Come Fly the World. The Women of Pan Am at War and Peace, Paperback - Julia Cooke

Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): Julia CookeIllustration...

Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.Illustrations: 8 Plates, black and white

Reducere. Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men-era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and want...

A powerful and poignant memoir of survival and resistance by the critically acclaimed author of She Would Be King, about her family's dramatic esca...

A global history of world politics, offering a corrective to Western views of history and diplomacy. The East/West spanning approach allows Holslag...

The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughou...

Reducere. DescriptionFlying combat missions in wartime is always dangerous. But imagine doing so in a slow, rickety biplane, at night, with no lights or navi...

Policymakers, legislators, scientists, thinkers, military strategists, academics, and indeed all with an interest in understanding the future want ...

From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork.War a...

From the celebrated author of Border, here is a portrait of an ancient but little-understood corner of Balkans, and a personal reckoning with the p...

A fine tribute to the unsung heroes and vessels during war and peace which is complemented with many evocative photographs.Publisher: Whittles Publ...

Reducere. Hailed as one of the greatest novels of all time and a classic of world literature, War and Peace unfolds in the early nineteenth century during th...

A new edition of the classic Russian novel, published to tie in with a new 6-part BBC TV adaptation. With an introduction by the screenwriter, Andr...

Reducere. Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of ...

Publisher: Good Read PublishingAuthor(s): Paul HenkeNumber of pages: 639Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 176 x 110 x 30Cover type: Paperback / sof...

The first full treatment of women and warfare in Classical Greece and Rome. Addresses the neglected subject of the role of women in war in the Clas...

Description"If you want peace, prepare for war." "A buildup of offensive weapons can be purely defensive." "The worst road may be the best route to...

Provides a view of global diplomacy during one of the most tumultuous periods in UN history. This title shows readers a world where solutions are a...

A powerful and poignant memoir of survival and resistance by the critically acclaimed author of She Would Be King, about her family's dramatic esca...

Reducere. Hugo Grotius lived during Eighty and Thirty Years' Wars which influenced his concern with the issues of conflicts between nations and religions. Th...

Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature...

From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination, " humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-h...

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 ...

Sixteen life-changing live music events are looked at to address how music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has interacted with politics...

Reducere. What if we could inspire people everywhere to change the world?This question was the inspiration for creating this book. A vision to create somethi...

Reducere. DescriptionBattles, protests, standoffs, strikes. We hear about them all the time. On the surface, a battle and a protest don't seem to have much i...

Reducere. Part memoir, part reportage, Louder Than Bombs is a story of music from the front lines. Ed Vulliamy, a decorated war correspondent and journalist,...

Reducere. In September 1944, seven-year old Elin, her mother and grandmother fled Estonia ahead of the advancing Soviet Army escaping the risk of deportation...

Reducere. Rage & Revenge is a terrifying, up-close and personal look at what war and its aftermath are really like. For too long, the true nature of combat a...

A beautifully written and elegantly constructed narrative that explores the intense, complex and far-reaching female friendships among the Surreali...

Reducere. World War II was a total war, devouring the military and civilian resources of nations. Women in Minnesota--like women across the country--made bol...

For fans of Margaret Atwood and Deborah Harknesss &i>The Discovery of Witches, The Women Could Fly&/i> is a wonderfully evocative, dark and magical...

It could be your neighbor, your coworker, your son, or the woman sitting next to you in church. When combat veterans return from war, they're often...

Reducere. Apaches at War and Peace is the story of the Chiricahua Apaches on the northern frontier of New Spain from 1750 to 1858, especially those within th...

For fans of Margaret Atwood and Deborah Harkness's The Discovery of Witches, The Women Could Fly is a wonderfully evocative, dark and magical dysto...

The definitive three-volume history that FDR did not live to write: the story of World War II from his perspective, showing his mastery of strategy...

Reducere. The first history of the epic defeat of Napoleon's empire told from the Russian perspective. Though much has been written about Napoleon's doomed i...

DescriptionPraise for In Peace and War""A comprehensive, balanced, and compelling history of a first-class educational institution, and of the comp...

Reducere. If the Wright brothers' 1903 flights in Kitty Hawk marked the birth of aviation, World War I can be called its violent adolescence--a brief but blo...

Join everyone's favourite crime-busting ladybird on a trip to the seaside as she saves the day with another cunning plan in the fourth story in the...