History on the Half Shell??Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining. ? ??The New York Times ??A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the...9999903247463Mark Kurlansky
Ballantine Books
martes, 17 de diciembre de 2024
The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age'Excellent . . . This is narrative history of the highest quality' Andrew Lycett, Sunday Telegraph 'Wonderfully engrossing and intelligent . . . clever and entertaining' Dominic S...9999903245308Ben Wilson
PHOENIX
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
The World at War 1939-45"A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen; housewives, farm workers and children. Reflecting Max Hast...9999903245278Max Hastings
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 12 de diciembre de 2024
The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924Russia under the old regime - The crisis of authority - Russia in revolution (February 1917-March 1918) - The civil war and the making of the Soviet system (1918-24); Lenin - Marx ...9999903245223Orlando Figes
Century
jueves, 12 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
David Halberstam ??s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain."A rich, entertaining, and profound reading ...9999903244561David Halberstam
New York : Random House, 1992.
martes, 10 de diciembre de 2024
The Odyssey of Pat TillmanTraces the controversial story of NFL player and army soldier Pat Tillman, describing the military's efforts to hide the truth about his death by friendly fire, in an account that ...9999903244578Jon Krakauer,
Anchor
martes, 10 de diciembre de 2024
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ? ??Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and [Edmund] Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at ...9999903244479Edmund Morris
Vintage
martes, 10 de diciembre de 2024
The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the RightA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceFrom the bestselling author of What's the Matter with Kansas?, this witty and highly provocative book asks a simple question: How is it ...9999903244349Thomas Frank
Picador
martes, 10 de diciembre de 2024
The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and ExpandedBitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First publishe...9999903244332Stephen Schlesinger Steph...
Harvard University Press
martes, 10 de diciembre de 2024
A Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young ManWhat turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte H...9999903244325Brigitte Hamann
Tauris Parke Paperbacks
martes, 10 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
Hitler's Germany, 1944-45What made Germany keep fighting to the death, even when it was clear they would lose the Second World War? Why did its rulers not cut a deal to save their own skin? And why did ord...9999903241003Ian Kershaw,
Penguin Books Ltd
jueves, 5 de diciembre de 2024
Europe's Twentieth CenturyThe end of the First World War saw old empires swept away and the opportunity to build a better society from the ruins. Yet the result was division and bloodshed on an unprecedente...9999903240990Mark Mazower
Penguin Books Ltd
jueves, 5 de diciembre de 2024
A Personal History of Habsburg EuropeFor centuries, much of Europe was in the hands of the peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw of...9999903240952Simon Winder
Pan Macmillan Adult
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
A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military ConflictOffering a controversial perspective on America's most painful war, the author proposes that Vietnam should have been fought, but with different tactics.9999903238386Michael Lind
Charles Scribner's Sons
sábado, 30 de noviembre de 2024
Essays from France, 1925-1939At one time an underground hero in the world of journalism, with prose on a par with Tolstoy and Kafka, Joseph Roth now looms large in the pantheon of European literature. Indeed, ...9999903238348Roth, Joseph
W. W. Norton & Company
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
A History of the Soviet CampsThis landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths ...9999903238102Anne Applebaum
London : Allen Lane/Penguin , c2003, 2004
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
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