Post of Honour. The classic saga of life in post-war Britain, Paperback - R. F. Delderfield

'He built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His ...

Reducere. A rural English family endures as the Great War ends--and more storm clouds loom--in this saga from the New York Times-bestselling author of the Av...

Children of the 1950s have much to look back on with fondness: Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, and Dennis the Menace became part of the family for man...

The Edinburgh Festival is the world's largest arts festival. It has also been the site of numerous 'culture wars' since it began in 1947. This book...

'He built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His ...

An unconventional and illuminating new history of British landscape art in the post-war period

The third novel in The Horseman Riding By series that established Delderfield as one of the most popular and admired novelists of the 1960s

Reducere. R. F. Delderfield concludes his bestselling A Horseman Riding By saga of twentieth-century England with a novel that follows the Craddock family th...

R.F. Delderfield is at his best when portraying an observant slice of small town life - this book proves why he was one of the twentieth century's ...

R.F. Delderfield's brilliant saga of the Swann family has captivated readers since its first appearance. This is the first book in the trilogy, fol...

One of the world's leading writers on propaganda and information projection presents a remarkably detailed history and critique of the workings and...

In this book, Gregory Salter traces how artists represented home and masculinities in the period of social and personal reconstruction after the Se...

Traditional fiction with big nostalgic appeal.

In post-war London, will her dreams come true? A poignant and touching saga by Pam Evans, the much-loved author of BESSIE'S WAR and A BRIGHTER DAY ...

A heartwarming and poignant saga set in wartime London by Pam Evans, the much-loved author of A BRIGHTER DAY TOMORROW and DANCE YOUR TROUBLES AWAY.

A selection of terrific previously unpublished photographs celebrating fire engines in post-war Britain.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(s): Ro...

From one of the twentieth century's bestselling authors, R.F. Delderfield, this is a book about one man's dissatisfaction with his small life, and ...

Using a rich array of oral histories and archival sources, Tomboys and Bachelor Girls provides the first detailed academic study of lesbian identit...

Fashioning a new Jerusalem in Austerity Britain

The classic story of an English public school between the wars and an inspirational teacher, repackaged as a Hodder Great Read.Publisher: Hodder & ...

A compelling, evidence-based narrative for an age of heroes and battles that saw one of the most momentous transformations in British history.Publi...

A heartwarming and poignant saga set in wartime London by Pam Evans, the much-loved author of A BRIGHTER DAY TOMORROW and DANCE YOUR TROUBLES AWAY.

Concepts of Time in Post-War European Music gives a historical and philosophical account of the discussions of the nature of time and music during ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES' BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Eugene B. (Director and Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) RumerNumber of pages: 248C...

The story of the Jewish ex-servicemen who fought against Oswald Mosley after World War II

Reducere. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides...

The Haunted States of America: Gothic Regionalism in Post-war American fiction focuses on existing regional Gothic strains to examine how the anxie...

Reducere. The author grew up in Germany during the postwar era, when the United States evolved from a military occupation force to a peacetime cultural power...

The captivating third and final book in R.F. Delderfield's Swann family saga, the bestselling trilogy which began with GOD IS AN ENGLISHMAN and THE...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This study explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issue...

Description"Headaches. Dizziness. Can't sleep. Bad dreams (never have been released). The rice jungle had some compensation to some of us who just ...

Reducere. The hedge fund industry is a boys' club, with hardly any female success stories to turn to. Damsel in Distressed is one of those rare, humorous, an...

The latest book in the long-running Britain at the Polls series provides an indispensable account of the remarkable 2017 British general election. ...

Introduction1 Elements of Continuity2 After Oxford: The War Years3 Crampton Hodnet: The Continuous Cycle4 Some Tame Gazelle: Continuity and Content...

Beautiful bird illustrations by famous wildlife artist, commissioned by Royal Mail for Post and Go stamps.

This book explores an important moment in Italian women's theatre and cultural history: plays written for all-women casts between 1946 and the mid-...

Through the untold stories of the biracial children born from the encounter between Italian women and Black Allied soldiers in the immediate afterm...

This collection asks how we are to address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world. Rather than a temporary fad, Nuclear Criticism perpetuall...

We know a lot about the directors and stars of Italian cinema's heyday, from Roberto Rossellini to Sophia Loren. But what do we know about the Ital...

The story of the Jewish ex-servicemen who fought against Oswald Mosley after World War II

Reducere. Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that cl...

Who was King Arthur? He reached power shortly after the Romans evacuated Britain at the end of the fifth century and died at the Battle of Camlann....

Reducere. Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the c...

Reducere. POST is a look at how post-hardcore/emo music developed since its unintentional inception in the mid-1980s. With each chapter broken up by influent...

This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offer...