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World War One
Basic Books 2009; US$ 15.00The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, four empires were destroyed, and even the victors? empires were fatally damaged. World War I took humanity from the nineteenth century forcibly into the twentieth?and then, at Versailles, cast Europe on the... more...
The Atlantic and Its Enemies
Basic Books 2010; US$ 22.00A masterful history of the second half of the twentieth century by one of the great historians of our age more...
World War One
Penguin Books Ltd 2008; Not AvailableThe First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. The sheer complexity and scale of the war have encouraged historians to write books on... more...
The Eastern Front 1914-1917
Penguin Books Ltd 2008; Not Available'Without question one of the classics of post-war historical scholarship, Stone's boldly conceived and brilliantly executed book opened the eyes of a generation of young British historians raised on tales of the Western trenches to the crucial importance of the Eastern Front in the First World War' Niall Ferguson 'Scholarly, lucid, entertaining, based... more...
The Atlantic and Its Enemies
Penguin Books Ltd 2010; Not AvailableThose who survived the Second World War stared out onto a devastated, morally ruined world. Much of Europe and Asia had been so ravaged that it was unclear whether any form of normal life could ever be established again - coups, collapsing empires and civil wars, some on a vast scale, continued to reshape country after country long after the fighting... more...
World War Two
Basic Books 2013; US$ 25.00After the Great War, the United States and the nations of Europe longed for a lasting peace. As far as they were concerned, they had just experienced ?the war to end all wars.? Over 15 million lay dead, and much of Europe had been reduced to rubble. The possibility of another such conflict was practically unthinkable. And yet within two decades of... more...
World War Two
Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not AvailableA pacy, compelling and penetrating account from Wolfson Prize-winning author Norman Stone, that shows World War Two in a fresh new light The Second World War is the nightmare that sits at the heart of the modern era - a total refutation of any notion of human progress and a conflict which still haunts us seventy years on. Norman Stone's... more...
Journey into Fear
Penguin Books Ltd 2009; Not AvailableIt is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger steamer from Istanbul. As he journeys home - alongside,... more...
A Short History of the World
Penguin Books Ltd 2006; Not AvailableSpanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Along the way, Wells considers such diverse subjects as the Neolithic era, the rise of Judaism, the Golden Age of Athens, the life of Christ, the rise of Islam, the discovery... more...
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