The word liberal as part of our political vocabulary, comes from Spain. It was first used to describe a group of radical patriots cooped up in Cadiz, refugees from the French invas...9999903270966Raymond Carr
Oxford ; Oxford University Press, c1980.
sábado, 1 de febrero de 2025
How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi CrudeA veteran of the CIA provides an insider's account of the love-hate relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, giving an up-close view of the corrupt Saudi empire and...9999903269809Baer, Robert
Three Rivers Press
jueves, 30 de enero de 2025
Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? Barack Obama ??s lucid vision of America ??s place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared understandings as A...9999903269014Barack Obama
New York : Three Rivers Press, c2006.
martes, 28 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 World in RevoltVibrantly and sympathetically told, this is the story of one remarkable year - a capsule history of exhilarating triumphs and shattering defeats around the world. 'Vivid, powerful ...9999903261766Simon Hall
Faber & Faber
viernes, 17 de enero de 2025
The Making of the Modern WorldWith the end of the Second World War, a new world was born. The peace agreements that brought the conflict to an end implemented decisions that not only shaped the second half of t...9999903261759Victor Sebestyen
Macmillan
viernes, 17 de enero de 2025
FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman - from World War to Cold WarMichael Dobbs tells the story of the last 6 months of World War II, when the Allies went from the hopes of Yalta to the open conflict that would lead to the Cold War. Rendering its...9999903259176Michael Dobbs
Vintage
sábado, 11 de enero de 2025
D-Day and the Battle for France : a New HistoryD-Day and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed have come to be seen as a defining episode in the Second World War. Its story has been endlessly retold, and yet ...9999903256830James Holland
Editors Varis
miércoles, 8 de enero de 2025
The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their FriendsWhen Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Années folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted ...9999903254584Mary Sperling McAuliffe
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
lunes, 30 de diciembre de 2024
How Conflict Shaped UsThe time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despit...9999903254461Margaret MacMillan
Profile
lunes, 30 de diciembre de 2024
How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World**AN ECONOMIST AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** 'Essential and definitive' - CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLE We are in a new era. Since the beginning of the mill...9999903254409Gideon Rachman
Bodley Head
lunes, 30 de diciembre de 2024
The German RevolutionThe German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even by those who have heard of it, a missed opportunity...9999903254386Robert Gerwarth
Oxford University Press
lunes, 30 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
Montgomery and the Eighth Army 1942-1943North Africa was a turning point for the British in the Second World War: a harsh landscape of sand and enemy tanks, but ultimately a place of victory, that Churchill famously call...9999903253969Adrian Stewart
Editors Varis
sábado, 28 de diciembre de 2024
The Dark Side of the All-American MealExplores the homogenization of American society and the impact of the fast food industry on modern-day health, economics, politics, popular culture, entertainment, and food product...9999903253587Eric Schlosser; [with a n...
New York, NY : Perennial, 2002.
sábado, 28 de diciembre de 2024
Brexit and the Politics of Pain'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read... Pitilessly brilliant' JONATHAN COE. 'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with su...9999903252931Fintan O'Toole
Editors Varis
viernes, 27 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
Bismarck, Bleichröder, and the Building of the German EmpireWinner of the Lionel Trilling AwardNominated for the National Book Award "A major contribution to our understanding of some of the great themes of modern European history--the rela...9999903249702Fritz Stern
Penguin Books Ltd
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
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
Why the World Went to War in 1914A riveting narrative of a crucial time in twentieth century history. The Great War not only destroyed the lives of over twenty million soldiers and civilians, it also ushered in a ...9999903249122David Fromkin
Vintage
miércoles, 18 de diciembre de 2024
An Intimate HistoryJ.B. Priestley famously described the ? three Englands ? he saw in the 1930s; Old England, nineteenth-century England and the new, post-war England. Thirties Britain was, indeed,...9999903245209Juliet Gardiner
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
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