Politics , Society & Current Affairs

Gerry Abbott / Back to Mandalay

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MCALEVEY / NO SHORTCUTS (Hardback)

A compelling call for progressive movements to change their organizing strategies     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title...

Andrew Cockburn / Saddam Hussein (Hardback)

"The idea of direct invasion is the greatest threat to Saddam. It avoids the problems of securing local allies, inside and outside Iraq, which bedevil any indirect approach to get rid of him. But it has one immense disadvantage from the US point of...

Michael Angold / Byzantium (Hardback)

Byzantium was a Greek "polis" on the Bosphorous that gained importance in 324AD when it was re-founded by Constantine the Great and named Constantinople. One of the pre-eminent cities of the Middle Ages, Constantinople played a vital role in...

Annie Ryan / Comrades (Hardback)

"The author gives due weight to the importance of the intelligence gathered by Michael Collins's network of spies and informers, and presents first-hand accounts of the many ambushes and other engagements that occurred across the country during...

John Phillips / Macedonia - Warlords and Rebels in the Balkans (Hardback)

A bloody rebellion by Albanian guerrillas demanding equal rights in Macedonia has killed and wounded thousands of people and led to fears that the crisis will embroil Kosovo, Albania, Bulgaria and Greece. International intervention brought an uneasy halt...

David Kynaston / Family Britain 1951- 57 (Hardback)

As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive the narrative. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife...