Gerald Abraham

Peter Calvocoressi

First published in 1936, Calvocoressi's and Abraham's study was the first complete account of its subject to appear in any language, including Russian, and was based on a large amount of original first-hand research. Over 75 years later Masters of Russian Music retains its power - as any study of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakof, Scriabin, Borodin et al really ought to, since these were composers whose extraordinary musical accomplishments still left room in their lives for all manner of other interesting (and sometimes eccentric) activities. The portraits in this volume are scholarly, authoritative, and highly lively - as befitting the eminent talents under discussion.

Masters of Russian Music

Guy Wint

The Story of World War II

Total War

An inside view reveals exactly when and where information gathered through Ultra proved critical on the battlefield and profiles the great variety of people involved in the operation.

Top Secret Ultra

“The most lucid, comprehensive, intelligent and reliable account of post-war modern history on the market.” Teaching Politics “The book compels admiration for its thoroughness, its scope, the masterly ordering of its immense material.” The Sunday Times The ninth edition of this enormously successful standard work has been expanded to take into account the developments of the last 10 years, including the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sudan; the accelerating emergence of India and China as major powers; the major political developments in Latin America, including the rise and perhaps fall of Chavez in Venezuela; the march of globalisation and the popular protest movements against; the expansion eastwards of the European Union; instability in the Middle East and the question of oil and energy supply. Marked throughout by Calvocoressi’s characteristic erudition and elegance, World Politics since 1945 is essential reading for those who need to understand the great sweeps of contemporary history

World Politics since 1945

Este libro pretende abarcar en toda su complejidad la escena de los acontecimientos políticos mundiales, desde el año 1945 hasta el final de 1986. Atento a todas las áreas de conflicto, el autor estudia, utilizando las mejores fuentes, la crisis de Oriente Medio, La Guerra del Golfo, el laberinto centroamericano, el desafío al dominio blanco en Sudáfrica, el asesinato de Indira Gandhi, la Guerra de las Malvinas, la evolución de la democracia española o la situación libia, poniendo al día problemas globales de naturaleza más duradera, de China a Nigeria, de Polonia a Etiopía, de Irlanda del Norte a Filipinas.

Historia política del mundo contemporáneo

For the millions who lived through World War II on home or battle front, the realization alone that more than fifty years have passed since the war's beginningis startling, but to the postwar generation, this century's great war has remained singularly remote. TOTAL WAR is its first comprehensive history. Drawing on remembrance, personal experience, and a distinquished record of scholarship and journalism, the authors have skillfully sifted a massive body of accumulated fact and conflicting interpretation to sketch the background to the war, describe its military progress and political momentum, and examine its often surprising consequences. It was a war of civilians, of ideology, and of technology, as much as of military strength or economic resources, and important sections of TOTAL WAR deal with the international politics that shaped basic war aims, with the human drama that grew out of personal commitments to resistance or collaboration, and with the broader social and scientific changes which were wrought by or in spite of the war.

The war in Asia. II

R. John Pritchard

Offers a detailed study of the sources of war in Europe and Asia, the impact of Nazism and the events that shaped the course of World War II in Europe and the Pacific

The Causes and Courses of the Second World War

World Politics Since 1945

Causes and Courses of the Second World War

Bletchley Park, a modest estate some fifty miles northwest of London, was the site of one of the closest-held and longest-kept secrets of World War II. Most Secret Ultra, renamed Top Secret Ultra when America joined the venture, conveyed a staggering amount of intelligence on enemy movements and intentions to Allied field commanders. This was obtained by steady monitoring of German radio transmissions, and was made possible by a major feat in scientific detection: the breaking of the German Enigma machine ciphers."--Book Jacket.

Peter Calvocoressi

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