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‘The author’s enthusiasm for his subject is unmistakeable, and the story he tells is extraordinary’ Opera Journal ‘…this entertaining and well-researched book, [is] written by a man clearly brimming with…
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‘The author’s enthusiasm for his subject is unmistakeable, and the story he tells is extraordinary’ Opera Journal ‘…this entertaining and well-researched book, [is] written by a man clearly brimming with…
‘What an intellectual feast Alan Sharp and his collaborators have served us with this comprehensive treatment of the peace conferences that ended the Great War!’ William R. Keylor, Boston University…
‘The people of Kosovo – both the cleansed Albanians and the demagogically exploited Serbs – now know who their political and humanitarian friends were. One of the most outstanding European…
Peace and security are fundamental concepts for everyone involved in the struggle for sustainable development. But our world is shaped by different value systems, cultures and ideologies, as well as…
‘Speyer said he would never forgive or forget the treatment he received. No reader of this instructive and poignant study would begrudge him that uncharacteristically ignoble sentiment.’ The Sunday Times…
‘This magnificent biography … is diligently researched and fair-minded; Haile Salassie is at last accorded a proper dignity.’ Guardian ‘An even-handed account of Haile Selassie’s successful autocracy is that precious…
‘An excellent read giving an alternative perspective to one of history’s most defining moments.’ I, Science In the spring of 1945 the Allies arrested the physicists believed to have worked…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SHERIDAN MORLEY PRIZE FOR THEATRE BIOGRAPHY 2015 ‘Measured by the excitement it generated, this production of Love’s Labor’s Lost was a great success.’ New York Review…
‘The history of the First World War has been exhaustively studied in relation to events of the fateful structure of the alliances. The area in between, the impact of the…