Battle For Spain. The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

Mcfadden, Freida

Piatkus

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh.I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own... Every day I clean the Win...

Ypi, Lea

Allen & Uwin

‘There is something about the human spirit, she would say, that withstands all attempts at offence, injury or humiliation ... we call it dignity'When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told records of her grandmother's youth were ...

Kuan, R.f.

Harpercollins Publishers, Ltd

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and - inconveniently - in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him.But Hell is not as t...

Orwell, George

Vintage Books

JOIN THE OBSESSION'These might be the most beautiful books I've ever seen? Get them in an art gallery''The marbled paper ...

Welsh, Irvine

Jonathan Cape

It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher's Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin - a time for hope, for love, for raving.Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want to feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the ...

Oates, Joyce Carol

Fourth State

Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox's car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an u...

Beevor, Antony

Pasado & Presente

Armado con la erudición más actualizada, apoyándose en un descomunal trabajo de investigación en el que siguen prevaleciendo las cartas y los diarios de los combatientes, y desplegando sus asombrosos recursos narrativos -que le permiten casar los grandes acontecimientos con las anécdotas más reveladoras-, Beevor nos muestra aquí el inmenso retablo global de una guerra que aún ...

Beevor, Antony

Editorial Crítica

Una síntesis única que analiza con rigor la guerra civil española. Desde la muerte del general Franco se han publicado muchos estudios sobre aspectos parciales de la guerra civil española, pero ninguna gran síntesisgeneral que pudiera reemplazar a las obras que un día fueron famosas y que hoy, ante el considerable avance realizado por las investigaciones históricas,están desfa...

Beevor, Antony

Pasado & Presente

Nueva edición del superventas de Antony Beevor. Con nuevo prólogo del autor en ocasión del 80 aniversario del fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Este es el libro más ambicioso y amplio publicado nunca sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Obra maestra de Antony Beevor (el autor más exitoso de historia bélica del mundo), esta visión global del conflicto que cambió el mundo para siemp...

Beevor, Antony

Editorial Planeta

La obra más ambiciosa del maestro de la narración bélica sobre uno de los acontecimientos más influyentes del siglo xx.«Antony Beevor traza un lienzo extraordinario de terror y tragedia en una brillante narración de una historia realmente compleja.» Colin Thubron Entre 1917 y 1921 tuvo lugar en Rusia una lucha devastadora tras el colapso del imperio zarista. Muchos consideran ...

Beevor, Antony

Orion Books

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Beevor, Antony

Penguin Classics

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