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Operation Bowler: The Audacious Allied Bombing of Venice
21st March 1945. 1530 hours. Bursting through a hazy sky, dozens of Allied fighters and bombers sweep over German-occupied Venice. Their mission - destroy Germany's strategic outposts nestled along the...
The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope and
Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands...
Last Dance in Salzburg (Miss Ashford Investigates, Book 4)
Agatha Christie meets Julie Caplin in this exciting new cosy crime series that captures the glamour of the 1930s with the gorgeous escapist destinations! November 1930. After accepting an invitation...
Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris
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From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with...
Dead Ground
A young British nurse experiences the devastating Spanish Civil War and the dark side of the espionage game in this gripping World War Two thriller from Graham Hurley. 1936. Anglo-Breton...
Operation Bowler: The Audacious Allied Bombing of Venice
21st March 1945. 1530 hours. Bursting through a hazy sky, dozens of Allied fighters and bombers sweep over German-occupied Venice. Their mission - destroy Germany's strategic outposts nestled along the...
K. G. B.: The Inside Story
This history of the world's largest and most powerful intelligence service, the KGB, from its origin after the Russian revolution to the present day, analyzes its operations against subjects as...
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and
Otto Dov Kulka's Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death, translated by Ralph Mandel, is a memoir of astounding literary and emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by...
Winged Promises: History of No.14 Squadron, RAF 1915-1945
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Now flying Tornados in Germany, No.14 Squadron was one of the first deployed to the Middle East, and at one time operated with Lawrence of Arabia's guerilla forces. It has...
The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the
An unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia told through the recently discovered lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg - Hitler's...
Hitler's Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl -
Ernst Hanfstaengl was court jester, pianist, and foreign press chief for Hitler, he even claimed to have devised the chant of Sieg Heil, but when the two men fell out...
Paradise Lost: The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance
On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must...
The Searchers: How Radio Interception Changed the Course of Both World
The film Enigma has popularised the subject of code-breaking and military intelligence as never before. Yet the ULTRA secret - the Allied 'breaking' of the German Enigma code - was...
The RAF in Camera: Archive Photographs from the Public Record Office
First published in 1995 and now available in paperback, the first part of a three-volume pictorial history of the RAF, which contains many rare and previously unpublished photographs from collections...
Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of
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A comprehensive guide to the aces of the British Empire fighting scout units during World War I. It gives biographies of 800 British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South African and...
A History of Sociological Research Methods in America, 1920-1960
This is the first book on the general history of US sociological research. It provides systematic archival, documentary, and interview data which question conventional views on research methods, developing our...
Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art Between the Wars
This book begins by considering responses by French artists to the First World War, showing how Purism, Dada, and early Surrealism are related to the ethos of post-war reconstruction. The...
Surrealist Art
Surrealism was a revolution. Unlike such other modern movements as cubism and geometrical abstraction, it was not based on purely artistic innovation; its aim was nothing less than the liberation,...
Literature in the Modern World
Literature in the Modern World offers a unique combination of English, European, feminist and `new writing', or `Commonwealth', perspectives on literary studies from the 1920s to the 1980s. It is...
Surrealism
The character of Surrealism had been crystallizing over the previous five years when, in 1924, Andre Breton's Manifeste du Surrealisme defined the word. As conceived in those early days it...
Journey of No Return: Five German Speaking Literary Exiles in Britain,
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Among the 70,000 refugees from Nazi Germany who had entered Britain by 1939 were many intellectuals of the Weimar era. This book tells the story of five emigre writers, three...
B. Traven: A Vision of Mexico (Latin American Silhouettes)
Author of "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" and other popular novels about Mexico, B. Traven surrounded his identity with mysteries designed to confound biographers. Now Heidi Zogbaum has produced...
Letters, Summer 1926
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A collection of correspondence between Rainer Maria Rilke, Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetayeva. Published for the first time in English, these 49 letters examine their thought and work, the nature...
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink
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From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything , this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the...
The World in Depression, 1929-39
The book titled The World in Depression, 1929-39 by the author Charles Poor Kindleberger. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Jews in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present: v.2
The book titled The Jews in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present: v.2 by the author Nora Levin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
The Jews in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present: v. 1
The book titled The Jews in the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present: v. 1 by the author Nora Levin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
Hemingway: The Paris Years
The book titled Hemingway: The Paris Years by the author Michael S. Reynolds. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Hemingway: The 1930's
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This new biography focuses on the maturing Hemingway when fame is hitting full force the years between A Farewell to Arms and the writing of For Whom the Bell Tolls....
Stalin's Letters to Molotov, 1925-1936
Between 1925 and 1936 - a dramatic period of transformation within the Soviet Union - Josef Stalin wrote frequently to his trusted friend and political colleague Viachestav Molotov, Politburo member,...
With Dew on My Boots
The book titled With Dew on My Boots by the author Colin Thiele. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
History of the SS
A history of the SS, the Nazi Party's military arm, woven around the life and career of SS chief, Heinrich Himmler. The author reveals the SS rituals; how it functioned...
Bloodroot
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Aaron Roy Evan's startling, imagistic debut takes its cue from a true event: In 1936, in a small town near Charlottesville, Virginia, an aging black caretaker and his sister shot...
Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38
The Sunday Times bestselling edition of Chips Channon's remarkable diaries 'The greatest British diarist of the 20th century. An astonishing achievement. By turns frivolous and profound.' Ben Macintyre, The Times...
The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination
In the decades following the First World War, when aviation was still a revelation, flight was perceived as a spectacle to delight the eyes and stimulate the imagination. Robert Wohl...
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
Gerald Durrell's beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time 'Another tiger-golden day lay ahead of us. It was as though England...
Powder Puff Derby of 1929: The True Story of the First Women's
The unforgettable true story of the 1929 air race that legitimized female pilots. In 1929, nineteen women set out from Santa Monica, California, in flimsy, propeller driven planes, with a...
Before All The World
'A mesmeric, enrapturing read' Eimear McBride 'Beautiful and original' Colm Toibin 'In startling language filled with the flavor of Yiddish's combination words, [ Before All the World ] moves forward...
Australia's China: Changing Perceptions from the 1930s to the 1990s
Australia's China explores the multifaceted and dynamic Australian encounter with China from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 through the Cold War to the Australian recognition of the...
Binkie Beaumont: Eminence Grise of the West End Theatre, 1933-73
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This book examines the life of the little-known but highly successful man whose productions dominated London theatre for over 30 years. Following 10 years of research, the author has uncovered...
Japanese Army Air Force Aces 1937-45
Little has been published in English on the Japanese Army Air Force (JAAF), let alone its most successful fighter pilots no less than 150 of them achieved ace status during...
Takeover
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library , a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph...
Constellation of Genius: 1922: Modernism and All That Jazz
Gloriously entertaining, supremely erudite and delightfully idiosyncractic - this is the diary of the spectacular year of 1922 1922. The spectacular year that F. Scott Fitzgerald chose as a backdrop...
Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe
The book is based on hundreds of oral histories, conducted in Europe and North America, with survivors who were children in the Holocaust, primary documentation uncovered by the author (including...
The Road is Wider Than Long
During July and August 1938, as Europe prepared for war, Roland Penrose and Lee Miller journeyed through the Balkans. Penrose was a painter and a writer; Miller was a studio...
Wars of Latin America, 1899-1941
The years 1899 through 1941 are remarkable even by Latin America's uniquely turbulent standards. During this time, border disputes and domestic insurrections forcefully shaped the history of this area, as...