The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary"From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its u...9999903242512Simon Winchester,
Oxford University Press
viernes, 6 de diciembre de 2024
The Complete Story of the Lebanon CaptivesThis expose documents how a small group of Westerners came to be the victims of a form of diplomacy which was widely believed to have died out in the Middle Ages. The origins of th...9999903242499Con Coughlin
Time Warner Paperbacks
viernes, 6 de diciembre de 2024
How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of WWI's War Graves Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction. The extraordinary and forgotten story of the building of the World War One cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remark...9999903241126David Crane
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 5 de diciembre de 2024
Understanding and Behavior in the Second World WarWinner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the ...9999903241119Paul Fussell
Oxford University Press
jueves, 5 de diciembre de 2024
The Soldiers' Song of World War IILili Marlene', the unlikely anthem of the Second World War, cut across front lines and ideological divides. This title the stories of arrests and close calls of the three artists' ...9999903240716Liel Leibovitz Matthew I....
W. W. Norton & Company
jueves, 5 de diciembre de 2024
The End of World War II and the Remaking of EuropeThe definitive account of the 1945 Potsdam Conference: the historic summit where Truman, Stalin, and Churchill met to determine the fate of post-World War II EuropeAfter Germany's ...9999903240587Michael Neiberg
Basic Books
jueves, 5 de diciembre de 2024
A History in IdeasA highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflict-ridden world We think we know c...9999903240556David Armitage
Yale University Press
jueves, 5 de diciembre de 2024
"Saul David's 100 DAYS TO VICTORY is a totally original, utterly engaging account of the Great War - the first book to tell the story of the 'war to end all wars' through the event...9999903240532Saul David
Hodder
jueves, 5 de diciembre de 2024
A History of World War II In this sweepingly ambitious overview of World War II, Michael Burleigh combines meticulous scholarship with a remarkable depth of knowledge and an astonishing scope. By exploring...9999903240440Michael Burleigh
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 5 de diciembre de 2024
The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler's CoupThe astonishing year when German democracy faced crisis and near destruction.1923 was one of the most remarkable years of modern European history. In January, France and Belgium mi...9999903240051Mark Jones
Coronet Books
jueves, 5 de diciembre de 2024
The Rise and Reign of Vladimir PutinAn epic tale of Vladimir Putin's path to power, as he emerged from obscurity to become one of the world's most conflicted and important leaders. Former New York TimesMoscow Bureau ...9999903239932Steven Lee Myers
Simon and Schuster
jueves, 5 de diciembre de 2024
New Biography of a DictatorThe most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. ...9999903239918Oleg V. Khlevniuk
Yale University Press
jueves, 5 de diciembre de 2024
The Bushes are the new American aristocracy, reigning over every aspect of US politics and society. And now Bush Junior has stepped into his father's shoes and taken over the famil...9999903238584Kevin P. Phillips
Allen Lane
sábado, 30 de noviembre de 2024
Reshaping the Memory of the World WarsAt the outbreak of the First World War, an entire generation of young men charged into battle for what they believed was a glorious cause. Over the next four years, that cause clai...9999903238300George L. Mosse
Oxford University Press
sábado, 30 de noviembre de 2024
How the Great War Really EndedThe untold story of November 1918. Published to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the armistice that ended the First World War, the author's vivid narative reveals the dramatic end...9999903238225Nicholas Best
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
The Final Hours of the FührerHave you ever wondered what was going on in Adolf Hitler's mind during his final hours in the Fuhrerbunker? What were his thoughts as radio contact with the outside world grew fain...9999903238157Richard Dargie
Editors Varis
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
1918-1933The Unheeded Warning richly portrays the turbulent interwar period in Vienna and Berlin through the eyes of one of the century's foremost intellectuals and activists. Psychologist,...9999903238058Manès Sperber
Editors Varis
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's SlavesWe cannot imagine citizen activism without boycotts, mass mailings, political posters, lapel buttons, or media campaigns. Yet all these weapons were invented or perfected by a prin...9999903237464Adam Hochschild
Mariner Books
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
The Brexit ChroniclesThree years in the troubled British Isles, leading up to the aftermath of Brexit (or not, as it may prove). Three years in the troubled British Isles from the bestselling author of...9999903236740Fintan O'Toole
Editors Varis
jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2024
This radically new interpretation of the First World War and its causes, by one of the most brilliant of France's modern historians, reflects a new understanding of the nature of w...9999903236719Marc Ferro
Routledge Kegan & Paul
jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2024
A History of the Cold WarThose who survived the Second World War stared out onto a devastated, morally ruined world. Much of Europe and Asia had been so ravaged that it was unclear whether any form of norm...9999903236573Norman Stone
Allen Lane
jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2024
The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began AnotherThe history of the Second World War is usually told through its decisive battles and campaigns. But behind the front lines, behind even the command centres of Allied generals and m...9999903236504Jonathan Fenby
Charles Scribner's Sons
jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2024
Faith and Fear in the Shadow of the MillenniumDamian Thompson highly evocative, brilliant and comprehensive account of apocalyptic belief was a phenomenal critical success upon hardback publication. It brings together the mass...9999903235316Damian Thompson
Vintage
miércoles, 27 de noviembre de 2024
In 'Manhattan '45', acclaimed travel writer and historian Jan Morris evokes the city in all its romantic grandeur. From its beguilingly idiosyncratic architectural style to its unm...9999903235262Jan Morris
Faber & Faber
miércoles, 27 de noviembre de 2024
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