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| Tipo de documento: | Libro/Texto |
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Amanda Foreman |
| ISBN: | 9781846142048 1846142040 |
| Número OCLC: | 640084044 |
| Notas: | Subtitle varies. Version in U.S. (?): An epic history of two nations divided. |
| Descripción: | xxxvii, 988 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Responsabilidad: | by Amanda Foreman. |
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Amanda Foreman's magnificent book provides a completely fresh perspective on the first great modern conflict. Weaving together a vast panoply of people and events, it dramatically brings alive this extraordinary period on British and American history. -- Antony Beevor It rolls along with the ragged grandeur of one of Ulysses S. Grant's infantry battalions. If you've an appetite for serious history, you'll be in hog-heaven. -- Sam Leith Spectator 'A World on Fire is an achievement as enjoyable as it is impressive. As in a great nineteenth-century novel, a teeming cast propels this epic - the gallant and the craven, scoundrels and lovers, diplomats and freebooters - some helplessly caught in the gale, others with their hands firmly on the levers of power. Charles Dickens appears in this book; had he been an historian he might well have written it.' -- Richard Snow, Editor American Heritage, 1990-2007 A World on Fire is a staggering achievement. -- Christopher Silvester Daily Express Here is an iridescent book; vivid like a rainbow but rather more substantial...The book is like Gone With The Wind but with the true history inserted, and even more importantly, it is a biography of two people at an epic moment in their shared history. Anger, resentment, sympathy, loyalty, all the emotions that characterise Anglo-American relations today, can be traced back to this period. -- Antonia Fraser Mail on Sunday Leer más
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