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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre - Crafting a Legacy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Chris M. Messer The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre - Crafting a Legacy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Chris M. Messer
R1,944 Discovery Miles 19 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, perhaps the most lethal and financially devastating instance of collective violence in early twentieth-century America. The Greenwood district, a comparably prosperous black community spanning thirty-five city blocks, was set afire and destroyed by white rioters. This work analyzes the massacre from a sociological perspective, extending an integrative approach to studying its causes, the organizational responses that followed, and the complicated legacy that remains.

World War 1 - The Western Front to Verdun and the Somme - Minifig Battlefields (Hardcover): Minifig Battlefields World War 1 - The Western Front to Verdun and the Somme - Minifig Battlefields (Hardcover)
Minifig Battlefields
R760 Discovery Miles 7 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Knights of the Broadax - The Story of the Wyoming Tie Hacks (Hardcover): Joan Trego Pinkerton Knights of the Broadax - The Story of the Wyoming Tie Hacks (Hardcover)
Joan Trego Pinkerton
R782 R668 Discovery Miles 6 680 Save R114 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hitler vs. Stalin - The Eastern Front, 1941-1945 (Paperback): John Mosier Hitler vs. Stalin - The Eastern Front, 1941-1945 (Paperback)
John Mosier 1
R549 R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Save R68 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, began a war that lasted nearly four years and created by far the bloodiest theater in World War II. In the conventional narrative of this war, Hitler was defeated by Stalin because, like Napoleon, he underestimated the size and resources of his enemy. In fact, says historian John Mosier, Hitler came very close to winning and lost only because of the intervention of the western Allies. Stalin's great triumph was not winning the war, but establishing the prevailing interpretation of the war. The Great Patriotic War, as it is known in Russia, would eventually prove fatal, setting in motion events that would culminate in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Deathride "argues that the Soviet losses in World War II were unsustainable and would eventually have led to defeat. The Soviet Union had only twice the population of Germany at the time, but it was suffering a casualty rate more than two and a half times the German rate. Because Stalin had a notorious habit of imprisoning or killing anyone who brought him bad news (and often their families as well), Soviet battlefield reports were fantasies, and the battle plans Soviet generals developed seldom responded to actual circumstances. In this respect the Soviets waged war as they did everything else: through propaganda rather than actual achievement. What saved Stalin was the Allied decision to open the Mediterranean theater. Once the Allies threatened Italy, Hitler was forced to withdraw his best troops from the eastern front and redeploy them. In addition, the Allies provided heavy vehicles that the Soviets desperately needed and were unable to manufacture themselves. It was not the resources of the Soviet Union that defeated Hitler but the resources of the West.
In this provocative revisionist analysis of the war between Hitler and Stalin, Mosier provides a dramatic, vigorous narrative of events as he shows how most previous histories accepted Stalin's lies and distortions to produce a false sense of Soviet triumph. "Deathride "is the real story of the Eastern Front, fresh and different from what we thought we knew.

Richard Harding Davis' Great War - The Last Campaigns of America's First Outstanding War Correspondent-With the... Richard Harding Davis' Great War - The Last Campaigns of America's First Outstanding War Correspondent-With the Allies & With the French in France and Salonika (Hardcover)
Richard Harding Davis
R773 Discovery Miles 7 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A great war correspondent reports from the Great War
Richard Harding Davis is well regarded as a writer of fiction, but it is for his work and writings as a journalist-particularly when covering the battle front-that posterity has awarded him the accolade 'the first famous American war correspondent.' Davis' first experience as a war correspondent was during the Spanish-American War and he later covered the Boer War in South Africa. The outbreak of the Great War saw him travelling to Europe and once there his pursuit of the story and vital information propelled him through many theatres of the conflict. The passage of time filters away those who have experienced momentous events until the few who are remembered are those who have left a written record. Each account is beyond value when their number is finite, but occasionally we are blessed not only with an invaluable account but also a fine author to convey it. By this time Davis had perfected his craft and these two books brought together by Leonaur for good value demonstrate that perfectly. They are augmented here with some of Davis' letters sent during the Great War. This was to be Davis' last campaign on returning home to New York he fell ill and died suddenly in 1916 aged just 52 years old. Available in softcover and hardback with dust jacket for collectors.

Tails Of A Military Cook (Hardcover): Mark Druck Tails Of A Military Cook (Hardcover)
Mark Druck
R842 Discovery Miles 8 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Pocket History of the Second World War (Hardcover): Henry Steele Commager The Pocket History of the Second World War (Hardcover)
Henry Steele Commager
R3,033 Discovery Miles 30 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Project Zebra - Roosevelt and Stalin's Top-Secret Mission to Train 300 Soviet Airmen in America (Hardcover): M G Crisci Project Zebra - Roosevelt and Stalin's Top-Secret Mission to Train 300 Soviet Airmen in America (Hardcover)
M G Crisci
R826 Discovery Miles 8 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Decline of Sterling - Managing the Retreat of an International Currency, 1945-1992 (Hardcover): Catherine R. Schenk The Decline of Sterling - Managing the Retreat of an International Currency, 1945-1992 (Hardcover)
Catherine R. Schenk
R3,253 Discovery Miles 32 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The demise of sterling as an international currency was widely predicted after 1945, but the process took thirty years to complete. Why was this demise so prolonged? Traditional explanations emphasize British efforts to prolong sterling's role because it increased the capacity to borrow, enhanced prestige, or supported London as a centre for international finance. This book challenges this view by arguing that sterling's international role was prolonged by the weakness of the international monetary system and by collective global interest in its continuation. Using the archives of Britain's partners in Europe, the USA and the Commonwealth, Catherine Schenk shows how the UK was able to convince other governments that sterling's international role was critical for the stability of the international economy and thereby attract considerable support to manage its retreat. This revised view has important implications for current debates over the future of the US dollar as an international currency.

Allowing the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life - Its Measure and Form (Hardcover): Karl Binding, Alfred Hoche Allowing the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life - Its Measure and Form (Hardcover)
Karl Binding, Alfred Hoche; Translated by Cristina Modak
R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In the Shadow of the General - Modern France and the Myth of De Gaulle (Hardcover): Sudhir Hazareesingh In the Shadow of the General - Modern France and the Myth of De Gaulle (Hardcover)
Sudhir Hazareesingh
R1,087 Discovery Miles 10 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Charles De Gaulle's leadership of the French while in exile during World War II cemented his place in history. In contemporary France, he is the stuff of legend, consistently acclaimed as the nation's pre-eminent historical figure. But paradoxes abound. For one thing, his personal popularity sits oddly with his social origins and professional background. Neither the Army nor the Catholic Church is particularly well-regarded in France today, as they are seen to represent antiquated traditions and values. So why, then, do the French nonetheless identify with, celebrate, and even revere this austere and devout Catholic, who remained closely wedded to military values throughout his life? In The Shadow of the General resolves this mystery and explains how de Gaulle has come to occupy such a privileged position in the French imagination. Sudhir Hazareesingh's story of how an individual life was transformed into national myth also tells a great deal about the French collective self in the twenty-first century: its fractured memory, its aspirations to greatness, and its manifold anxieties. Indeed, alongside the tale of de Gaulle's legacy, the author unfolds a much broader narrative: the story of modern France.

The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India - Law, Citizenship and Community (Hardcover, New): Eleanor Newbigin The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India - Law, Citizenship and Community (Hardcover, New)
Eleanor Newbigin
R2,387 Discovery Miles 23 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Between 1955 and 1956 the Government of India passed four Hindu Law Acts to reform and codify Hindu family law. Scholars have understood these acts as a response to growing concern about women's rights but, in a powerful re-reading of their history, this book traces the origins of the Hindu law reform project to changes in the political-economy of late colonial rule. The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India considers how questions regarding family structure, property rights and gender relations contributed to the development of representative politics, and how, in solving these questions, India's secular and state power structures were consequently drawn into a complex and unique relationship with Hindu law. In this comprehensive and illuminating resource for scholars and students, Newbigin demonstrates the significance of gender and economy to the history of twentieth-century democratic government, as it emerged in India and beyond.

The Leicestershires Beyond Baghdad (Hardcover): Edward John Thompson The Leicestershires Beyond Baghdad (Hardcover)
Edward John Thompson
R749 R671 Discovery Miles 6 710 Save R78 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Were the A-Bombs Necessary? (Hardcover): William Ervin Keener Were the A-Bombs Necessary? (Hardcover)
William Ervin Keener
R599 Discovery Miles 5 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Shooting to Live - With The One-Hand Gun (Hardcover): W.E. Fairbairn, E.A. Sykes Shooting to Live - With The One-Hand Gun (Hardcover)
W.E. Fairbairn, E.A. Sykes
R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Thunderbolt! The P-47 (Hardcover): Martin Caidin, Robert S. Johnson Thunderbolt! The P-47 (Hardcover)
Martin Caidin, Robert S. Johnson
R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Italian Literature of the Axis War - Memories of Self-Absolution and the Quest for Responsibility (Hardcover, 1st ed.... The Italian Literature of the Axis War - Memories of Self-Absolution and the Quest for Responsibility (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Guido Bartolini
R2,619 Discovery Miles 26 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book investigates the representation of the Axis War - the wars of aggression that Fascist Italy fought in North Africa, Greece, the Soviet Union, and the Balkans, from 1940 to 1943 - in three decades of Italian literature. Building on an innovative and interdisciplinary methodology, which combines memory studies, historiography, thematic criticism, and narratology, this book explores the main topoi, themes, and masterplots of an extensive corpus of novels and memoirs to assess the contribution of literature to the reshaping of Italian memory and identity after the end of Fascism. By exploring the influence that public memory exercises on literary depictions and, in return, the contribution of literary texts to the formation and dissemination of a discourse about the past, the book examines to what extent Italian literature helped readers form an ethical awareness of the crimes committed by members of their national community during World War II.

The Lumumba Generation - African Bourgeoisie and Colonial Distinction in the Belgian Congo (Hardcover): Daniel Toedt The Lumumba Generation - African Bourgeoisie and Colonial Distinction in the Belgian Congo (Hardcover)
Daniel Toedt; Translated by Alex Skinner
R2,267 Discovery Miles 22 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How and why did the Congolese elite turn from loyal intermediaries into opponents of the colonial state? This book seeks to enrich our understanding of the political and cultural processes culminating in the tumultuous decolonization of the Belgian Congo. Focusing on the making of an African bourgeoisie, the book illuminates the so-called evolues' social worlds, cultural self-representations, daily life and political struggles. https://youtu.be/c8ybPCi80dc

Newark (Hardcover): Frank Addiego Newark (Hardcover)
Frank Addiego
R801 R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Save R119 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
John Buchan's 1914 - the War in the West-the First Months of the First World War on the Western Front-June to December... John Buchan's 1914 - the War in the West-the First Months of the First World War on the Western Front-June to December 1914 (Hardcover)
John Buchan
R1,027 Discovery Miles 10 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A unique Leonaur edition-never before available in this form
John Buchan was a popular author of historical and adventure fiction whose works remain in print to the present day. He also wrote important works of non-fiction that are less well remembered. Among these was a commissioned, multi-volume history of the First World War that was so well regarded that it became a source-work for other historians. This Leonaur Original, drawn from Buchan's history, and including many maps, battle plans, photographs and illustrations, has been published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War on the Western Front as overwhelming German forces swept through Belgium and France. This was a mobile war-much like the wars fought in Europe for hundreds of years-of marching infantry and cavalry armed with lances and swords. The battle at Mons, the dogged retreat of the 'Contemptible Little Army' of the B. E. F., the incredible resistance of the out-dated Belgian Forces, the battles of the Marne and Aisne as the tide turned, and the carnage of the First Battle of Ypres as the war became a stalemate of wire, mud and trenches at the close of the year, are all covered in Buchan's brilliant take on just six months of war in 1914.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

The Dirty Tricks Department - The Untold Story of the Real-life Q Branch, the Masterminds of Second World War Secret Warfare... The Dirty Tricks Department - The Untold Story of the Real-life Q Branch, the Masterminds of Second World War Secret Warfare (Hardcover)
John Lisle
R684 R568 Discovery Miles 5 680 Save R116 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In a makeshift laboratory built on a golf course in Maryland, chemist Stanley Lovell led a secret team of scientists that developed the secret gadgets and weapons of the Second World War. Their 'Dirty Tricks Department' was the real-life equivalent of James Bond's legendary Q Branch. If a spy or saboteur needed a forged passport for cover, a silent pistol for executions, an incendiary device for starting fires, or a cyanide pill to kill themselves with before being captured alive, the scientists created it. Moreover, they developed poisons to assassinate foreign leaders, chemical and biological weapons to deploy against enemy soldiers, and truth drugs to interrogate prisoners of war. The Dirty Tricks Department is the first book to focus on the daring, exciting, and often tragic exploits of the men and women who made and used these devices. Lovell and his team exerted a disproportionally large influence on history. Not only were they integral to the Allied victory, but they left a dark legacy that has, until now, gone mainly unacknowledged.

International Trade in the 1970s - The US, the EC and the Growing Pressure of Protectionism (Hardcover, New): Giuseppe La Barca International Trade in the 1970s - The US, the EC and the Growing Pressure of Protectionism (Hardcover, New)
Giuseppe La Barca
R4,473 Discovery Miles 44 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The 1970s marked the end of the years in which the United States was the guarantor of a free world trade order, while Western Europe made efforts to catch up with the economic superpower. In this book, Dr La Barca explains how the trade environment and trade policies in the United States and in the European Community during the 1970s were more complex than frequently acknowledged. In particular, he examines the promotion of greater governmental protection of national industries and the relationship between such tendencies and the negotiations aimed at reducing trade barriers. This analysis shows how the United States and the European Community agreed to pursue their protectionist practices, thereby creating a barrier to serious efforts to enable free trade.

History of the Twenty-ninth Division, Blue and Gray, 1917-1919 (Hardcover): John a (John Abram) 1881- Cutchins History of the Twenty-ninth Division, Blue and Gray, 1917-1919 (Hardcover)
John a (John Abram) 1881- Cutchins
R1,140 Discovery Miles 11 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Witnessing the Holocaust - Six Literary Testimonies (Hardcover): Judith M. Hughes Witnessing the Holocaust - Six Literary Testimonies (Hardcover)
Judith M. Hughes
R2,278 Discovery Miles 22 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Witnessing the Holocaust presents the autobiographical writings, including diaries and autobiographical fiction, of six Holocaust survivors who lived through and chronicled the Nazi genocide. Drawing extensively on the works of Victor Klemperer, Ruth Kluger, Michal Glowinski, Primo Levi, Imre Kertesz and Bela Zsolt, this books conveys, with vivid detail, the persecution of the Jews from the beginning of the Third Reich until its very end. It gives us a sense both of what the Holocaust meant to the wider community swept up in the horrors and what it was like for the individual to weather one of the most shocking events in history. Survivors and witnesses disappear, and history, not memory, becomes the instrument for recalling the past. Judith M. Hughes secures a place for narratives by those who experienced the Holocaust in person. This compelling text is a vital read for all students of the Holocaust and Holocaust memory.

The Appraiser Calls - Encounters with Aristocracy (Hardcover): John Hazard Forbes The Appraiser Calls - Encounters with Aristocracy (Hardcover)
John Hazard Forbes
R663 R569 Discovery Miles 5 690 Save R94 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"When I first began my career as an art appraiser in the '70s], America became enthralled with "Upstairs/Downstairs." Now, forty years later, new versions of the same story lines have recaptured our fascination. While these have been pure fiction, what follows are true vignettes of Old Money life from my years among the rich and quietly famous. And I can assure my readers the real Biddles, DuPonts, and Rockefellers exhibited all the grandeur, falderal-and occasional witlessness-of their made-up British counterparts."
-from "The Appraiser Calls, Encounters with Aristocracy"

"The knowledgeable and always entertaining John Hazard Forbes takes us along as he unlocks the secret enclaves of exclusive families, often exposing much more than the mere value of their possessions."
-E. Shaver, bookseller

"The Appraiser Calls" is the latest addition to the Old Money America book series. Each chapter is a true recollection of the author's encounters with the very rich and quietly famous. Within each self-contained chapter, the reader will meet remarkable people of elegance, whimsy, courage, foolishness, and tragedy - plus the cover-up of a nasty crime.

The Addendum section includes notes on Old Money savior faire, the secret language of America's oldest and richest families, and an actual room by room appraisal of every item inside an elegant New York City townhouse.

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