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The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the... (more)

Birdsong

A Novel of Love and War

by Sebastian Faulks

Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks... (more)

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

by Robert Fisk

A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to the American... (more)

The Rise and Fall Of The Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000Paul Kennedy

The Rise and Fall Of The Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000

by Paul Kennedy

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

by T.e. Lawrence

As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1919 and 1926, tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks in the Middle East - one which encompasses... (more)

Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East

Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East

by John Keay

The Western powers - Britain, France and the USA - discovered the imperatives for intervention that have plunged the region into crisis ever since. It was then, too, that most of the region's modern-day states were created and their regimes forged; and then that their management by the West earned abiding resentment. Sowing the Wind tells of how and why this happened. The subject is painful and essentially sombre,... (more)

Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia

by Michael Asher

A major new biography that provides readers with the first nuanced portrait of one of this century's most daring and enigmatic adventurers. T. E. Lawrence began his role in World War I as a map clerk and ended it as one of the greatest military heroes of the century. He altered the face of the Middle East, helped the Arabs gain their freedom, and formulated many of the precepts of modern guerrilla warfare. But... (more)

A History of the Soviet Union

by Geoffrey Hosking

The author traces the evolution of the Soviet political system from its origins in 1917 to the present day. He shows how power has rarely been devolved outside a particularly tightly-knit ruling elite. Special emphasis is placed on the experience of the peasantry, urban workers and professionals.

The Western Front by Richard Holmes (ISBN056338493X)

The Western Front by Richard Holmes (ISBN056338493X)

It was along the Western Front that most of the nine million soldiers from the United Kingdom and British Empire who enlisted during World War I served, and where most of the 947,000 who were killed, met their deaths. Linked to a BBC2 television series, this book follows the story of the Western Front.

Donkeys

by Alan Clark

A study of the Western Front in 1915, this book is a stinging indictment of incompetent generalship. The author explores the truth of the observation that British troops were "lions led by donkeys" and shows how appalling losses almost completely destroyed the old professional army.

GREAT LIVES: T E LAWRENCE.

Great Poets of World War I: Poetry from the Great War

Great Poets of World War I: Poetry from the Great War

by Jon Stallworthy

In times of war and national calamity—writes Jon Stallworthy in his illuminating survey of the lives and work of twelve celebrated war poets—large numbers of people seldom seen in church or bookshop will turn for consolation and inspiration to religion and poetry. Never more so than in World War I did the poignant poetry of hundreds of young men scarred by battle reach so large and eager an audience. Among the... (more)

Hitler

by Ian Kershaw

The most powerful account of Hitler's domination of the German people through fanaticism, divisiveness, and luck. From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he... (more)

Hitler : a biography

by Ian Kershaw

Finally, the one-volume edition of Ian Kershaw's definitive and masterful biography of Hitler. "The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century" (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw's Hitler is a new, distilled, one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work. From Hitler's origins as a failed artist in fin-de-siècle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw's richly illustrated... (more)

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A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

Birdsong

A Novel of Love and War

by Sebastian Faulks

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

by Robert Fisk

The Rise and Fall Of The Great Powers - Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000

by Paul Kennedy

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

by T.e. Lawrence

Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East

by John Keay

Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia

by Michael Asher

A History of the Soviet Union

by Geoffrey Hosking

The Western Front by Richard Holmes (ISBN056338493X)

Donkeys

by Alan Clark

GREAT LIVES: T E LAWRENCE.

Great Poets of World War I: Poetry from the Great War

by Jon Stallworthy

Hitler

by Ian Kershaw

Hitler : a biography

by Ian Kershaw