Lash - 20th Century 1

The 'Phabulous' Phantom first took to the air on 27 May 1958 and has been in service around the world for many decades. The United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Iran……続きを見る

Cette histoire globale de l’édition pendant la guerre d’Algérie vient combler un vide laissé par une communauté scientifique jusqu’alors soucieuse d’étudier l’action des seuls opposants (médiatiquem……続きを見る

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Joseph Lash’s last work is an account of the men and women who helped Roosevelt pull the country out of the Great Depression. When FDR took office in 1933, he set i……続きを見る

À l'issue de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, 242 collaborateurs et criminels de guerre condamnés à mort sont exécutés en Belgique. Parmi eux figurent notamment les célèbres Irma Laplasse et Philipp Schm……続きを見る

Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog werden in België 242 ter dood veroordeelde collaborateurs en oorlogsmisdadigers gefusilleerd. Onder hen ook de bekende Irma Laplasse en voormalig kampcommandant van Breendo……続きを見る

Using the Roosevelt-Churchill correspondence, British War Cabinet and Foreign Office files and Roosevelt Map Room papers, Joseph P. Lash takes a fresh look at men and events in the critical months b……続きを見る

The Falklands War, which may prove to be the last 'colonial' war that Britain ever fights, took place in 1982. Fought 8,000 miles from home soil, it cost the lives of 255 British military personnel,……続きを見る

This book provides a unique, thorough, and indispensable resource for anyone investigating the causes and consequences of the Dust Bowl. During the 1930s, drought and the cultivation of submarginal ……続きを見る

From the bestselling author of The Real Bravo Two Zero comes the definitive history of the world's most elite fighting force - the SAS 'Breathtaking bravery, astonishing feats of endurance, raids an……続きを見る

'The best life of Lawrence yet published' - The Express Lawrence was a brilliant propagandist, rhetorician and manipulator, who deliberately turned his life into a conundrum. But who was the real ma……続きを見る

A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution The Green Revolution was devised to increase agricultural production worldwide, particularly in the developing world. Agriculturalists……続きを見る

A strategic outpost in the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus was vital to British imperial ambitions in the East as the Ottoman Empire grew increasingly fragile in the nineteenth century. Here, Gail Dal……続きを見る

Using the Atlanta, Birmingham, and Nashville Public Libraries as case studies, The Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898-1963 argues that p……続きを見る

This first-hand witness account – originally written by Ludmila Miklashevskaya in 1976 and here translated into English by historian Elaine MacKinnon for the first time – tells the important story o……続きを見る

What happens when the world in which people have crafted identities for themselves and lived their lives suddenly disappears? How does a person -- or a nation -- confront such a shock? From 1990 to ……続きを見る

The Great Plains, known for grasslands that stretch to the horizon, is a difficult region to define. Some classify it as the region beginning in the east at the ninety-eighth or one-hundredth meridi……続きを見る

The book, based on memories of a native son and the research of a scholar, is an amalgam of descriptions and discussions, peppered with conversations, personal observations and an acute observer’s r……続きを見る

Noisy popular liberal interventionism? Or a more conservative, diplomatic approach concentrating on co-operation between nations? This is the debate that lies at the heart of modern politics and Hur……続きを見る

The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers Elizabeth II is the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne. Yet her personalit……続きを見る