This is the first comprehensive social history of Ireland in the years between the Famine and independence/partition (1850-1922) to appear in a quarter-century, Lively and colourfu...9999903271710Caitriona Clear
Manchester University Press
jueves, 6 de febrero de 2025
The Inside Story"After his sudden rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most dramatic period of British history in almost a century. From th...9999903268321Anthony Seldon Raymond Ne...
Editors Varis
sábado, 25 de enero de 2025
Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the m...9999903266747Antjie Krog
Jonathan Cape
jueves, 23 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
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
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
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
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
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