Results for: books tagged ‘Civil War’
Telegram from Guernica: Nicholas Rankin
On 26 April 1937, in the rubble of the bombed city of Guernica, the world's press scrambled to submit their stories. But one journalist held back, and spent an extra day ... More
Purcell: Jonathan Keates
In the chaos of the English Civil War and Puritan Commonwealth, churches were defaced and organs broken, but the tradition of fine music survived. When Charles II returned from exile ... More
Selected Poems of Stephen Spender: Stephen Spender
A new selection and retrospect of the career of Stephen Spender (1909-95), as poet and translator, to mark the 2009 centenary of his birth. More
The Brothers' War: John de St. Jorre
To mark the reissue of The Brothers' War, John de St. Jorre has written a new introduction. His account remains definitive. More
Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia: Richard West
Few figures have dominated a nation’s destiny as much as Marshal Tito of former Yugoslavia. For nearly thirty years he held together mutually hostile religious groups in a deeply divided ... More
An Elegy for Easterly: Petina Gappah
A stunning new voice from Zimbabwe, with an unforgettable collection of powerfully moving stories. More
The Cardinal King: Brian Fothergill
When the last and the most significant of the Jacobite uprisings, that of 1745, ended in disaster Prince Henry, the younger brother of Bonnie Prince Charlie, was in his early ... More
Inglorious Rebellion: Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson
The Jacobite Rising of 1745 is well-known and much written about. Far less well-known are the three risings that preceded it, of 1708, 1715 and 1719. Although failures they are ... More
Mikhail Bulgakov's The White Guard in a version: Andrew Upton
In Kiev during the Russian Civil War, the Turbin household is sanctuary to a ragtag, close-knit crowd presided over by the beautiful Lena. As her brothers prepare to fight for ... More
The Wilding: Maria McCann
A Richard & Judy Book Club favourite, The Wilding is a passionate and thrilling quest for the dark truth at the heart of a seventeenth-century English family. More
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