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Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather and the First World War by Steven Kirk Trout
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48Memorial Fictions offers a major reassessment of Willa Cather's career and artistic achievements, provides a plethora of information on popular culture during and immediately after the Great War, and... -
Marlene Dietrich: The Life by Maria Riva 9781643130293
RRP: $56.60Booksplease Price: $49.94Wildly entertaining, Maria Riva reveals the rich life of her mother in vivid detail, evoking Dietrich the woman, her legendary career, and her world. Opening with Dietrich's childhood in Berlin, we... -
The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.87It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must... -
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.38FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER AWARD A magisterial and acclaimed history of post-war Europe, from Germany to Poland, from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, selected as one of New York Times Ten Best Books... -
Collected Poems by Galway Kinnell
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $25.37In a remarkable generation of poets, Galway Kinnell was an acknowledged, true master. From the book-length poem memorialising the grit, beauty, and swarming assertion of immigrant life along a lower... -
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt 9780099532330
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64In Reappraisals award-winning historian Tony Judt argues that we have entered an 'age of forgetting', where we have set aside our immediate past before we could even begin to make sense of it. We... -
To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture by Eleonory Gilburd 9780674980716
RRP: $69.20Booksplease Price: $59.26The Soviet Union was a notoriously closed society until Stalin's death in 1953. Then, in the mid-1950s, a torrent of Western novels, films, and paintings invaded Soviet streets and homes, acquiring... -
We Were Innocents: AN INFANTRYMAN IN KOREA by William D. Dannenmaier 9780252069260
Booksplease Price: $42.25Known as the Forgotten War, the "police action" in Korea resulted in almost as many American combat deaths in three years as the Vietnam War did in ten. Yet for many Americans today, the Korean War... -
The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt 9780434020966 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $6.01"It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must... -
The Vanishing Sky by L. Annette Binder 9781526616746
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $18.25'A heartbreaking portrait of an ordinary family shattered by a war they didn't want' The Times They've wrecked the world, these men, and still they're not done. They'd take the sky if they could. ... -
The Vanishing Sky by L. Annette Binder
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $30.81'A heartbreaking portrait of an ordinary family shattered by a war they didn't want' The Times They've wrecked the world, these men, and still they're not done. They'd take the sky if they could. ... -
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39 by Florian Illies
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $23.63A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre... -
The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak 9781934137345
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.92The Sojourn, finalist for the National Book Award and winner of both the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and inaugural Chautauqua Prize, is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted from a 19th-century...