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
JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of PigsThe American planned invasion of Cuba in 1961 remains one of the most ill-fated blunders the US has ever committed - and still reverberates through American politics and policy tod...9999903232216Jim Rasenberger
Robert Hale Ltd
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
The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their FriendsA humiliating military defeat by Bismarck's Germany, a brutal siege, and a bloody uprising-Paris in 1871 was a shambles, and the question loomed, "Could this extraordinary city eve...9999903232100Mary Mcauliffe
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
sábado, 23 de noviembre de 2024
The Unequalled SelfA full-scale biography of naval administrator Samuel Pepys, more well-known for being the friend of the famous and powerful, this text, which draws on Pepys own personal diary, cov...9999903232063Tomalin, Claire
Viking Penguin
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
Britain Between the WarsSing As We Go is an astonishingly ambitious overview of the political, social and cultural history of the country from 1919 to 1939. It explores and explains the politics of the p...9999903231240Simon Heffer
Vintage
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 World at the Brink1983 was a supremely dangerous year - even more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the US, President Reagan massively increased defence spending, describ...9999903231059Taylor Downing
Little Brown Hardbacks (a & C)
jueves, 21 de noviembre de 2024
The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in HistoryIn the dying months of World War I, Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world, killing between 50 and 100 million people.German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers c...9999903231035Catharine Arnold
Editors Varis
jueves, 21 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
Slavery is as old as the world itself and expert and professor Jeremy Black will show that its history is one that is central to our understanding of the modern world. This essenti...9999903221968Jeremy Black
Robinson Publishing
jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2024
A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial LegacyTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determination. Supported by Britain, these ...9999903221876Philippe Sands
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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 History, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra'Sicily is the key to everything' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The author of the classic book on Venice turns his sights to Sicily in this beautiful book full of maps and colour phot...9999903221029John Julius Norwich
John Murray
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
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