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A chronological compilation of twentieth-century world events in one volume-from the acclaimed historian and biographer of Winston Churchill. The twentieth century has been one of the most unique in human history. It has seen the rise of some of humanity's most important advances to date, as well as many of its most violent and terrifying wars. This is a condensed version of renowned historian Martin Gilbert's masterful examination of the century's...
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Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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First U.S. edition.
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300 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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The story of the aftermath of World War I, a transformative time when a new world seemed possible—told from the vantage of people, famous and ordinary, who lived through the turmoil
November 1918. The Great War has left Europe in ruins, but with the end of hostilities, a radical new start seems not only possible, but essential, even unavoidable. Unorthodox ideas light up the age: new politics, new societies, new art and culture, new
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xiv, 546 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, "one of the most respected Israel analysts" (The Forward) living and writing in Jerusalem,"--Amazon.com.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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First edition.
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xii, 382 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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English
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"A dramatic, colorful, stylishly-written history, Hubris is a much-needed reflection on war from a master of his field,"--Amazon.com.
Sir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years. In this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles that changed the course of the twentieth century to reveal the one trait that links them all: hubris. In Greek tragedy, hubris is excessive human pride that challenges the...
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Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2010
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1st ed.
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352 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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An exhilarating portrait of the era of jazz, glamour, and gangsters. The glitter of 1920s America was seductive, from flappers and wild all-night parties to the birth of Hollywood and a glamorous gangster-led crime scene flourishing under Prohibition. But the period was also punctuated by momentous events--the political show trials of Sacco and Vanzetti, the huge Ku Klux Klan march down Washington DC's Pennsylvania Avenue--and it produced a dizzying...
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J. Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
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xiii, 322 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Conventional historical wisdom focuses on the sixties as the era of pivotal change that swept the nation, yet, as Fred Kaplan argues, it was 1959 that ushered in the wave of tremendous cultural, political, and scientific shifts that would play out in the turbulent decade that followed. During this vital, overlooked period in American history, pop culture exploded, court rulings unshackled prevously banned books, civil rights laws and protests broadened...
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H. Holt
Pub. Date
1994
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1st American ed.
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xxiv, 615 p., [40] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would end officially almost five years later. Unofficially, it has never ended: the horrors we live with today were born in the First World War. The Great War left millions of civilians and soldiers maimed or dead. It also left behind new technologies of death: tanks, planes, and submarines;...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2012
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xxvi, 238 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
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English
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Stone--one of the greatest living historians of the 20th century--provides an unprecedentedly concise, utterly authoritative account of the deadliest war of human history. Over 60 million people perished in World War Two, and the story of how the conflict roared to life from the ashes of the Great War is shocking, tragic, and also completely preventable in hindsight.
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2007
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xi, 425 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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English
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Eric D. Weitz (1953–2021) was Distinguished Professor of History at City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He was also the author of A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States; A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation; and Creating German Communism, 1890–1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State (all Princeton).
The definitive history of Weimar politics, culture,...
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English
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Enemies and Neighbors is a big, textured, and, crucially, balanced account of over 100 years of the Israel-Palestine conflict, published on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration (the famous pledge made by the British government on Nov. 2, 1917 expressing sympathy for a national Jewish home in Palestine). 2017 also marks the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War in June 1967, during which Israel seized its current borders. Much of the existing...
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Farrar, Straus
Pub. Date
[1963]
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118 p. 20 cm.
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English
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In Edmund Wilson's The Cold War and The Income Tax, the leading twentieth century critic writes about his protest against the Internal Revenue Service.
Here, Wilson details his refusal to file income tax for nearly ten years and draws fascinating parallels between the Soviet Union and the Kafkaesque US tax system, which to Wilson's dismay, supports a nuclear weapons arms race.
"The truth is that the people of the United States are at the present...
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H. Holt
Pub. Date
c1989
Edition
1st American ed.
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xviii, 846 p., [64] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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In the hands of master historian Martin Gilbert, the complex and compelling story of the Second World War comes to life. This narrative captures the perspectives of leading politicians and war commanders, journalists, civilians, and ordinary soldiers, offering gripping eyewitness accounts of heroism, defeat, suffering, and triumph. This is one of the first historical studies of World War II that describes the Holocaust as an integral part of the war....
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PublicAffairs
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English
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"Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspective narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features... In this illuminating history, Charles Emmerson liberates the world of 1913 from this "prelude to war" narrative, and explores it as it was, in all its...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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vii, 248 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Examines how towns across the United States have grown thanks to the existence of one large business being run from the community, discusses how those single-business communities have influenced the American economy, and explores the benefits and consequences of these towns.
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HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2012
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Unabridged
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English
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"An astonishing work."
-Julian Fellowes, Creator and Executive Producer of "Downton Abbey"
"A book well worthy of marking the centenary of the crystal-clear night when the immense ship slid to her terrible doom."
-Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman
It has been one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epic tragedy...
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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"A riveting tale of her family's experience in Europe during World War II [and] a well-wrought political history of the region, told with great authority. . . . More than a memoir, this is a book of facts and action, a chronicle of a war in progress from a partisan faithful to the idea of Czechoslovakian democracy." — Los Angeles Times
Drawn from her own memory, her parents' written reflections, and interviews
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Overlook Press
Pub. Date
1999
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xii, 450 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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The legendary CBS news journalist's selection of iconic World War II radio broadcasts from countries throughout Europe. William L.-Shirer was the first journalist hired by CBS to cover World War II in Europe, and he worked there for over a decade as a news broadcaster. This book compiles two and a half years' worth of wartime broadcasts from Shirer's time on the ground during World War II. He was with Nazi forces when Hitler invaded Austria and made...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
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xxxiii, 857 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle.
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