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July 1914: Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin
Category: History
The outbreak of the First World War was 'a drama never surpassed'. One hundred years later, the characters still seem larger than life: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, brooding heir to the Habsburg throne; the fanatical Bosnian Serb assassins who plot to murder him; Conrad and Berchtold, the Austrians who exp ...Show more
July 1914: Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin
Category: Military
Popular historian Sean McMeekin's story of Europe's countdown to war, told through the eyes of men who, even a century later, still seem larger than life. We meet the brooding Habsburg heir Archduke Ferdinand, the fanatical Bosnian Serb assassins plotting his murder, and the Austrians seeking to exploit ...Show more
Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin
Category: History
'A terrific read ... McMeekin is a superb writer' David Aaronovitch, The Times'Gripping, authoritative, accessible and always bracingly revisionist' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Impressive ... A new look at the conflict, which poses new questions and provides new and often unexpected answers to the old ones' ...Show more
Stalin's War - A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin
Category: History
'Gripping, authoritative, accessible and always bracingly revisionist' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A terrific read ... McMeekin is a superb writer' David Aaronovitch, The Times In this remarkable, ground-breaking new book Sean McMeekin marks a generational shift in our view of Stalin as an ally in the Sec ...Show more
Stalin's War - A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin
Category: History
'Gripping, authoritative, accessible and always bracingly revisionist' Simon Sebag MontefioreIn this remarkable, ground-breaking new book Sean McMeekin marks a generational shift in our view of Stalin as an ally in the Second World War. Stalin's only difference from Hitler, he argues, was that he was a ...Show more
The Berlin-Baghdad Express - The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 by Sean McMeekin
Category: History
The Berlin-Baghdad Express explores one of the most important but least understood stories of the First World War: the bid by the Germans to destroy the British Empire by harnessing the power of Islam. As the Ottoman Empire threw its weight behind Germany, a hugely ambitious project began to unhinge Bri ...Show more
The Ottoman Endgame- War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern East, 1908-1923 by Sean McMeekin
Category: History
The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume history of the Ottoman empire's decade-long war for survival. Beginning with Italy's invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September 1911, the opening salvo in what would soon spiral into a European conflict, the book concludes with the establishm ...Show more
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 by Sean McMeekin
Category: History
The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume history of the Ottoman empire's decade-long war for survival. Beginning with Italy's invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September 1911, the opening salvo in what would soon spiral into a European conflict, the book concludes with the establishm ...Show more
The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin
Category: History
The definitive, single-volume history of the Russian Revolution, from an award-winning scholar In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and introduced Communism to the world. Between 1917 and 1922, Rus ...Show more
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