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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24561-5
EAN 9780300245615
Is Britain a part of Europe? The British have been ambivalent on this question since the Second World War, when the Western European nations sought to prevent the return of fascism by creating strong international ties throughout the Continent. Britain reluctantly joined the Common Market, the European Community, and ultimately the European Union, but its ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-23320-9
EAN 9780300233209
When Allied fighters were trapped behind enemy lines, one branch of military intelligence helped them escape: MI9. The organization set up clandestine routes that zig-zagged across Nazi-occupied Europe, enabling soldiers and airmen to make their way home. Secret agents and resistance fighters risked their lives and those of their families to hide the men.Drawing on ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98601-1
EAN 9780241986011
A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year'Powerful . . .there is rage in his ink. McKay's book grips by its passion and originality. Some 25,000 people perished in the firestorm that raged through the city.I have never seen it better described' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesIn February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-1-78747-484-0
EAN 9781787474840
"A revelatory and wholly fascinating work of history. Superbly researched and written with gripping fluency, this lost secret of World War II espionage finally has its expert chronicler." - WILLIAM BOYD'Gripping and intoxicating, it unfolds like the best screenplay.'NICHOLAS SHAKESPEAREThe gripping story of a propaganda campaign like no other: the covert British operation to manipulate ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198644-9
EAN 9780141986449
'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-625-3
EAN 9781612006253
In early 1942, the Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating their US, British and Dutch foes throughout the Asia Pacific. In a matter of just months, the soldiers and sailors of the Rising Sun conquered an area even bigger than Hitler's empire at its largest extent. They seemed invincible.Hawaiians and Australians ...
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Beasley, Tony; Couzens-Lake, Edward
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-840-0
EAN 9781612008400
An engaging first-hand memoir of life in the Royal Navy during the Cold War Tony Beasley joined the Royal Navy as a teenager in 1946. This biography recalls the adventures he had during his time in the Navy, from training and specialisation as a telegraphist to being unexpectedly sent to work on submarines. He describes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-869-1
EAN 9781612008691
In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone. For three long months, brave young RAF pilots took off every day, ready to defend British skies against large-scale Luftwaffe raide. 'The Few' were young, but they were trained and they were determined.Eighty years on the last of the pilots to fly in the Battle of Britain ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 25,10 €
ISBN 978-1-61200-843-1
EAN 9781612008431
It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two U.S. Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets.The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78649-465-8
EAN 9781786494658
It is impossible to understand the last 75 years of British and American history without understanding the Anglo-American relationship, and specifically the bonds between presidents and prime ministers. FDR of course had Churchill; JFK famously had Macmillan, his consigliere during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Reagan found his ideological soul mate in Thatcher, and George W. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-35307-1
EAN 9780571353071
Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. 'Hall has captured this catalytic moment like no one before. Anyone interested in the "Global Sixties" must read Ten Days in Harlem.' Van E.Gosse, Professor of History, Franklin x{0026} Marshall College***New ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104330-2
EAN 9780141043302
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan SimmsAdolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78873-661-9
EAN 9781788736619
A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend from converts, whose native lands ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-24332-1
EAN 9780300243321
Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust How can we make sense of our lives when we do not know where we come from? This was a pressing question for the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, whose prewar memories were vague ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-12741-7
EAN 9780231127417
Ernst Junger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important-and most controversial-writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel, he frankly depicted war's horrors even as he extolled its glories. As a Wehrmacht captain during World War II, Junger faithfully kept a journal in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-2699-8
EAN 9781526626998
A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year 'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMANMussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 602 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25473-0
EAN 9780300254730
A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 480 páginas
PVP: 35,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-697-8
EAN 9781781256978
During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the league of Nations; Mussolini looked towards Africa; Roosevelt was elected; France changed governments three times; and the victors of 1918 fell out acrimoniously over war debts, arms, currency, tariffs and Germany. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 40,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20348-5
EAN 9780691203485
A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western Europe's Democratic Age, Martin Conway provides an innovative new account of how ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197497-2
EAN 9780141974972
HORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Generous and empathetic ... opens up postwar migration in all its richness' Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian'Groundbreaking, sophisticated, original, open-minded ... essential reading for anyone who wants to understand not only the transformation of British society after the war but also its character today' Piers Brendon, ...
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