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The Washington war. FDR's inner circle and the politics of power that won World War II

LACEY, JAMES · 2019

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

New York: Bantam Books, 2019, 1st ed.); 8vo (24.5cm), xxii+567pp., black-white photographs, endnotes, bibliography, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. V. good copy Rare in NL. ¶ l This book \"is the story of how the Second World War was fought and won in the capital's halls of p...

Empire of secrets. British intelligence, the Cold War and the twilight of empire

WALTON, CALDER · 2014

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

London: William Collins, 2014; sm8vo (19.5cm), xxxii+411pp., endnotes, bibliography, index, paper. V. good copy. Rare in NL.

The ghosts of Langley. Into the CIA's heart of darkness

PRADOS, JOHN · 2017

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

New York/London: The new Press, 2017; xxviii+446(+4)pp., endnotes, bibliography, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. V. good copy. Rare in NL.

The pragmatic superpower. Winning the Cold War in the Middle East

TAKEYH, RAY, AND STEVEN SIMON · 2016

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

New York/London: W.W. Norton, 2016 (1st ed.); xx+396pp., endnotes, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. V. good copy. Rare in NL.

The unfinished revolution. Making sense of the communist past in central-Eastern Europe

MARK, JAMES · 2010

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2010; 8vo (24cm), xxviii+312pp., black-white photographs, endnotes, bibliography, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. V. good copy. Rare in NL. ¶ l \"[...] this is the first work to integrate the study of politics, culture, society and memo...

Ministers at war. Winston Churchill and his war cabinet

SCHNEER, JONATHAN · 2014

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

New York: Basic Books, 2014; 8vo (24.5cm), xxiv+323pp., endnotes, bibliography, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. V. good copy. Rare in NL. ¶ l \"Selecting men from across the political spectrum - from right-wing Conservative press magnate Lord Beaverbrook to leader of the oppos...

Waging war. The clash between presidents and Congress 1776 tot ISIS

BARRON, DAVID J. · 2016

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016; 8vo (24.5cm), xiv+360pp., black-white illustrations, endnotes, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. V. good copy. Rare in NL. ¶ l American commanders in chief and Congress have always competed over the constitutional power to declare and wage war.

A contest for supremacy. China, America, and the struggle for mastery in Asia

FRIEDBERG, AARON L. · 2011

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

New York/London: W.W. Norton, 2011; 8vo (24.5cm), xviii+360pp., appendix, endnotes, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. Dj has a v. small defect on front cover, otherwise in excellent condition. Scarce in NL. ¶ l Author, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton...

Anglu-Liettuviu kalbu zodynas. English-Lithuanian dictionary

2011

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Vilnius: UAB 'Gimtine', 2011; 16mo (15.5cm), 523pp., paper. Used but good copy. Inscription on first endpage.

Christelijke gezangen voor de Evang.-Luthersche gemeenten in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden

1846

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)

Amsterdam: J. Brandt en Zoon, Haarlem: Johannes Enschdé en Zonen, Groningen: Erven R.J. Schierbeek, 1846; 16mo (15.5cm), xii+480+79+56+77(+2)pp., notenschrift, goud op snee. In contemprain bewerkt leder gebonden. Op de knepen versleten maar nog zeer stevig in de band. Gemarmer...

Cold War counterfeit spies. Tales of espionage; genuine or bogus?

WEST, NIGEL · 2016

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Barnsley: Frontline Books, 2016; 8vo (21.5cm), xii+252pp., endnotes, bibliography, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. As new. Rare in NL.

A nation without borders. The United States and its world in an age of civil wars, 1830-1910

HAHN, STEVEN · 2016

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

New York: Viking, 2016; 8vo (24.5cm), xi+596pp., maps, black-white illustrations, bibliography, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. V. good copy. Scarce.

A photographic history of World War II

WILKINSON, M. · 2011

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

Bath: Parragon, 2011; 4to (28cm), 256pp., black-white photographs, hardback w. dustjacket. Including full-colour nostalgic postcards. V. good copy. Rare in NL. ¶ l The photographs have been taken from the 'Daily Mail' archive and show many unknown British WW II pictures, taken...

Cry havoc. How the arms race drove the world to war 1931-1941

MAIOLO, JOSEPH · 2010

€18.50 ($20.39 | £15.43 | ¥3,256)

New York: Basis Books, 2010; 8vo (24.5cm), xx+473pp., maps, black-white photographs, endnotes cum literature, index, hardback w. dustjacket. As new. Rare in NL. ¶ l This book by military historiam J. Maiolo \"provides the first truly global history of interwar militarization. ...

Europa. How Europe shaped the modern world

MACLENNAN, JULIO CRESPO · 2018

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

New York/London: Pegasus Books, 2018; 8vo (23.5cm), xviii+477pp., bibliography, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. V. good copy, edges slightly browned. Scarce in NL. ¶ l \"An original and innovative examination of the continent - and its culture - that was the epicenter of the w...

Revolutions. How they changed history and what they mean today

FURTADO, PETER · 2020

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London: Thames & Hudson, 2020 (1st ed.); 8vo (24cm), 352pp., colour illustrations, further reading, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. V. good copy. ¶ l Edited volume; starts with the English revolution 1642-1689 and ends with the Arab spring revolution in 2011. The absence of th...

The price of peace. Money, democracy, and the life of John Maynard Keynes

CARTER, ZACHARY D. · 2020

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

New York: Random House, 2020; 8vo (24cm), xxii+631pp., black-white and colour illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. V. good copy. This edition scarce in NL. ¶ l Biography of the world-changing economist j.M. Keynes and the transformative ideas ...

Scorched earth. Stalin's reign of terror

BABEROWSKI, JöRG · 2016

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2016; 8vo (24cm), xii+500pp., endnotes, hardback w. dustjacket. V. good copy. Rare in NL. ¶ l Originally published in German. Author is one of the world's leading experts on the Stalin era.

A force so swift. Mao, Truman, and the birth of modern China, 1949

PERAINO, KEVIN · 2017

€16.50 ($18.19 | £13.77 | ¥2,904)

New York: Crown, 2017 (1st ed.); 8vo (24cm), xvi+379pp., black-white photographs, endnotes, bibliography, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. Small red dot under bookblock, otherwise like new. Rare in NL ¶ l The fall of nationalist China in 1949 as a consequence of an extraordinar...

Pastoe '54

UMS [PASTOE] · 1954

€125.00 ($137.77 | £104.28 | ¥22,001)

Utrecht: UMS, 1954; oblong klein 8vo (18.5cm), 64pp., zwart-wit en kleurenfoto's, zwart-wit techniwsche tekeningen, gebrocheerd. In zeer goede staat. Zeldzaam. ¶ l Viertalige catalogus van de N.V. Utrechtse Machinale Stoel- en Meubelfabriek UMS met foto's van Foto Spies, Jaap ...