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Titles listed in this catalogue may also be available as ebooks YaleBooks To view this catalogue online & for more information: www.yalebooks.co.uk twitter.com/yalebooks Yale University Press 47 Bedford Square facebook.com/yalebooks London WC1B 3DP tel 020 7079 4900 yalebooksblog.co.uk general email [email protected] An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas and a memoir of a reading life, from the internationally celebrated Alberto Manguel Curiosity Alberto Manguel Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question ‘Why?’ has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human Photograph by Melik Külekci Melik by Photograph history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What defines our identity? What is our responsibility to the world? In this book, Alberto Manguel’s most personal work to date, the author tracks his own life of curiosity through the books that have mapped his way. Alberto Manguel is a Canadian Manguel chooses as his guides a selection of writers who sparked his writer, translator, editor and critic, imagination in new directions. He dedicates each chapter to a single but would rather define himself as thinker, scientist, artist or other figure, who demonstrated in a fresh way a reader. Born in Buenos Aires, he how to ask ‘Why?’ Leading us through a full gallery of inquisitives, among has since lived in Israel, Argentina, them Thomas Aquinas, David Hume, Lewis Carroll, Rachel Carson and Europe, the South Pacific and Socrates, and most importantly Dante, Manguel affirms how deeply Canada. Today he divides his time connected our curiosity is to the readings that most astonish us, and how between Canada and a small village essential to the soaring of our own imaginations. in France, surrounded by more than ‘For Alberto Manguel reading is a pilgrimage, a secular-sacred encounter with 30,000 volumes. mystery, and a way of reinvigorating the dead. Dante and Montaigne and Pinocchio’s Collodi are his guides and his intimates in this passionate quest for knowledge, but it is the state of inquiry itself and even doubt that define for him the pleasures of curiosity. With his loving, keenly felt, highly enjoyable delving into writers and their writings, Manguel argues for literature’s 51 b/w illus. revelatory illusions, its epiphanies and its testimony.’ – Marina Warner 320 pp. 234x156mm. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18478-5 April £18.99 $30.00 Translation rights: Guillermo Schavelzon & Associates, S.L., Barcelona General Interest 1 From the leading Wellington historian, a fascinating reassessment of the Duke’s most famous victory and his role in the turbulent politics after Waterloo Wellington Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace, 1814–1852 Rory Muir An accompanying commentary by Wellington’s momentous victory over Napoleon was the culminating point Rory Muir is free to download from: of a brilliant military career. Yet Wellington’s achievements were far from www.lifeofwellington.co.uk over: he commanded the allied army of occupation in France to the end of 1818, returned home to a seat in Lord Liverpool’s cabinet and became prime minister in 1828. He later served as a senior minister in Peel’s government and remained Commander-in-Chief of the Army for a decade until his death in 1852. Volume one now in paperback In this richly detailed work, the second and concluding volume of Rory see page 30 Muir’s defi nitive biography, the author offers a substantial reassessment of Wellington’s signifi cance as a politician and a nuanced view of the private man behind the legend of the selfl ess hero. Muir presents new insights into Wellington’s determination to maintain peace at home and abroad, achieved by maintaining good relations with the Continental powers and resisting radical agitation while granting political equality to the Catholics in Ireland rather than risk civil war. And countering one-dimensional pictures of Wellington as a national hero, Muir paints a portrait of a well-rounded man whose austere demeanour on the public stage belied his entertaining, gossipy, generous and unpretentious private self. Rory Muir is visiting research fellow, School of History and Politics, University of Adelaide. He is the author of several previous books related 32 pp. colour illus. to Wellington’s career, including the fi rst volume of this two-volume set, 672 pp. 234x156mm. Wellington: The Path to Victory 1769–1814 (see page 30). HB ISBN 978-0-300-18786-1 June £30.00 $40.00 Translation rights: A.M. Heath and Co., London 2 History | Biography Viewing World War Two from the ordinary British serviceman’s perspective, Alan Allport’s colourful, deeply moving and unique social history explores the diverse experiences of the more than three million unlikely citizen- soldiers who served in the British Army from 1939 to 1945 Browned Off and Bloody-Minded Th e British Soldier Goes to War 1939–1945 Alan Allport Alan Allport is assistant professor of More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during history at Syracuse University. the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never His previous book Demobbed won expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all the Longman-History Today Book of its strange rituals, discomforts and dangers, was going to be like. the Year Award. Alan Allport’s rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of By the same author: these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fi ght for King and Country. Allport chronicles the huge diversity of their wartime journeys, tracing how soldiers responded to and were shaped by their years with the British Army, and how that army, reluctantly, had to accommodate itself to them. Touching on class, sex, crime and trauma, through a colourful multitude of fresh individual stories, the book provides an enlightening, deeply moving perspective on how a generation of very modern-minded young men responded to the challenges of a brutal and disorienting confl ict. ‘This is a fast-paced and entertaining account of the social experience of being in the British Army during the Second World War. Allport is inventive and imaginative in the way in which he uses his material to move the reader along. He does not pull any punches either, showing British servicemen at their best and their worst. The book deserves wide 22 b/w illus. currency for its lively writing and the harsh truths it reveals.’ 336 pp. 234x156mm. – Richard Overy, author of Why the Allies Won HB ISBN 978-0-300-17075-7 March £25.00 $40.00 History 3 The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written Stalin New Biography of a Dictator Oleg V. Khlevniuk • Translated by Nora S. Favorov Oleg V. Khlevniuk is a leading Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until research fellow at the National his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk’s Research University Higher School estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than of Economics (HSE) International a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were victims of famine Center for the History and directly resulting from Stalin’s policies. What drove him toward such Sociology of World War II and Its ruthlessness? This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar Consequences and senior research with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fi ne- fellow at the State Archive of the grained portrait of Stalin the man and dictator.