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“bernhard menne”

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  • Blood and Steel - The Rise of the House of Krupp

    by Bernhard Menne ...
    The Krupp family are a prominent German dynasty from Essen and are famous for their steel production and the manufacture of ammunitions and armaments. This book provides the first genuine critical history of the company whose guns made the background for a half-century of mad armament policy, made possible by Krupp's new patron, Adolf Hitler. The House of Krupp's true history had been concealed by ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The War That Ended Peace

    The Road To 1914

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress, and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked into a catastrophic conflict that killed millions, bled its economies dry, shook empires and societies to pieces, and fatally undermined Europe’s dominance of the world. It was a war that could have been avoided up to the last ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Gathering Storm

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 1 - Winston S. Churchill The Second World Wa
    "It is our immense good fortune that a man who presided over this crisis in history is able to turn the action he lived through into enduring literature." — The New York TimesThis book is the first in Winston Churchill's monumental six-volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis during World War II. Told from the unique viewpoint of a British ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Money Dies

    The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany

    by Adam Fergusson ...
    **The classic history of the political and economic devastation wrought by runaway inflation in Weimar Germany—“**brilliant” (Guardian)In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic was all but reduced to a barter economy. Expensive cigars, artworks, and jewels were routinely exchanged for ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Triumph and Tragedy

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 6 - Winston S. Churchill The Second World Wa
    Winston Churchill recounts the end of WWII and its aftermath, in the conclusion of his majestic six-volume history.In Triumph and Tragedy, British prime minister Winston Churchill provides in dramatic detail the endgame of the war and the uneasy meetings between himself, Stalin, and Truman to discuss plans for rebuilding Europe in the aftermath of devastation.Beginning with the invasion of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gathering Storm

    The Second World War Volume 1

    by Winston Churchill ...
    Series Book 1 - The Second World War
    The Gathering Storm is the first volume in Winston Churchills The Second World War, a history of World War II from the end of the First World War to the conclusion of the second in 1945. Though Churchill wrote the history from his own perspective and held back necessary classified information, The Second World War is lauded as a fair and accurate account of war, and has remained one of the most ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Bismarck

    A Life

    by Jonathan Steinberg ...
    This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends and foes to tell the story. What rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Bismarck: A Life

    A Life

    by Jonathan Steinberg ...
    This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality. It takes the reader into close proximity with a human being of almost superhuman abilities. We see him through the eyes of his secretaries, his old friends, his neighbours, his enemies and the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • 1914: The Year the World Ended

    by Paul Ham ...
    Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did. In July that year, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set the course for the bloodiest century in human history. In the longer run, the events of 1914 set ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Eastern Front 1914-1917

    by Norman Stone ...
    '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 on a thorough knowledge of Austrian and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The German Empire

    A Short History

    by Michael Sturmer ...
    Series Book 4 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In The German Empire, one of Europe's great historians and men of letters chronicles one of history's most fateful transformations--Germany's rise from new nation to prime mover in the chain of events that sent it hurtling into two world wars.In 1871, Otto von Bismarck fused with "blood and iron" a motley collection of principalities, Free Cities, and bishoprics into one Reich. In England, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The First World War: Volume I: To Arms

    Volume I: To Arms

    by Hew Strachan ...
    This is the first truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth century. The first generation of its historians had access to only a limited range of sources, and their focus was primarily on military events. More recent approaches have embraced cultural, diplomatic, economic, and social history. In Hew Strachan's authoritative and readable ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD