Libros

One of the best known and simultaneously most notorious figures from Roman history, Nero (r. AD 54 68) is usually characterised as a tyrannical and ineffectual emperor, a ruler who proverbially fiddled while Rome burnt'. However, as new research demonstrates, this reputation is crudely reductive (...)

Synonymous with high-octane glamour, opulent sexuality, and fearless fashion, Tom Ford is an iconic designer whose namesake label has devout followers across the globe, from Milan and New Delhi to Shanghai and New York. Seventeen years after his best-selling debut book Tom Ford (2004), which (...)

The third volume of Richardson's magisterial Life of Picasso, a groundbreaking contribution to our understanding of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.Here is Picasso at the height of his powers in Rome and Naples, producing the sets and costumes with Cocteau for Diaghilev's (...)

The German invasion of Norway was a pivotal moment in modern warfare, the first joint campaign that featured air power as an equal element of all operations. It was, in fact, the superior use of their air force that gave the Germans the decisive margin of victory and ensured the failure of the (...)

The German invasion of the Netherlands was meant to be a lightning-fast surgical strike, aimed at shoring up the right flank of the assault on France and Belgium. With a bold plan based largely on Luftwaffe air power, air-landing troops, and the biggest airborne assault yet seen, a Dutch surrender (...)

This illustrated study explores, in detail, the RAF's first concentrated air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany - the industrial heartland of the Ruhr that kept Hitler's war machine running.Between March and July 1943, RAF Bomber Command (...)

A fascinating study of the devastating new form of warfare that redrew the map of Europe in the opening year of World War II, bringing about the military collapse and capitulation of seven modern industrialized nations.On 1 September 1939, Nazi Germany launched the invasion of Poland, employing a (...)

"Full of surprises and evocative." The Spectator"Passionately written." Apollo"An extraordinary accomplishment." Edmund de Waal"Monumental." Times Literary Supplement"An epic reshaping of ceramic art." Crafts"An important book." The Arts Society MagazineIn his major new history, Paul Greenhalgh (...)

A beautifully illustrated introduction to the seventeenth-to-nineteenth-century mania for all things Chinese, from blue-and-white china tea sets to entire suites of Chinese-inspired rooms, including parts of the sumptuous Brighton Pavilion.Chinoiserie is the taste for Chinese-inspired designs that (...)

In the early 1880s, Britain intervened in independent Egypt and seized control of the Suez Canal. British forces were soon deployed to Egypt's southern colony, the Sudan, where they confronted a determined and capable foe amid some of the world's most inhospitable terrain. In 1881 an Islamic (...)

This superbly illustrated study explores the epic clashes of British and German heavy cruisers at the beginning of World War II.The opposing heavy cruisers of the German Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy engaged in a global game of cat and mouse during the opening years of World War II. This was a (...)

La capilla del Espíritu Santo, también denominada capilla de los Simancas o de los Obispos, ha sido recientemente restaurada por el Cabildo Catedral. De este modo, nuevamente, la entidad capitular demuestra su constante compromiso en beneficio de la conservación y puesta en valor de un patrimonio, (...)

This is the compelling story of an Eternal City brought low, of the terror and hardship of occupation, and of the disparate army of partisan fighters, displaced aristocrats, Vatican priests, Allied POWs and ordinary citizens who battled for the liberation of Rome. In September 1943, following wave (...)

"Quite simply the most fascinating record of a ' fashion victim' one could hope for." The SpectatorThis captivating study reproduces arguably the most extraordinary primary source documents in fashion history. Providing a revealing window onto the Renaissance, it chronicles how style-conscious (...)

Using beautiful illustrations, this new book explores the life and work of Thomas Chippendale, the most famous furniture designer and manufacturer of the eighteenth century.For at least 150 years, Thomas Chippendale has been synonymous with beautifully made eighteenth-century furniture in a variety (...)

This book is a compilation in which we will find in one place (two volumes) the stories of all the German cruisers that were in Kriegsmarine service.Author describes their history in the order in which they entered the service, devoting much attention to their construction, precisely describing the (...)

Esta obra contiene el estudio de la voz y la carrera artística de ciento ochenta y siete tenores, los más importantes en la historia de la Ópera. Para ello, el autor ha destacado las diferentes epocas y estilos de canto empezando por el Barroco y discurriendo por el Iluminismo, el Clasicismo, El (...)

Peter Marino: The architecture of Chanel narra la fascinante historia de dos extraordinarias leyendas Coco Chanel y Peter Marino, a través de una estupenda colección de edificios construidos por Marino con la intención de convertir las tiendas de lujo de Chanel en objetos de arte en sí mismas. A (...)

El título lo dice todo. Este libro no deja de ser una visión realista, irónica y políticamente incorrecta de cómo algunos de nuestros actuales dirigentes, a través de los consensos progres , deforman la realidad para conseguir sus propósitos a cualquier precio