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Paris After the Liberation by Antony Beevor
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
An historical account of one of the most stimulating periods in 20th-century French history, post-Liberation Paris - an epoch charged with powerful and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy, but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges.
Paris After the Liberation : 1944-1949 (new edition) by Antony Beevor; Artemis Cooper
29.95 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
Post liberation Paris - an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feverish intellectual arguments of the young took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel shortages. This is a stunning ...Show more
Paris : After the Liberation 1944-1949 (revised edition 2004) by Antony Beevor
39.95 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The authors explore virtually every facet of life in Paris between 1944 and 1949. Behind colourful anecdotes they puncture national myths without swapping them for distorted, jingoistic legends. First published 1994; this revised edition 2004.
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor
34.99 NZD
Category: Military History
'The book is a masterpiece' The Spectator'A gripping narrative history of one of the most complex episodes in modern Russian history' Sunday Times'Antony Beevor's Russia is a masterpiece of history' Daily TelegraphBetween 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse o ...Show more
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor
60.00 NZD
Category: History
Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance agains ...Show more
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
31.00 NZD
Category: History
The classic international bestseller recounting the epic turning point of the second world war In October 1942, a Panzer officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town... Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure'. The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of ...Show more
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
39.95 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem. In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's ...Show more
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
39.99 NZD
Category: History
The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground ...Show more
The Battle for Spain - The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
59.99 NZD
65.00 (7% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Published to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil WarThe civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a w ...Show more
The Mystery of Olga Chekhova by Antony Beevor
29.95 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
In his latest work, Antony Beevor--bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem and one of our most respected historians of World War II--brings us the true, little-known story of a family torn apart by revolution and war. Olga Chekhova, a stunning Russian beauty, was the niece of playwrigh ...Show more
The Mystery of Olga Chekhova - Was Hitler's Favourite Actress a Russian Spy? by Antony Beevor
49.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the extraordinary tale of how one family survived the Russian Revolution, the civil war, the rise of Hitler, the Stalinist Terror and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. There have been many tantalizing rumours about Olga Chekhova, the niece of Anton Chekhov. She left Russia for Germany and b ...Show more
The Second World War by Antony Beevor
29.99 NZD
Category: History
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. ...Show more