How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of HistoryIn 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly...9999903336594Giles Milton,
Sceptre
sábado, 28 de junio de 2025
The Making of IndiaJawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, was the ideological and political heir of Gandhi. Building on the Mahatma's foundations, as leader both of the Congress and of indep...9999903336525M. J. Akbar
Viking
sábado, 28 de junio de 2025
His Wives and WomenVividly evoking the political and social upheavals of post-Revolutionary France, Hibbert captures the vibrant characters who made history, not only on the battlefield but also in t...9999903336495Christopher Hibbert
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
sábado, 28 de junio de 2025
Henry VIII's forceful personality dominated his age and continues to fascinate our own. In few other reigns have there been developments of such magnitude--in politics, foreign rel...9999903336488J. J. Scarisbrick
Methuen Publishing Ltd
sábado, 28 de junio de 2025
The Making and Unmaking of British IndiaThis is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for anot...9999903336372Lawrence James
Little, Brown and Company
sábado, 28 de junio de 2025
"This is a single volume history of the United States, from the beginnings of its global role with the Spanish-American war of 1898 to the extraordinary dominance of its military f...9999903334972Martin Walker
Vintage
jueves, 26 de junio de 2025
The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam ...9999903334811David Halberstam
Fawcett
jueves, 26 de junio de 2025
War is Not Inevitable"There is no such thing as being 'undecided' about war. It is a binary choice. If you re not for it, you have to be against it. The essays in this book offer evidence and arguments...9999903334781Tom G. Palmer
Editors Varis
jueves, 26 de junio de 2025
The First Complete, Unexpurgated TextThe seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held during the Illinois senatorial race of 1858 are among the most important statements in American political history...9999903334712Abraham Lincoln Stephen A...
Editors Varis
jueves, 26 de junio de 2025
Only one country in the world--Switzerland--is a direct democracy, in which, to an extent, the people pass their own laws, judge the constitutionality of statutes, and even have wr...9999903334675Gregory A. Fossedal
Editors Varis
jueves, 26 de junio de 2025
This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a broad swe...9999903334330Hugh Brogan
Penguin Books Ltd
sábado, 21 de junio de 2025
A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History, the Life and Death of a CivilizationIn 1963, Norman F. Cantor published his breakthrough narrative history of the Middle Ages. Further editions of this immediately celebrated book appeared in 1968 and 1974. Now, a th...9999903331643Norman F. Cantor
HarperCollins
martes, 17 de junio de 2025
The story of Koestler's imprisonment in France in 1940, his escape and his extraordinary and adventurous journey to the safety of London, which unfolds like some travel nightmare b...9999903329848Arthur Koestler
London ; Hippocrene 1988.
jueves, 12 de junio de 2025
From the Silk Road to MichelangeloMore than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even hu...9999903329831Jerry Brotton
Oxford University Press
jueves, 12 de junio de 2025
Genius and Death in a City of DreamsFrom Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary hav...9999903329824Charles King
W. W. Norton & Company
jueves, 12 de junio de 2025
This history of England in the 18th century is not a chronological narrative of ministries and wars, but a history of the development of English society; the ministries and wars, o...9999903329763J. H. Plumb
Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1950.
jueves, 12 de junio de 2025
The Battle for Japan, 1944-45"The battle for Japan that ended many months after the battle for Europe involved enormous naval, military and air operations from the borders of India to the most distant regions ...9999903329756Max Hastings
London : Harper Perennial, 2008, c2007.
jueves, 12 de junio de 2025
The History Behind the Major Motion PictureTHE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH, TOM HARD...9999903329749Joshua Levine
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 12 de junio de 2025
New York Times bestselling author Alex Kershaw has written the first full biography of one of the most remarkable men to have outwitted Hitler - Raoul Wallenberg, the young Swedish...9999903329732Alex Kershaw
Vintage
jueves, 12 de junio de 2025
Memories of Argentina's NightmareFor ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, As under threat of 'disappearance' he helped families of the missing, Attended gueri...9999903329534Andrew Graham-Yooll
London ; Hippocrene 1988.
miércoles, 11 de junio de 2025
The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, a...9999903328834Paul Fussell
Oxford University Press
martes, 10 de junio de 2025
The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman : Lover, Betrayer, Hero, SpyThe untold story of Eddie Chapman, Britain's most extraordinary wartime double agent.9999903328759Macintyre, Ben
Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
martes, 10 de junio de 2025
A New History of the Second World WarOn 2 August 1944, in the wake of the complete destruction of the German Army Group Centre in Belorussia, Winston Churchill mocked Adolf Hitler in the House of Commons by the rank h...9999903328599Andrew Roberts
Allen Lane
martes, 10 de junio de 2025
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