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Barricade Books Incorporated
martes, 18 de febrero de 2025
The Last SeasonA wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War. The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The youn...9999903276104Anne De Courcy
London : Phoenix, 2003.
viernes, 14 de febrero de 2025
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Robert Hale Ltd
miércoles, 12 de febrero de 2025
This is the first comprehensive social history of Ireland in the years between the Famine and independence/partition (1850-1922) to appear in a quarter-century, Lively and colourfu...9999903271710Caitriona Clear
Manchester University Press
jueves, 6 de febrero de 2025
The Inside Story"After his sudden rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most dramatic period of British history in almost a century. From th...9999903268321Anthony Seldon Raymond Ne...
Editors Varis
sábado, 25 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
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Vintage
sábado, 11 de enero de 2025
The Great War in European Cultural HistoryJay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth ce...9999903255536Jay Winter
Cambridge University Press
martes, 31 de diciembre de 2024
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John Murray
martes, 31 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
1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great WarPeace at last, after Lloyd George declared it had been 'the war to end all wars', would surely bring relief and a renewed sense of optimism? But this assumption turned out to be de...9780719562570Juliet Nicolson
John Murray
lunes, 30 de diciembre de 2024
For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats. For well-connected officers, it meant polo at the Gezira Club and drinks at Shepheard's. For the irregular warriors, ...9780140247817Artemis Cooper
Penguin Books Ltd
lunes, 30 de diciembre de 2024
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