A Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World WarA brilliant history of the First World War by the bestselling and prizewinning author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains. Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters con...9999903303329Adam Hochschild
Pan Books
viernes, 11 de abril de 2025
A Seventeenth-century English TragedyBy the spring of 1645, civil war had exacted a terrible toll upon England. Disease was rife, apocalyptic omens appeared in the skies, and idolators detected in every shire. In a re...9999903303305Malcolm Gaskill
John Murray
viernes, 11 de abril de 2025
How Fabric Changed History** A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ** 'Fascinating . . . The history of the world through the eye of a needle . . . I recommend this book to anyone' THE SPECTATOR 'A charming, absorbin...9999903303213Kassia St Clair
Hodder
viernes, 11 de abril de 2025
A History of What We've Thrown Away'Beautiful, like a muddy journey through time . . . a really important book' RAYNOR WINN, author of The Salt Path Lisa Woollett has spent her life combing beaches and mudlarking, ...9999903303206Lisa Woollett
Hodder
viernes, 11 de abril de 2025
Realities and RepresentationsReid (history, U. of NC Chapel Hill) emphasizes the human story of sewers--politics, sanitation, labor. The engineering of Parisian sewers occupies some 85 pages (lacking a single ...9999903300748Donald Reid
Harvard University Press
miércoles, 9 de abril de 2025
Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945A Woman in Berlin is the astonishing and deeply affecting diary of a woman fighting for survival amid the horror and inhumanity of war. Begun on 20 April 1945, the day Berlin first...9781844087976
Virago Press Ltd
martes, 8 de abril de 2025
An Inner History of the New AmericaPaints a picture of the last thirty years of life in America by following several citizens, including the son of tobacco farmers in the rural south, a Washington insider who denies...9999903296065George Packer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
miércoles, 26 de marzo de 2025
A portrait of life and culture in Paris from 1900-1914 includes profiles of such influential figures as Proust, Debussy, Picasso, Claudel, Matisse, and Diaghilev9999903295327Vincent Cronin
Picador
martes, 25 de marzo de 2025
Science, War and the Devil's PactNazi Germany had a head start in the science and technologies that dramatically transformed armed conflict in the twentieth century, leading to ultimate weapons of mass destruction...9999903295068John Cornwell
Viking
martes, 25 de marzo de 2025
Follow-up to the bestselling The Victorians in which A.N. Wilson tells the story of the 'Decline and Fall' of Britain. How did Britain decline? This is the question which A.N. Wils...9999903294993A. N. Wilson
Vintage
martes, 25 de marzo de 2025
Days of '62'Glorious ... It's rare to read anything so teeming with life' SPECTATOR, Books of the Year'This is Kynaston at his best ... A rich and vivid picture of a nation in all its human c...9999903294986David Kynaston
Bloomsbury
martes, 25 de marzo de 2025
1979 and the Birth of the 21st CenturyFew moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That single year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a political force on the world stage, the ...9999903294979Christian Caryl
Basic Books
martes, 25 de marzo de 2025
British Society and the First World WarWhat was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914-18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new ...9999903294818Adrian Gregory
Cambridge University Press
martes, 25 de marzo de 2025
Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War** SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ** 'Astonishing' ANTONY BEEVOR 'One of the most promising young historians to enter our field for years' MAX HASTINGS A thrilling new history of the di...9999903291336Tim Bouverie
Vintage
jueves, 13 de marzo de 2025
Dancing Into Shadow : England in 1911One summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king was crowned; audiences swarmed to Covent Garden to see the Ballet Russes ...9999903280064Juliet Nicolson
John Murray
viernes, 21 de febrero de 2025
A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade In this compelling book, Gerard DeGroot overturns the generally held belief that the sixties was a time of peace, love and understanding, of power to the people, freedom and new d...9999903279051Gerard J. DeGroot
Macmillan
jueves, 20 de febrero de 2025
The Prophet and His DiscipleWagner's Hitler is an important and controversial contribution to the literature on Hitler's Germany.9999903279044Joachim Kohler
Polity
jueves, 20 de febrero de 2025
An Anecdotal History of the United States from 1923 to 1945 Based on Little-known Facts and the Lives of the People who Made History--and Some who DidPresents facts and trivia on national events, regional news, foreign affairs, sports, and entertainment from 1923 to 19459999903277729Barrington Boardman Isaac...
Barricade Books Incorporated
martes, 18 de febrero de 2025
The Last SeasonA wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War. The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The youn...9999903276104Anne De Courcy
London : Phoenix, 2003.
viernes, 14 de febrero de 2025
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