The Horror of World War I

On the eve of World War Two, the lives of an Irish family in Westmeath are about to be changed for ever. Preston's story spans three generations an...

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...

Reducere. In the closing weeks of World War II, advancing Allied armies uncovered the horror of the Nazi concentration camps. The first camp to be liberated ...

Revenge can take a lifetime...In the dying days of World War Two, Pavel Romasko and his Red Army colleagues pick their way through the detritus of ...

The work of female journalists focuses more squarely on individuals caught in the conflict - including themselves. It offers a valuable counterpoin...

Reducere. For a generation the Lost Battalion exemplified the best of America's involvement in World War I. Until World War II pushed the Lost Battalion out ...

Reducere. "Dagon" is a 1917 short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. One of the first stories he wrote as an adult, it centres around the recollection...

Thirty-five years have passed since the death of the Master. But now a new evil walks among the living. . . . When nineteen-year-old John Shaw retu...

The splash from something enormous resounds through the sea-fog. In the stillness of a dark room, some unspeakable evil is making its approach. . ....

DescriptionThis is my story - my life from the horrors of war and slaughter to the travails of change and atonement. For much of my life I lived in...

DescriptionIn 2014, The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft was published to widespread acclaim-- vaunted as a "treasure trove" (Joyce Carol Oates) for L...

DescriptionA powerful collection written on the eve of the destruction of Europe by the Second World War, by the great Joseph Roth Having fled to P...

Beware...this book is cursed These strange but true stories of the world's most infamous items will appeal to true believers as well as history buf...

Reducere. Inspired by the true story of one woman's fight to survive during the 20th century's darkest hour--World War II--Gloria Goldreich presents a story ...

Reducere. Anglo-Welsh writer Arthur Machen (1863-1947) has gained deserved celebrity for his tales of horror ("The Great God Pan, " "The White People"), his ...

The horror of the Western Front trenches is a well-worn theme but what was life like on 'the other side of the Western front' in the First World Wa...

DescriptionIn 1917, at the height of World War I, Laurence Binyon was commissioned by the army to write a story about wartime volunteers and spent ...

Four lovers. Four species. One world to save? The only thing better than having someone who loves you? Having four. My memories returned and the ho...

DescriptionTwo Lectures Cycles, Followed by Two Christmas Lectures Dornach, October 3-7 and December 12-20, 1914; Dornach, December 26 and Basel, D...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the late 1800s, a scientist working for Thomas Alva Edison invented an easy-to-use motion picture camera. Soon, people all over the w...

Reducere. DescriptionWorld Revolution: The Plot against Civilization By Nesta H. Webster Amongst all the books, pamphlets, and newspaper articles that are no...

DescriptionAfter the austerity, horror, and bloodshed of World War I, France longed for joy, light-heartedness, and sexual freedom. Men and newly e...

Reducere. A prizewinning historian tells the dramatic story of the siege that changed the course of the First World WarIn September 1914, just a month into W...

Reducere. Guilty is a searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship. It takes the ...

DescriptionThis installment in the New York Times bestselling I Survived series from Lauren Tarshis shines a spotlight on the Normandy landings, ju...

Reducere. A riveting, beautiful novel in verse by Australia's greatest contemporary poet, winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize.I never learned the old top ro...

Reducere. 1918. In the dying days of World War I, the Spanish Flu devastates the small town of Incarnation, Texas. The sheriff closes the church and quaranti...

Reducere. This third volume of Machen's collected fiction begins with a tale, "The Thousand and One Nights, " that has never before been reprinted. It contin...

Set in the mud and stench of the Somme this is a grim, sardonic tale of war that let William Boyd to say this is the finest novel to come out of th...

Reducere. Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (1850-1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in ...

Reducere. Boasting equal parts scholarship and style, All Governments Lie is a highly readable, groundbreaking, and timely look at I. F. Stone -- one of Amer...

Reducere. Back East, they told tall tales about Marshall Clay Halser, the fearless Civil War veteran who became known as the "Hero of the Plains" for his dar...

Reducere. A murdered teen is resurrected to walk the earth for more than a century in the sweeping epic Entertainment Weekly named one of the best books of 2...

Reducere. Notes from a Divided Country, Kim's first collection of poetry, confronts a number of difficult subjects - colonialism, the Korean War, emigration,...

Reducere. "Repairman Jack is one of my favorite characters--I'm full of happy anticipation every time I hold a new RJ novel in my hands."--Charlaine Harris, ...

Reducere. From a ghostly Civil War battlefield to a combat theme park in Vietnam, from the omnipotent brain of an autistic boy to a shocking story of psychic...

DescriptionCold War nadir: January 1968 and in Czechoslovakia the new Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek has made it clear that this is the op...