Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: francis beckett

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  • FASCIST IN THE FAMILY
    FRANCIS BECKETT
    John Beckett was a rising political star. Elected as Labour's youngest M.P. in 1924, he was constantly in the news and tipped for greatness. But ten years later he was propaganda chief for Mosley’s fascists, and one of Britain’s three best known anti-Semites. Yet his mother, whom he loved, was a Jew. Her ancestors were Solomons, Isaacs and Jacobsons, originally from Prussia. He...

    $640.00

  • WHAT DID THE BABY BOOMERS EVER DO FOR US?
    FRANCIS BECKETT
    First published in 2010, this book explores the legacy of the baby boomers: the generation who, born in the aftermath of the Second World War, came of age in the radical sixties where for the first time since the War, there was freedom, money, and safe sex. In this book, Francis Beckett argues that what began as the most radical-sounding generation for half a century turned int...

    $500.00

  • STALIN'S BRITISH VICTIMS
    FRANCIS BECKETT
    First published in 2004, this book tells the stories of four remarkable British women, whose lives were scorched by Stalin’s purges. One was shot as a spy; one nearly died as a slave labourer in Kazakhstan; and two saw their husbands taken away to the gulag and had to spirit their small children out of the country. We think of the horrors of the middle of the twentieth century-...

    $980.00