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...9999903288923Giles Milton,
Sceptre
miércoles, 12 de marzo de 2025
The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War IIFrom the acclaimed author of "Agent Zigzag" comes an extraordinary account of the most successful deception--and certainly the strangest--ever carried out in World War II, one that...9999903284147Ben Macintyre
Bloomsbury
jueves, 6 de marzo de 2025
The People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind : a HistoryA history of the twentieth century which covers all the ideas, people, great events, literary and artistic movements, scientific discoveries which have shaped the twentieth century...9999903282365Peter Watson
Phoenix Press
sábado, 1 de marzo de 2025
At once hilarious, informative and outrageous, this is a marvelously readable homage to the cigar. Sprinkled with a treasure trove of fascinating anecdotes taken from film, history...9999903282075Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Overlook Hardcover
sábado, 1 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
The British Wars, 1603-1776'Great Britain? What was that?' asks Simon Schama at the start of this, the second book of his epic three-volume journey into Britain's past. The answer emerges in The British Wars...9999903279266Simon Schama
Bodley Head
jueves, 20 de febrero de 2025
The Fate of the Jews 1933-49The Holocaust has never been so widely commemorated, but our understanding of the accepted narrative has rarely, if ever, been questioned. David Cesarani's sweeping reappraisal cha...9999903279099David Cesarani
Macmillan
jueves, 20 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
The Fall of the Soviet EmpireFrom the author of "Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution "comes a revealing new account of the collapse of the Soviet Union's European empire during months of la...9999903273998Victor Sebestyen
Vintage
sábado, 8 de febrero de 2025
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