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  • Between the Wars 1919-1939

    The Cartoonists' Vision

    by Dr Roy Douglas, Roy Douglas ...
    First Published in 1992. `Between the wars' was the great age of the cartoon character. The adventures of Mickey Mouse, Popeye, and Donald Duck were followed avidly by millions. Even the political leaders of the grim world of the 1920s and 1930s were known to millions as cartoon characters - gawky, bespectacled Woodrow Wilson, the balloon-like Mussolini, and the moustache men Hitler, Stalin, ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Great Nations Still Enchained

    The Cartoonists' Vision of Empire 1848-1914

    by Dr Roy Douglas, Roy Douglas ...
    The grandeur of the great imperial powers of the nineteenth century - Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary and even the burgeoning United States, was constantly subverted by the cartoonists of the day. As Roy Douglas reveals, cartoons are often more accurate guides to popular feelings than the newspapers in which they appeared. In this, his third look at history through the eyes of ... Read more

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  • Paris 1919

    Six Months That Changed the World

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    A landmark work of narrative history, Paris 1919 is the first full-scale treatment of the Peace Conference in more than twenty-five years. It offers a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries were created—Iraq, Yugoslavia, Israel—whose troubles haunt us still.Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize • Winner of the PEN Hessell ... Read more

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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

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  • The Russian Revolution: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.In 1917 the world changed forever. One of the most influential and contentious events in recent history, the Russian Revolution unleashed the greatest political experiment ever conducted, one which continues to influence both Eastern and Western politics today.The Russian Revolution: History in an Hour neatly covers all the major facts and ... Read more

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  • Nazi Germany: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Having suffered during World War One – not only the indignities of political betrayal and battlefield defeat but also starvation, fuel shortages and a domestic flu epidemic – the German people were left in widespread discontent. Soon inflation and economic stagnation had further sunk the nation into exhaustion, humiliation and disillusionment ... Read more

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  • The Crimean War

    A History

    by Orlando Figes ...
    From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" (Financial Times) and a Wolfson History Prize winner, comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age.The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale—these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. Less well-known is that this savage war (1853-1856) killed almost a million soldiers and countless civilians ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Origins of the Second World War

    by Professor A J P Taylor ...
    One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller. Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, he argued provocatively that Hitler did not set out to cause the war as part of an evil master plan, but blundered into it partly by ... Read more

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  • End of a Berlin Diary

    by William L. Shirer ...
    "A vivid and unforgettable word picture of the destruction of Nazi Germany" ( The New York Times).A radio broadcaster and journalist for Edward R. Murrow at CBS, William L. Shirer was new to the world of broadcast journalism when he began keeping a diary while on assignment in Europe during the 1930s. It was in 1940, when he was still virtually unknown, that Shirer wondered whether his eyewitness ... Read more

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  • The Pursuit of Power

    Europe, 1815-1914

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar... a veritable tour de force' Richard Overy, New Statesman'Transnational history at its finest ... .. social, political and cultural themes swirl together in one great canvas of immense detail and beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times'Dazzlingly erudite and entertaini... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Nuremberg Trials - The Complete Proceedings Vol: 1 The Indictment and Opening Statements

    by Bob Carruthers ...
    This is the first volume in the complete proceedings of the Nuremberg trial of the German major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal sitting at Nuremberg, Germany. Taken from the original court transcript this volume covers the proceedings from 20th November 1945 to 1st December 1945 and represents an essential primary source for scholars and general readers alike. The ... Read more

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  • 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