Our Last Best Chance: A Story of War and Peace, Paperback

HRH King Abdullah was schooled in America and at Sandhurst and was heading for a life as a career soldier, when his father fell ill and he unexpect...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

Reducere. Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them in Iraq as the head of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit. Whenever IEDs ...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not--could not--live in that tale....

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

Reducere. Description"A story of love and courage amid brutality and terror, this is the testimony of a child who has endured the unthinkable." --J.K. Rowlin...

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

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 ...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'The most important book you'll ever read... Battle Scars will save lives.' TOM MARCUS, author of SOLDIER SPYBattle Scars ...

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 fascinating collection of military stories ... The sort of book that can be picked up at intervals ... [but] once tasted, is hard to put down' W...

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...

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. 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,...

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

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. 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...

The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they sh...

The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'.