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  • Dance of the Furies

    by Michael S. Neiberg ...
    Looking beyond diplomats and generals, Neiberg shows that neither nationalist passions nor desires for revenge took Europe to war in 1914. Dance of the Furies gives voice to a generation who suddenly found themselves compelled to participate in a ghastly, protracted orgy of violence they never imagined would come to pass. ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • Potsdam

    The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe

    by Michael Neiberg ...
    The definitive account of the 1945 Potsdam Conference: the historic summit where Truman, Stalin, and Churchill met to determine the fate of post-World War II EuropeAfter Germany's defeat in World War II, Europe lay in tatters. Millions of refugees were dispersed across the continent. Food and fuel were scarce. Britain was bankrupt, while Germany had been reduced to rubble. In July of 1945, Harry ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Treaty of Versailles

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael S. Neiberg ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treaty as a mediocre compromise, creating a precarious order in Europe and abroad and destined to fall short of ensuring lasting peace. At the time, observers read the treaty through competing lenses: a ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Fighting the Great War

    A Global History

    by Michael S. Neiberg ...
    Despair at Gallipoli. Victory at Vimy Ridge. A European generation lost, an American spirit found. The First World War, the deadly herald of a new era, continues to captivate readers. In this lively book, Michael Neiberg offers a concise history based on the latest research and insights into the soldiers, commanders, battles, and legacies of the Great War.Tracing the war from Verdun to Salonika to ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • When France Fell

    The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance

    by Michael S. Neiberg ...
    Shocked by the fall of France in 1940, panicked US leaders rushed to back the Vichy government—a fateful decision that nearly destroyed the Anglo–American alliance.According to US Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the “most shocking single event” of World War II was not the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but rather the fall of France in spring 1940. Michael Neiberg offers a dramatic history of the ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

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  • The Treaty of Versailles

    A Concise History

    by Michael S. Neiberg ...
    Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treaty as a mediocre compromise, creating a precarious order in Europe and abroad and destined to fall short of ensuring lasting peace. At the time, observers read the treaty through competing lenses: a ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

  • Dance of the Furies

    Europe and the Outbreak of World War I

    by Michael S. Neiberg ...
    The common explanation for the outbreak of World War I depicts Europe as a minefield of nationalism, needing only the slightest pressure to set off an explosion of passion that would rip the continent apart. But in a crucial reexamination of the outbreak of violence, Michael S. Neiberg shows that ordinary Europeans, unlike their political and military leaders, neither wanted nor expected war ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Path to War

    How the First World War Created Modern America

    by Michael S. Neiberg ...
    When war broke out in Europe in August of 1914, it seemed, to observers in the United States, the height of madness. The Old World and its empires were tearing each other apart, and while most Americans blamed the Germans, pitied the Belgians, and felt kinship with the Allies, they wanted no part in the carnage. Two years into war President Woodrow Wilson won re-election by pledging to keep out of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Blood of Free Men

    The Liberation of Paris, 1944

    by Michael Neiberg ...
    As the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of 1944, the fate of Paris hung in the balance. Other jewels of Europe -- sites like Warsaw, Antwerp, and Monte Cassino -- were, or would soon be, reduced to rubble during attempts to liberate them. But Paris endured, thanks to a fractious cast of characters, from Resistance cells to Free French operatives to an unlikely assortment of ... Read more

    Was $25.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • Foch

    by Michael S. Neiberg ...
    Ferdinand Foch is the prototype of the twentieth-century general. Better than any other general of the First World War, Foch came to understand how technology and modern alliance systems had changed the nature of warfare. He is most famous for his role as Allied commander in chief in 1918. In this position, unparalleled in the history of warfare, Foch welded together the disparate war efforts ... Read more

    $13.67 CAD

  • Warfare and Society in Europe

    1898 to the Present

    by Michael S. Neiberg ...
    Series series Warfare and History
    Warfare and Society in Europe, 1898 to the Present examines warfare in Europe from the Fashoda conflict in modern-day Sudan to the recent war in Iraq. The twentieth century was by far the world's most destructive century with two global wars marking the first half of the century and the constant fear of nuclear annihilation haunting the second half ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Eastern Front 1914–1920

    From Tannenberg to the Russo-Polish War

    by Professor Michael S Neiberg, David Jordan ...
    Series series History of WWI
    The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns of the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the World War I series provides a six-volume history of the battles and campaigns that raged on land, at sea and in the air.In 1914, the autocratic Russian Empire was allied to ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus