On War and Writing, Hardcover

From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, stud...

Full of grit and small town secrets, Tingle's debut is a searing look at the effects of crime for fans of David Joy and Michael Farris Smith. Davis...

Reducere. A brilliant account of the proud and ferocious American fighters who stood up to the British forces in savage battles crucial in deciding both the ...

DescriptionThis important study examines women's life writing about the Second World War and the Holocaust, such as memoirs, diaries, docunovels, a...

When writing about the Vietnam War, most scholars focus on the 1960s. But in this hard-hitting analysis, eminent historian Dr. J. Edward Lee focuse...

DescriptionBrooke King has been asked over and over what it's like to be a woman in combat, but she knows her answer is not what the public wants t...

Reducere. Civil War Witnesses and Their Books: New Perspectives on Iconic Works serves as a wide-ranging analysis of texts written by individuals who experie...

Reducere. WHEN BOMBS BEGIN TO FALL, Ali drowns out the sould of war with a pen.Like other children living in Baghdad, Ali loves soccer, music and dancing, bu...

Reducere. A classic, life-changing meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling, with more than two-million copies in pri...

Debut author Brita Sandstrom arrives with an unforgettable modern folktale of the darkness around and inside us, and the courage it takes to keep h...

Reducere. An in-depth look at a crucial, little-known World War II episode--the failed Allied policy in Yugoslavia and its ramifications in the Balkans and b...

Reducere. Are 'Dear John' letters lethal weapons in the hands of men at war? Many US officers, servicemen, veterans, and civilians would say yes. Drawing on ...

LIGHT THE BAT-SIGNAL! Legendary screenwriter John Ridley takes over Gotham in a new way! Writing the world's most popular superhero, Batman, Ridley...

This book explores Korean literature from a broadly global perspective from the mid-9th century to the present, with special emphasis on how it has...

Reducere. Set during the chaotic years of World War II, The General's Women tells the story of the conflicted relationship between General Dwight Eisenhower ...

Reducere. A lush exploration of roses, pleasure, and politics, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded in ...

DescriptionAmbrose Bierce, journalist and former soldier for the Union army in the Civil War, began writing satirical definitions for the San Franc...

Reducere. Herodotus is not only the father of the art and the science of historical writing but also one of the Western tradition's most compelling storytell...

Reducere. Dear Bill is, in many ways, a time capsule that illuminates and brilliantly colours the years of 1939-1946 from a uniquely Canadian pioneer perspec...

In a rich fantasy world where Songs literally move heaven and earth, one sister must use magic and the other must rely on strength to reunite when ...

Reducere. In Belles and Poets, Julia Nitz analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from the U.S. South, focusing specifically on how they ma...

On the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, an essential guide to the momentous war for independence of the Greeks from the Ottoman Empire. The Gr...

Ernest Hemingway's friend A.E. Hotchner once described a "yellowed four-by-five picture of Ernest, " shown him by Hemingway, "aged five or six, hol...

DescriptionThe eighth action-packed Victorian military adventure featuring hero Jack Lark: soldier, leader, imposter. Expect hard fighting, dangero...

Reducere. Twenty-plus years in the writing, and for an additional ten years, this gut-wrenching, heartwarming story has been silently biding its time, awaiti...

DescriptionJessica is grieving for her beloved father, Jacob Kingdom, a trawler owner fondly remembered by his crew. But a confrontation with her m...

DescriptionEverything is about to change for John, a 13-year-old boy who goes to live and work on a Mennonite neighbor's farm during WWII. John's f...

Reducere. When Judith G. Coffin discovered a virtually unexplored treasure trove of letters to Simone de Beauvoir from Beauvoir's international readers, it i...

Reducere. A stunning gift edition of the age-old tale of Odysseus and his journey. This epic poem by Homer, believed to have been written between the eighth ...

Reducere. When John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse appeared in 1968, American fiction was turned on its head. Barth's writing was not a response to the realist...

Reducere. April 2020 will mark the 80th Anniversary of the fall of France to Nazi Germany, and the establishment of the provisional government of the Vichy s...

Reducere. DescriptionBasis for the motion picture Kill the Irishman with Ray Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Val Kilmer & Christopher Walken. The the true stor...

Reducere. Based on a lifetime of researching and writing about their home county of Winston, the husband and wife team of Don and Amy Dodd have crafted a uni...

Reducere. From San Francisco to Shanghai, from Vancouver to Venice, controversy over vaccines is erupting around the globe. Fear is spreading. Banished disea...

Reducere. First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream is the story of an artist and adventurer -- a man much li...

Reducere. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That...

Reducere. While legislators were writing the first laws in Alabama, some miscreant citizens were already breaking them, causing disorder and fleeing the hand...

Reducere. "They laid out a road map for investing that I have now been following for 57 years. There's been no reason to look for another." --Warren Buffett,...

Reducere. From the National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, author of "Radioactive, "comes a dazzling fusion of storytelling, visual art, and reportage t...

Reducere. Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in place for the t...

"Never before has the delight and wonder experienced in young love, in which is implicit physical discovery, been conveyed with such touching hones...

A man arrives in Dallas the day before the assassination of President Kennedy and is involved in events that would change history - what are his in...

Reducere. This volume is devoted to Asian American Literature between 1930 to 1965, a period of immense social, historical, and cultural transformations that...

Reducere. A comprehensive guide to Falcons. This book is presented as a summary of practical information on the training of your hawk or falcon. It draws on ...

It's Chris Jagger's turn to lift the lid on one of the most colorful and exotic periods in British cultural history. He unrolls an insider's tale o...

Reducere. You have an enemy . . . and he's dead set on destroying all you hold dear and keeping you from experiencing abundant life in Christ. What's more, h...

Reducere. NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED RESTORED EDITION FROM EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS, INC.In 1940, as the world hurtled into the darkness of global conflict, Edgar Ri...

Reducere. Uncover the secrets of the Skywalkers: the family that shaped a galaxy far, far away ... The Skywalker story has everything: passion, intrigue, her...

DescriptionThis book gives an account of Hong Kong's medical and health development from the Second World War to the present day, investigates how ...

Reducere. Here, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James Baldwin's reputation as a writer...

DescriptionPresenting IDW's Transformers comics in recommended reading order, including one-shots, crossovers, and event series It's everything a b...

Reducere. How quickly everything in the world disintegrates. Everything but the loneliness of young women. So begins The Whitsun Daughters, a story of three ...

Reducere. In Shaky Town, Lou Mathews has written a timeless novel of working-class Los Angeles. A former mechanic and street racer, he tells his story in coo...

Federico Garc a Lorca (1898-1936) is perhaps Spain's most famous writer and cultural icon. By the age of thirty, he had become the most successful ...

The German Tiger I was the most feared battle tank of the Second World War. Its invincibility lay in its main 8.8cm gun and heavy defensive armour....

This is the story of one remarkable woman's unimaginable journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath. Mani...

THE LADY OF THE SORROWS The Bitterbynde Trilogy #2This special, revised edition includes the author's new introduction - in which she discusses the...

Discover the origin of the new Dark Knight, Tim Jace Fox! The estranged son of billionaire Lucius Fox has returned to Gotham City and taken on the ...

Reducere. The black experience in America--starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961--is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African...

Reducere. In this scorching prequel, New York Times best-selling author Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-writing legend William McIlvanney join forces for the f...