Inicio > Humanidades > Historia > The Big Fight
The Big Fight

The Big Fight

David Fallon

19,72 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Alpha Editions
Año de edición:
2021
Materia
Historia
ISBN:
9789354941139
19,72 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Sobre IBD

A relentless clash of nerves and nails-biting courage, The Big Fight grips with the grit of an interwar London that hums with danger and honour.This public domain novel returns in a fresh, thoughtfully restored edition as a vivid public domain novel for today’s readers. A historical boxing drama that doubles as a sharp study of moral conflicts and justice, it threads personal struggle and courage through a British urban setting and the pulse of early twentieth century streets. The prose honours classic British fiction while speaking with modern energy, inviting casual readers and classic-literature collectors alike to witness a contest that is as much about integrity as it is about sport.Alpha Editions’ restoration respects the book’s texture and mood, making it feel immediate and relevant for new generations. It is more than a reprint - a collector’s item and a cultural treasure, offered to readers who relish sports fiction, vintage storytelling, and sharp, human drama. The Big Fight rewards patient readers who enjoy thoughtful character portraits, suspenseful scenes, and the atmosphere of interwar London-where every decision carries consequence and every triumph weighs on the heart.Ideal for book clubs and individual readers, this edition stands as a landmark among classic British thrillers and historical novels. A welcome addition for those seeking enduring, well-crafted fiction rooted in British urban life and timeless themes.

Artículos relacionados

  • Raising Freedom's Banner
    Paul Harris
    World wide history of peaceful street demonstrations from their earliest beginning in eighteenth century England to their use throughout the world in the twenty-first century. Describes why some demonstration movements succeeded and others failed. Contrasts demonstrations within the law with civil disobedience demonstrations. Describes Peterloo, the Chartists, the Suffragettes,...
    Disponible

    23,59 €

  • Waipi’o Valley
    Jeffrey L. Gross
    Waipi’o Valley: A Polynesian Journey from Eden to Eden recounts the remarkable migrations of the Polynesians across a third of the circumference of the earth. Their amazing journey began from Kalana i Hau’ola, the biblical “Garden of Eden” located along the shore of the Persian Gulf, extended to the Indus River Valley of ancient Vedic India, to Egypt where some ancestors of the...
  • Floralia
    June Rainsford Butler
    A century characterized by a growing interest in science, the opportunity for travel, and leisure for gardening furnishes the setting for Butler’s book. The rise of landscape gardening in England is traced, and the origin and history of its most famous gardens are given. The close relation between England and America in the field of horticulture is also discussed.Originally pub...
    Disponible

    61,20 €

  • President Wilson’s Addresses
    Woodrow Wilson
    'These addresses of President Woodrow Wilson are almost entirely concerned with political affairs, and more specifically with defining Americanism. Yet they also show that even as he moved from academia to the heights of politics, Wilson retained something of the teacher’s interest in showing the relation between specific instances and the general forms of thought or action of ...
  • The Story of my Life
    John Albert Macy
    The Story of My Life, is Helen Keller’s autobiography detailing her early life, especially her experiences with Anne Sullivan. The book is dedicated to inventor Alexander Graham Bell. The dedication reads, 'To ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Who has taught the deaf to speak and enabled the listening ear to hear speech from the Atlantic to the Rockies, I dedicate this Story of My Life.' ...
  • The Story of My Life Vol. 6 Spanish Passions
    Giacomo Casanova
    Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with 'wom...

Otros libros del autor

  • The Big Fight
    David Fallon
    'The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme)' offers a powerful firsthand account of a British soldier’s experiences during World War I. From the disastrous Gallipoli campaign to the brutal battlefields of the Somme, David Fallon vividly portrays the realities of trench warfare, bringing to life the challenges and horrors faced by the British Army.This meticulously prepared edition ...
    Disponible

    20,05 €

  • The Big Fight
    David Fallon
    'The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme)' offers a powerful firsthand account of a British soldier’s experiences during World War I. From the disastrous Gallipoli campaign to the brutal battlefields of the Somme, David Fallon vividly portrays the realities of trench warfare, bringing to life the challenges and horrors faced by the British Army.This meticulously prepared edition ...
  • Blake, Myth, and Enlightenment
    David Fallon
    This book provides compelling new readings of William Blake’s poetry and art, including the first sustained account of his visionary paintings of Pitt and Nelson. It focuses on the recurrent motif of apotheosis, both as a figure of political authority to be demystified but also as an image of utopian possibility. It reevaluates Blake’s relationship to Enlightenment thought, myt...