War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War, Paperback - Randy Roberts

Reducere. A "marvelous" (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star ...

The story of life after the Great War: a turning point in historyPublisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Juliet NicolsonNumber of pages: 416Publicat...

The culmination of a 4-year project to tell the story of Surrey in the First World War

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing viol...

Reducere. In the watershed year of 1962, events and people came together to reshape baseball like never before. The season saw five no-hitters, a rare Nation...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"A grounded and expansive examination of the American economic divide . . . It takes a skillful journal...

Reducere. "A rousing celebration of a moment in history when college football was more than metaphor and entertainment, it was a gritty sidebar to real war."...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): edited by Hugh Malcolm RobertsIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 166Publication date: 2021Dimension...

Dan Epstein scored a cult hit with Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s. Now he returns with ...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): edited by Hugh Malcolm RobertsIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 166Publication date: 2021Dimension...

Reducere. The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most colorful and controversial decade The Major Leagues...

This volume, covering twenty-five populist parties in seventeen European states, presents the first comparative study of the impact of the Great Re...

Reducere. By exploring big themes such as democracy and empire, nationalism and capitalism, as well as art and poetry, The Long Shadow is stunningly broad in...

DescriptionMass population displacement affected millions of Europe's civilians across the different theatres of war in 1914-18. At the end of the ...

Reducere. The three books of the first trilogy for the Great Martian War - a continuation of HG Wells, War of the Worlds Taking place ten years after the ori...

In today's world of rapid advancements in science and technology, we need to scrutinize more than ever the historical forces that shape our percept...

From the shadow of that Avondale mountain, Jerry Doyle shares his telling and touching journey through the streets of Dublin, the mines of Labrador...

Reducere. A deeply researched and engaging account of the use of U-Boats in the First World War. The focus touches on both diplomatic and economic aspects as...

Reducere. When above-the-knee amputeeswalk, we generate seven to nine times the force of our body weight right into the point where the prosthesis meets our ...

Reducere. The Kinzua Dam has cast a long shadow on Seneca life since World War II. The project, formally dedicated in 1966, broke the Treaty of Canandaigua o...

Reducere. "Roberts'spopulist approach makes for a rollicking good read and never comes at theexpense of accuracy. His mastery of the huge variety of subjects...

Fascinating and much forgotten story of Brighton's contribution to the Great War.

Fascinating and much forgotten story of Wirral's contribution to the Great War.

The first-ever book to look at the social history of Tynemouth during the shattering years of the Great War.

A fascinating insight into how the people of Chatham coped with the problems of the First World War

Comprehensive overview of Frome during the Great War.

The Second World War lasted for 2, 174 days and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. Why did it take the course that it did? Why did the Ax...

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 ...

Masterly.' - CHARLES VYVYAN, STANDPOINT'Fascinating stuff.' - SPECTATOR'Possibly the finest, most comprehensive analysis of the home front in the G...

Cheltenham in the Great War is the first book to portray the town, its people and the impact of the `war to end all wars' from the declaration of w...

Reducere. Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to ...