought to preserve the human side of this inhuman era by video-taping testimonies from those who lived through the Nazi era, a project that has led to an acclaimed documentary film and this extraordinary book." JEWISH SOCIETY,JUDAISM,DEATH CAMPS,CONCENTRATION CAMPS,JEWISH QUESTION,FINAL SOLUTION,NAZIS,NAZI GERMANY,TWENTIETH CENTURY Book #4176 |
US$16.50 |
The Next Century
Halberstam, David
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William Morrow First Edition
1990 ISBN: 068810391X Near Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. A trace of edge spotting. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with slight edge wear; in a clear protective cover. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and veteran journalist considers the recent past, and the possible shape of the twenty-first century. AMERICAN HISTORY,U.S.HISTORY,WORLD HISTORY,SOVIET UNION,JAPAN Book #4493 |
US$12.00 |
The Plot To Kill The Pope
Henze, Paul
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Charles Scribner's Sons
1985 ISBN: 0684183579 Very Good Mass Market Paperback. Slight wear of wraps and gentle creasing of spine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. By Paul Henze, former member of the National Security Council. A reconstruction of the 1981 attempted assassination of John Paul II in St. Peter's Square. ROME,RELIGION,ROMAN CATHOLICISM,PAPACY,POPE JOHN PAUL II,VATICAN,ASSASSINATION,COLD WAR Book #3066 |
US$7.00 |
Waldheim, The Missing Years
Herzstein, Robert Edwin
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William Morrow First Edition
1988 ISBN: 0877959595 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "Was Kurt Waldheim a war criminal? For years, the former secretary-general of the United Nations had deflected rumors about his past, insisting that his record in World War II had been an honorable one. In March 1986, however, while Waldheim was campaigning for the presidency of his native Austria, historian Robert Edwin Herzstein uncovered documentary evidence that told a different story." BIOGRAPHY,WORLD WAR II,NAZIS,WAR CRIMES,WAR CRIMINALS,AUSTRIA,YUGOSLAVIA Book #5665 |
US$12.00 |
Women of Cuba
Holt-Seeland, Inger
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Lawrence Hill First English
Language Edition 1982 ISBN: 088208142X New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ with very slight wear; in a clear protective cover. "In simple, direct terms the author describes how the profound changes that have taken place in Cuba since the revolution are affecting the lives of the women of Cuba." Photographs by Jorgen Schytte. FIDEL CASTRO,CUBAN REVOLUTION,WOMEN’S STUDIES,WOMEN'S ISSUES,WOMEN'S RIGHTS Book #2712 |
US$19.00 |
Majesty: Elizabeth II And The House Of Windsor
Lacey, Robert
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Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich First
Edition 1977 ISBN: 0151556849 Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Tiny spotting of a few early pages. Book is tight and bright. DJ with mild edge wear and a small, closed tear of back; in a clear protective cover. Well illustrated. ROYALS,ROYALTY,ROYAL FAMILY,ENGLAND,ENGLISH HISTORY Book #1353 |
US$9.50 |
Snatched from the Dragon
Lanham, Megan Gabriel
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Thomas First Edition
1990 ISBN: 0840774818 Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Gift note on front free endpaper. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Megan Gabriel Lenham traveled to China with her family to teach English, just months prior to the Tiananmen Square demonstrations. She now tells the story of building relationships and sharing her faith with Chinese students who, in the months leading up to the Beijing massacre, were willing to pursue freedom at any risk. CHINA,TIANANMEN SQUARE,CHRISTIANITY Book #6535 |
US$8.75 |
For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, The Soviet Union, and The Cold War
Leffler, Melvyn P.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Book Club Edition 2007 ISBN: 9780809097173 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The public, the pundits, and even the policy-makers were amazed when the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world for half a century came to an end in 1990. How did it happen? And why had the Cold War lasted so long? Illustrated. COLD WAR,USSR,SOVIET UNION,TRUMAN,STALIN,KRUSHCHEV,KENNEDY,GORBACHEV,REAGAN Book #7815 |
US$14.00 |
The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies
Lewy, Guenter
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Oxford University Press First
Edition 2000 ISBN: 0195125568 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Guenter Lewy draws upon thousands of documents - many never before used - from German and Austrian archives to create the most comprehensive and accurate picture available of the fate of the Gypsies under the Nazi regime. Illustrated. WORLD WAR II,NAZI GERMANY,NAZIS,WAR CRIMES,DEATH CAMPS,CONCENTRATION CAMPS,AUSCHWITZ Book #6755, 6756 |
US$15.00 |
Saudi Arabia
Lindsey, Gene
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Hippocrene First Edition
1991 ISBN: 0870529986 Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Cloth with gilt lettering. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ ill-fitting with edge wear with small tears and chips; in a clear protective cover. Illustrated with maps. MIDDLE EAST,BEDOUINS,OIL,POLITICS,GOVERNMENT Book #1371 |
US$12.50 |
Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic
Lord, Bette Bao
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Alfred A. Knopf Book Club Edition
1990 ISBN: 0394583256 Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with slight corner wear; in a clear protective cover. Bette Bao Lord's unique web of friendships has enabled her to bring us into the Chinese essence through her own story and - interwoven with it - the stories of her clansmen and others. Their stories bear witness to the surreal realities of revolutionary China - a society where one day's solid ground may well be the next day's quicksand - and to the astonishing resilience, humor and heroic equanimity of the Chinese spirit. BIOGRAPHY,MEMOIRS,CHINA,CHINA SPRING Book #3485 |
US$13.50 |
Wings of the Morning: The Flights of Orestes Lorenzo
Lorenzo, Orestes
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St. Martin's First Edition
1994. ISBN: 0312100086 Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with the slightest of corner wear - else Fine; in a clear protective cover. The amazing story of the Cuban Air Force Major who escaped to the U.S. in one of Castro's MIG fighters and later returned in an old prop-driven Cessna to rescue his wife and two sons. Illustrated. CUBA,FIDEL CASTRO,ADVENTURE,AVIATION,FIGHTER PILOTS,CUBAN EMIGRES,CUBAN EXPATRIOTS Book #5943 |
US$14.00 |
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed The World
Macmillan, Margaret
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Random House First Edition
2007 ISBN: 9781400061273 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. In February 1972, Richard Nixon, the first American president ever to visit China, and Mao Tse-Tung, the enigmatic Communist dictator, met for an hour in Beijing. Their meeting changed the course of history and ultimately laid the groungwork for the complex relationship between China and the United States that we see today. Illustrated. DIPLOMACY,STATESMANSHIP,CHINA,RICHARD NIXON,KISSINGER,MAO TSE-TUNG,CHOU EN-LAI Book #7603 |
US$17.50 |
Exploding Star: A Young Austrian Against Hitler
Molden, Fritz
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William Morrow 1979
ISBN: 0688033814 Fine Hardcover in Fair Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with chips and closed tears; in a clear protective cover. A distinguished Austrian publisher offers here the personal story of his childhood in Vienna during the unsettled period between the hungry Twenties and Hitler's rise to power, and of his major role in the Austrian resistance movement. NAZI GERMANY,NAZIS,ADOLPH HITLER,THIRD REICH,ANSCHLUSS,WORLD WAR II,AUSTRIA,VIENNA,RESISTANCE MOVEMENT Book #6480 |
US$7.00 |
A Secret History of the IRA
Moloney, Ed
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W.W. Norton First Edition
2002 ISBN: 0393051943 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. A riveting and remarkable work, A Secret History of the IRA revises our understanding not only of the Irish peace process but also of late-twentieth-century Irish and British history. Illustrated. IRISH HISTORY,NORTHERN IRELAND,GREAT BRITAIN,GERRY ADAMS,SINN FEIN Book #6676 |
US$18.00 |
Winston Churchill: Statesman of the Century
Neillands, Robin H.
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Cold Spring Press 2003
ISBN: 1593600003 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Eminent British historian Robin Neillands' concise, elegant, and expert biography relates Churchill's great wartime deeds to his earlier life and explains just how Churchill became the Allies indispensable man and, in the process, the greatest statesman of the last century. BIOGRAPHY,BRITISH EMPIRE,BRITISH HISTORY,ENGLAND,WORLD WAR II Book #6582 |
US$14.00 |
Diana, The People’s Princess (A Commemorative Tribute)
Owen, Nicholas (ITN Royal Correspondent)
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Reader’s Digest
Association 1997 ISBN: 0762100796 Fine Tall Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. “With more than 250 photographs, including exclusive ITN images of her funeral, Diana The People’s Princess captures the essence of this remarkable woman.” BIOGRAPHY,BRITISH HISTORY,ROYALS,BRITISH ROYALTY,SPENCERS Book #7467 |
US$17.00 |
The Hidden Encyclical of Pius XI
Passelecq, Georges and Bernard Suchecky
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Harcourt Brace First U.S. Edition
1997 ISBN: 0151002444 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The Vatican's lost opportunity to oppose Nazi racial policies that led to the Holocaust. With an Introduction by Gary Wills. HOLOCAUST,FINAL SOLUTION,DEATH CAMPS,NAZIS,VATICAN,PAPACY,POPE PIUS XII,ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH,JEWS,HUMANI GENERIS UNITAS Book #3574 |
US$16.00 |
The Escape of Alexei, son of Tsar Nicholas II: What Happened the Night the Romanov Family Was Executed
Petrov, Vadim, Igor Lysenho, and Georgy Egorov
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Henry N. Abrams First
English-language Edition 1998 ISBN: 0810932776 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Did the heir to the Russian throne survive? RUSSIAN HISTORY,ROMANOVS,RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Book #7354 |
US$14.00 |
The Bodyguard's Story: Diana, the Crash, and the Sole Survivor
Rees-Jones, Trevor with Moira Johnston
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Warner First U.S.Edition
2000 ISBN: 0446527750 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The first-hand account of the events surrounding the 1997 death of Princess Diana in Paris. Photos. PRINCESS DIANA,ROYAL FAMILY,DODI FAYED,PAPARAZZI,ENGLAND Book #3668 |
US$14.50 |
Coming Apart: A Memoir of the Harvard Wars of 1969
Rosenblatt, Roger
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Little, Brown Second Printing
1997 ISBN: 0316757268 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. An account of the Vietnam era student uprisings at Harvard University. "Drawing on the recollections of faculty - Archibald Cox, Derek Bok, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Dunlop, James Q. Wilson, and Martin Perez - and of students - Al Gore, Michael Kinsley, James Fallows, Frank Rich, Christopher Durang, and Mark Helprin - Rosenblatt has written an eloquent, often ironic, sometimes funny memoir that can be read as modern history and as a moral tale about a time when people persuaded themselves that they could fix things by taking them apart." UNIVERSITIES,HIGHER EDUCATION,STUDENT UNREST,STUDENT PROTEST,VIETNAM,VIETNAM WAR,SIXTIES,1960'S Book #3656 |
US$12.50 |
