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  • Eastern European Railways in Transition

    Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries

    by Henry Jacolin ...
    During the nineteenth century, railway lines spread rapidly across Europe, linking the continent in ways unimaginable to previous generations. By the beginning of the twentieth century the great cities of the continent were linked by a complex and extensive rail network. Yet this high-point of interconnectivity, was abruptly cut-off after 1945, as the Cold War built barriers - both physical and ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Railways in the First World War, Volume 2

    Edited by Andrea Giuntini, Henry Jacolin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    This book, the second in a two- volume work resulting from a 2018 conference organized by the International Railway History Association (IRHA), examines the relationship between the railways and the First World War from a global theoretical, methodological and geographical perspective.Although the First World War (1914– 1918) has been studied extensively from virtually every angle, the question of ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Railways in the First World War, Volume 1

    Edited by Andrea Giuntini, Henry Jacolin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    This book, the first in a two-volume work resulting from a 2018 conference organised by the International Railway History Association (IRHA), examines the relationship between the railways and the First World War from a global theoretical, methodological and geographical perspective.Although World War I (1914–1918) has been studied extensively from virtually every angle, the question of the ... Read more

    $89.99 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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  • The Sleepwalkers

    How Europe Went to War in 1914

    by Christopher Clark ...
    “A monumental new volume. . . . Revelatory, even revolutionary. . . . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable.” — Boston GlobeOne of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)Historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I.Drawing on new schol... ... Read more

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  • In Wartime

    Stories from Ukraine

    by Tim Judah ...
    Urgent and insightful, Tim Judah's account of the human side of the conflict in Ukraine is an evocative exploration of what the second largest country in Europe feels like in wartime.Making his way from the Polish border in the west, through the capital city and the heart of the 2014 revolution, to the eastern frontline near the Russian border, seasoned war reporter Tim Judah brings a rare glimpse ... Read more

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  • Putin And The Rise Of Russia

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  • The First World War:A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Howard ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the 'Great War', focusing on why it happened, how it was fought, and why it had the consequences it did.It examines the state of Europe in 1914 and the outbreak of war; the ... Read more

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  • Barbarism and Civilization

    A History of Europe in our Time

    by Bernard Wasserstein ...
    The twentieth century in Europe witnessed some of the most brutish episodes in history. Yet it also saw incontestable improvements in the conditions of existence for most inhabitants of the continent - from rising living standards and dramatically increased life expectancy, to the virtual elimination of illiteracy, and the advance of women, ethnic minorities, and homosexuals to greater equality of ... Read more

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  • 1914-1918

    The History of the First World War

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    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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