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  • The Return from the Soviet Union to Franco´s Spain during the Cold War

    by Glennys Young ...
    This book tells the story of how and why Spaniards who had been catapulted to the USSR by the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War came home. It examines the repatriation, mainly during the Cold War, of Spaniards in the USSR--nearly three thousand children evacuated there during the Spanish Civil War (and their caretakers), communists in exile, Republican aviators and sailors, ... Read more

    $181.39 CAD

  • The Cultural Gradient

    The Transmission of Ideas in Europe, 1789D1991

    by Lawrence Dickey, Andrzej Walicki Catherine Evtuhov, Natalia Pirumova, Terence Emmons, Bernice Rosenthal, Charles Ruud, Elzbieta Kaczynska, Glennys Young, Norman Pereira, Jack Matlock, Alain Touraine, Adam Michnik, Jacques Le Goff, Hugh McLean, Nicholas Riasanovsky ...
    Is there a sharp dividing line that separates Europe into "East" and "West"?This volume brings together prominent scholars from the United States, Canada, France, Poland, and Russia to examine the evolution of the concept of Europe in the two centuries between the French Revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Inspired by the ideas of Martin Malia, the contributors take a flexible view of ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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  • The Battle for Spain

    The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

    by Antony Beevor ...
    The bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of newly discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives.The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Real Odessa

    How Nazi War Criminals Escaped Europe

    by Uki Goñi ...
    A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism revealing the complicity of the Vatican and the Swiss government in aiding Nazi war criminals' escape from Europe to Argentina - reissued with a new preface by Philippe Sands and additional materialAs Russian forces closed in on Berlin, and Hitler's premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany. In this startling, meticulously ... Read more

    $14.79 CAD

  • The Spanish Holocaust

    Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

    by Paul Preston ...
    Selected as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.The culmination of more than a decade of research, ‘The Spanish Holocaust’ seeks to reflect the intense horrors visited upon Spain during its ferocious civil war, the consequences of which still reverberate bitterly today.The brutal, murderous ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Idea of Decline in Western History

    by Arthur Herman ...
    Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism.From Nazism to the Sixties counterculture, from Britain's Fabian socialists to America's multiculturalists, and from Dracula and Freud to Robert Bly and Madonna, this work examines the idea of decline in Western ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Real Odessa

    How Nazi War Criminals Escaped Europe

    by Uki Goni ...
    It has long been known that Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke and many other Nazi war criminals found refuge in Argentina. In this book, a courageous Argentinian writer shows exactly how it was done, and reveals that the escapes were organized with the enthusiastic support of President Juan Peron. Even at this late date, when so much is known about the complicity of the Catholic Church ... Read more

    $22.19 CAD

  • Conversations with Isaiah Berlin

    by Ramin Jahanbegloo ...
    An illuminating and witty dialogue with one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Ramin Jahanbegloo's interview with Isaiah Berlin grew into a series of five conversations which offer an intimate view of Berlin and his ideas. They include discussions on pluralism and liberty as well as the thinkers and writers who influenced Berlin. This revised edition provided an ... Read more

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  • Emancipation

    How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance

    by Michael Goldfarb ...
    The first popular history of the Emancipation of Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a transformation that was startling to those who lived through it and continues to affect the world today.Freed from their ghettos, Jews ushered in a second renaissance. Within a century Marx, Freud, and Einstein created revolutions in politics, human science, and physics that continue to ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

    Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

    by Paul Preston ...
    Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco’s Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work.Evoking such classics as Anne Applebaum’s Gulag and Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror, The Spanish Holocaust sheds light on one of the darkest and most unexamined eras of modern European history. As Spain finally reclaims its historical memory, a full ... Read more

    Was $29.99 CAD Now $15.99 CAD

  • Karl Marx

    Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin, Terrell Carver ...
    Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker. A brilliantly lucid work of synthesis and exposition, the book introduces Marx's ideas and sets them in their context, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Companero

    The Life and Death of Che Guevara

    by Jorge G. Castañeda ...
    By the time he was killed in the jungles of Bolivia, where his body was displayed like a deposed Christ, Ernesto "Che" Guevara had become a synonym for revolution everywhere from Cuba to the barricades of Paris. This extraordinary biography peels aside the veil of the Guevara legend to reveal the charismatic, restless man behind it.Drawing on archival materials from three continents and on ... Read more

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