Alan Moorehead Libros

En 1831 se le ofreció a Charles Darwin, que tenía a la sazón 22 años, el puesto de naturalista a bordo del "Beagle", un bergantín de diez cañones que el Almirantazgo enviaba en viaje de exploración alrededor del mundo. La expedición duró cinco años y visitó Brasil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Perú, las islas Galápagos, Tahití, Nueva Zelanda, Australia y otros países e islas de paso. Además de una excitante y extraordinaria aventura, el largo periplo fue para Darwin el inicio de una concepción completamente nueva del origen y evolución de las distintas formas de vida de la Tierra que, unas décadas después, significaría una revolución de la mayor parte de las creencias tenidas hasta entonces por sagradas. En esta narración vívida y colorista del viaje, se describen los países a través de los ojos de Darwin, y las numerosas especies de animales, plantas y minerales estudiados, clasificados y coleccionados.

The Gallipoli expedition, conceived by Winston Churchill and others, aimed to seize Constantinople from the Turks by traversing the Dardanelles through both land and sea. This strategic operation sought to facilitate access to the Black Sea, enabling the delivery of vital supplies and arms to Russian forces battling on the extensive German front. The plan reflects the ambitious military strategies of World War I and highlights the complexities of wartime decision-making.

The classic and definitive history of the Gallipoli campaign with a new introduction by Sir Max Hastings. Moorehead, the finest war correspondent of his generation, recounts why the campaign was so important in the lessons it taught and why it continues to have such an emotional hold on the present day, particularly in Australia and New Zealand.

A brilliant, classic account of the Russian Revolution. Still the most readable history of the revolution, which sheds light on the Western view of the Soviet Union at the time.

Alan Moorehead was a peerless war correspondent who covered the entire war in North Africa from 1940-1943. The trilogy of books he wrote on the prolonged battles between Montgomery's Eighth Army and Rommel's Afrika Corps immediately drew universal acclaim, and remains and epic account as extraordinary now as it was then. This reissue of Alan Moorehead's classic trilogy on the North Africa campaign 1940-1943 will coinide with the 75th anniversary of the Battles for El Alamein in July and October 1942.

Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian Al Murray and bestselling historian James Holland. With a new introduction by James Holland Eclipse was the code name given by the Allies to the occupation of Germany. Moorehead's book describes his experiences in Sicily and southern Italy in 1943, which culminated in the capture of Rome. He tells the electrifying story of D-Day, the liberation of Paris, and the Allied advance through northern France and Belgium, the crossing of the Rhine. The author reconstructs, in terrifying detail, the collapse of Germany, the wholesale destruction, mass surrenders, and the unimaginable horrors of the concentration camps.

In the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on its long journey from Lake Tana in Abyssinia to the Mediterranean-lands that had been forgotten since Roman times, or had never been known at all. In The Blue Nile, Alan Moorehead continues the classic, thrilling narration of adventure he began in The White Nile, depicting this exotic place through the lives of four explorers so daring they can be considered among the world's original adventurers -- each acting and reacting in separate expeditions against a bewildering background of slavery and massacre, political upheaval and all-out war.

Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan Moorehead's classic bestseller The White Nile -- the daring exploration of the Nile River in the second half of the nineteenth century, which was at that time the most mysterious and impenetrable region on earth. Capturing in breathtaking prose the larger-than-life personalities of such notable figures as Stanley, Livingstone, Burton and many others, The White Nile remains a seminal work in tales of discovery and escapade, filled with incredible historical detail and compelling stories of heroism and drama.