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Editors Varis
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Weidenfeld and Nicolson
viernes, 25 de abril de 2025
Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al QaedaPopulated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century, 'Sacred Causes' provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped 20th-century Europe from the Grea...9999903307495Michael Burleigh
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
martes, 22 de abril de 2025
Traces the progress and regress of the world's civilizations over the past thousand years and shows how the capacity of one people to influence another has shifted geographically.9999903307440Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Black Swan
martes, 22 de abril de 2025
The Rise of Russia's New NationalismA fascinating study of the root motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin's government in Russia Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Mo...9999903307426Charles Clover
Yale University Press
martes, 22 de abril de 2025
The New Geopolitics of Energy"Now in paperback, Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet surveys the energy driven dynamic that is reconfiguring the international landscape: Russia, the battered Cold War loser, is now ...9999903307419Michael T. Klare
Oneworld Publications
martes, 22 de abril de 2025
The Franco-German armistice, signed in June 1940 following the German invasion of France, called on the Vichy government to surrender on demand all refugees considered enemies of t...9999903307327Rosemary Sullivan
John Murray
martes, 22 de abril de 2025
On the Campaign Trail '72From the Publisher: Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the...9999903305569Hunter S. Thompson
Grand Central Publishing
jueves, 17 de abril de 2025
Its Rise and FallIt was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, ar...9999903304760Christopher Hibbert
William Morrow & Co
lunes, 14 de abril de 2025
Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE | THE JHALAK PRIZE | THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD & LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 'This is the book I've been waiti...9999903303312Akala
Hodder
viernes, 11 de abril de 2025
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
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
A Short HistoryOne of the world's foremost commentators on religious affairs on the history (and destiny) of the world's most misunderstood religion. In the public mind, Islam is a religion of ex...9781842125830Karen Armstrong
Phoenix Press
martes, 8 de abril de 2025
The Author Has Been Preparing To Write This Book During Thirty Years Of Reading, Research, Teaching And Commenting On Military Affairs. It Brings Together In A Single Volume The Th...9999903295303John Keegan
Century
martes, 25 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
The inexorable rise of Communism was the most momentous political phenomenon of the first half of the twentieth century. Its demise in Europe and its decline elsewhere have produce...9999903295167Archie Brown
Jonathan Cape
martes, 25 de marzo de 2025
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