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A History of Twentieth-Century Russia by Robert Service
$25.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Series: Allen Lane History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Russia has had an extraordinary history in the twentieth century. As the first Communist society, the USSR was both an admired model and an object of fear and hatred to the rest of the world.How are we to make sense of this history? "A History of Twentieth-Century Russia" treats the years from 1917 to 1 ...Show more
Cassandra's Daughter: A History of Psychoanalysis by Joseph Schwartz
$20.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Allen Lane History Ser. | Reading Level: good
This work presents a complete history of psychoanalysis from its origins in 19th-century medical science to the end of the 20th century. The origins of psychoanalysis as well as the more immediate influences on Freud are explored, as is the way the discipline he founded has developed and changed.Joseph ...Show more
Flesh in the Age of Reason by Roy Porter
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this "readable and humane book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), the late historian Roy Porter traces the course of man's philosophical journey from the superstitious, spiritually obsessed Dark Ages to our modern perspective, based on reason and grounded in the body. He demonstrates how the explosion ...Show more
Interrogations: Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945 by R.J. Overy
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S. | Reading Level: near fine
hardback, 672 pages, 60 b&w illust Europe in 1945 had been turned into a vast physical and moral wasteland. In the wreckage of defeated Germany the British, American and Soviet forces came face to face with the true horrors of the system they had fought against. This time there was no negotiation wi ...Show more
Making Friends with Hitler : Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War by Ian Kershaw
$20.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Series: Allen Lane History S. | Reading Level: very good
Ian Kershaw's powerful new book is a revelatory account of Britain's ambiguous relations with Germany before the Second World War.
The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany by Jonathan Petropoulos
$16.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: Allen Lane History S. | Reading Level: very good
Hitler and his consorts carried out an extensive looting campaign - the theft and forced sale of millions of works of art belonging to Jews. In this text, Petropoulos follows the careers of prominent figures who collaborated with the Nazis and implemented their programme of systematic plunder.
The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to the Present by J.M. Roberts
$12.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History Ser. | Reading Level: good
This dazzling overview of a turbulent century explores both dramatic events and underlying trends. Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-fold leap in population, women's lives have been transform ...Show more
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog : Captain Cook in the South Seas by Anne Salmond
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Series: Allen Lane History S. | Reading Level: good-very good
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog is a spectacular recreation of three of the greatest and most startling of all human journeys. The Pacific voyages of James Cook explored the ice-bound fringes of the Arctic and Antarctic, sailed across perilous tropical seas, survived hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, dis ...Show more
Twentieth Century - The History of the World 1901 to the present (2000) by J. M. Roberts
$25.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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