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  • A History of Germany, 1800 to the Present

    by Professor William Carr, Dr. David Wetzel ...
    A History of Germany, 1800 to the Present is a commanding survey of modern German history that guides you from the turn of the 19th century right the way through to Germany's continuing world-power status today. Covering the revolutions of 1848-49, Bismarck, the World Wars, the Cold War and the progress of a reunified Germany, the 5th edition of this classic textbook provides an authoritative ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Origins of the Wars of German Unification

    by William Carr, Harry Hearder ...
    Series series Origins Of Modern Wars
    In his last book, the late William Carr provides a masterly account of the origins and impact of the three major wars fought by Prussia in creating the Bismarckian Reich of 1871. He begins with a study of the development of nationalism and liberalism from the late eighteenth century to the 1860's, before turning to a detailed examination of the Schleswig-Holstein Conflict of 1864; the `Six Weeks ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • From Castlebar to Leichhardt

    A Carr family history

    by Edwin William Carr ...
    Why did nine brothers and sisters from a large Irish family take dangerous ocean voyages to the Australian colonies, on the other side of the globe? They came alone or in groups over 23 years and some of them were children as young as 13 or 14. Most never saw their parents or their birth country again.There must be hundreds of descendants of the Irish Carrs living today. How much do we know of our ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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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

  • A Concise History of Poland

    by Jerzy Lukowski, Hubert Zawadzki ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    The second edition of this guide to Poland has been updated to take account of the years from 1989–2005. This period marked its liberation from the Soviet Union, the birth of Poland's 'Third Republic' and, recently, its accession to the European Union in 2004. Poland's history has been marked by its resilience. Once a dominant force in central and eastern Europe and home to a remarkable experiment ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Ailing Empire: Germany from Bismarck to Hitler

    by Sebastian Haffner ...
    The Ailing Empire: Germany from Bismarck to Hitler by Sebastian Haffner (translated from the German by Jean Steinberg; 57,000 words)Using his skills as a journalist, historian, and memoirist, Sebastian Haffner (author of The Meaning of Hitler) traces the development of the German Empire (1871-1945) and the central role of warfare that characterized the Reich. Haffner contends that Germany’s ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Failure of a Revolution: Germany 1918-1919

    by Sebastian Haffner ...
    Failure of a Revolution: Germany 1918-1919 by Sebastian Haffner (translated from the German by Georg Rapp; 67,000 words and 16 illustrations)The masterfully told story of what happened in Germany following its defeat in the first world war: the Kaiser’s exit from the stage, the sailors’ mutiny, the spreading of the revolution and its betrayal by its own chosen socialist leaders. Haffner recounts ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • A Perfidious Distortion of History

    the Versailles Peace Treaty and the success of the Nazis

    by Jürgen Tampke ...
    A controversial and important work of revisionist history that rebuts the accepted version of the role of the Versailles Peace Treaty in the rise of Nazism and the unleashing of World War II.The Versailles Peace Treaty, the pact that ended World War I between the German empire and the Allies, has not enjoyed a positive reputation since its signing in June 1919. Conventional wisdom has it that the ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Bismarck

    A Political History

    by Edgar Feuchtwanger ...
    Series series Routledge Historical Biographies
    Bismarck was arguably the most important figure in nineteenth-century European history after 1815. In this biography, Edgar Feuchtwanger reassesses Bismarck's significance as a historical figure. He traces his development from a typical Junker, a reactionary and conservative, into the so-called white revolutionary who recast European affairs more drastically than anyone since Napoleon. This second ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Diplomacy

    by Henry Kissinger ...
    A brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China.The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy.Moving from a sweeping overview of history to blow-by-blow accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Henry Kissinger describes how the art of diplomacy has ... Read more

    $13.99 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

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Big Book of Scandalous Australian Women

    by Kay Saunders ...
    Bringing together bad women of every stripe and variety - the scandalous, the brash, the fearless, the downright nasty and some who just went a little bit wrong - in the one big book.Some are wicked, some are scandalous, some are downright mean and ruthless and some just went a little bit sideways. Meet the bad women of Australia: the femmes who challenge our ideas of what women should be - ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD