{"title":"A D Harvey","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the historical insights of A. D. Harvey, a master of European history. Explore the intricate tapestry of past events and discover compelling narratives that bring history to life. Browse his works now.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"muse-of-fire-book-a-d-harvey-9781852851682","title":"A Muse of Fire","description":"This text relates the literature and the art of World War I to the literature and art of World War II. It also aims to examine the range of war poetry and fiction in English in its relation to German, French, Italian and, to a lesser extent, Russian, Danish and Hungarian. Before World War I, few authors wrote about, or had experienced, war. War was not a proper subject for literature; while writers seldom served in the armed forces and were almost never in battle. This work discusses what sort of people, in various physical and psychological conditions wrote about war; or painted it; how they handled the challenge of describing their experiences; what literary and artistic techniques they employed; how other forms of creative talent were fostered by the war; and how far memoirs of the war prepared the way for the next one. In the second section, the account of World War II provides a contribution to an understanding of how literature and art relate to the psychological and social structures of the communities within which they are produced.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49507258269969,"sku":"GOR006589276","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49640863170833,"sku":"GOR013493733","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50267630862609,"sku":"GOR006812462","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50268626059537,"sku":"GOR013905926","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852851686.jpg?v=1751217304"},{"product_id":"sex-in-georgian-england-book-a-d-harvey-9780715626245","title":"Sex in Georgian England","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49512145125649,"sku":"GOR002184038","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49655999791377,"sku":"GOR013749937","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0715626248.jpg?v=1762341932"},{"product_id":"collision-of-empires-book-a-d-harvey-9781852850784","title":"Collision of Empires","description":"The only previous war to match the world wars of the twentieth century in scale and impact was the French War of 1793-1815. This book is the first book to compare these conflicts, which together shaped the history of the modern world. A.D. Harvey relates the causes, conduct and outcome of these wars to the fundamental nature of the societies which fought them. Political decisions, economic power and social attitudes interfaced with the demands of military technology to determine the outcome of each case. Britain is the centre of focus, but is seen against a background of the other combatants. Harvey's ability to make large-scale generalisations is backed up by a wealth of fascinating and carefully documented detail, making this outstanding and exceptionally well-written book a pleasure to read. The author has tackled a huge subject and has not been afraid to face up to either its complexities or its implications. By asking new questions and using a range of unfamiliar sources this book provides an unusually profound analysis not only of these wars but also of the nature of modern society and of our understanding of the past.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49557110915345,"sku":"GOR002946481","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51336605204753,"sku":"GOR005815172","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52655894724881,"sku":"NLS9781852850784","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852850787.jpg?v=1751457509"},{"product_id":"sex-in-georgian-england-book-ad-harvey-9781842122730","title":"Sex In Georgian England","description":"Using the evidence of medical texts, trial records, government statistics, pamphlets, autobiographies, novels, poems, plays, dress fashions, pornographic engravings and paintings by members of the Royal Academy, this book shows how the eighteenth century constructed the stereotype of female purity and passivity which was to be inherited by the Victorians.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49572728373521,"sku":"GOR002803074","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49975587733777,"sku":"GOR013827415","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50298571653393,"sku":"CIN1842122738G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51092377207057,"sku":"GOR005974072","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1842122738.jpg?v=1751280001"},{"product_id":"collision-of-empires-book-a-d-harvey-9781857991253","title":"Collision of Empires","description":"This is a wonderfully detailed, enlightening \u0026amp; amusing book:a classic analysis of the three major modern conflicts in European history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49591413408017,"sku":"GOR002091357","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51686490767633,"sku":"GOR003102827","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1857991257.jpg?v=1750833930"},{"product_id":"side-stories-book-a-d-harvey-9781906958930","title":"Side Stories","description":"In 2013 more than eighty Internet sites round the world took up the story of A.D.Harvey's literary spoofs following his outing in The Times Literary Supplement, thereby further outraging an academic establishment which had had it in for him ever since he had broken ranks by obtaining a Ph.D. at Cambridge only six years after sitting his A-levels. The author of eight scholarly monographs, numerous articles in academic quarterlies, three novels and a slim volume of verse, A.D.Harvey is (despite occasional spoofs) a serious if sometimes idiosyncratic writer and his gift for style, cogency and psychological insight is demonstrated by a collection of his short stories and other pieces now published under the title Side Stories by Mandrake of Oxford.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49608141996305,"sku":"GOR010967577","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51183885025553,"sku":"NIN9781906958930","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52132265984273,"sku":"NLS9781906958930","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1906958939.jpg?v=1751314297"},{"product_id":"arnhem-book-a-d-harvey-9780304356997","title":"Arnhem","description":"AD Harvey was educated at St. John's College Oxford and University (now Wolfson) College Cambridge. As well as contributing articles to RUSI Journal and Air Power History, he is author of COLLISION OF EMPIRES: BRITAIN IN THREE WORLD WARS 1793-1945 (1996) and A MUSE OF FIRE: LITERATURE, ART AND WAR (1998).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49624920031505,"sku":"GOR003019253","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346770825489,"sku":"CIN0304356999VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0304356999.jpg?v=1751164554"},{"product_id":"dezzie-and-the-historian-book-ad-harvey-9781786938480","title":"Dezzie and the Historian","description":"A black teenager with a criminal record absconds from a council children's home, moves in with a failed academic old enough to be her grandfather, and discovers that dreams really can come true - up to a point.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49745832935697,"sku":"NGR9781786938480","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51126129033489,"sku":"NIN9781786938480","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1786938480.jpg?v=1751429459"},{"product_id":"testament-of-war-book-a-d-harvey-9781445678276","title":"Testament of War","description":"Testament of War compares the English-language poetry and fiction of the First World War with that written in German, French, Italian and - to a lesser extent -Danish, Flemish, Hungarian, Portuguese and Russian. It also looks at how the war was experienced and depicted by visual artists. The author discusses what sort of people, in what sort of physical, psychological and social conditions, wrote about the war, or painted it; how they handled the challenge of describing their experiences with honesty; what literary and artistic techniques they employed; how other forms of creative talent were fostered by the war; and how far memoirs of the war prepared the way for the next one. He concludes with some reflections on the problem of studying literature from a historically informed point of view. Testament of War is 'one individual's attempt to see patterns and cross-connections in the responses of writers and artists to events that he himself had the good fortune not to have to live through.'","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51313328488721,"sku":"GOR011890060","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51313329504529,"sku":"NGR9781445678276","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51332977426705,"sku":"CIN1445678276VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1445678276.jpg?v=1761645452"},{"product_id":"mind-sprung-book-a-d-harvey-9781906958671","title":"Mind-Sprung","description":"An A-Level drop-out graduates from evicting immigrants during the heyday of the inner-city slum landlords in the 1960s to stripping redundant churches during the early 1970s, before moving to northern Sweden equipped only with the proceeds of selling stolen property and some hashish. He finds new sources of hashish even in Sweden but eventually the money runs out, and he returns to London: only to discover it is even worse than when he left. Eric Naiman, a Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Berkeley, in a six-page attack on A.D.Harvey's multitudinous literary crimes in THE TIMES LITERARY SUPLEMENT in 2013, described Harvey's account of drug-taking and other shenanigans in London and the Swedish Arctic as barely readable, but perhaps that was because he hadn't actually read it. Another of A.D.Harvey's novels, WARIORS OF THE RAINBOW was described by THE GUARDIAN as weirdly compelling and by THE INDEPENDENT as free-flowing and poetic.unforgettable.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52472056250641,"sku":"NLS9781906958671","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53084102197521,"sku":"NIN9781906958671","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781906958671.jpg?v=1759837307"},{"product_id":"literature-into-history-book-a-d-harvey-9781349192885","title":"Literature into History","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52587772838161,"sku":"NLS9781349192885","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52748152799505,"sku":"NIN9781349192885","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781349192885.jpg?v=1761056941"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-a-d-harvey.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}