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1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent hue; and suspicions of Germany''s ambitions bred a paranoia expressed in a rash of ''invasion scare'' literature. Then when shots rang out in Sarajevo on 28 June, they set in train a tumble of diplomatic dominos that led to Britain declaring war on Germany. Nigel Jones depicts every facet of a year that changed Britain for ever. From gun-running in Ulster to an attack by suffragettes on a Velasquez painting in the National Gallery; from the launch of HMHS Britannic to cricketer J.T. Hearne''s 3000th first-class wicket; from the opening of London''s first nightclub to the embarking for Belgium of the BEF, he traces the events of a momentous year from its benign domestic beginnings to its descent into the nightmare of European war.
- Published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the creation of the League of Nations in 1919 - With a preface by Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations - Accompanies an exhibition at the Fondation Martin Bodmer, Geneva, in partnership with the United Nations Organization
The greatest ever war novel in the history of literature- Thomas MannThis handsome 2-book boxed set brings together Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace is two handy paperback volumes.
I don't understand it; I don't in the least understand why men can't live without wars. How is it that we women don't want anything of the kind, don't need it? Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French inv
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THE ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY 'If you've never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it' The Times From sophisticated Moscow soirees to breathless troika rides through the snow, from the bloody front l
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