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Paris after the liberation, 1944-1949
Par Antony Beevor, Artemis Cooper. 2016
Beevor and Cooper present a vivid and compelling portrayal of the City of Lights after its liberation. Paris became the…
diplomatic battleground in the opening stages of the Cold War. Against the volatile political backdrop, every aspect of life is portrayed: scores were settled in a rough and uneven justice, black marketers grew rich on the misery of the population, and a growing number of intellectual luminaries and artists including Hemingway, Beckett, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Cocteau, and Picasso contributed new ideas and a renewed vitality to this extraordinary moment in time. 2016.Paris 1919: six months that changed the world
Par Margaret MacMillan. 2001
Analyzes the failure of the Versailles Peace Conference after World War I. Focuses on the nationalistic goals of American president…
Woodrow Wilson, French premier Georges Clemenceau, and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George - the author's great-grandfather - as they reorganized the defeated empires and created the League of Nations. Foreword by Richard Holbrooke. Bestseller. Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. Canada Reads 2012. 2001. Uniform title: PeacemakersOur tempestuous day: a history of regency England
Par Carolly Erickson. 2014
When dementia forces King George III to vacate his throne, the kingdom slips into a decade marked with excess, scandal,…
and riots. The author vividly captures the nation in a troubled transition. 2014.Night witches: the untold story of Soviet women in combat
Par Bruce Myles. 1990
In 1941, as the Nazi hordes swept eastward into the Soviet Union, the desperate call went out for female volunteers…
to join the Russian air force. Making up three regiments, the lives, exploits, loves and fears of these women are captured here - the pilots whom the Germans came to dread as the "Night witches". 1990.An expose of financial collaboration between Swiss bankers and officials in Nazi Germany during World War II. Alleges that in…
return for looted gold and other wealth, Swiss banks helped fund the German war effort and then blocked Holocaust survivors' efforts to claim their assets. c1997.Molotov's magic lantern: a journey in Russian history
Par Rachel Polonsky. 2010
When British journalist Rachel Polonsky moved to Moscow, she discovered an apartment building that was once home to the ruthless…
apparatchik Vyacheslav Molotov, a participant in the Great Purge - and also an ardent bibliophile. In his old apartment, Polonsky uncovered an extensive library and an old magic lantern - two things that led her on an extraordinary journey throughout Russia, and ultimately renewed her vision of the country and its people. Some descriptions of violence. 2010.Modern Ireland 1600-1972
Par R F Foster. 1989
Millennium: the end of the world and the forging of Christendom
Par Tom Holland. 2009
Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness.…
This book is a panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000. This was the age of Canute, William the Conqueror and Pope Gregory VII, of Vikings, monks and serfs, of the earliest castles and the invention of knighthood, and of the primal conflict between church and state. This is the story of how the distinctive culture of Europe was forged from out of the convulsions of these extraordinary times. 2009.London: the biography
Par Peter Ackroyd. 2000
Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination,…
is his definitive account of the city. Reveling in the city's riches as well as its raucousness, the author traces thematically its growth from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Strong language. 2000.London: a history
Par A. N Wilson. 2004
Wilson covers 2000 years of London's history, from the Roman era through to modern times. He presents the essence of…
the people, the architecture, the intrigue, the art and literature and history. 2004.Life in Nelson's Navy
Par Dudley Pope. 1981
Making friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the road to World War II
Par Ian Kershaw. 2018
Through the story of how Lord Londonderry came to be mixed up with the Nazis and how it all went…
horribly wrong for him, Ian Kershaw shows us that behind the familiar cartoon is a much more complicated and interesting reality, full of miscalculations on both sides, miscalculations that proved to be among the most fateful in history. 2018.Magna Carta and medieval government
Par J C Holt. 1985
This book presents Holt's findings on the Magna Carta. As well as giving a succinct account of the making of…
Magna Carta, the author approaches his subject from a variety of different angles, and examines in detail a number of versions and copies of the Charter to shed light on its local reception and importance, and on how it was interpreted in different places. 1985.Land beyond the river: Europe in the age of migration
Par Richard B Lyttle. 1986
This history of Europe from the 2nd through the 9th centuries brings to life migrating Vandals, Goths, Huns, Vikings, Moslems,…
Mongols, Angles and Saxons, along with figures such as Genghis Khan, Alfred the Great, Mohammed and Attila the Hun. For junior and senior high readers. c1986.Chapel of extreme experience: a short history of flicker
Par John Geiger. 2002
The true story of how the discovery of flicker potentials, and scientific observations about strange patterns, organized hallucinations, and even…
the displacement of time derived from stroboscopic light, nearly resulted in a Dream Machine in every home. 2002.Great hatred, little room: making peace in Northern Ireland
Par Jonathan Powell. 2008
Kosovo: a short history
Par Noel Malcolm. 1998
History of a disputed area in southeastern Europe that was once part of Yugoslavia. Both Serbs and Albanians contest the…
region known as Kosovo, based on historical records and mythology. Explores the impacts of Ottoman expansion in Europe, the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, national developments in 1912, World War II, and the years of Marshal Tito's rule until 1980. 1998.City of secrets: the extraordinary true story of one woman's journey to the heart of the Grail legend
Par Patrice Chaplin. 2007
Patrice Chaplin tells the true story of the Englishwoman entrusted with the legacy of Rennes-le-Chateau. Rich with photographs, letters and…
historical documents, it fills in key gaps in one of the most compelling mysteries of all time. 2007.Calum's road
Par Roger Hutchinson. 2006
Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay, Scotland, since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona…
lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago, until semi-automation in 1967 reduced his responsibilities. 'So what he decided to do,' says his last neighbour, Donald MacLeod, 'was to build a road out of Arnish in his months off. With a road he hoped new generations of people would return to Arnish and all the north end of Raasay...' And so, at the age of 56, Calum MacLeod, the last man left in northern Raasay, set about single-handedly constructing the 'impossible' road. 2006.Britain's best kept secret: Ultra's base at Bletchley Park
Par Ted Enever. 1999
In 1938 the British Government's Code and Cypher School moved to Bletchley Park where dedicated teams unpicked Germany's Enigma codes…
bringing about the ultimate Allied victory of 1945. Although thousands of people worked at Bletchley, they never spoke openly of their work and the German high command believed that Enigma remained unbroken throughout the war. Only in 1975 did the story begin to be known and became Britain's best kept secret. The author traces the Park's early history and provides a guide to the key wartime buildings and what went on behind the scenes, as well as describing how the complex was recently saved from demolition. 1999.