A graded series of retold versions of popular classic and contemporary titles such as: "Gandhi", "Much Ado About Nothing" and "The Importance of Being Earnest".[...]
Describes the six months following the end of the First World War when leaders of the great powers, as well as men and women from all over the world, all with their own agendas, converged on Paris to shape the peace, including Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau, T. E. Lawrence, Churchill, W. E[...]
Margaret MacMillan, an acclaimed historian and "great storyteller" ("The New York Review of Books"), explores here the many ways in which history-its values and dangers-affects us all, including how it is used and abused. "The New York Times "bestselling author of Paris 1919 and Nixon and Mao""revea[...]
Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the leaders of the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau. Kings, prime ministers and foreign ministers with th[...]
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From the bestselling and award-winning author of "Paris 1919" comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, a fascinating po[...]
Writing with a clarity, grace, and novelistic sweep rare among historians, Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) distilled the complex interplay of personalities and events into gripping narratives that fuse rigorous scholarship with elegant literary art. An astute portraitist, she brilliantly laid bare th[...]
The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussein was like appeasing Hitler or Mussolini, and promptly invaded Iraq. Were they wrong to look to history for guidance? No; their mistake was to [...]