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  • The Butcher of Kham
    Casey Norgrove
    In 1905, a Manchu reform commissioner arrived in the remote Tibetan valley of Batang with a programme of aggressive frontier modernization - seizing monastic land, capping monk populations, and planting Han settlers on sacred ground. Within weeks, the valley’s warrior monks and Khampa farmers had besieged the imperial compound, killed a Qing general, and ambushed the commission...
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  • The Butcher of Kham
    Casey Norgrove
    In 1905, a Manchu reform commissioner arrived in the remote Tibetan valley of Batang with a programme of aggressive frontier modernization - seizing monastic land, capping monk populations, and planting Han settlers on sacred ground. Within weeks, the valley’s warrior monks and Khampa farmers had besieged the imperial compound, killed a Qing general, and ambushed the commission...
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    27,25 €

  • The War That Made Estonia
    Casey Norgrove
    In November 1918, Soviet forces crossed Estonia’s eastern border and advanced to within thirty-four kilometers of the capital. The state they were attacking had existed for less than a year. Its army was schoolboys with rifles. Its government had spent the previous nine months meeting in secret apartments under German occupation. The odds were catastrophic.What followed was one...
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    32,61 €

  • The November Night
    Casey Norgrove
    On the night of November 29, 1830, a group of Polish cadets burned a Warsaw brewery, stormed a palace, and lit a fire that would burn for nine months. The November Uprising - the largest armed liberation struggle in partitioned Poland - pitted an improvised constitutional state against the full military weight of the Russian Empire. The outcome was never in doubt by conventiona...
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    22,87 €

  • A Victory in the Dark
    Casey Norgrove
    In the spring of 1848, as revolution swept from Paris to Berlin and the conservative order of the Congress of Vienna cracked under the weight of popular fury, the Polish community of the Grand Duchy of Posen saw its moment. Armed with petitions, political programmes, and the converted scythes of peasant volunteers - the kosynierzy, the scythemen whose image would become the upr...
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    27,35 €

  • The Shattered Empire
    Casey Norgrove
    A failed scholar falls into a fever dream and wakes convinced he is the younger brother of Jesus Christ. Within a decade, that conviction has become an army of a million believers, a captured capital, and a kingdom that rules over more people than most nations on earth. This book traces the full, staggering arc of the Taiping Rebellion, the deadliest civil war in human history,...
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    17,72 €