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The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman: Embark on a historical journey through the American West with Francis Parkman's "The Oregon Trail." This travelogue and historical account documents Parkman's ex……続きを見る

It was the most decisive battle of the Second World War. It brought the two most ruthless dictators of the 20th Century against each other in an epic clash of wills. It would kill close to 2 million……続きを見る

"Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." ーThe Times (London) Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was ……続きを見る

This book is unique in its kind. It is the first scholarly work to attempt a comprehensive and fairly detailed look into the lingering legacies of the communist totalitarian modes of thought and exp……続きを見る

History and biography meet in Tales of Imperial Russia, a study of the late-Romanov Russian Empire, told through the figure of Sergei Witte. Like Bismarck or Gorbachev, Witte was a European statesma……続きを見る

**'Bizarre and quite brilliant.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Thrilling.' Michael Burleigh, Sunday Telegraph 'Francis Spufford has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature.' Nic……続きを見る

It is this study of the techniques of Communism on any large scale which has been lacking, although there is no subject more important for the United States. An increasing number of community leader……続きを見る

The historical interest that attaches to Montenegro is utterly out of proportion to the space that country occupies on the surface of the earth. With the exception of the politically insignificant r……続きを見る

This book tells the story of the dissident imaginary of samizdat activists, the political culture they created, and the pivotal role that culture had in sustaining the resilience of the oppositional……続きを見る

First published in 1960, this is the only authorized account of the trial of Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 pilot shot down by the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. The court proceedings were held before t……続きを見る

Je zou het nooit geraden hebben, maar de grauwe, onderdrukkende Sovjet-Unie was gegrondvest op een sprookje: de magische planeconomie zou leiden tot een ongekende welvaart en groei. Aan het eind van……続きを見る

A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential “Shore brilliantly captures the contingency, uncertainty, and chaos that was trans……続きを見る