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Antony Beevor, Hew Strachan, Norman Stone and other leading historians consider Russia's pivotal role in the modern world.

There's a commonly held view that Douglas Haig was a bone-headed, callous butcher, who through his incompetence as commander of the British Army in WWI, killed a generation of young men on the Somme and Passchendaele. On the other hand there are those who view Haig as a man who successfully struggled with appalling difficulties to produce an army which took the lead in defeating Germany in 1918, winning the greatest series of victories in British Military history. Just as the success of the Alanbrooke war diaries can be put down to its 'horse's mouth' view of Churchill and the conduct of WWII, so Haig's Diaries, hitherto only previously available in bowdlerised form, give the C-in-C's view of Asquith - he records him getting drunk and incapable - and his successor Lloyd George, of whom he was highly critical. As Haig records the relationship it was stormy ('I have no great opinion of L.G as a man or leader' - Sept 1916). The diaries show him intriguing with the King (George V) vs. Lloyd George. Additional - and never previously published - are his day by day accounts of the key battles of the war, not least the Somme campaign of 1916.' I found Foch (Allied C-in-C) most selfish and obstinate...Foch suffers from a swollen head, and thinks himself another Napoleon.' Haig is revealed as an early admirer of the tank and of the 'airoplane'. He revels in turning the well-meaning BEF under Sir John French into the professional fighting force that eventualy one the war.

A brand new hardback copy of a scarce book. 1st edition, 2nd printing, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2008. A biography of the Duke of Wellington and his family. Illustrated with line-drawings and photographs, and a family tree of the Wellesley family. With bibliography and index. 369pp illustrated, burgundy cloth, silver title to spine, magnolia endpapers, Jane Wellesley is a member of one of Britain's most illustrious families. Her father, the 8th Duke of Wellington, was born in 1915, a hundred years after the first Duke's momentous victory over Napoleon at Waterloo. Few facts can now be added about the public man, but Jane's family memoir animates the First Duke as husband and father, as brother and several degrees of grandfather. Her journey through this richly compelling family history begins and ends with the first Duke, visiting the battlefield of Waterloo with her father to set her fascinating tale in motion. Through her parents she reaches back to earlier generations, weaving together characters and places, establishing connections, and exploring in greater depth than usual the Wellington women, who are often reduced to footnotes in conventional histories. She unearths memories, visits places from her parents' past, and discovers much about the lives of her grandparents and the generations before them. Most of us view the First Duke of Wellington as an iconic figure, whose name has been claimed by pubs, squares, streets, and, of course, rubber boots. In this highly personal account, the public man gives way to the private, and Wellington's legacy is seen through the eyes of those who have followed in his footsteps. Jane Wellesley triumphantly succeeds in wresting the Duke from his lonely column to reclaim him for his family, and so for the reader. We pack our books properly and ship daily from the UK.

First UK Edition. Not price-clipped (£14.95 price intact). Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. Octavo. Blue boards stamped in silver. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Toning to page ends. Dust jacket is very good with very light shelf wear. 357 pages. ISBN: 9780297789444. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

1969 Weidenfeld Press hardcover, with jacket, tight and unmarked, mild jacket edge wear and tear. Fast Shipping - Safe and Secure Bubble Mailer!

1973 hardcover no dj exlibrary withdrawn stamp on edge 1919-1929 weidenfeld and nicolson london 544 pages:::d-18

This 246-page hardcover was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1978 (London).

First edition 1968, first UK edition. Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Hardcover with DJ. Condition as new, square, tight and crisp book, no edgewear, corners not bumped, name on endpapers, no internal markings , no underlinings no highlights, no bent page corners. Not a reminder. DJ near fine, one small closed tear at rear upper edge, no chips, no edgewear. Price not clipped. 8vo, 127 pages, illustrated with photographs and line drawings, illustrated endpapers.

516 pages Publisher: London Weidenfeld and Nicolson; 1st edition (1996)

Originally published by Weidenfeld in 1989 and now available in paperback, a history of the Second World War, which looks at its political, diplomatic, military and civilian aspects.

Scarce signed UK edition! First edition. Hard cover. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London (2022) New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. SIGNED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING Hardcover: new. Dust jacket: new. Signed by the author on publisher's tipped in half title page. UK first edition, first printing, full number line. Dust jacket is wrapped in protective archival grade mylar. Photos available upon request.

Holmes, George. Renaissance. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996. 22 cm x 28 cm. 272 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes the following chapters: The City as an Agent of Cultural Innovation / The Humanist Revolution / Flemish Painting / Laurentian Florence / VEnice and the Italian Despotisms / The High Renaissance in Florence and Rome / The New Europe of the Sixteenth Century / Renaissance Ideas Spread to the North / Venice in the Sixteenth Century / The Renaissance in 1600. This history of the Renaissance surveys the extraordinary impact of this culture which dramatically affected Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. It examines the social, commercial and political background which enabled the arts to flourish at this time, stressing the importance of the great commercial cities, Florence, Bruges and Venice. Beginning with the Florentine Renaissance, the book traces the development of humanism in art, politics, science and philosophy, then discusses the impact of the High Renaissance in Italy on the rest of Europe. (Amazon)

Winner of the Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the Premio Montale, an acclaimed translation of Italy's greatest modern poetEugenio Montale is universally recognized as having brought the great Italian lyric tradition that begins with Dante into the twentieth century with unrivaled power and brilliance. Montale is a love poet whose deeply beautiful, individual work confronts the dilemmas of modern history, philosophy, and faith with courage and subtlety; he has been widely translated into English and his work has influenced two generations of American and British poets. Jonathan Galassi's versions of Montale's major works--Ossi di seppia, Le occasioni, and La bufera e altro--are the clearest and most convincing yet, and his extensive notes discuss in depth the sources and difficulties of this dense, allusive poetry. This book offers English-language readers uniquely informed and readable access to the work of one of the greatest of all modern poets.

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1997 By Radek Sikorski. xvi, 254 p., ill., maps A fine copy in red cloth boards with a very good, near fine dust jacket.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2013 First edition paperback. A BRAND NEW BOOK UNUSED. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony and Ka, a stunning summation of his lifelong study of the role of the gods in the human imagination. Based on the prestigious Weidenfeld Lectures Roberto Calasso gave at Oxford in May 2000, Literature and the Gods traces the return of pagan divinities to Western literature from their first reappearance at the beginning of the modern era to their place in the literature of our own time. Calasso sets out to uncover the divine— godly or otherwise—in specific texts, and finds it in what he calls "absolute literature." With its roots in early Vedic verse, absolute literature reached the apex of its expression during the period beginning with the German Romantics in 1798 and ending with Mallarmé's death in 1898. But Calasso also discovers the divine in the work of Valéry, Auden, Yeats, Montale, Borges, and Nabokov, and he reveals how these writers, in their own very particular ways, were articulating the same unnameable thing. Finally, he delineates the timeless, ever-mysterious laws that surround the creative act itself.With Literature and the Gods, Roberto Calasso profoundly deepens our understanding of our literary tradition. It is, itself, a literary masterpiece.

1st print Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1st edition 1986 hardcover fine book in fine dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

1st edition 1st print Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated 1993 large hardcover fine book in fine dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. Original publisher's pink cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Illustrated in black and white. The publisher's own retained copy with their stamp on the front endpaper, reading 'Weidenfeld library'. ISBN: 0297771167 Pages: 140 Fine in complete, close very good dust jacket, with some nicking at edges.

Reveals the life story of Lord George Weidenfeld, chronicling his flight from 1939 Nazi Vienna, his efforts with BBC during the war, and his rise to a major figure in international publishing, business, and media.