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The Abandonment of the Jewsby David S. WymanISBN 0394740777 (0-394-74077-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Abandonment of the Jews'Book summary:It has long been alleged that officials in the Roosevelt administration knew, in surprising detail, about Adolf Hitler's plans to exterminate all the Jews in Nazi Europe--and that these officials did little to prevent the massacre, refusing asylum to shiploads of Jewish refugees and failing to order the bombing of railway lines leading to Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other concentration camps. David S. Wyman examines the evidence, concluding that senior American officials could indeed have saved many thousands, if not millions, of European Jews by intervening earlier. In this controversial work, he suggests, with good cause, that a combination of anti-Semitism and indifference to anything not perceived as being of direct strategic importance to the United States indirectly led to countless deaths. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Abandonment of the Jews : America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945by David S. WymanISBN 0394428137 (0-394-42813-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Age of Nationalism and Reform, 1850-1890by Norman RichISBN 039309183X (0-393-09183-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Age of Nationalism and Reform, 1850-1890'Book summary:The Revolutions of 1848 swept away some of the foremost champions of international conservatism. [via]
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Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through Historyby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0312424930 (0-312-42493-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History'Book summary:From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare now sweeping Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy.
This enthralling and often chilling political travelogue fully deciphers the Balkans' ancient passions and intractable hatreds for outsiders. For as Kaplan travels among the vibrantly-adorned churches and soul-destroying slums of the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece, he allows us to see the region's history as a time warp in which Slobodan Milosevic becomes the reincarnation of a fourteenth-century Serbian martyr; Nicolae Ceaucescu is called "Drac," or "the Devil"; and the one-time Soviet Union turns out to be a continuation of the Ottoman Empire. [via]
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Berlin Diaryby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517446359 (0-517-44635-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Berlin Diary'Book summary:A precurser to the author's best-selling The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich describes the harrowing Nazi rise to power in Germany during the second half of the 1930s and profiles Hitler's complex personality. [via]
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Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941by William Lawrence ShirerISBN 0140051821 (0-14-005182-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941'Book summary:The book that first established William Shirer as the foremost chronicler of Nazi Germany re-creates with vivid precision the train of events from Hitler's accession to Chamberlain's Munich capitulation through the fall of Poland, Belgium, Paris, and the government of France. [via]
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Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaulby CaesarISBN 0140444335 (0-14-044433-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaul'Book summary:Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres... It is, perhaps, the most famous opening line of any memoir in Western civilization. What Caesar and the Romans called "Gaul," although we usually think of it as France, also comprised Belgium, the German lands west of the Rhine, southern Holland, and much of Switzerland. This is the only military campaign of the ancient world for which we have a chronicle written by the general who conducted it, and Julius Caesar is an insightful historian, with a keen eye for detail, as in this scene from the repulsion of the forces of the German king Ariovistus:
Caesar placed each of his five generals ahead of a legion and detailed his quaestor to command the remaining legion, so that every soldier might know that there was a high officer in a position to observe the courage with which he conducted himself, and then led the right wing first into action, because he had noticed that the enemy's line was weakest on that side.
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Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaulby S. A. Handford, CaesarISBN 0140440216 (0-14-044021-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaul'Book summary:Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres... It is, perhaps, the most famous opening line of any memoir in Western civilization. What Caesar and the Romans called "Gaul," although we usually think of it as France, also comprised Belgium, the German lands west of the Rhine, southern Holland, and much of Switzerland. This is the only military campaign of the ancient world for which we have a chronicle written by the general who conducted it, and Julius Caesar is an insightful historian, with a keen eye for detail, as in this scene from the repulsion of the forces of the German king Ariovistus:
Caesar placed each of his five generals ahead of a legion and detailed his quaestor to command the remaining legion, so that every soldier might know that there was a high officer in a position to observe the courage with which he conducted himself, and then led the right wing first into action, because he had noticed that the enemy's line was weakest on that side.
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The Celtsby Gerhard HermISBN 0312313438 (0-312-31343-8)
Softcover, Strategic Planning Management
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The Celts: The People Who Came Out of the Darknessby Gerhard HermISBN 0297771655 (0-297-77165-5)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Celts: The People Who Came Out of the Darkness'Book summary:Description: 312 p. , [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Translation of Die Kelten. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [297]-298. Subjects: Celts [via]
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Closing the Ringby Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillISBN 0395410592 (0-395-41059-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Closing the Ring'Book summary:The drive to victory between June 1943 and July 1944, as the Allies consolidate their achievements, with enormous difficulty and great divergence of opinion.[via] -
Commentariorvm: Libri VII De Bello Gallico Sum A. Hirti Supplementoby CaesarISBN 0198146027 (0-19-814602-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Congress of Vienna: A Study in Allied Unity, 1812-1822by Harold George NicolsonISBN 015622061X (0-15-622061-X)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Lifeby Alison WeirISBN 0345434870 (0-345-43487-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life'Book summary:Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, eleanor of aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the middle ages. Despite the fact she lived in an age in which women were regarded as little more than chattel, eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power in the political sphere and crucial influence over her husbands and sons. In this beautifully written new biography, alison weir, author of five widely acclaimed chronicles of england's royal rulers, paints a vibrant portrait of this truly exceptional woman, and provides new insights into her intimate life.born in 1122 into the sophisticated and cultured court of poitiers, eleanor came of age in a world of luxury, intrigue, bloody combat, and unbridled ambition. At only fifteen, she inherited one of the great fortunes of europe--the prize duchy of aquitaine--yet her father had been shrewd enough to realize that her future security lay in a powerful marriage. Consequently the sensual duchess submitted to a union with the handsome but sexually withholding louis vii, the teenage king of france. The marriage endured for fifteen fraught years, until eleanor finally succeeded in having it annulled--only to enter an even stormier match with the aggressively virile, hot-tempered henry of anjou, who would soon ascend to the english throne as henry ii.as weir traces the fascinating intersection of public and private lives in europe's twelfth-century courts, eleanor comes to life as a complex, boldly original woman who transcended the mores of society. Eventually, after enduring henry's flagrant infidelities, she showed herself a formidable and dangerous enemy of the king's interests by plotting to overthrow him with their sons henry, richard, and geoffrey. [via]
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The Enlightenment: An Interpretationby Peter GayISBN 0393008703 (0-393-00870-3)
Hardcover, Norton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Enlightenment: An Interpretation'Book summary:Part of a two-volume study of the Enlightenment, this volume develops a social history of the period, the "Philosophes" and their background. The author provides insights into the Enlightenment's critical methods and its humane and libertarian visions. [via]
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The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganismby Peter GayISBN 0393313026 (0-393-31302-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Europe and the People Without Historyby Eric R. WolfISBN 0520048989 (0-520-04898-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Europe and the People Without History'Book summary:This transformative text book asserts that anthropology must pay more attention to history when looking at the way European expansion affects non-European societies. A University of California Press best-seller, it is updated now with a new foreword. [via]
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Europe Since 1870: An International Historyby James JollISBN 0140219188 (0-14-021918-8)
Hardcover, Penguin
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The Face of Battleby John KeeganISBN 0140048979 (0-14-004897-9)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Face of Battle'Book summary:The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the point of maximum danger. It examines the physical conditions of fighting, the particular emotions and behaviour generated by battle, as well as the motives that impel soldiers to stand and fight rather than run away. And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles, John Keegan vividly conveys their reality for the participants, whether facing the arrow cloud of Agincourt, the levelled muskets of Waterloo or the steel rain of the Somme. [via]
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The Fall of Berlin 1945by Antony BeevorISBN 0142002801 (0-14-200280-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of Berlin 1945'Book summary:Military history, even at its best, can be a cold art. It's easy to lose sight of the fact that wars involve individuals, each with their own hopes, fears and desires. Berlin: the Downfall, 1945, is Antony Beevor's account of the bloody Götterdämmerung that brought the Second World War in Europe to an end, and in which he has fused the large and the small scale effects of war. Beevor paints the broad picture of Marshals Zhukov and Konev, competing for glory and Stalin's attention, as they race their armies towards Berlin. He gives the reader a gripping account of the brutal street-by-street fighting in the German capital and provides an unforgettable portrait of the last, insane days of Hitler and his entourage in the bunker.
His attention to emotional detail is what made his previous book Stalingrad such a magnificent work, combining a sweeping hisorical narrative with a remarkable sensitivity to human drama. Yet he also highlights the small details of ordinary people caught in the nightmare of history--the sick children evacuated at the last minute from a Potsdam hospital; the Soviet soldiers shaving themselves for the first time in weeks so that they would make appropriately presentable conquerors; and the Nazi Youth teenagers peddling their bikes in despairing, last-ditch attacks against the Red Army's tanks.
The story Beevor tells is an almost unremittingly terrible one--one of death, rape, hunger and human misery--but he tells it with both an epic sweep and an alertness to individuality. The result is a masterpiece of narrative history that is as powerful as Stalingrad. --Nick Rennison [via]
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Loveby Dava SobelISBN 0140280553 (0-14-028055-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love'Book summary:Everyone knows that Galileo Galilei dropped cannonballs off the leaning tower of Pisa, developed the first reliable telescope, and was convicted by the Inquisition for holding a heretical belief--that the earth revolved around the sun. But did you know he had a daughter? In Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel (author of the bestselling Longitude) tells the story of the famous scientist and his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste. Sobel bases her book on 124 surviving letters to the scientist from the nun, whom Galileo described as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and tenderly attached to me." Their loving correspondence revealed much about their world: the agonies of the bubonic plague, the hardships of monastic life, even Galileo's occasional forgetfulness ("The little basket, which I sent you recently with several pastries, is not mine, and therefore I wish you to return it to me").
While Galileo tangled with the Church, Maria Celeste--whose adopted name was a tribute to her father's fascination with the heavens--provided moral and emotional support with her frequent letters, approving of his work because she knew the depth of his faith. As Sobel notes, "It is difficult today ... to see the Earth at the center of the Universe. Yet that is where Galileo found it." With her fluid prose and graceful turn of phrase, Sobel breathes life into Galileo, his daughter, and the earth-centered world in which they lived. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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The Gallic Warby Julius Caesar, Carolyn Hammond, Aulus HirtiusISBN 0192835823 (0-19-283582-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gallic War'Book summary:The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. This new translation reflects the purity of Caesar's Latin while preserving the pace and flow of his momentous narrative of the conquest of Gaul and the first Roman invasions of Britain and Germany. Detailed notes, maps, a table of dates, and glossary make this the most useful edition available. [via]
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The Grand Allianceby Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillISBN 0395410576 (0-395-41057-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grand Alliance'Book summary:Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction and is an enduring, compelling work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. The Grand Alliance recounts the momentous events of 1941 surrounding America's entry into the War and Hitler's march on Russia the continuing onslaught on British civilians during the Blitz, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the alliance between Britain and America that shaped the outcome of the War. [via]
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Timeby John KellyISBN 0060006935 (0-06-000693-5)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time'Book summary:A book chronicling one of the worst human disasters in recorded history really has no business being entertaining. But John Kelly's The Great Mortality is a page-turner despite its grim subject matter and graphic detail. Credit Kelly's animated prose and uncanny ability to drop his reader smack in the middle of the 14th century, as a heretofore unknown menace stalks Eurasia from "from the China Sea to the sleepy fishing villages of coastal Portugal [producing] suffering and death on a scale that, even after two world wars and twenty-seven million AIDS deaths worldwide, remains astonishing." Take Kelly's vivid description of London in the fall of 1348: "A nighttime walk across Medieval London would probably take only twenty minutes or so, but traversing the daytime city was a different matter.... Imagine a shopping mall where everyone shouts, no one washes, front teeth are uncommon and the shopping music is provided by the slaughterhouse up the road." Yikes, and that's before just about everything with a pulse starts dying and piling up in the streets, reducing the population of Europe by anywhere from a third to 60 percent in a few short years. In addition to taking readers on a walking tour through plague-ravaged Europe, Kelly heaps on the ancillary information and every last bit of it is captivating. We get a thorough breakdown of the three types of plagues that prey on humans; a detailed account of how the plague traveled from nation to nation (initially by boat via flea-infested rats); how floods (and the appalling hygiene of medieval people) made Europe so susceptible to the disease; how the plague triggered a new social hierarchy favouring women and the proletariat but also sparked vicious anti-Semitism; and especially, how the plague forever changed the way people viewed the church. Engrossing, accessible, and brimming with first-hand accounts drawn from the Middle Ages, The Great Mortality illuminates and inspires. History just doesn't get better than that. --Kim Hughes [via]
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The Great War and Modern Memoryby Paul FussellISBN 0195133323 (0-19-513332-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great War and Modern Memory'Book summary:The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who most effectively memorialized WWI as an historical experience with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning.
For this special edition, the author has prepared a new afterword and a suggested further reading list. As this classic work draws upon several disciplines--among them literary studies, military history, cultural criticism, and historical inquiry--it will continue to appeal to students, scholars, and general readers of various backgrounds. [via]More editions of The Great War and Modern Memory:
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The Hinge of Fateby Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillISBN 0395410584 (0-395-41058-4)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hinge of Fate'Book summary:From uninterrupted defeat to almost unbroken success: a year when Rommel is gradually thrown back in North Africa, and in the Pacific the tide turns.[via] 
Hinge of Fate: The Second World Warby Winston S. ChurchillISBN 0553132741 (0-553-13274-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Presentby Bonnie S Anderson, Judith P. ZinsserISBN 0060914521 (0-06-091452-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present'Book summary:This classic two-volume history is an exciting and revolutionary look at women's history from prehistoric times to the present. Its unique organization focuses on the developments, achievements, and changes in women's roles in society. Rather than examining women's history as an inevitable progression of events along a strict timeline, this text is organized within a loose chronology, with chapters focusing on women's place and function in society. This revised edition provides a new introduction, an updated epilogue on women's lives in Europe since 1988, and a completely revised bibliography that includes recent scholarship. A History of Their Own restores women to the historical record, brings their history into focus, and provides models of female action and heroism. Lively and engaging, this new edition takes readers on a fascinating journey through women's history and the changing roles they have played. In addition it is an ideal text for general courses in women's studies and women's history and more specialized courses focusing on women in European history.
Volume Two covers the fifteenth century to the present. Topics include the roles of female monarchs and women of the court; the application of the new tools of the Scientific Revolution to prove traditional views of women; the salons and parlors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and wealthy women's contributions to the arts and social services; the impact of city-living and the Industrial Revolution on women's roles and family life; and the emergence, evolution, and impact of the modern feminist movement. [via]More editions of A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present:
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Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Livesby Alan BullockISBN 0394586018 (0-394-58601-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives'Book summary:A dual biography told in the context of Berlin-Moscow relations tells how the two similar men temporarily took total command of the historical forces swirling around them. 50,000 first printing. 50,000 ad/promo. History Bk Club Main. [via]
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The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945by Leny YahilISBN 0195045238 (0-19-504523-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945'Book summary:When The Holocaust first appeared in Israel in 1987, it was hailed as the finest, most authoritative history of Hitler's war on the Jews ever published. Representing twenty years of research and reflection, Leni Yahil's book won the Shazar Prize, one of Israel's highest awards for historical work. Now available in English, The Holocaust offers a sweeping look at the Final Solution, covering not only Nazi policies, but also how Jews and foreign governments perceived and responded to the unfolding nightmare.
The Holocaust is astonishingly comprehensive. Yahil weaves a gripping chronological narrative that stretches from the Norwegian fjords to the Greek islands, from Amsterdam to Tehran--and even Shanghai. Her writing is balanced, objective, and compelling, as she systematically explores the evolution of the Holocaust in German-occupied Europe, probing its politics, planning, goals, and key figures. Yahil uses her command of the many relevant languages to marshal an impressive array of documentary and statistical evidence, driving her narrative forward with telling details and personal accounts--such as a survivor's description of her perseverance during a death march, or the story of the Struma, a boat that sank with over 700 Jewish refugees when the British refused to receive it in Palestine.
Along the way, she destroys persistent myths about the Holocaust: that Hitler had no plan for exterminating the Jews, that the Jews themselves went peacefully to the slaughter. Though Yahil finds that Nazi policies were often inconsistent, particularly during the years before the war, she conclusively demonstrates that Hitler was always working toward a final reckoning with world Jewry, envisioning his war as a war against the Jews. The book also recounts numerous uprisings and acts of resistance in ghettos and concentration camps, as well as the activities of Jewish partisan units. Yahil describes the work of Jews in America, Palestine, and world organizations on behalf of Hitler's victims--often in the face of resistance by the Allied governments and neutral states--and explores the factors that affected the success of rescue efforts.
The Holocaust is a monumental work of history, unsurpassed in scope and insightful detail. Objective yet compassionate, Leni Yahil brings together the countless diverse strands of this epic event in a single gripping account. [via]More editions of The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945:
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The Hundred Years Warby Desmond SewardISBN 0140283617 (0-14-028361-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hundred Years War'Book summary:From 1337 to 1453 England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. Though it was a small, poor country, England for most of those "hundred years" won the battles, sacked the towns and castles, and dominated the war. The protagonists of the Hundred Years War are among the most colorful in European history: Edward III, the Black Prince; Henry V, who was later immortalized by Shakespeare; the splendid but inept John II, who died a prisoner in London; Charles V, who very nearly overcame England; and the enigmatic Charles VII, who at last drove the English out. Desmond Seward's critically-acclaimed account of the Hundred Years War brings to life all of the intrigue, beauty, and royal to-the-death-fighting of that legendary century-long conflict. [via]
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If This Is a Man and the Truce: And, the Truceby Primo LeviISBN 0140047239 (0-14-004723-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Inside the Third Reichby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517385791 (0-517-38579-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Letters of Abelard and Heloiseby Michael Clanchy, Betty Radice, Peter Abelard, HeloiseISBN 0140448993 (0-14-044899-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters of Abelard and Heloise'Book summary:Abelard and Heloise are nearly as famous a pair of tragic lovers as the fictional Romeo and Juliet; their shared passion for knowledge, religious faith, and one another sealed their destiny. Abelard was a well-respected, 12th-century Parisian scholar and teacher, and Heloise was his talented young student. The two relate their story through a set of letters to one another and intimate acquaintances. Their ardor is unmistakable; as Abelard writes to his love, "So intense were the fires of lust which bound me to you that I set those wretched, obscene pleasures, which we blush even to name, above God as above myself..." This forbidden lust resulted in a pregnancy and secret marriage, and when their union could no longer withstand the challenges in its path, each lover sought refuge in the church--Abelard became a monk and Heloise an abbess. Their correspondence continued as both achieved success in their new careers but continued to struggle with their feelings for one another; the set of letters powerfully articulates the wide range of emotions they experienced. So timeless is their love story that--after eight centuries--their passion, their devotion, and their struggle still resonate with readers. [via]
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloiseby Pierre AbailardISBN 0140442979 (0-14-044297-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letters of Abelard and Heloise'Book summary:Abelard and Heloise are nearly as famous a pair of tragic lovers as the fictional Romeo and Juliet; their shared passion for knowledge, religious faith, and one another sealed their destiny. Abelard was a well-respected, 12th-century Parisian scholar and teacher, and Heloise was his talented young student. The two relate their story through a set of letters to one another and intimate acquaintances. Their ardor is unmistakable; as Abelard writes to his love, "So intense were the fires of lust which bound me to you that I set those wretched, obscene pleasures, which we blush even to name, above God as above myself..." This forbidden lust resulted in a pregnancy and secret marriage, and when their union could no longer withstand the challenges in its path, each lover sought refuge in the church--Abelard became a monk and Heloise an abbess. Their correspondence continued as both achieved success in their new careers but continued to struggle with their feelings for one another; the set of letters powerfully articulates the wide range of emotions they experienced. So timeless is their love story that--after eight centuries--their passion, their devotion, and their struggle still resonate with readers. [via]
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Life in a Medieval Castleby Joseph GiesISBN 006090674X (0-06-090674-X)
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Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0394747232 (0-394-74723-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History'Book summary:Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a tremendous achievement, from a historical perspective as well as an artistic one.
Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.
This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber [via]
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Medieval Peopleby Eileen E. PowerISBN 0060922753 (0-06-092275-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval People'Book summary:Classic study recreates the lives of 6 ordinary people who lived between the 9th and 16th centuries: a peasant on a country estate in Charlemagne's time, a Venetian traveler of the 13th century; a prioress and a Parisian housewife of the 14th century, and a merchant and a cloth maker from the days of Henry VII.[via] -
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceilingby Ross KingISBN 0142003697 (0-14-200369-7)
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Napoleon Bonaparteby Alan SchomISBN 0060929588 (0-06-092958-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Napoleon Bonaparte'Book summary:You won't come away from this energetic biography thinking much of the French emperor either as a man or as a general. Historian Alan Schom depicts Napoleon (1769-1821) as a cold-hearted manipulator: Schom's blistering accounts of the 1798-99 Egyptian campaign and the disastrous 1812 retreat from Russia show the French army decimated due to its leader's failure to inform himself about the lands he was invading or to properly plan for provisioning his troops. The fun of this book comes from vigorous prose that vividly evokes Bonaparte's titanic personality and the colorful band of schemers surrounding him. [via]
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Napoleon Bonaparte: A Lifeby Alan SchomISBN 0060172142 (0-06-017214-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life'Book summary:Filling a remarkable gap, Alan Schom, an acclaimed historian, scholar, and author, offers the most complete picture ever of Napoleon Bonaparte, "the scourge of Europe" and France's greatest hero. Based on more than ten years of exhaustive research, Schom illuminates Napoleon's important economic and social reforms, his reorganization of the French government, and his tempestuous personal life and its effect on his political decisions.Remarkably ambitious and compulsively readable, Napoleon Bonaparte covers every aspect of l'Empereur's life and career, from his childhood on Corsica to his dramatic rise to the throne of France, his campaigns of conquest to his final crushing defeat at Waterloo and death in exile on St. Helena. A lively and accessible text, Schom's book is generously illustrated with halftones and maps and features startling new insights about Napoleon's key aides, ministers, and generals. Schom portrays Napoleon with candor, exalting his ambition and undeniable genius, but also addressing his dark side -- his ego, his failures and frailties, and the misery caused by his years of warfare across Europe. Powerful, dramatic, colorful, and impossible to put down, Napoleon Bonaparte is a biography as complex, challenging, and fascinating as the legend himself. [via]
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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888-1889by Frederic MortonISBN 014005667X (0-14-005667-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888-1889'Book summary:On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and then himself. The two shots that rang out at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods echo still.[via]Frederic Morton, author of the bestselling Rothschilds, deftly tells the haunting story of the Prince and his city, where, in the span of only ten months, "the Western dream started to go wrong." In Rudolf's Vienna moved other young men with striking intellectual and artistic talentsand all as frustrated as the Prince. Among them were: young Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Theodor Herzl, Gustav Klimt, and the playwright Arthur Schnitzler, whose La Ronde was the great erotic drama of the fin de siecle. Morton studies these and other gifted young men, interweaving their fates with that of the doomed Prince and the entire city through to the eve of Easter, just after Rudolf's body is lowered into its permanent sarcophagus and a son named Adolf Hitler is born to Frau Klara Hitler.
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The Origins of the Second World Warby A. J. P. TaylorISBN 0449300552 (0-449-30055-2)
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The Princes in the Towerby Alison WeirISBN 0345391780 (0-345-39178-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princes in the Tower'Book summary:"Comprehensive and insightful, THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER offers a unique perspective on a profound mystery." Faye KellermanDespite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill the young princes, as is commonly believed, or was the murderer someone else entirely? Carefully examining every shred of contemporary evidence as well as the dozens of modern accounts, Weir reconstructs the entire chain of events leading to the double murder to arrive at a conclusion Sherlock Holmes himself could not dispute. [via]
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Second World Warby Winston L. ChurchillISBN 0395410568 (0-395-41056-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Second World War: Their Finest Hour'Book summary:"After the end of the World War of 1914 there was a deep conviction and almost universal hope that peace would reign in the world. This heart's desire of all the peoples could easily have been gained by steadfastness in righteous convictions, and by reasonable common sense and prudence."
But we all know that's not what happened. As Britain's prime minister for most of the Second World War, Winston Churchill--whose career had to that point already encompassed the roles of military historian and civil servant with a proficiency in both that few others could claim--had a unique perspective on the conflict, and as soon as he left office in 1945, he began to set that perspective down on paper. To measure the importance of The Second World War, it is worth remembering that there are no parallel accounts from either of the other Allied leaders, Roosevelt and Stalin. We have in this multivolume work an account that contains both comprehensive sweep and intimate detail. Almost anybody who compiles a list of such works ranks it highly among the nonfiction books of the 20th century.In the opening volume, The Gathering Storm, Churchill tracks the erosion of the shaky peace brokered at the end of the First World War, followed by the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis and their gradual spread from beyond Germany's borders to most of the European continent. Churchill foresaw the coming crisis and made his opinion known quite clearly throughout the latter '30s, and this book concludes on a vindicating note, with his appointment in May 1940 as prime minister, after which he recalls that "I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial."
Their Finest Hour concerns itself with 1940. France falls, and England is left to face the German menace alone. Soon London is under siege from the air--and Churchill has a few stories of his own experiences during the Blitz to share--but they persevere to the end of what Churchill calls "the most splendid, as it was the most deadly, year in our long English and British history." They press on in The Grand Alliance, liberating Ethiopia from the Italians and lending support to Greece. Then, when Hitler reneges on his non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union (the very signing of which had proved Stalin and his commissars "the most completely outwitted bunglers of the Second World War"), the Allied team begins to coalesce. The bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese makes the participation of the United States in the war official, and this is of "the greatest joy" to Churchill: "How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at that moment care. Once again in our long island history we should emerge, however mauled or mutilated, safe and victorious."
But as the fourth volume, The Hinge of Fate, reveals, success would not happen overnight. The Japanese military still held strong positions in the Pacific theater, and Rommel's tank corps were on the offensive in Africa. After a string of military defeats, Churchill's opponents in Parliament introduced a motion for a censure vote; this was handily defeated, and victory secured in Africa, then Italy. By this time, Churchill had met separately with both Roosevelt and Stalin; the second half of volume 5, Closing the Ring, brings the three of them together for the first time at the November 1943 conference in Teheran. This book closes on the eve of D-day: "All the ships were at sea. We had the mastery of the oceans and of the air. The Hitler tyranny was doomed."
And so, in the concluding volume, Triumph and Tragedy, the Allies push across Europe and take the fight to Berlin. President Roosevelt's death shortly before final victory against Germany affected Churchill deeply, "as if I had been struck a physical blow," and he would later regret not attending the funeral and meeting Harry Truman then, instead of at the Potsdam conference after Germany's defeat. Churchill himself would not be there for the conclusion to the war against Japan; in July of 1945, a general election in Britain brought in a Labor government (or, as he refers to them, "Socialists"), and he resigned immediately, for "the verdict of the electors had been so overwhelmingly expressed that I did not wish to remain even for an hour responsible for their affairs." [via]
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Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War With an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtiusby Julius Caesar, Carolyn Hammond, Aulus HirtiusISBN 0192831208 (0-19-283120-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War With an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius'Book summary:The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. This new translation reflects the purity of Caesar's Latin while preserving the pace and flow of his momentous narrative of the conquest of Gaul and the first Roman invasions of Britain and Germany. Detailed notes, maps, a table of dates, and glossary make this the most useful edition available. [via]
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Six Wives of Henry VIIIby Alison WeirISBN 034538072X (0-345-38072-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Six Wives of Henry VIII'Book summary:"Brilliantly written and meticulously researched...Alison Weir is adept at bringing to life these historical figures."
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Henry VIII is perhaps England's most infamous monarch, especially when it comes to matters of the heart. He was married to six distinctly different women, and in this richly detailed and meticulously researched history, these remarkable, often misunderstood queens come to life once again. Their full histories and personalities emerge at last, giving voices to the six extraodinary women who left their distinctive marks on the English throne and thereby changed the course of British history. [via] -
Stalingradby Anthony BeevorISBN 0140249850 (0-14-024985-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalingrad'Book summary:Hitler made two fundamental and crippling mistakes during the Second World War. The first was his whimsical belief that the United Kingdom would eventually become his ally, which delayed his decision to launch a major invasion of Britain, whose army was unprepared for the force of blitzkrieg warfare. The second was the ill-conceived Operation Barbarossa--an invasion of Russia that was supposed to take the German army to the gates of Moscow. Antony Beevor's thoughtfully researched compendium recalls this epic struggle for Stalingrad. No one, least of all the Germans, could foretell the deep well of Soviet resolve that would become the foundation of the Red Army; Russia, the Germans believed, would fall as swiftly as France and Poland. The ill-prepared Nazi forces were trapped in a bloody war of attrition against the Russian behemoth, which held them in the pit of Stalingrad for nearly two years. Beevor points out that the Russians were by no means ready for the war either, making their stand even more remarkable; Soviet intelligence spent as much time spying on its own forces--in fear of desertion, treachery and incompetence--as they did on the Nazis. Due attention is also given to the points of view of the soldiers and generals of both forces, from the sickening battles to life in the gulags.
Many believe Stalingrad to be the turning point of the war. The Nazi war machine proved to be fallible as it spread itself too thin for a cause that was born more from arrogance than practicality. The Germans never recovered, and its weakened defences were no match for the Allied invasion of 1944. We know little of what took place in Stalingrad or its overall significance, leading Beevor to humbly admit that "[t]he Battle of Stalingrad remains such an ideologically charged and symbolically important subject that the last word will not be heard for many years". This is true. But this gripping account should become the standard work against which all others should measure themselves. --Jeremy Storey [via]
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942-1943by Antony BeevorISBN 0140284583 (0-14-028458-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942-1943'Book summary:Hitler made two fundamental and crippling mistakes during the Second World War. The first was his whimsical belief that the United Kingdom would eventually become his ally, which delayed his decision to launch a major invasion of Britain, whose army was unprepared for the force of blitzkrieg warfare. The second was the ill-conceived Operation Barbarossa--an invasion of Russia that was supposed to take the German army to the gates of Moscow. Antony Beevor's thoughtfully researched compendium recalls this epic struggle for Stalingrad. No one, least of all the Germans, could foretell the deep well of Soviet resolve that would become the foundation of the Red Army; Russia, the Germans believed, would fall as swiftly as France and Poland. The ill-prepared Nazi forces were trapped in a bloody war of attrition against the Russian behemoth, which held them in the pit of Stalingrad for nearly two years. Beevor points out that the Russians were by no means ready for the war either, making their stand even more remarkable; Soviet intelligence spent as much time spying on its own forces--in fear of desertion, treachery and incompetence--as they did on the Nazis. Due attention is also given to the points of view of the soldiers and generals of both forces, from the sickening battles to life in the gulags.
Many believe Stalingrad to be the turning point of the war. The Nazi war machine proved to be fallible as it spread itself too thin for a cause that was born more from arrogance than practicality. The Germans never recovered, and its weakened defences were no match for the Allied invasion of 1944. We know little of what took place in Stalingrad or its overall significance, leading Beevor to humbly admit that "[t]he Battle of Stalingrad remains such an ideologically charged and symbolically important subject that the last word will not be heard for many years". This is true. But this gripping account should become the standard work against which all others should measure themselves. --Jeremy Storey [via]
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Ten Days That Shook the Worldby John ReedISBN 0140182934 (0-14-018293-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ten Days That Shook the World'Book summary:An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution[via]
An American journalist and revolutionary writer, John Reed became a close friend of Lenin and was an eyewitness to the 1917 revolution in Russia. Ten Days That Shook the World is Reed's extraordinary record of that event. Writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping account of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and of the chance comments of bystanders, and set against an idealized backdrop of soldiers, sailors, peasants, and the proletariat uniting to throw off oppression, Reed's account is the product of passionate involvement and remains an unsurpassed classic of reporting.More editions of Ten Days That Shook the World:
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Their Finest Hourby Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillISBN 0553132725 (0-553-13272-5)
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Triumph and Tragedyby Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillISBN 0395410606 (0-395-41060-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Triumph and Tragedy'Book summary:From the Allied landings in Normandy in June 1944 the Second World War had only fourteen months to run. This final volume of the account covers events right up to the unconditional surrender of Japan.[via]
Churchill's six-volume history of World War II - the definitive work, remarkable both for its sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring work of literature.More editions of Triumph and Tragedy:
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Triumph and Tragedyby Winston S. ChurchillISBN 0395075408 (0-395-07540-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Triumph and Tragedy'Book summary:The end of World War II, the crushing of Germany and the devastating bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki..and the entrance into an uneasy and clouded peace as Churchill is dismissed from his office and the Allies embark upon a tragic, misguided and atomic-haunted Cold War. The concluding volume of Churchill's great chronicle of the War which was responsible for his winning the Noble Prize in Literature. [via]
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War and Society in Europe, 1870-1970by Brian BondISBN 0195205022 (0-19-520502-2)
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A World At Arms: A Global History Of World War IIby Gerhard L. WeinbergISBN 0521618266 (0-521-61826-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A World At Arms: A Global History Of World War II'Book summary:This comprehensive examination of the Second World War looks at grand strategy and diplomacy, as opposed to the gritty details of the combat experience. A World at Arms is written in a matter-of-fact tone, so don't expect a poetic narrative. Despite this, no other historian has presented such a sweeping overview. Weinberg performs the important task of reminding his readers in the West that much of the fighting--and perhaps the most decisive parts--was done in the East, between the Germans and the Russians. American readers, for their part, may appreciate Weinberg's treatment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who is portrayed as a courageous wartime leader. This book is an essential part of any library on the Second World War. [via]
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Zimmermann Telegramby Barbara TuchmanISBN 0345324250 (0-345-32425-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zimmermann Telegram'Book summary:In the dark winter of 1917, as World War I was deadlocked, Britain knew that Europe could be saved only if the United States joined the war. But President Wilson remained unshakable in his neutrality. Then, with a single stroke, the tool to propel America into the war came into a quiet British office. One of countless messages intercepted by the crack team of British decoders, the Zimmermann telegram was a top-secret message from Berlin inviting Mexico to join Japan in an invasion of the United States: Mexico would recover her lost American territories while keeping the U.S. occupied on her side of the Atlantic. How Britain managed to inform America of Germany's plan without revealing that the German codes had been broken makes for an incredible, true story of espionage, intrigue, and international politics as only Barbara W. Tuchman could tell it. [via]
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