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"A Singing in Every Moment and Inch of Me"
Seven Stories Press 2013; US$ 23.95Set in the 1960s in Johannesburg, London, and New York, and told in a young theater director's letters home to a friend who is a struggling novelist, here is the true story of one of South Africa's national treasures, co-founder of the Market Theatre, director of the early productions of the plays of Athol Fugard, and mentor to a generation of South... more...
The World's Most Dangerous Place
Da Capo Press 2013; US$ 27.50The first authoritative account of the Somali region, its history, and the Islamic extremists operating there today more...
Freemasonry and the Press in the Twentieth Century
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 134.95By the end of the twentieth century, Freemasonry had acquired an unsavoury reputation as a secretive network of wealthy men looking out for each others interests. The popular view is of an organisation that, if not actually corrupt, is certainly viewed with deep mistrust by the press and wider society. Focusing particularly on the role of the... more...
Venice: Lion City
Washington Square Press 2013; Not AvailableGarry Wills's Venice: Lion City is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later centuries. It was a ruthless imperial city, with... more...
Venice: Lion City
Washington Square Press 2013; Not AvailableGarry Wills's Venice: Lion City is a tour de force -- a rich, colorful, and provocative history of the world's most fascinating city in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when it was at the peak of its glory. This was not the city of decadence, carnival, and nostalgia familiar to us from later centuries. It was a ruthless imperial city, with... more...
The Clergy in Khaki
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95Army chaplains have not fared well in the mythology of the Great War. Alongside Blimpish generals they are generally characterized as embodiments of the callous futility and hypocrisy that left the battlefields of the Western Front littered with corpses. Yet, as historians have begun to reassess the motives and performance of generals, so this collection... more...
Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism
The University of North Carolina Press 2013; US$ 60.00In the presidential campaign of 1948, Henry Wallace set out to challenge the conventional wisdom of his time, blaming the United States, instead of the Soviet Union, for the Cold War, denouncing the popular Marshall Plan, and calling for an end to segregation. In addition, he argued that domestic fascism--rather than international communism--posed... more...
Weimar Germany
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 24.95Weimar Germany still fascinates us, and now this complex and remarkably creative period and place has the history it deserves. Eric Weitz's Weimar Germany reveals the Weimar era as a time of strikingly progressive achievements--and even greater promise. With a rich thematic narrative and detailed portraits of some of Weimar's greatest figures, this... more...
Elizabeth
Mainstream Publishing 2013; US$ 13.34This remarkable biography, Elizabeth: Behind The Palace Doors, contains secrets about the royal family that have never been brought to the attention of the country she rules over. The lives of the Queen Prince Philp and their children are examined and exposed to reveal the Windsor family's history of adultery, passion, jealousy and mental cruilty.... more...









