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Alliance: The Inside Story of how Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began Another by Jonathan Fenby
Category: Military
Throughout the war the 'Big Three' -- Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin -- met in various permutations and locations to thrash out ways to defeat Nazi Germany -- and, just as importantly, to decide the way Europe would look after the war. This was the political rather than military struggle: a battle of w ...Show more
Alliance:The Inside Story of how Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began Another by Jonathan Fenby
Category: History
The history of the Second World War is usually told through its decisive battles and campaigns. But behind the front lines, behind even the command centres of Allied generals and military planners, a different level of strategic thinking was going on. Throughout the war the 'Big Three' - Churchill, Roos ...Show more
Crucible - Twelve Months That Changed the World Forever by Jonathan Fenby
Category: History
One year shaped the world we know today. This is the page-turning story of the pivotal changes which were forged in the space of thirteen months of 1947-48 Two years after the end of the second conflict to engulf the world in twenty years, and the defeat of the Axis forces of Germany, Italy and Japan, ...Show more
Dragon Throne by Jonathan Fenby
Category: History
From 221 BC - when Shi Huangdi, First Emperor and founding father of Chinese imperial history, unified a large part of the Han Chinese homeland - until 1911, when imperial China collapsed in revolutionary chaos, China was ruled by a succession of powerful imperial dynasties. "The Dragon Throne" tells th ...Show more
Dragon Throne: China's Emperors from the Qin to the Manchu by Jonathan Fenby
Category: Popular History
They were the most powerful rulers on earth. The mighty Qin Shi Huangdu (r. 221-210 BC), who began the construction of the Great Wall. The long-lived Han emperor Wudi (r. 141-87 BC), who developed China as a centralized Confucian state. The soldier-scholar Yongle (r. 1402-24 AD), who raised the Ming dyn ...Show more
Generalissimo : Chiang Kai-Shek and the China he lost by Jonathan Fenby
Category: History
With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive new biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of nationalist China's Generalissimo as it reevaluates his brave but unfulfilled life. Chiang Kai-shek was one of the mos ...Show more
Magnum China by Magnum Photos Staff; Zheng Ziyu (Editor); Colin Pantall (Editor); Jonathan Fenby (Contribution by); Anon (Editor)
Category: Art and Design
Magnum Photos first covered China on assignment in the 1930s, when Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson established what has become a long-standing cultural engagement with the ever-changing country. Magnum's long history with China puts the agency in the unique position of being able to provide an i ...Show more
The General : Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved by Jonathan Fenby
Category: Biography
No leader of modern times was more unique and more uniquely national than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first President of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself 'carrying France on my shoulders'. When he first emerged on to the world stage in 1940, his insistence that he spoke for his n ...Show more
The Great Empires of Asia by Jim Masselos; Jonathan Fenby
Category: History
Asian empires led the world economically, scientifically and culturally for hundreds of years, and posed a constant challenge to the countries of Europe. How and why did those empires gain such power, and lose it? What legacies did they leave? This major book brings together a team of distinguished his ...Show more
The Great Wonders of China by Jonathan Fenby
Category: History
China is the oldest continuous civilization on earth and holds a unique global place in the twenty-first century. The Great Wonders of China's wide focus shows what makes China such a special country, with topics stretching from the natural wonders, including mountains and rivers, to the Silk Road; the ...Show more
The History of Modern France: From The Revolution to the Present Day by Jonathan Fenby
Category: History
With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Bestselling historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby provides an expert and riveting journey through this period as he recounts and analyses the extraordinary se ...Show more