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  • The Balfour Declaration

    The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

    by Jonathan Schneer ...
    A revelatory history of a document that laid the foundation stone of the state of Israel, the reverberations of which continue to be felt to this day.Born in the furnace of shifting great-power alliances, the Balfour Declaration, issued in 1917, was a defining moment in world history. In paving the way for the establishment of the State of Israel, it fundamentally reshaped the Middle East and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Nine Days in May

    The General Strike of 1926

    by Jonathan Schneer ...
    The General Strike of 1926: the tragic story of how the world's best organized working class confronted the world's most powerful, and self-confident, government. In May, 1926, nearly three million British workers downed tools to support nearly one million of their countrymen, miners whose employers meant to lengthen their working day and cut their pay. This General Strike brought the country to a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Ministers at War

    Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet

    by Jonathan Schneer ...
    In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the King reluctantly appointed Prime Minister as Germany invaded France. Churchill's reputation as one of the great twentieth-century leaders would be forged during the coming months and years, as he worked ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Lockhart Plot

    Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia

    by Jonathan Schneer ...
    During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-old Scot, they conspired to overthrow Lenin's newly established Bolshevik regime, and to install one that would continue the war against Germany on the Eastern Front ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Social Conflict and the Political Order in Modern Britain

    Edited by James E Cronin, Jonathan Schneer ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First Published in 1982, Social Conflict and the Political Order in Modern Britain offers a selection of work on British social history done by scholars working in a distinctly American context. The authors strongly feel that the way forward in social history is not some retreat into still more detailed, apolitical history, nor a move away from social analysis back towards a study of the purely ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Labour's Conscience

    The Labour Left, 1945-51

    by Jonathan Schneer ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement
    First published in 1988. The years 1945-51 were crucial to the Labour Party and the Left in Britain. This elegantly written book traces the gradual and painful disillusionment of the Labour Left with the Attlee governments and analyses the alternative, more militant, programme which the Labour Left devised. Never an organised bloc, the author argues that they are best understood as Labour’s ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Ben Tillett

    Portrait of a Labour Leader

    by Jonathan Schneer ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement
    First published in 1982. To study Tillett’s career is to study the modern British labour movement in its formative stages. His rhetoric and activities cast light upon some of the most important periods in labour history. In this book, not only the career of this remarkable and mercurial man is analysed, but our knowledge of the wider scene in which he played so major a role is increased. This ... Read more

    $50.83 CAD

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    The Lockhart Plot

    Love, Betrayal, Assassination, and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia

    by Jonathan Schneer ...
    Narrated by Traber Burns ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 56 min

    During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane thirty-year-old Scot, they conspired to overthrow Lenin’s newly established Bolshevik regime, and to install one that would continue the war against Germany on the Eastern ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Israeli Solution

    A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East

    by Caroline Glick ...
    A landmark manifesto issuing a bold call for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict.The reigning consensus in elite and academic circles is that the United States must seek to resolve the Palestinians' conflict with Israel by implementing the so-called two-state solution. Establishing a Palestinian state, so the thinking goes, would be a panacea for all the region’s ills. In a time ... Read more

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  • Bible and Sword

    England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour

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    From Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August, comes history through a wide-angle lens: a fascinating chronicle of Britain’s long relationship with Palestine and the Middle East, from the ancient world to the twentieth century.Historically, the British were drawn to the Holy Land for two major reasons: first, to translate the Bible into English and, later, to control ... Read more

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  • Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution

    from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty

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    Eureka Stockade - the unfinished revolution . . . In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. Henry Lawson wrote poems about it, its symbolic flag is still raised, and even the nineteenth-century visitor Mark Twain called it: � a ... Read more

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