May 2008 History Books
Reappraisals: Reflections On The Forgotten Twentieth Century
$47.95 (Hardcover book / Penguin )
Historian and political commentator Judt warns against the temptation to look back upon the twentieth century as an age of political extremes, of tragic mistakes and wrongheaded choices; an age of delusion from which we ... More »
Postwar: A History Of Europe Since 1945
$59.95$19.95 (Hardcover book / Viking )
As [Tony] Judt movingly draws it, the picture of Europe at the end of World War II is pitiful almost beyond bearing. Some 36.5 million Europeans are reckoned to have died between 1939 and 1945 because of the war. Tens of... More »
The Pursuit Of Glory: Europe 1648-1815
$29.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
The Pursuit of Glory brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history - from the battered, introvert continent after the Thirty Years War to the dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution ... More »
Prague In Danger: Years Of German Occupation 1939-1945
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Farrar Strauss Girou )
With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of Central European history, the great scholar Peter Demetz focuses on just six short years - a tormented, tragic, and unfor... More »
Hiroshima: The World's Bomb
$55.00 (Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr )
The US decision to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 remains one of the most controversial events of the twentieth century. However, the controversy over the rights and wrongs of drop... More »
The Art Of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi?
$45.00 (Hardcover book / Atlantic Books )
On a Sunday night in 1998, Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala's leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death in his garage. Just two days earlier, a Church-sponsored report had implicated Guatemala's government in ... More »
The Bridge
$29.95 (Hardcover book / Harvill )
Istanbul's Galata Bridge has spanned the Golden Horn since the sixth century AD, connecting the old city with the more Western districts to the north. But the bridge is a city in itself, peopled by merchants and petty th... More »
