Bøger om År 1950 til 1959

Eye-witness accounts of atrocities committed by North Koreans to American prisoners-of-war.

Details how the Marines valiantly battled numerically superior Chinese forces and held the front

Once the squire of the mansion Andromeda Park and now a mere menial, Darcy Dancer embarks upon a series of adventures across the country and in bohemian Dublin in search of his lost youth. A hilariously comic, poignant novel of a remarkable young man's coming of age.

Newly reissued with an eye-catching cover by Peter Mendelsund, one of legendary avant-garde writer Alain Robbe-Grillet's most important works

A sensational theatrical success in London, A Taste Of Honey was written by Shelagh Delaney at the age of 18. The play prompted Graham Greene to say that it had 'all the freshness of Mr. Osborne's Look Back In Anger and a greater maturity.'

In 1955, armed with a penknife and the instructions 'Keep the river on your right, ' the Brooklyn-born painter Tobias Schneebaum set off into the trackless jungles of Peru in search of a tribe of cannibals.

The leading figure of absurdist theater and one of the great innovators of the modern stage, Eugene Ionesco did not write his first play, The Bald Soprano, until 1950. He went on to become an internationally renowned master of modern drama, famous for the comic proportions and bizarre effects that allow his work to be simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound.

An enlightening account of America's first military manifestation of the cold war. War having never been declared, the mission was merely called a "peace action", though it eventually involved 19 member countries of the United Nations and more than 250,000 U.S. troops. 7 maps.

Praise for The Great Raid on Cabanatuan ' An exciting narrative presented by a first-rate storyteller.' -Publishers Weekly Acclaim for Feuding Allies ' An absorbing look at the impact of Alliance politics on the outcome of WW II.' -Kirkus Reviews

Professor John W. Spanier examines the central issue of this crisis--the grave challenge to the traditional concept of civilian supremacy, resting in the President of the United States, over the military, that was posed by MacArthur's stand. He makes it clear that this controversy was not unique, that it stemmed not only from MacArthur's personality but also from tremendous pressures to change a "limited war" into a total effort for complete victory.