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Victorious Century - The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 - David Cannadine

Victorious Century - The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 - David Cannadine

Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, Visiting Professor at Oxford University and the Editor of the National Dictionary of Biography. His major works include The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Ornamentalism, Class in Britain and Mellon: An American Life. He is the general editor of two major series: The Penguin History of Britain and The Penguin History of Europe. Victorious Century is his volume for the former series.

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The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century - J M Roberts - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century - J M Roberts - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

This dazzling overview of a turbulent century explores both dramatic events and underlying trends. Despite a terrible two-stage ''European civil war'' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-fold leap in population, women''s lives have been transformed, America has assumed undisputed political and cultural leadership. The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century is powerful, international and definitive.

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Berlin - Sinclair Mckay - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

Berlin - Sinclair Mckay - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

The Sunday Times- bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin ''I loved this book . . . apposite and wise . . . To anyone who knows Berlin a little and is fascinated by it, but would like to understand it better, this is a wonderful aid'' David Aaronovitch, The Times Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of the First World War, the cosmopolitan city of science, culture and sexual freedom Berlin became, steep economic plunges, the rise of the Nazis, the destruction of the Second World War, the psychosis of genocide, and a city rent in two by competing ideologies. But people do not live their lives in fixed eras. An epoch ends, yet the people continue - or try to continue - much as they did before. Berlin tells the story of the city as seen through the eyes not of its rulers, but of those who walked its streets.In this magisterial biography of a city and its inhabitants, bestselling historian Sinclair McKay sheds new light on well-known characters - from idealistic scientist Albert Einstein to Nazi architect Albert Speer - and draws on never-before-seen first-person accounts to introduce us to people of all walks of Berlin life. For example, we meet office worker Mechtild Evers, who in her efforts to escape an oncoming army runs into even more appalling jeopardy, and Reinhart Cruger, a 12-year-old boy in 1941 who witnesses with horror the Gestapo coming for each of his Jewish neighbours in turn. Ever a city of curious contrasts, moments of unbelievable darkness give way to a wry Berliner humour - from banned perms to the often ridiculous tit-for-tat between East and West Berlin - and moments of joyous hope - like forced labourers at a jam factory warmly welcoming their Soviet liberators.How did those ideologies - fascism and communism - come to flower so fully here? And how did their repercussions continue to be felt throughout Europe and the West right up until that extraordinary night in the autumn of 1989 when the Wall - that final expression of totalitarian oppression - was at last breached? You cannot understand the twentieth century without understanding Berlin; and you cannot understand Berlin without understanding the experiences of its people. Drawing on a staggering breadth of culture - from art to film, opera to literature, science to architecture - McKay''s latest masterpiece shows us this hypnotic city as never before. ''Remarkable . . . A majestic work of non-fiction'' Matthew d''Ancona''A masterful account of a city marked by infamy . . . If there is a book that must be read this year, this is it'' Amanda Foreman ''Stunning . . . It''s eye-opening, enlightening and wonderfully told'' Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed ''An electrifying new account of Berlin'' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third Reich ''One of my favourite historians'' Dan Snow

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The Scandal of the Century - Lisa Hilton - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

The Scandal of the Century - Lisa Hilton - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

‘A sweeping, scintillatingly original, exciting exploration of writer, spy, power player, lover Aphra Behn’ Kate Williams, historian and author of Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots '' Hilton to showcase[s] her skill for both historical and detective work and compelling, evocative writing . . . A sparkling and eye-opening account . . . compelling to read [and] r efreshingly transparent . . . Her fresh ideas could open up exciting paths for future scholars'' BBC History Magazine ---- A CLANDESTINE AFFAIR ‘Whereas the Lady Henrietta Berkeley has been absent from her Father''s house since the 20th August last past . . . AN OUTRAGEOUS ELOPEMENT . . . and is not yet known where she is, nor whether she is alive or dead. STOLEN LETTERS, SCHEMING SERVANTS These are to give notice That whoever shall find her, so that she may be brought back to her Father, the Earl of Berkeley, they shall have 200 Pounds Reward’ SEX. SENSATION. CELEBRITY. This is The Scandal of the Century - and the true story of the author Aphra Behn, who used a shocking love affair to create the first English novel . . . ----In 1682, a young woman in the throes of a passionate affair flees her parents’ home in Surrey to seek a new life in London. A scandal in its own right, but this is no ordinary young woman: Lady Henrietta Berkeley is the daughter of one of England’s most powerful men, and her lover is her own sister’s husband. As news of this notorious adulteress spreads, her flight, capture and the lawsuit that follow tear through society as the scandal of the century.To Aphra Behn, England''s first professional female writer – herself condemned as a scarlet woman of loose morals – Henrietta’s trial would be more than a source of shock and intrigue: it would inspire her to write Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, an outrageous and bestselling political fiction and arguably the first novel in English literature.Aphra herself is an enigma, the facts about her life continually disputed. By revealing the story of these two rebellious and ruthless women, Lisa Hilton''s new history offers a surprisingly original theory on the origins of one of England''s most celebrated playwrights. Against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, with its strict traditional conventions of love, duty and identity, The Scandal of the Century shows just how far both women will go to break free.---''Gloriously mind-boggling . . . This is a lively book'' Spectator

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The Scandal of the Century - Lisa Hilton - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

The Scandal of the Century - Lisa Hilton - Bog - Penguin Books Ltd - Booktok.dk

This is The Scandal of the Century, the true story of the author Aphra Behn, who used a shocking love affair to create the first English novel . . . 'Gloriously mind-boggling . . .This is a lively book, full of saucy millennial-type analogies' Spectator–London, 1682. When Lady Henrietta Berkeley elopes with her sister’s husband, her subsequent capture and the lawsuit that follows tears through Restoration England as the scandal of the century. But it also proves inspiration to one Aphra Behn – already condemned as a scarlet woman of loose morals – who pens a searing and outrageous bestseller based on Henrietta’s shocking affair. The story of how and why Henrietta acted as she did, and how and why Behn came to write it becomes, in Lisa Hilton’s hands, a stunning portrait of two women attempting to smash the shackles enslaving their sex. –PRAISE FOR THE SCANDAL OF THE CENTURY'A landmark book, a sweeping, scintillatingly original, exciting and game changing exploration of writer, spy, power player, lover Aphra Behn. Thrilling, scholarly, powerfully researched, this is Aphra as she’s never been seen before' Kate Williams, historian and author of Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots'The Scandal of the Century allows Hilton to showcase her skill for both historical and detective work and compelling, evocative writing . . . compelling to read [and] refreshingly transparent . . . Her fresh ideas could open up exciting paths for future scholars’ BBC History Magazine'An enjoyable read . . . challenging - but always entertaining' Literary Review'Engaging, ingenious, lively . . . Hilton skilfully narrates background material of the Restoration' TLS

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The Scandal of the Century - and Other Writings - Bog af Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Paperback

The Scandal of the Century - and Other Writings - Bog af Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Paperback

A new collection of journalism from one of the great titans of 20th century literature\I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize but rather for my journalism,\ Gabriel García Márquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his career--years during which he worked as a full-time,..

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