romanhafte Biografien

Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the “Congress System“ became the primary instrument of diplomacy in Europe. So central was the Austrian Chancellor Metternich to the political-legal …

Robespierre was one of the most powerful and the most feared leaders of the French Revolution. John Hardman describes the career of this ruthless political manipulator, and in the process explores …

A historical biography of the Italian philosopher/politician Antonio Gramsci (1891-1973), considered one of the most important Marxist philosophers of the twentieth-century. As part of the Communist …

This book, first published in 1949, is an abridged version of Mirsky’s classic two texts on Russian literature, updated with a postscript by the editor assessing the development of Soviet literature. …

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa’s most populous nation through words or …

THE SALTIRE“S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN“S BEST MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY OF 2022 “Remarkable“ The Times“Achingly beautiful“ Guardian Beautiful in unusual and wonderful ways“ Rebecca …

Sir Oliver Popplewella“s career goes a long way to explode myths and to show what judges are really like: impartial, skilled in the law, above party politics certainly, but essentially human. He was …

The final set of volumes (Vol 18-21 sold separately) of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower contain 1, 783 documents drawn from Eisenhower“s second term as president from 20 January 1957 to 20 Jan …

Of Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken has written: ‘There was something almost suggesting the vastness of a natural phenomenon. He transcended all the rules. There have been perhaps, greater novelists, but …

France entered the North African world in 1830. Its overt political role there ended in 1962. The interpenetration of cultures and languages which resulted from the colonial conquest has not ended …