Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945 - Richard Overy

A] stupendous achievement.. .Blood and Ruins dissects the sinews of war with the sharpest of scalpels...it is history at its best, down to the fine...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Richard OveryNumber of pages: 1040Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 242 x 49Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

Reducere. Originally published in 1980 and still the best one-volume aerial history of World War II, Richard Overy's classic work remains profound and highly...

Reducere. Description"An essential part of the literature of World War II." --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post From acclaimed World War II historian Ric...

World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandab...

Drawing on a wealth of evidence to account for the Soviet Union's victory against invading forces, this book offers an account of the epic struggle...

New in paperback. This is the ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Ri...

Now in its 5th edition, The Origins of the Second World War explores the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 and why a Eur...

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A concise history of the Second World War.

More than 170, 000 British prisoners of war (POWs) were taken by German and Italian forces during the Second World War. Guests of the Third Reich w...

Reducere. The Ultimate Battle is the full story of the last great clash of World War II as it has never before been told. With the same "grunt's-eye-view" na...

At 22, the war is over for RAF serviceman Harry Leslie Smith -- the now 92-year-old activist and author of the acclaimed Harry's Last Stand -- but ...

The definitive history of the Opium War between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize.

Europe's second Thirty Years' War--an epoch of blood and ashes Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single histor...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Richard HoughNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 33Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesc...

'Effervescent' NEW YORKER 'A fresh, fast-paced history ... Riveting' MAYA JASANOFFPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Deborah CohenNumber...

In 132 AD, Simeon Bar Kosiba, a rebel leader who assumed the messianic name Simon Bar Kokhba ('son of a star'), led the people of Judaea and Galile...

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 ...

A superbly illustrated new history of the Third Reich from a world-class historian.Publisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Richard OveryNumber of p...

Imperial Debris redirects scholarly focus away from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occu...

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Publisher: Imperial War MuseumsAuthor(s): Imperial War MuseumNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 197 x 237 x 19Cover type: Paperb...

How can we ever understand why those in the Third Reich acted the way they did? What could have led them to commit such atrocities in the name of t...

Reducere. The battle of Britain pitted the Hurricanes and Spitfires of the Royal Air Force against the Messerschmitts of Hitler's Luftwaffe in the skies over...

Reducere. The tragic events of September 11, 2001 brought to the surface memories of an earlier time of unprecedented national emergency -- Pearl Harbor -- a...

70th anniversary edition of this definitive short account of history's most famous air battle, with a new introduction and jacket.

Reducere. Lars Nor n, generally considered Sweden's greatest playwright since August Strindberg, has written about 75 plays. While they are regularly perform...

Reducere. Paradise in Ruins offers readers a look at the Pacific Theater of World War Two by introducing them to military and naval leaders from both sides o...

Reducere. One of the great memoirs of World War Two, Zephyr House is please to republish this classic work, written by a spitfire pilot who fought in the Bat...

As we mark the centenary of the end of World War One, this astonishing book collects over five hundred remarkable photographs and rarely seen mater...