Haus Publishing imprint: 173 books

by Jonathan Clements
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

As China’s global influence continues to rise, its capital, Beijing, has become increasingly important—and a popular tourist destination, greeting close to five million international visitors each year. An Armchair Traveller’s History of Beijing presents the capital from its earliest beginnings...
by Jonathan Clements
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019

With almost 13 million residents, Tokyo is now as much an icon of modernity as it is a city, with its neon-lit billboards, futuristic technology, and avant-garde fashion scene. But the long and fascinating history of Japan’s modern capital encompasses much, much more, and in An Armchair Traveller’s...
by Jonathan Clements
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008

Gu Weijun, a.k.a. Wellington Koo (1887-1985). Born in Shanghai and raised in the city's International Settlement, Koo became fluent in English during his postgraduate studies abroad - he got a PhD in Law from Columbia in 1912. He was recalled soon afterwards to become the English Secretary to the...

The Hidden Perspective

The Military Conversations 1906-1914

by David Owen
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014

In 1905, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey agreed to speak secretly with his French counterparts about sending a British expeditionary force to France in the event of a German attack. Neither Parliament nor the rest of the Cabinet was informed. The Hidden Perspective takes readers back to these...

The UK's In-Out Referendum

EU Foreign and Defence Policy Reform

by David Owen
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016

As David Owen notes in The UK’s In-Out Referendum, the European Union’s attempts at conflict resolution have left much to be desired. In the Ukraine, Baltic States, Turkey, and much of the Middle East, a lack of coherent policy has dominated. This book argues that the negotiations around the United...

Umbria

The Heart of Italy

by Patricia Clough
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017

When Patricia Clough, a former foreign correspondent, bought a house in Umbria, she knew that buying her dream home did not mean that life would become a dream. By the end of this book, in which she describes the journey of making Umbria her home, she is sure that “if one has basic requirements...

Lady Chatterley's Villa

D. H. Lawrence on the Italian Riviera

by Richard Owen
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

November 1925 found David and Frieda Lawrence on the Italian Riviera, looking for sun, sea air, and health. The Lawrences were exhilarated by life in their rented villa, set amid olive groves and vineyards, with a view of the sparkling Mediterranean. The drab English winter couldn't have been farther...

Ionel Bratianu

Romania

by Keith Hitchins
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011

At the beginning of 1918 the British War Cabinet endorsed the view of the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, that after the war &quote;Austria-Hungary should be in a position to exercise a powerful influence in south-east Europe.&quote; These reassuring professions were the essence of hypocrisy,...

Friedrich Ebert

Germany

by Harry Harmer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009

On 9 November 1918 Ebert became Imperial Chancellor as revolution broke out in Berlin. He opposed the radical left, declaring, 'Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary', but he compromised Weimar democracy by his dependence on the army command...

Sybil Thorndike

A Star Of Life

by Jonathan Croall
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009

Outside the theatrical profession Sybil Thorndike is no longer the household name she once was; she has become a historical figure. Yet her combative, inspiring life, her passionate concern for the state of the world as well as for her art, resonates with any age. As the actor Michael Macli­ammói­r...
by Francis Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006

Fatherly friend to JFK he repaired the rift between the USA and Britain created by the Suez crisis.

Clem Attlee

Labour's Great Reformer

by Francis Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015

As British prime minister from 1945 to 1951, Clement Attlee built a legacy that includes today’s famous—and controversial—National Health Service, yet he is often remembered as a rather dull political figure. Rejecting Winston Churchill’s jibe that Attlee was a “modest little man with plenty...
by Paul Routledge
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007

Harold Wilson held out the promise of technology and of 'the Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution'. A balance of payment crisis, leading to devaluation in 1967, frustrated the fulfilment of his primeministerial promises. Meanwhile foreign affaris were dominated by...
by Simone Veil
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009

Simone Veil, the former French lawyer and politician who became the first President of the European Union, was born Simone Jacob in 1927. In A Life, she describes in vivid detail a childhood of happiness and innocence spent in Nice that came to an abrupt end in 1944 when, at the age of 17, she was...
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