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  • Pierre Laval and the Eclipse of France, 1931-1945

    by Geoffrey Warner ...
    “Pierre Laval is one of the most controversial figures in recent European history. Few authors have examined his career without passion, mainly hostile [...] What was long needed was a reasoned study of the man that threw on its subject the light of understanding, not the heat of partisan polemic, and this superb political biography by a perceptive British historian fills that need [...] Warner’s ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Belfast and Derry in Revolt

    A New History of the Start of the Troubles

    by Simon Prince, Geoffrey Warner ...
    In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a civil war started in Northern Ireland. This book tells that story through Belfast and Derry, using original archival research to trace how multiple and overlapping conflicts unfolded on their streets. The Troubles grew out of a political process that mobilised opponents and defenders of the Stormont regime, and which also dragged London and Dublin into the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • In the Midst of Events

    The Foreign Office Diaries and Papers of Kenneth Younger, February 1950-October 1951

    Edited by Geoffrey Warner ...
    Series series British Politics and Society
    Kenneth Younger was the number two man in the Foreign Office during the final period of the Attlee government, a crucial point in post-war history. Now, his papers have been collected for the first time, providing new insight on contemporary events including the Schuman Plan, the Korean War, German Rearmament, the Japanese Peace Treaty and the Abadan Crisis. Younger was an inveterate diarist, and ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

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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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  • Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"

    How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World

    by Patrick J. Buchanan ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment?In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen—Winston Churchill first among them—the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • A Certain Idea of France

    The Life of Charles de Gaulle

    by Julian Jackson ...
    **The inspiration for the acclaimed 2026 film De Gaulle: Resistance**Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, the American Library in Paris Award, the Franco-British Society Literary Prize and the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique du Touquet'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times</... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Erich von Manstein

    Hitler's Master Strategist

    by Benoît Lemay ...
    A selection of the Military Book Club: An "informative and objective" biography of a genius commander and a study of his loyalty to the Nazi cause ( Library Journal).To many close students of World War II, Erich von Manstein is considered the greatest commander of the war, if not the entire twentieth century. He devised the plan that conquered France in 1940 and led an infantry corps in that ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Collapse of the Third Republic

    An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940

    by William L. Shirer ...
    The National Book Award–winning historian's "vivid and moving" eyewitness account of the fall of France to Hitler's Third Reich at the outset of WWII ( The New York Times).As an international war correspondent and radio commentator during World War II, William L. Shirer didn't just research the fall of France. He was there. In just six weeks, he watched the Third Reich topple one of the world's ... Read more

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  • The General

    Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved

    by Jonathan Fenby ...
    No leader of modern times was more uniquely patriotic than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first president of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself as “carrying France on [his] shoulders.”In his twenties, he fought for France in the trenches and at the epic battle of Verdun. In the 1930s, he waged a lonely battle to enable France to better resist Hitler’s Germany. Thereafter, he ... Read more

    $24.99 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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  • 1914-1918

    The History of the First World War

    by David Stevenson ...
    1914-1918, David Stevenson's history of the First World War, has been acclaimed as the definitive one-volume account of the conflictIn the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions, destroying four empires and costing millions of lives. Even the victorious countries were scarred for a generation, and we still today remain within ... Read more

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  • Russia Against Napoleon

    The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814

    by Dominic Lieven ...
    'A compulsive page-turner ... a triumph of brilliant storytelling ... an instant classic that is an awesome, remarkable and exuberant achievement' Simon Sebag MontefioreWinner of the Wolfson History Prize and shortlisted for the Duff Cooper PrizeIn the summer of 1812 Napoleon, the master of Europe, marched into Russia with the largest army ever assembled, confident that he would sweep everything ... Read more

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