Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44 (Mazower Mark)(Paperback)

Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44 (Mazower Mark)(Paperback)

This gripping and richly illustrated account of wartime Greece explores the impact of the Nazi Occupation upon the lives and values of ordinary people. The first full account of the experience of occupation, it offers a vividly human picture of resistance fighters and black marketeers, teenage

Hitler's Empire - Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (Mazower Mark)(Paperback / softback)

Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of Europe in history. Inspired by imperial legacy of those such as British, Third Reich cast its shadow from Channel Islands to Caucasus and ruled hundreds of millions. This title offers an account of the rise and fall of

Governing the World - The History of an Idea (Mazower Mark)(Paperback / softback)

Operation Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941 (Glantz David M.)(Paperback)

From a world expert on Hitler's war in Russia, this book on the operation that changed the course of World War II includes updated information on casualty numbers and opposing forces Here, David Glantz challenges the time-honored explanation that poor weather, bad terrain, and Hitler's faulty

Hitler 1936-1945 - Nemesis (Kershaw Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Beginning with Hitler's startling European successes in the aftermath of the Rhineland occupation, from Czechoslovakia to Poland, this title addresses crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism. It explores the Holocaust and the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to

What You Did Not Tell - A Russian Past and the Journey Home (Mazower Mark)(Paperback / softback)

Uncovering his family's remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their descendants. It was a family that fate drove into the siege of Stalingrad, the Vilna ghetto, occupied Paris, and even into the ranks of the Wehrmacht. His

Balkans (Mazower Mark)(Paperback / softback)

A dazzling short history of the Balkans from the Romans to the present, which provides vital historical and cultural background to contemporary Balkan

The Balkans: A Short History (Mazower Mark)(Paperback)

Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. In this highly acclaimed short history, Mark Mazower sheds light on what has been called the

Leningrad - State of Siege (Jones Michael)(Paperback / softback)

In 1941 Hitler's armies blocked the last roads leading into Leningrad. What followed was one of the most horrific sieges in

Where the Iron Crosses Grow: The Crimea 1941-44 (Forczyk Robert)(Paperback)

When the Soviets fortified Sevastopol in 1941, it heralded the beginning of a period of intense fighting over the Crimea. In this remarkable work, acclaimed author Robert Forcyzk assembles new research to investigate the intense and barbaric fighting for the region in World War II, where first

Inside The Third Reich (Speer Albert)(Paperback / softback)

The classic eye-witness account of Nazi Germany by Hitler's Armaments Minister and right-hand

Salonica, City of Ghosts - Christians, Muslims and Jews (Mazower Mark)(Paperback / softback)

The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi

Rome - City in Terror: The Nazi Occupation 1943-44 (Failmezger Victor)(Paperback)

From the street fighting that heralded the German occupation to the Gestapo repression that followed, this is the gripping story of the German occupation of Rome from the Italian armistice in September 1943 until the Allied liberation of the city on June 5, 1944. In September 1943, following wave

Killing the Bismarck: Destroying the Pride of Hitler's Fleet (Ballantyne Iain)(Paperback)

In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck, accompanied by heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, broke out into the Atlantic, to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy's pursuit and subsequent destruction of Bismarck was an epic of naval warfare. In this new account of those dramatic events at the height of

Hitler's New Disorder - The Second World War in Yugoslavia (Pavlowitch Stevan K.)(Paperback / softback)

Presents analysis of interrelated struggles fought in 1941-5, during the short but tragic period of Hitler's failed 'New Order', over the territory that was no longer the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Federal Peoples' Republic of

Hitler's Russian & Cossack Allies 1941-45 (Thomas Nigel)(Paperback)

Given the merciless way in which the war on the Eastern Front of World War II was conducted, it is difficult to imagine soldiers changing allegiance from one side to another. Yet after the German invasion of Russia in Operation Barbarossa, well over 400,000 former Soviet Citizens went on to fight

Kingdom of Olives and Ash - Writers Confront the Occupation(Paperback / softback)

Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien, Eimear McBride, Taiye Selasi and editors

Dark Continent - Europe's Twentieth Century (Mazower Mark)(Paperback / softback)

The end of First World War saw old empires swept away and opportunity to build a better society from the ruins. This title overturns the myth of Europe as a safe haven of democracy to redefine our view of twentieth century. It tells the story of a century of division, charting struggles of rival

Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece (Chisholm Jane)(Paperback / softback)

This is a far-reaching history of Ancient Greece, from the early Minoans to the rise of Classical Greece and its conquest by the Macedonians. It includes detailed information on the key figures, battles and geography of the Ancient Greek Empire, as well as information on the day-to-day life of its

With SOE in Greece: The Wartime Experiences of Captain Pat Evans (Evans Tom)(Pevná vazba)

The Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of Subjective Experience (Solms Mark)(Paperback)

Greco Files: A Brit's-Eye View of Greece (Hayes John)(Paperback)

Greco Files is part memoir and part commentary. It traces the real-life experiences of a couple of retired British teachers as they fashion a new chapter in their lives in a Greek village as the 21st Century unfolds. Put in the context of Greek mythology, history and geography, and set against a

Leningrad - Tragedy of a City under Siege, 1941-44 (Reid Anna)(Paperback / softback)

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece (Morkot Robert)(Paperback)

The cradle of Western civilisation, Ancient Greece was a land of contradictions and conflict. Intensely quarrelsome and competitive, the Greek city-states consistently proved unwilling and unable to unite. Yet, in spite of or even because of this internal discord, no ancient civilization proved so