On the Fortunes and Misfortunes of Art in Post-War Germany, Paperback

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DescriptionWolfe Frank was Chief Interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials where he was dubbed 'The Voice of Doom.' A playboy turned resistance worker he...

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Over 185, 000 British military servicemen were captured by the Germans during the First World War. Utilising official government reports alongside ...

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'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

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Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Monica BlackIllustration(s): 17 b&w illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimens...

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Jaroslav Hasek's black satire, the inspiration for such works as Joseph Heller's Catch-22 Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austro-Hung...

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In Wages of Guilt, Ian Buruma explores the duplicity of feeling towards World War II amongst the people of two very different participant countries...

Four Japanese nationalists storm Tokyo's imperial palace and behead the emperor. Their goal: to invade Russia and conquer oil-rich Siberia in order...

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Publisher: State House PressAuthor(s): John A. PearceNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 30Cover type: Paperback / so...

Abstraction in Post-War British Literature explores the ways in which writers and thinkers responded to non-representational art in the decades fol...

Colours of Art takes the reader on a journey through history by pairing 80 carefully curated artworks with infographic palettes. For these pieces, ...

Originally published in 1985, this book provides an important insight into the principal aspects of the history of the policy and practice of polit...

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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...

DescriptionThe most iconic German aircraft of the Second World War, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 was the Luftwaffe's principal fighter from 1939 until ...

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