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This study analyzes the family life and public careers of six generations of a notable Parisian family, the Cochins.

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With world markets upset and economies in recession, the 1920s and '30s were not an easy time for farmers, who required great resilience to survive. This title examines the challenges that farmers faced and the ways in which they responded.

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Fascism is one of the most destructive and influential political movements of the 20th century. This study tackles how fascism is defined, the basis of its appeal and why it took root so successfully in Germany and Italy, but not in France or Britain.

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'Fashioning Socialism', a history of communist fashion in East Germany, uses clothing as a lens to read society. The author unveils wider tensions between the regime and the population and within the regime itself.

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'Fashioning Socialism', a history of communist fashion in East Germany, uses clothing as a lens to read society. The author unveils wider tensions between the regime and the population and within the regime itself.

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De Gaulle called it a 'fatal avenue' - that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north-east of Paris. Over the centuries, invading armies have swept back and forth over this bloody terrain, and the names of battles fought here read like a dictionary of military history - from Agincourt, Calais and Crcy to Verdun, Vimy and Ypres.

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Faust's Metropolis follows the history of Berlin: from the revolutionary fervours of its slums, the pomp of imperial Berlin, and the modernism of Weimar to the brutality of the Nazis and the defeat of communism as the Wall came down.

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Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War - close to five million Poles were killed. This book attempts to answer the question: How was anti-Semitism possible in Poland after the war It argues that postwar Polish anti-Semitism cannot be understood simply as a continuation of prewar attitudes.

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This is truly a landmark volume that will be consulted and read avidly by students and scholars of European and American History, and World War II in particular, as well as those involved with Military History, Soviet Studies, Soviet Economic History, and U.S.-Soviet Relations.

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This book studies the history of communal dining schemes in Britain during WWI, WWII and the interwar period to explore food policy in times of crisis and the ways in which it is politically and culturally construed.

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A historical investigation into one of the most serpentine attempts on Queen Victorias life that reveals for the first time the true instigator at the heart of government.

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This book is about the most sweeping reform in the history of the French monarchy: the creation of assemblies at all levels of administration. The resistance of lords and office holders exposed their hereditary power over commoners, who sought to throw off their subordination when the crisis of the monarchy offered the opportunity in 1789.

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This landmark book reveals that resistance to occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the Second World War was not narrowly delineated by country but startlingly international. Tens of thousands of fighters, including communists, Jews and POWs, joined networks across Europe, greatly affecting the course of the long Second World War.

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One of the enduring myths of the Franco state was that the Nationalist forces that won the Civil War consisted of patriotic Spaniards while the Republic was defended by a rag tag army of foreign 'reds.' This book recounts the experiences of a number of foreign volunteers, including the brigades of White Russians, Romanians, Irish and the French.