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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In this work, the author returns to the literature of his youth to ask why we appear to have forgotten how powerful it seemed in a time of economic crisis...

This is a biography of American writer Thomas Wolfe by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald. The book follows Wolfe from improbable affairs to drunken brawls, from his mother's "Old...

The book titled The Enemy within: Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party by the author Francis Beckett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

This study deals with the events of the Russian Revolution and the Civil War from 1917-1921. It provides a factual, chronological account of the main political events of the period,...

A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in the acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie. 'A Moment of War' is the magnificent conclusion to...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the...

When the Revolution broke out in 1917, Sergei Golitsyn was just 8 years old. His memoir of the Revolution and the years that followed constitute one of the most powerful...

The book titled Writers in Hollywood, 1915-51 by the author Ian Hamilton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

New to Modern Classics, with a new introduction by Chris Stewart Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts...

A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in India In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the Private Secretary...

In late 1927, at the age of twenty-four, George Orwell relocated to a tiny flat on London's Portobello Road, and from there embarked on a series of exploratory "tramping" expeditions...

REVISED EDITION 'Magisterial, terrifyingly relevant and yet also a celebration of Weimar's delicious decadence' - Simon Sebag Montefiore A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE...

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At the start of the Spanish Civil War the nationalists sought help for their cause from Germany, following which volunteers from the German Air Force and Army formed what was...

When the R101 first took to the skies, she was the largest aircraft ever to fly. What followed was a tragic finale to a tale of human folly on a...

From conducting the first deck landing to deployment of the first vertical take-off aircraft, the British Fleet Air Arm has been at the forefront of international naval air development. Through...

In this account of the origins and development of the RAF, the author offers evidence of its organization, strategy and preparedness for the Battle of Britain. Drawing on the facts...

The book titled Air War Pacific by the author Christopher Campbell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Katharine Hepburn won more Oscars than any actor in history - and yet her most memorable role is the one she carved for herself.Hollywood in the early 1930s is a...

From two-time Newbery medalist Lois Lowry comes this warm and resonant story of an unlikely friendship, which unfolds as a revelation on how we hold on to-and pass on-what matters...

When everyone is watching, survival will be her greatest performance ... A gripping, utterly absorbing novel about survival and art as defiance on the 1930s Berlin stage, from the bestselling...

The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence,...

A brand new Golden Age cosy crime mystery from the multi-million-copy bestseller Faith Martin. 'Hugely entertaining with an ingenious solution! I loved it!' Clare Chase 'A wonderful book with which...

Nella Larsen's powerful first novel evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for...

A reconstruction of a controversial murder case which happened in 1935 revealing a plausible motive for the crime. It gives an account of the events that led up to the...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...

'Holds up a mirror to a pioneering explorer of the deep seas' Financial Times 'Exquisite . . . full of fascinating technology, novel marine discoveries - and unusual scientists' New...

'Brilliant.' The Times 'One of Upson's most evocative novels.' Guardian September 1939: The worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on...

The Reverend Mother's investigative skills are called into action when a local tobacco factory burns down and fingers are pointed at one of her ex pupils... 1920s. Cork, Ireland. Early...

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or...

Stalinism is one of the most contentious political issues of the 20th century. Historical enquiry has in part benefited from, in part suffered from this. Controversy has stimulated research into...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. 'The hour should be evening and...

In this third and concluding volume of his acclaimed portrait, Mr. Marullo relates the struggle of the writer and of the emigr- Russian artistic community in Europe to keep alive...

Robert Byron is best remembered now for The Road to Oxiana. Less well-known is that, like many of his generation, notably Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, he was...

This second volume of the acclaimed Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence covers the years 1912-22, the period in which Lawrence forged his reputation as one of the greatest and...

The book titled Paul Scott's Raj by the author Robin Moore. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Questioning how the less than exemplary life of JFK related to the actions and decisions of his public career, Thomas Reeves probes the bewildering vagaries of Kennedy's character. He shows...

After the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the three great powers...

The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a cross-roads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The...

The book titled Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920's by the author Humphrey Carpenter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

Volume 2 of a three volume set containing Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence in its entirety. The publication of Henry Handel Richardson's correspondence will be a major event in Australian scholarly...