Geoffrey: 1373 books
The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese
The Truth Behind the Headlines
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
**New York Times Bestseller
Journalist Daleen Berry and investigator Geoffrey Fuller give you the little-known details behind one of the most horrific and shocking murders of our time.**
One hot July night, three popular, pretty girls snuck out for a midnight joyride. Only two came back.
Stabbed...
by Geoffrey McGeachin
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
It's 1967, the summer of love, and in swinging Melbourne Detective Sergeant Charlie Berlin has been hauled out of exile in the Fraud Squad to investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl, the daughter of a powerful and politically connected property developer. As Berlin's inquiries uncover more...
Great Military Blunders
History's worst battlefield decisions from ancient times to the present day
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
From ancient times to the Bay of Pigs and the Falklands War, military history has been marked as much by misjudgements and incompetence as by gallantry and glory. Such blunders have sometimes ended in tragedy, sometimes in farce - such as the English troops, supposedly marching on Cadiz in 1625, who...
Rule and Ruin:The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party
The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
As the 2012 elections approach, the Republican Party is rocketing rightward away from the center of public opinion. Republicans in Congress threaten to shut down the government and force a U.S. debt default. Tea Party activists mount primary challenges against Republican officeholders who appear to...
Great Naval Blunders
History's worst sea battle decisions from ancient times to the present day
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
Who was responsible for the design of the Admiral Popov, the circular Russian battleship that wouldn't steer straight? Why did Lord Anson set out to circumnavigate the world with a crew of Chelsea pensioners? And how did the British cruiser HMS Trinidad manage to torpedo itself in the Arctic? The answers...
by Geoffrey Fletcher, Dan Cruickshank
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Originally published in 1962 and made in 1967 into an acclaimed documentary film starring James Mason, this book has been a must-have for anyone with an interest in London ever since Geoffrey Fletcher's offbeat portrayal of London does not focus on the big landmarks, but rather "the tawdry, extravagant...
by Geoffrey Swain
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Supporters of Stalin saw Trotsky as a traitor and renegade. Trotsky’s own supporters saw him as the only true Leninist. In Trotsky and the Russian Revolution, Geoffrey Swain restores Trotsky to his real and central role in the Russian Revolution. In this succinct and comprehensive study, Swain contests...
by Geoffrey Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
For sixty years the dramatic story of the Dunkirk evacuation and the defeat of France - the story of the German conquest of northwest Europe - has been the focus of historical study and dispute, yet myths and misconceptions about this extraordinary event persist. The ruthless efficiency of the German...
Imprudent King
A New Life of Philip II
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of the most powerful European monarch of his day begins...
The Europe That Was
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Tales of Europe, before and after the war, when lives could change in an instant
Fleeing the Cuban revolution, a businessman’s return to England is blocked by the secret police of General Franco. In Hungary, a peasant treasures a barrel of wine as a symbol of the world she lost during the...
An Inconvenient Genocide
Who Now Remembers the Armenians?
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The most controversial question that is still being asked about the First World War - was there an Armenian genocide? - will come to a head on 24 April 2015, when Armenians worldwide will commemorate its centenary and Turkey will deny that it took place, claiming that the deaths of over half of the...
by Geoffrey Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
The orthodox view of Vyacheslav Molotov is that he was no more than Stalins faithful servant, a dogmatic communist, and a conservative hard-liner of little or no imagination.Molotov was, indeed, Stalins right-hand man; from the 1920s to the early 1950s the two men presided over a brutal, authoritarian...
by Geoffrey Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
This breakthrough book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin’s leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. Making use of a wealth of new material from Russian archives, Geoffrey Roberts challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualities...
John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom
A Quaker in the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
The abolitionist John Woolman (1720-72) has been described as a "Quaker saint," an isolated mystic, singular even among a singular people. But as historian Geoffrey Plank recounts, this tailor, hog producer, shopkeeper, schoolteacher, and prominent Quaker minister was very much enmeshed...