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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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