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Fateful Choices - Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
Category: History
The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw's analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display. From May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world's six major powers made a series of rela ...Show more
Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
Category: Military
In 1940 the world was on a knife-edge. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months their fates would be determined. ...Show more
Fateful Choices : Ten decisions that Changed the World 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
Category: Military | Series: Allen Lane History S.
The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. It has become, in effect, a tragedy with each leader and each country playing an assigned part. Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily thought- ...Show more
Hitler by Ian Kershaw
Category: Biography
Now available in a single, abridged paperback, Ian Kershaw's Hitler is the definitive biography of the Nazi leader. Ian Kershaw's two volume biography, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis, was greeted with universal acclaim as the essential work on one of the most malign figures in hi ...Show more
Hitler: A Biography by Ian Kershaw
Category: Biography
The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw s Hitler is a one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work. From Hitler s origins as a failed artist in fin-de-si cle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw s richly illustrated biogra ...Show more
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution by Ian Kershaw
Category: History
This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw's research on the Holocaust for the first time. The wr ...Show more
Luck of the Devil : The Story of "Operation Valkyrie" by Ian Kershaw
Category: Non-Fiction
'It is now time that something was done. But the man who has the courage to do something must do it in the knowledge that he will go down in German history as a traitor. If he does not, however, he will be a traitor to his own conscience' - Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, July 1944. The July 1944 plot t ...Show more
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
Category: History
The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of historyThe modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless conte ...Show more
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
Category: History
The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of history The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless con ...Show more
Roller-Coaster - Europe, 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw
Category: History
From one of Britain's most distinguished historians and the bestselling author of Hitler, this is the definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present. After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his p ...Show more
Roller-Coaster: Europe 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw
Category: History
After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catast ...Show more
Roller-Coaster - Europe 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw
Category: History
After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catast ...Show more