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Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor (born 1946)

military historian, historian

  • Winchester College, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

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The mystery of Olga Chekhova
The Fall of Berlin, 1945
D-Day
The Spanish Civil War
Ardennes 1944
The Second World War
Crete
Paris after the Liberation
Stalingrad
The battle of Arnhem
Russia
Writer at War
What ifs? of American history
Inside the British Army
The Faustian pact
Christmas At Stalingrad
The violent brink
For reasons of state
The Enchantment of Christina Von Retzen
Un escritor en guerra
D-Day
Woman in Berlin
La ultima apuesta de Hitler
הפלישה לנורמנדי
Peter Gay
Peter Gay (1923-2015)

psychologist, cultural historian, historian, autobiographer

  • University College London, Columbia University

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My German question
The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment: an interpretation
The Bourgeois experience
Freud
Schnitzler's century
Freud for Historians
The Cultivation of Hatred
Mozart
Style in history
A Godless Jew
The Tender Passion
Art and act
Modern Europe to 1815
Modernism
Reading Freud
The dilemma of democratic socialism
Education of the senses
Age of Enlightenment (Great Ages of Man)
My German question
Pleasure wars
The Enlightenment; a comprehensive anthology
Weimar culture
Historians at work
Voltaire's politics
Savage Reprisals
A loss of mastery
Voltaire's politics
Weimar culture
Age of enlightenment
The cultivation of hatred
Freud for Historians
Mozart
Sigmund Freud and Art
Deism
The Naked Heart (Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Vol. 4)
Freud, Jews and Other Germans
The party of humanity
The bridge of criticism; dialogues among Lucian, Erasmus, and Voltaire on the Enlightenment
Modern Europe
The Enlightenment
My German question
Weimar culture: the outsider as insider
The Enlightenment
Schnitzler's Century The Making Of Middle-class Culture 1815 - 1914
Freud, une vie, tome 2
Moritz Fröhlich-Morris Gay
Mozart
Why the romantics matter
The Bridge of criticism
The Berlin-Jewish spirit, a dogma in search of some doubts
Freud a Life for Our Time
Historians at work
Age of enlightenment
Pleasure Wars (Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud/Peter Gay, Vol 5)
La edad de las luces
A life of learning
The Cultivation of Hatred (Gay, Peter//Bourgeois Experience)
Schnitzler Y Su Tiempo
The rise of modern paganism
Cultivation of Hatred (The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud, Vol 3)
Freud, une vie, tome 1
The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud Volume 1: Education of the Senses (The Bourgeois Experience : Victoria to Freud, Vol 1)
Age of enlightment
The Naked Heart (Bourgeois Experience, Vol. 4)
Das Zeitalter des Doktor Arthur Schnitzler. Innenansichten des 19. Jahrhunderts
Modern Europe
Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience
Le siècle des lumières
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eighteenth century studies
X Y Z
Freĭd
Eighteenth century studies
Kult der Gewalt. Aggression im bürgerlichen Zeitalter
Ein gottloser Jude
Deism; an anthology
An introduction to crystal optics
Experiencia Burguesa I - de Victoria a Freud
Die Macht des Herzens. Das 19. Jahrhundert und die Erforschung des Ich
Style in history
Meine deutsche Frage. Jugend in Berlin 1933 - 1939
Freud. Eine Biographie für unsere Zeit
Naked Heart (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Vol. 4)
Un Judio Sin Dios
The party of humanity
UC Mozart
Ein gottloser Jude
Bürger und Boheme. Kunstkriege des 19. Jahrhunderts
Het modernisme
The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud Volume 2: The Tender Passion (The Bourgeois Experience : Victoria to Freud, Vol II)
A loss of mastery
Modern Europe
Experiencia Burguesa de V. Freud, La
Freud a Life for Our Ti-V2
Freud a Life for Our Ti-V1
Weimar bunka
Enlightenment Science of Freedom
A life of learning
The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud Volume 2
The Enlightenment, an interpretation
Weimar culture
Age of Enlightenment (Great Ages of Man)
Sigmund Freud and art
The bridge of criticism
The dilemma of democratic socialism
Freud, Otra Vez
Pleasure wars
Age of enlightenment
Winston Groom
Winston Groom (1943-2020)

historian

  • University of Alabama, UMS-Wright Preparatory School

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The aviators
Forrest Gump
Shrouds of glory
Gump & Co
A storm in Flanders
Gumpisms
FORREST GUMP (Movie Tie in)
Such a pretty, pretty girl
Conversations with the enemy
The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Cookbook
Better Times Than Ths
Patriotic fire
1942
Gone the sun
A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918
Vicksburg, 1863
Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville
Better times than these
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump
The Crimson Tide
A Storm in Flanders
Only
Forrest Gump
Kearnys March The Epic Creation Of The American West 18461847
The generals
Forrest Gump: My Favorite Chocolate Recipes
Forrest Gump.
Better times than these
As Summers Die
The allies
Ronald Reagan
Forrest Gump. Fremdsprachentexte
Shiloh, 1862
Vicksburg, 1863 (Vintage Civil War Library)
Only
As Summer Dies
Foresuto Ganpu
El paso
El Paso
Forrest Gump
Hadley on My Mind
Gump and Company
Gone the sun
Gumpismos
Kearny's march
El Paso
Forrest Gump
Gump & Co
The Crimson Tide
Forrest Gamp
Agan zheng zhuan
Norris J. Lacy
Norris J. Lacy (born 1940)

historian

  • Indiana University

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Text and intertext in medieval Arthurian literature
The Arthurian handbook
The craft of Chrétien de Troyes
The Legacy of Chretien de Troyes II
The New Arthurian encyclopedia
The Arthurian encyclopedia
A History of Arthurian Scholarship (Arthurian Studies)
Lancelot-Grail
Reading fabliaux
A companion to Chrétien de Troyes
L'Istoyre De Jehan Coquault
The vows of the heron =
"Moult a Sans et Vallour"
Medieval Arthurian literature
The New Arthurian Encyclopedia
Early French Tristan poems
Lancelot-Grail
Beroul
Lancelot-Grail
The new Arthurian encyclopedia
Lancelotgrail The Old French Arthurian Vulgate And Postvulgate In Translation
Poetics of love in the Middle Ages
The Fortunes of King Arthur (Arthurian Studies) (Arthurian Studies)
Early French Tristan Poems Vol. 1 (Arthurian Archives)
The Grail, the quest and the world of Arthur
Lancelotgrail The Old French Vulgate And Postvulgate Cycles In Translation
Continuations
Early French Tristan Poems Vol. 2 (Arthurian Archives)
The Lancelot-Grail Reader
Romance of Tristan
LancelotSHGrail
The Arthurian encyclopedia
The Craft of Chretien De Troyes
The Lancelot-Grail reader
Companion to Chrétien de Troyes
The fortunes of King Arthur
Essays in early French literature
The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation
Reading Fabliaux
26 chansons d'amour de la Renaissance
The New Arthurian encyclopedia
Lancelot-Grail
Lancelot-Grail Vol. 3
The old French fabliaux
Middle French Vowing Poem
Grail, the Quest, and the World of Arthur
Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature
Conjunctures
Medieval Arthurian Literature
The romance of Arthur
Lancelot-Grail
Perceval/Parzival
The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes I
The Comic spirit in medieval France
Continuations
Lancelot-Grail Vol. 4
The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes
Fortunes of King Arthur
Arthurian Handbook, Second Edition
Lancelot-Grail
History of Arthurian Scholarship
Poetics of Love in the Middle Ages
Arthurian Encyclopedia
Arthurian Handbook
Arthurian Archives
David McCullough
David McCullough (1933-2022)

historian, biographer, journalist

  • Shady Side Academy, Yale University

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The Wright Brothers
Mornings on horseback
The Path Between the Seas
Truman
1776
John Adams
The Great Bridge
What if?
The greater journey
The Johnstown flood
In the Dark Streets Shineth
Brave Companions
The Pioneers
The American spirit
1776
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Affection and Trust
The American spirit
JOHN ADAMS
El cruce entre dos mares
The Pioneers
American Spirit
The pioneers
The Wright brothers
John Adams
Our White House
John Adams Movie Tie-In
The Path Between the Seas, the Creation of the Panama Canal
1776
Why history?
The Course of Human Events
Truman Part 2
John Adams and the good life of the mind
Truman Part 1 of 2
Path Between the Seas
David McCullough : Great Achievements in American History
Declaring independence
A sense of proportion
The Great Bridge
Truman
The Wright Brothers
Truman Part 1
David McCullough : The Presidential Biographies
Truman Part 2 of 2
1776
The Theodore H. White lecture with David McCullough
Camino Entre Dos Mares
Great East River Bridge, 1883-1983
John Adams
David Mccullough American History e-Book Box Set Set
David Mccullough Great Moments in History e-Book Box Set Set
Johnstown Flood
Mornings on Horseback
Brave Companions
The great bridge
Course of Human Events
Truman Fires MacArthur (ebook Excerpt of Truman)
David Mccullough American Presidents e-Book Box Set
David Mccullough Library e-Book Box Set Set
1776
The Greater Journey
McUllough
Great Bridge
John Adams
John Adams audio unabridged
EL CRUCE ENTRE DOS MARES 1870-1914
Truman Reading Group Guide
E. H. Carr
E. H. Carr (1892-1982)

historian, journalist, diplomat, political scientist, professor, politician

  • University of Cambridge

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Dostoevsky, 1821-1881
The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939
Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926-1929. Volume 3
The romantic exiles
Studies in revolution
The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923
Michael Bakunin
The new society
The Comintern and the Spanish Civil War
German-Soviet relations between the two World Wars, 1919-1939
Socialism in One Country, 1924-1926. Volume 2
From Napoleon to Stalin and other essays
The Russian Revolution
What is history?
The twilight of comintern, 1930-1935
The interregnum, 1923-1924
International Relations Between the Two World Wars, 1919-39
The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923. Volume 1
Socialism in One Country, 1924-1936. Volume 1
The October Revolution: before and after
Conditions of peace
The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923. Volume 3
The Soviet impact on the western world
The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923. Volume 2
German-Soviet Relations Between the Two World Wars (Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History)
Nationalism and after
Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926-1929. Volume 2
The october revolution
Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926-1929. Volume 1
Socialism in One Country 1924-1926. Volume 3
Britain
Essays in honour of E.H. Carr
Propaganda in international politics
1917: before and after
Democracy in international affairs
Grundlagen eins dauernden Friedens
The moral foundations for world order
The future of nations
Guerra y revolución
Public opinion as a safeguard of peace
International relations since the peace treatiies
The Russian revolution and the peasant
La révolution bolchevique, 1917-1923
Karl Marx
The future of international government
History of Russia
Nations ou fédéralisme
Julian Symons
Julian Symons (1912-1994)

poet, literary critic, historian

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Agatha Christie, the art of her crimes
The Progress of a Crime
The Blackheath poisonings
Color of Murder
Playing happy families
The man who hated television and other stories
Mortal consequences
Something like a love affair
The Players and the Game
The Belting Inheritance
Great cases of Scotland Yard
Conan Doyle
The Kentish manor murders
A criminal comedy
A sort of virtue
The thirties
The General Strike
A pictorial history of crime
The Great Detectives
The Sport of crime
Sweet Adelaide
The man who killed himself
The killing of Francie Lake
Tigers of Subtopia
The man who lost his wife
Buller's campaign
The man whose dreams came true
Thomas Carlyle
The Big Call / The Baby Merchants / A Three-Pipe Problem
The tell-tale heart
Makers of the new
The immaterial murder case
Horatio Bottomley
The paper chase
The narrowing circle
Show Business is Murder
England's Pride
Death's Darkest Face
The plot against Roger Rider
Did Sherlock Holmes meet Hercule Poirot?
Bland beginning
The Gigantic Shadow
A la carte
The 31st of February
Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel
Ellery Queen's Eyes of Mystery
The broken penny
The Detling murders
The detective story in Britain
Selected Tales
A.J.A. Symons, his life and speculations
The Penguin Classic Crime Ombnibus
Critical observations
A Three-pipe Problem (Classic Crime)
The Julian Symons omnibus
A man called Jones
The end of Solomon Grundy
The Name of Annabel Lee (Crime Monthly)
The Detections of Francis Quarles (Lost Classics)
Charles Dickens
Dashiell Hammett
Critical occasions
A reasonable doubt
The Advertising Murders
Two brothers
A. J. A. Symons
Crime and detection
Portraits of the Missing
Between the Wars: Britain in photographs
The second man
Bogue's fortune
The thirties and the nineties
Julian Symons papers
The plain man
Criminal practices
Standard occupational classification manual
the players and the game,first blood,the skytrap.
Carlyle
CRIMINAL ACTS
Verdict of thirteen
Oscar Wilde
Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie
Tom Adams' Agatha Christie Cover Story
Twentieth century verse
The Angry 30's
Confusions about X
The general strike
Notes from another country
The object of an affair, and other poems
Charles Dickens
A.J.A. Symons, Brother Speculator
1948 and 1984
Something like a Love Affair
The modern crime story
A.J.A. Symons 1900-1941
Ellery Queen presents Julian Symons' How to trap a crook, and 12 other mysteries
Crime and detection quiz
1948 and 1984
New Poetry
Somebody else and other stories
Murder under the Mistletoe and Other Stories
Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes (1938-2012)

art historian, art critic, television presenter, narrator

  • University of Sydney

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The spectacle of skill
The Shock of the new
The fatal shore
Culture of complaint
The fatal shore
Shock of the New
Nothing If Not Critical
Goya
American visions
Things I didn't know
Amish, the art of the quilt
A Jerk on One End
On the Record
In perilous seas
The portable Magritte
The art of Australia
Frank Auerbach
Crossroads, U.S.A
Nothing if not critical
American Visions
The Fatal Shore Part 1 of 2
GOYA
Lucian Freud
The fatal shore
The Art of Australia
Lucian Freud paintings
A jerk on one end
Heaven and Hell in Western art
The Fatal Shore Part 2 Of 2
Barcelona
Barcelona the Great Enchantress
The portable Picasso
Astrology then and now
Heaven and hell in western art
The portable Dalí
The portable Van Gogh
Goya
The new generation
The portable Matisse
Things I didn't know
A toda critica : ensayos sobre arte y artistas. - 2.ed.
Amish
Heaven and Hell in Western art
Rome
Ethics Aesthetics And The Beyond Of Language
Barcelona
Roma
Barcelona : the great enchantress
Homes far from home
Donald Friend
Rome
Amish
Jaguar/Daimler
Things I Didn't Know (Vintage)
The complete paintings of Bruegel
School days
Ready Notes for use with Personal Finance
Morning Edition
Barcelone, la Ville des Merveilles
Nothing If Not Critical Tpb
Australia
Software project management
Barcelona
Student Resource Manual with Readings & Cases
Barcelona
Living and Working in the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia
Personal Finance
Goya
The Red Dean
Cultura de la Queja
Improving diabetes outcomes through structured information
Frank Auerbach
The Shock of the New: Art and the century of change
Practical software measurement
Culture of Complaint
Culture as nature
Lent
La guerre est finie