The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary"From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its u...9999903242512Simon Winchester,
Oxford University Press
viernes, 6 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
Understanding and Behavior in the Second World WarWinner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the ...9999903241119Paul Fussell
Oxford University Press
jueves, 5 de diciembre de 2024
The Bushes are the new American aristocracy, reigning over every aspect of US politics and society. And now Bush Junior has stepped into his father's shoes and taken over the famil...9999903238584Kevin P. Phillips
Allen Lane
sábado, 30 de noviembre de 2024
The Russian Empire and Its RivalsThis ambitious book explores the role of empire in world history. What does it mean to be an empire? How does one empire differ from another? Why does an empire rise and why fall? ...9999903238256D. C. B. Lieven
Century
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
How the Great War Really EndedThe untold story of November 1918. Published to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the armistice that ended the First World War, the author's vivid narative reveals the dramatic end...9999903238225Nicholas Best
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
The Final Hours of the FührerHave you ever wondered what was going on in Adolf Hitler's mind during his final hours in the Fuhrerbunker? What were his thoughts as radio contact with the outside world grew fain...9999903238157Richard Dargie
Editors Varis
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
1918-1933The Unheeded Warning richly portrays the turbulent interwar period in Vienna and Berlin through the eyes of one of the century's foremost intellectuals and activists. Psychologist,...9999903238058Manès Sperber
Editors Varis
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and BeyondRobert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. It was one of the darkest corners of Europe, but f...9999903238034Robert D. Kaplan
Random House Trade Paperbacks
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Trench Warfare inaugurates a new, fully illustrated series devoted to different types of key military strategies throughout history. Each volume specifically focuses on a war in wh...9999903237860Stephen Bull
The Promotional Reprint Co Ltd
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer"A persuasive vindication of the 'boy general' and a rattling good history."-Brian C. Pohanka, Maryland Historical Magazine9999903237839Gregory J. W. Urwin
University of Nebraska Press
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth CenturyThe accelerating changes of the past generation have been accompanied by a comparably accelerated amnesia. The twentieth century has become "history" at an unprecedented rate. The ...9999903237808Tony Judt
William Heinemann
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2024
The Brexit ChroniclesThree years in the troubled British Isles, leading up to the aftermath of Brexit (or not, as it may prove). Three years in the troubled British Isles from the bestselling author of...9999903236740Fintan O'Toole
Editors Varis
jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2024
This radically new interpretation of the First World War and its causes, by one of the most brilliant of France's modern historians, reflects a new understanding of the nature of w...9999903236719Marc Ferro
Routledge Kegan & Paul
jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2024
A History of the Cold WarThose who survived the Second World War stared out onto a devastated, morally ruined world. Much of Europe and Asia had been so ravaged that it was unclear whether any form of norm...9999903236573Norman Stone
Allen Lane
jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2024
The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began AnotherThe history of the Second World War is usually told through its decisive battles and campaigns. But behind the front lines, behind even the command centres of Allied generals and m...9999903236504Jonathan Fenby
Charles Scribner's Sons
jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2024
The Wars for the Twenty-first CenturyAn urgent reconceptualization of the Wars on Terror from the author ofThe Shield of Achilles( ??magisterial ? ??The New York Times, ??a classic for future generations ? ??The Ne...9999903236368Philip Bobbitt
Vintage
jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2024
The Untold Story of how the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets'A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet espionage in the Thirties ... remarkable' 5 ?? review, Telegraph On the trail of Soviet infiltrator Agent Blériot, in th...9999903236344Svetlana Lokhova
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2024
Faith and Fear in the Shadow of the MillenniumDamian Thompson highly evocative, brilliant and comprehensive account of apocalyptic belief was a phenomenal critical success upon hardback publication. It brings together the mass...9999903235316Damian Thompson
Vintage
miércoles, 27 de noviembre de 2024
In 'Manhattan '45', acclaimed travel writer and historian Jan Morris evokes the city in all its romantic grandeur. From its beguilingly idiosyncratic architectural style to its unm...9999903235262Jan Morris
Faber & Faber
miércoles, 27 de noviembre de 2024
1922: Modernism and All That Jazz"Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year that began with the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses and ended with the publication of T.S. Eliot's The W...9999903235231Jackson, Kevin
Vintage
miércoles, 27 de noviembre de 2024
A Memoir of 1914"Publishing during the 100th Anniversary of World War I , an NYRB Classics Original. The budding young Hungarian artist Bela Zombory-Moldovan was abroad on vacation when World War ...9999903235224Béla Zombory-Moldován
NYRB Classics
miércoles, 27 de noviembre de 2024
Nixon and Watergate: an American TragedyFrom an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account -- told from inside the White House -- of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy c...9999903234470Michael Dobbs
Editors Varis
martes, 26 de noviembre de 2024
France's Secret Wars with Britain and America, 1945-2016Since 1945, France has pursued a clandestine rivalry with Great Britain and the United States. It has been jealous and resentful of the power and status of the English-speaking wor...9999903234418Roger Howard
Editors Varis
martes, 26 de noviembre de 2024
The Rise of Faith and the Fall of ReasonThe conversion of the emperor Constantine to Christianity in 368 AD brought a transformation to Christianity and to western civilization, the effects of which we still feel today. ...9999903234395Charles Freeman
Century
martes, 26 de noviembre de 2024
Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global WarThis gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war on the Unite...9999903234371Brendan Simms Charlie Lad...
Penguin
martes, 26 de noviembre de 2024
The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924"The gripping story of the years that ended the Great War and launched Europe and America onto the roller coaster of the twentieth century, Crucible is filled with all-too-human ta...9999903234319Charles Emmerson
Bodley Head
martes, 26 de noviembre de 2024
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