This edited collection examines the violence experienced by non-combatants during the civil wars which took place in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
This edited collection examines the violence experienced by non-combatants during the civil wars which took place in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
The story of the most audacious serial heist in the history of Australia's museums - and the British gentleman adventurer who pulled it off and got away with it - in a scientific true-crime caper stretching around the globe.
'Very entertaining' SUNDAY TIMES'A thoroughly enjoyable book, brimming over with historical nuggets and contemplations about the future' NEW YORK TIMESSunday Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style.
Hinter den glanzvollen Porträts großer Persönlichkeiten schlummert oft ein anderes Ich – ein geheimes Leben, das Geschichte schrieb, aber selten erzählt wurde.
Nach dem «Anschluss» 1938 zwangen die Nazis den österreichischen Bundeskanzler Kurt Schuschnigg zum Rücktritt und hielten ihn sieben Jahre lang in Haft, bis ihn 1945 die Alliierten befreiten.
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'AN INNOVATIVE AND EXHILARATING READ' Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in EconomicsEconomic development is not really development without consent.
Este libro ofrece un análisis detallado del sistema consular estadounidense en el Pacífico mexicano entre 1810 y 1914, como parte de un entramado más amplio de relaciones diplomáticas, comerciales y estratégicas entre México y Estados Unidos durante el siglo XIX.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the idea of home came into focus as a place of warmth and comfort, associated with interior spaces and feminine touches.
