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The Adventures of Greek Heroesby Mollie McLean, Anne M. Wiseman, Witold T. MarsISBN 0395069130 (0-395-06913-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Adventures of the Greek Heroesby Mollie McLean, Anne Wilseman, Witold T. MarsISBN 0395137144 (0-395-13714-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Aegean Bronze Ageby Oliver DickinsonISBN 0521242800 (0-521-24280-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Aeschylus: Agamemnonby Aeschylus, John Harrison, Judith Affleck, P. E. Easterling, Philip De MayISBN 0521010756 (0-521-01075-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Aeschylus: Eumenidesby Alan H. SommersteinISBN 0521284309 (0-521-28430-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Alexander the Greatby J. GuntherISBN 0394905024 (0-394-90502-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Ancient Greece : An Illustrated Historyby Peter GreenISBN 0500271615 (0-500-27161-5)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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The Ancient Mediterraneanby Michael GrantISBN 0452010373 (0-452-01037-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ancient Mediterranean'Book summary:[via]Written by eminent classical scholar Michael Grant. The Ancient Mediterranean is a wonderfully revealing, unusually comprehensive history of all the peoples who lived around the Mediterranean from about 15,000 B.C. to the time of Constantine (306-337 A.D.). Many volumes, including Professor Grant's own previous works, trace the histories of the great civilizations of Greece and Rome. But this unique work looks at the influences and cultures of the entire region, including Egypt, Israel, Crete, Carthage, Ionia and the Eastern colonies. Syria, and the Etruscans, as well as the Greek and Roman states.
Drawing on archaeology, geography, anthropology, and economics. Professor Grant shows how the great Oriental civilizationsEgypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Persiaoriginated attitudes and institutions ultimately passed on to the West. He describes the effect on the people and their achievements of the long, irregular coastline, the mountainous terrain surrounding small fertile plains, the typical plant life of olive and grape, and the rapidly changing weather. Further, he investigates how the demographic factors around this deep and stormy sea caused or influenced the great periods of ancient history, such as that of fifth-century Athens and of Rome in the first century A.D. Appealing and fascinating reading, this impeccably researched history brings a fresh perspective to understanding our ancient heritage.
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An Archaeology of Greece: The Present State and Future Scope of a Disciplineby Anthony SnodgrassISBN 0520078926 (0-520-07892-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Aristotle and Xenophon on Democracy and Oligarchyby J. M. MooreISBN 0520029097 (0-520-02909-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle and Xenophon on Democracy and Oligarchy'Book summary:Three treatises survive from classical Greece under the loose title Politeiai (Constitutions) which are unique in character and indispensable to any student of the period. The longest and most important is Aristotle's Constitution of Athens which is both a history of Athenian constitutional development and a survey of the constitutional machinery of Aristotle's own day.[via]
The second, by Xenophon, is an account of the Spartan social and educational system, and the third, also attributed to Xenophon, The Constitution of the Athenians, though probably by an earlier author, is the first example in history of political pamphleteering.
Dr. Moore has newly translated all three of these documents and an additional fragment The Boeotian Constitution written in the fourth century B. C. and the only surviving account of a genuinely oligarchic regime of the period.
To these much needed, scholarly translations Dr. Moore has added brilliant introductions and commentaries which evaluate the documents, illumine their significance, and provide the background information which the writers assumed their readers to possess.
In bringing together, translating, and annotating these constitutional documents from ancient Greece, Dr. Moore has produced an authoritative work of the highest scholarship which will place all students of constitutional history and of the Ancient World in his debt.More editions of Aristotle and Xenophon on Democracy and Oligarchy:
Art and Myth in Ancient Greece: A Handbookby Thomas H. CarpenterISBN 0500202362 (0-500-20236-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Art of Greece and Romeby Susan WoodfordISBN 0521232228 (0-521-23222-8)
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The Beacon at Alexandriaby Gillian BradshawISBN 0395411599 (0-395-41159-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Complete Greek Cookbook: The Best from Three Thousand Years of Greek Cookingby Theresa Karas YianilosISBN 0517128780 (0-517-12878-0)
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The Complete Playsby Aristophanes, Paul RocheISBN 0451214099 (0-451-21409-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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With a signature style that is at once bawdy and delicate, as well as a fearless penchant for lampooning the rich and powerful, Aristophanes remains arguably the finest satirist of all time. Collected here are all 11 of his surviving plays-newly translated by the distinguished poet and translator Paul Roche.
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The Complete World of Greek Mythologyby Richard BuxtonISBN 0500251215 (0-500-25121-5)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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A Concise History of Ancient Greece: To the Close of the Classical Eraby Peter GreenISBN 0500450145 (0-500-45014-5)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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The Confessions of Saint Augustineby Martin E. Marty, Rex Warner, AugustineISBN 0451527801 (0-451-52780-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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The origin of the autobiographical tradition, the Confessions of one of the great Fathers of the Church traces a dialogue with his God and a journey toward rising above one's self.
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Confessions of St. Augustineby Rex WarnerISBN 0451624742 (0-451-62474-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Versionby Augustine, Albert Cook OutlerISBN 0486424669 (0-486-42466-9)
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The Decipherment of Linear Bby John ChadwickISBN 0521095964 (0-521-09596-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Decision at Delphiby Helen MacInnesISBN 0449206106 (0-449-20610-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Economic and Social History of Ancient Greece: An Introductionby M.M. Austin, P. Vidal-NaquetISBN 0520042670 (0-520-04267-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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The Education of Cyrusby Xenophon, H.G. DakynsISBN 0460871544 (0-460-87154-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Eumenidesby Aeschylus, Alan H. SommersteinISBN 0521240840 (0-521-24084-0)
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From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society and Politics in Fifth-Century Athensby Martin OstwaldISBN 0520067983 (0-520-06798-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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From Solon to Socrates: Greek History and Civilization during the Sixth and Fifth Centuries B.C.by Victor EhrenbergISBN 0415040248 (0-415-04024-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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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]
Greece in the Making, 1200-479 Bcby Robin OsborneISBN 041503583X (0-415-03583-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Greek Stateby Victor EhrenbergISBN 0416128203 (0-416-12820-3)
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Greek Tragedy in Actionby Oliver TaplinISBN 041530251X (0-415-30251-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greek Tragedy in Action'Book summary:Oliver Taplin's seminal study was revolutionary in drawing out the significance of stage action in Greek tragedy at a time when plays were often read purely as texts, rather than understood as performances.
Professor Taplin explores nine plays, including Aeschylus' agamemnon and Sophocles' Oedipus the King. The details of theatrical techniques and stage directions, used by playwrights to highlight key moments, are drawn out and related to the meaning of each play as a whole. With extensive translated quotations, the essential unity of action and speech in Greek tragedy is demonstrated.
Now firmly established as a classic text, Greek Tragedy in Action is even more relevant today, when performances of Greek tragedies and plays inspired by them have had such an extraordinary revival around the world. [via]More editions of Greek Tragedy in Action:
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Softcover, Methuen - Greek Tragedy in Action: ISBN 0520039491 (0-520-03949-1)
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Greek Treasureby Irving StoneISBN 0451161734 (0-451-16173-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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A Handbook of Greek Mythology: Including Its Extension to Romeby H.J. RoseISBN 0415046017 (0-415-04601-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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Hellenistic Civilizationby W. W. TarnISBN 0452008158 (0-452-00815-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedyby Bernard M.W. KnoxISBN 0520049578 (0-520-04957-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy'Book summary:The first two chapters of this book isolate and describe the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero. In all but one of the extant Sophoclean dramas, a heroic figure who is compounded of the same literary elements faced a situation which is essentially the same. The demonstration of this recurrent pattern is made not through character-analysis, but through a close examination of the language employed by both the hero and those with whom he contends. The two chapters attempt to present what might, with a slight exaggeration, be called the "formula" of Sophoclean tragedy.[via]
A great artist may repeat a structural pattern but he never really repeats himself. In the remaining four chapters, a close analysis of three plays, the Antigone, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus, emphasizes the individuality and variety of the living figures Sophocles created on the same basic armature.
This approach to Sophoclean drama is (as in the author's previous work on the subject) both historical and critical; the universal and therefore contemporary appeal of the plays is to be found not by slighting or dismissing their historical context, but by an attempt to understand it all in its complexity. "The play needs to be seen as what it was, to be understood as what it is."More editions of The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy:
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History of Greek Cultureby Jacob Burckhardt, Palmer HiltyISBN 0486420965 (0-486-42096-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Greek Culture'Book summary:[via]This monumental work by a distinguished European scholar presents a scrupulously realistic approach to ancient Greek civilization. Burckhardt explores regional variations, virtues, and faults of city-states, discusses the fine arts, examines poesy and music, and presents perceptive accounts of enduring Greek achievements in philosophy, science, and oratory. 80 photographs, 25 black-and-white illustrations.More editions of History of Greek Culture:
A History of Greek Philosophy Vol. 3, Pt. 1 : The Fifth Century Enlightenment: The Sophistsby W. K. C. GuthrieISBN 0521096669 (0-521-09666-9)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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A History of Macedoniaby Catherine Errington, Robert Malcolm ErringtonISBN 0520082656 (0-520-08265-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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A History of Macedoniaby Robert Malcolm Errington, Catherine ErringtonISBN 0520063198 (0-520-06319-8)
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History of the Balkansby Barbara JelavichISBN 0521252490 (0-521-25249-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuriesby Barbara JelavichISBN 0521274583 (0-521-27458-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries'Book summary:Volume I discusses the history of the major Balkan nationalities. It describes the differing conditions experienced under Ottoman and Habsburg rule, but the main emphasis is on the national movements, their successes and failures to 1900, and the place of events in the Balkans in the international relations of the day. [via]
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History of the Balkans: Twentieth Centuryby Barbara JelavichISBN 0521274591 (0-521-27459-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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History of Western Philosophyby Bertrand RussellISBN 0415325056 (0-415-32505-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection With Political & Social Circumstancesby Bertrand RussellISBN 0415078547 (0-415-07854-7)
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Horizon Book of Ancient Greeceby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517435454 (0-517-43545-4)
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Inside the Walls of Troy : A Novel of the Women Who Lived the Trojan Warby Clemence McLarenISBN 0440227496 (0-440-22749-6)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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The Justice of Zeusby Hugh Lloyd-JonesISBN 0520046889 (0-520-04688-9)
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The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventrisby Andrew RobinsonISBN 0500510776 (0-500-51077-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris'Book summary:Linear B is Europe's oldest readable writing, dating from the middle of the second millennium BC. First discovered in 1900, on clay tablets among the ruins of the Palace of Minos at Knossos, Crete, it remained a mystery for over fifty years until 1952, when Michael Ventris discovered that its signs did not represent an unknown language as previously believed, but an archaic dialect of Greek, more than 500 years older than the Greek of Homer. Dubbled 'the Everest of archaeology', the decipherment was all the more remarkable because Ventris was not a trained classical scholar but an architect by profession, who had first heard of linear B as a schoolboy. An initial fascination became a lifelong obsession for this intriguing and contradictory man, a gifted linguist but a divided soul. This is the first book to tell not just the story of Linear B but that of the 'modest genius' who broke the code. [via]
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Marathon Looks on the Seaby Olivia E. CoolidgeISBN 0395067243 (0-395-06724-3)
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The Mask of Atreusby A. J. HartleyISBN 042520913X (0-425-20913-X)
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Mercenaries of the Hellenistic Worldby G.T. GriffithISBN 0404146678 (0-404-14667-8)
Hardcover, AMS Press
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, Wolfgang ClemenISBN 0451526961 (0-451-52696-1)
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Hardcover, Heinemann - A Midsummer Night's Dream: ISBN 0451521374 (0-451-52137-4)
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Minoan and Mycenaean Artby Reynold Alleyne HigginsISBN 0500203032 (0-500-20303-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Minoan and Mycenaen Artby Reynolds HigginsISBN 0500201846 (0-500-20184-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Minoan and Mycenaen Art'Book summary:"An excellent short introduction."The Classical Review
The magnificent works of ancient Crete, Mycenae, and the Cycladic Islands are awe-inspiring in their richness and variety. Frescoes, jewelry, sculpture, gold funeral masks, ivories, and countless other beautiful artifacts--all the significant works of art and architecture that are our legacy from those great civilizations in the third and second millennia BC are described and illustrated in Dr. Higgins's distinguished survey. This fully revised and updated edition includes greater coverage of the breathtaking frescoes from Akrotiri on the island of Thera. Other recent findings are also illustrated and described in detail, such as the unique ivory figure from Palaikastro, objects from the palace of Mallia, and the intriguing discovery of Minoan frescoes in Egypt. 241 illustrations, 54 in color [via]More editions of Minoan and Mycenaen Art:
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The Mystery-Religions: A Study in the Religious Background of Early Christianityby Samuel AngusISBN 0486231240 (0-486-23124-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mystery-Religions: A Study in the Religious Background of Early Christianity'Book summary:This classic study offers an understanding of the ancient religious cults, exploring their appeal and eventual failure in the face of Christianity. Topics include the Eleusinian mysteries of ancient Greece; Asiatic cults of Cybele, the Magna Mater, and Attis; Dionysian groups; Orphics; Egyptian devotees of Isis and Osiris; Mithraism; and others.[via]More editions of The Mystery-Religions: A Study in the Religious Background of Early Christianity:
Myth, Religion, and Society: Structuralist Essaysby Marcel Detienne, R. L. GordonISBN 0521227801 (0-521-22780-1)
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Myths of Greece and Romeby H. A. GuerberISBN 0486275841 (0-486-27584-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Myths of Greece and Rome'Book summary:A classic of mythology, long prized for its accurate retelling of the principal myths of Greece and Rome, and for its commentary on their origins and significance. The collection begins with myths involving the gods Jupiter, Apollo, Venus, Mars, others and ends with the adventures of Ulysses and Aeneas.[via]More editions of Myths of Greece and Rome:
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The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterraneanby Paul TherouxISBN 0449910857 (0-449-91085-7)
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Plato: The Man and His Workby A.E. TaylorISBN 0416675905 (0-416-67590-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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Plato the Man and His Work: The Man and His Workby A.E. TaylorISBN 0486416054 (0-486-41605-4)
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The School of History: Athens in the Age of Socratesby Mark Henderson MunnISBN 0520236858 (0-520-23685-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Second World Warby Winston ChurchillISBN 039534929X (0-395-34929-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Second World War'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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The Secret History : A Novelby Donna TarttISBN 0449911519 (0-449-91151-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dreamby Arthur RackhamISBN 0486428338 (0-486-42833-8)
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Shame and Necessityby Bernard Arthur Owen WilliamsISBN 0520088301 (0-520-08830-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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A Shorter History of Greek Artby Martin RobertsonISBN 0521280842 (0-521-28084-2)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen: Recipes for the Passionate Cookby Paula WolfertISBN 0471262889 (0-471-26288-9)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Sophocles: Trachiniaeby P. E. EasterlingISBN 0521200873 (0-521-20087-3)
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Stories of the Gods and Heroesby Sally Benson, Steele SavageISBN 044098291X (0-440-98291-X)
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Ten Greek Plays in Contemporary Translationsby Levy LindISBN 0395051177 (0-395-05117-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Women in Athenian Law and Lifeby Roger JustISBN 0415058414 (0-415-05841-4)
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