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Vintage
sábado, 11 de enero de 2025
The Great War in European Cultural HistoryJay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth ce...9999903255536Jay Winter
Cambridge University Press
martes, 31 de diciembre de 2024
This is the first fully illustrated edition of Paul Fussell's landmark consideration of the First World War and its impact on literary expression. Originally published in 1975, The...9999903255529Paul Fussell Donald T Reg...
Sterling
martes, 31 de diciembre de 2024
Dancing Into Shadow in 1911'As page-turning as a novel' Joanna Trollope One summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king was crowned; audiences swar...9999903255109Juliet Nicolson
John Murray
martes, 31 de diciembre de 2024
How Conflict Shaped UsThe time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despit...9999903254461Margaret MacMillan
Profile
lunes, 30 de diciembre de 2024
The German RevolutionThe German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even by those who have heard of it, a missed opportunity...9999903254386Robert Gerwarth
Oxford University Press
lunes, 30 de diciembre de 2024
A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely TouristKhrushchev's 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted ?? ??a surreal extravaganza, ? as historian John Lewis Gaddis ca...9781586484972Peter Carlson
PublicAffairs
lunes, 30 de diciembre de 2024
1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great WarPeace at last, after Lloyd George declared it had been 'the war to end all wars', would surely bring relief and a renewed sense of optimism? But this assumption turned out to be de...9780719562570Juliet Nicolson
John Murray
lunes, 30 de diciembre de 2024
For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats. For well-connected officers, it meant polo at the Gezira Club and drinks at Shepheard's. For the irregular warriors, ...9780140247817Artemis Cooper
Penguin Books Ltd
lunes, 30 de diciembre de 2024
This is the untold story of how some of Germany's top aristocrats contributed to Hitler's secret diplomacy during the Third Reich, providing a direct line to their influential cont...9780198703679Karina Urbach
Oxford University Press
lunes, 30 de diciembre de 2024
Montgomery and the Eighth Army 1942-1943North Africa was a turning point for the British in the Second World War: a harsh landscape of sand and enemy tanks, but ultimately a place of victory, that Churchill famously call...9999903253969Adrian Stewart
Editors Varis
sábado, 28 de diciembre de 2024
Brexit and the Politics of Pain'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read... Pitilessly brilliant' JONATHAN COE. 'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with su...9999903252931Fintan O'Toole
Editors Varis
viernes, 27 de diciembre de 2024
Sixty-five years after the conclusion of World War II, its consequences are still with us. In this probing book, the acclaimed historian John Lukacs raises perplexing questions abo...9999903249801John Lukacs
Yale University Press
viernes, 20 de diciembre de 2024
Hunting the Assassin who Brought the World to War"On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin named Gavrilo Princip fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for...9999903249641Tim Butcher
Chatto & Windus
viernes, 20 de diciembre de 2024
The Road to the First World WarAt the end of World War I, Germany was demonized. The Treaty of Versailles contained a war guilt clause pinning the blame on the aggression of Germany and accusing her of supreme o...9999903249610Clive Ponting
Chatto & Windus
viernes, 20 de diciembre de 2024
The war was over, new technologies and fashions were springing up; it was to be the beginning of a new and prosperous era and all was to be bright and joyous in Britain again. In ...9999903249597Fiona McDonald
Editors Varis
viernes, 20 de diciembre de 2024
Britain Between the WarsBritish intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity. The combination of a liberal, uncensored society and a large educated audience for new ideas made Britai...9999903249450R. J. Overy
Allen Lane
miércoles, 18 de diciembre de 2024
Why the World Went to War in 1914A riveting narrative of a crucial time in twentieth century history. The Great War not only destroyed the lives of over twenty million soldiers and civilians, it also ushered in a ...9999903249122David Fromkin
Vintage
miércoles, 18 de diciembre de 2024
American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order ??A valuable primer on foreign policy: a primer that concerned citizens of all political persuasions ??not to mention the president and his advisers ??could benefit from reading. ...9999903248941Richard Haass
Putnam Adult
miércoles, 18 de diciembre de 2024
An Intimate HistoryJ.B. Priestley famously described the ? three Englands ? he saw in the 1930s; Old England, nineteenth-century England and the new, post-war England. Thirties Britain was, indeed,...9999903245209Juliet Gardiner
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
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