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Series
Penguin history of Europe volume 7
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Examines the century between the fall of Napoleon and the outbreak of World War I, discussing events ranging from the crumbling of the Spanish, Ottoman, and Mughal empires and the rise of British imperial ambition to the violent revolution in Spain and the unifications of Germany and Italy.
"In the nineteenth century, Europe experienced unprecedented economic and technological growth, social change, and cultural transformation. It was the dawn of...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Once a romanticized beacon of democracy, culture, and the arts, France has slowly slid further and further away from its historic image of liberty, equality and fraternity. The country is on the brink. With a precarious labor force facing dwindling wages, a right wing political surge that has resulted in drastic acts of Islamaphobia and Anti-Seminitism, and a media increasingly led by government cronies, France has entered an unprecedented era of...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (4 1/2 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The first major profile of Ukraine's courageous President Volodymyr Zelensky!
From comedian to president to freedom fighter, this is the story of Volodymyr Zelensky, the man who stood up to Vladimir Putin and forever changed the world.
6) On war
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Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©1984
Physical Desc
xii, 732 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Carl von Clausewitz's On War has been called, "not simply the greatest, but the only truly great book on war." It is an extraordinary attempt to construct an all-embracing theory of how war works. Its coherence and ambition are unmatched by other military literature. On War is full of sharp observation, biting irony, and memorable phrases, the most famous being, "war is a continuation of politics by other means." -- Publisher.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
Published to coincide with the bombing, this dramatic and controversial account completely re-examines the Allied attack on Dresden
For decades it has been assumed that the Allied bombing of Dresden was militarily unjustifiable, an act of rage and retribution for Germany's ceaseless bombing of London and other parts of England.
Now, Frederick Taylor's groundbreaking research offers a completely new examination of the facts, and reveals
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English
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Description
A bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world, in a book lauded as "a rattling good tale" (Wall Street Journal) and "popular history at its best" (Washington Post)
The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's Age of Empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English...
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Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
This volume contains a series of predictions made by H. G. Wells as to the ramifications of World War I, covering such areas as politics, economics, border changes, education, media, law, and more.
Contents include:
"Forecasting The Future",
"The End Of The War",
"Nations In Liquidation",
"Braintree, Bocking, And The Future Of The World",
"How Far Will Europe Go Toward Socialism?",
"Lawyer And Press",
"The New Education",
"What The War Is...
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxi, 337 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
""The strong do as they can and the weak suffer what they must."--Thucydides The fate of the global economy hangs in the balance, and Europe is doing its utmost to undermine it, to destabilize America, and to spawn new forms of authoritarianism. Europe has dragged the world into hideous morasses twice in the last one hundred years ... it can do it again. Yanis Varoufakis, the former Finance Minister of Greece, shows here that the Eurozone is a house...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 293 pages : illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"[Harro Schulze-Boysen and Libertas Haas-Heye] were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched across Berlin's bohemian underworld. Poets, philosophers, workers, and artists, they were all freethinkers united by a desire to bring down Hitler at any cost. Harro himself infiltrated German intelligence and began funneling Nazi battle plans to the Allies... Libertas used her position at the propaganda ministry to begin collecting evidence...
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Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
ix, 224 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Winner, Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2002, Non-Fiction
The story of Pec-Kosovo's most destroyed city during the wars in Serbia
For every survivor of a crime, there is a criminal who forces his way into the victim's thoughts long after the act has been committed.
Reporters weren't allowed into Kosovo during the war without the permission of the Yugoslavian government but Matthew McAllester went anyway. In Beyond the Mountains of the Damned he...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reflections on politics, the economy, and the modern world by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
Thomas Piketty’s work has proved that unfettered markets lead to increasing inequality, and that without meaningful regulation, capitalist economies will concentrate wealth in an ever smaller number of hands, threatening democracy. For years, his newspaper...
Thomas Piketty’s work has proved that unfettered markets lead to increasing inequality, and that without meaningful regulation, capitalist economies will concentrate wealth in an ever smaller number of hands, threatening democracy. For years, his newspaper...
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Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Physical Desc
xvi, 236 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
A “gripping [and] splendidly readable” portrait of the battle within the British War Cabinet—and Churchill’s eventual victory—as Hitler’s shadow loomed (The Boston Globe).
From May 24 to May 28, 1940, members of Britain’s War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue what became known as the Second World War. In this magisterial work, John Lukacs takes...
From May 24 to May 28, 1940, members of Britain’s War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue what became known as the Second World War. In this magisterial work, John Lukacs takes...
17) Crown & sceptre: a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 555 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Since William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel in 1066 to defeat King Harold II and unite England's various kingdoms, forty-one kings and queens have sat on Britain's throne: "shining examples of royal power and majesty alongside a rogue's gallery of weak, lazy, or evil monarchs," as Tracy Borman evocatively describes them in her sparkling chronicle, Crown & Sceptre. Ironically, during very few of these 955 years has the...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2015].
Physical Desc
ix, 867 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise. Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued material progress and proud of their imperial command over the globe, only to become embroiled in the bloodshed of World War I, which brought an end to their optimism...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 643 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician had foreseen that an epoch defined by games of irreconcilable one-upmanship between the world's most heavily armed superpowers would end in their lifetimes. Under the long, forbidding shadow of the Cold War, even the smallest miscalculation from either side could result in catastrophe.
Everything changed in March 1985 when...
Author
Publisher
Columbia Global Reports
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
125 pages : map ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Putin's Exiles is an indispensable work for anyone trying to understand Russia today-to go beyond Putin's propaganda and the tightly controlled nar- rative inside the country and look outside its borders to the diaspora of Russian exiles, who are imagining and fighting for the future of their country"--
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