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
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
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
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
The Cultural History of a CatastropheA fascinating reassessment of a turning point in the First World War, revealing its role in shaping the German psycheOn May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, wa...9999903234227Willi Jasper
Yale University Press
martes, 26 de noviembre de 2024
Money, Empire, Power, and GuiltA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year for 2017'War, comrades,' declared Trotsky, 'is a great locomotive of history.' He was thought to be acknowledging the opportunity the F...9999903232230P. F. Clarke
Bloomsbury
sábado, 23 de noviembre de 2024
Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the PastIn The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker presents a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory ove...9999903232148Shaun Walker
Oxford University Press
sábado, 23 de noviembre de 2024
Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay TodayHow the Treaty of Versailles is still influencing current events-with a new Foreword by Sir Harold Evans and a new Introduction by the authorFor more than half a century, it has be...9999903231547David Andelman
Editors Varis
viernes, 22 de noviembre de 2024
The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World WarA narrative history, cinematic in scope, of a process that was taking shape in the winter of 1933 as domestic passions around the world colluded to drive governments towards a war ...9999903231196Paul Jankowski
Profile
viernes, 22 de noviembre de 2024
The Golden Age of Paranoia"Strange Days Indeed tells the story of the decade that a young Francis Wheen walked into having pronounced he was dropping out to join the alternative society. Instead of the opti...9999903230892Francis Wheen
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 21 de noviembre de 2024
This work sets out to show how the rise of Nazism and World War II could have been avoided. From the end of World War I when British and French hubris made a strong League of Natio...9999903230854Richard Lamb
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
jueves, 21 de noviembre de 2024
How the West Was Almost LostContrary to popular opinion, the opening of the American frontier was not a simple land purchase; it was actually a hardscrabble fight. Even as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark s...9999903229162M.R. Montgomery
Three Rivers Press
miércoles, 20 de noviembre de 2024
The History You Didn't Get Taught at SchoolBE THE FIRST TO GET JAMES FELTON'S NEW BOOK "SUNBURN" BY PRE-ORDERING NOW 'Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I absolutely loved it' James O'Brien Twitter hero James...9999903221975James Felton
Time Warner Paperbacks
jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2024
A History, 1720 to the PresentSelected as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times In recent times, the United States and Iran have seemed closer to war than peace, but that is not where t...9999903221869John Ghazvinian
One World
jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2024
A Times Top 10 Bestseller'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand where we have gone...9999903221074Robert Peston
Hodder
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
Salem, 1692'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMES It began in 1692, o...9999903221050Schiff, Stacy
Orion Books
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
This book separates myth from truth and describes the development of the society from its origins amongst the masons working upon the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages.9999903221036Jasper Ridley
Robinson Publishing
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
A Short HistoryOne of the world's foremost commentators on religious affairs on the history (and destiny) of the world's most misunderstood religion. In the public mind, Islam is a religion of ex...9999903220886Karen Armstrong
London : Phoenix, 2001.
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
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