Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) est connu de tous pour avoir réinventé les Jeux olympiques de l’ère moderne en 1896 à Athènes, devenus la plus grande manifestation internationale. Mais il est aussi ……続きを見る
Diana Mosley was a society beauty who fell from grace when she left her husband, brewery heir Bryan Guinness, for Sir Oswald Mosley, an admirer of Mussolini and a notorious womanizer. This horrified……続きを見る
The state of Czecho-Slovakia as it was created under the terms of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles was an ethnographic Babel fated to fail under a central leadership characterized by intolerance of its……続きを見る
In this rare treatise from 1939, a British observer who traveled in Poland shortly before World War Two broke out gives a telling account of the historical, economic, social and political conditions……続きを見る
Diana Mosley was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of recent times. For some, she was a cult; for many, anathema. Born in 1910 Diana was the most beautiful and the cleverest of t……続きを見る
Volontiers en avance sur leur temps, les Américains se résigneraient-ils à se trouver en retard toutes les fois qu’ils entreprennent de commémorer par une exposition universelle quelque épisode impo……続きを見る
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Länder - Zeitalter Weltkriege, Note: 1,3, Freie Universität Berlin (Osteuropa-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin), Veranst……続きを見る
A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.
The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The young debutante daught……続きを見る
Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street int……続きを見る
