A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age ??[An] elegantly layered exploration of Europe ??s past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece. ? ??The Wall Street Journal ??A lovely, personal journey around the Adriatic,...9999903234210Robert D. Kaplan
Putnam Adult
martes, 26 de noviembre de 2024
International Communism and the Origins of World War IIA bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War IIThe Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew ??the roots of the ...9999903234173Jonathan Haslam
Princeton University Press
martes, 26 de noviembre de 2024
The Battle for NormandyEven Stalin was awed by D-Day.'In the whole history of war,' he wrote to Churchill, 'there has never been such an undertaking.' Those who took part in the great cross-Channel invas...9999903232322Antony Beevor
Viking
sábado, 23 de noviembre de 2024
13 August 1961-9 November 1989The astonishing drama of Cold War nuclear poker that divided humanity - reissued with a new Postscript to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the wall. During the...9999903232261Fred Taylor
Bloomsbury
sábado, 23 de noviembre de 2024
Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good SocietyWhy did so many distinguished Western Intellectuals--from G.B. Shaw to J.P. Sartre, and. closer to home, from Edmund Wilson to Susan Sontag-- admire various communist systems, ofte...9999903232254Edward Banfield Paul Holl...
Editors Varis
sábado, 23 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
A Russian Past and the Journey HomeSHORLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Brilliant ... a staggering story' Robert Fox, Evening Standard, Books of the Year'Fa...9999903232223Mark Mazower
Penguin Books Ltd
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
Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero WorshipDuring the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, political dictators were not only popular in their own countries, but were also admired by numerous highly educated and idealistic ...9999903232193Paul Hollander
Cambridge UP
sábado, 23 de noviembre de 2024
How Totalitarianism Reclaimed RussiaWINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A...9999903232179Masha Gessen
Riverhead Books
sábado, 23 de noviembre de 2024
The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and HitlerIntellectual debates surrounding modernity, modernism and fascism continue to be active and hotly contested. In this ambitious book, renowned expert on fascism Roger Griffin analyz...9999903232162R. Griffin
Palgrave Macmillan
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
Europe and the Mediterranean from the First through the Twenty-first CenturiesThe resurgence of violent terrorist organizations claiming to act in the name of God has rekindled dramatic public debate about the connection between violence and religion and its...9999903232087Arnaud Blin
University of California Press
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
How Venice Won and Lost a Naval EmpireA magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundre...9999903231455Roger Crowley
Faber & Faber
viernes, 22 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
Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?A Sunday Timesand FTBook of the Year When a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, the most likely outcome is war. In this razor-sharp analysis, Harvard scholar Graham Al...9999903231448Graham T. Allison
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd.
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
A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals ??This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know ??the difference between ...9999903229315Saul D. Alinsky
New York : Vintage Books, 1989, c1971.
miércoles, 20 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
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