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  • Armageddon

    by Clive Ponting ...
    Fifty years after the end of World War II Clive Ponting provides a major reassessment of the most destructive conflict in human history - one in which 85 million people died.Armageddon avoids conventional chronological accounts in order to concentrate on the deeper forces shaping the origins, course and outcome of the war across the globe. It analyses how and why the war spread from being a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The 20th Century

    A World History

    by Clive Ponting ...
    For much of the world, the twentieth century can be seen as a big-budget disaster film--the stifling darkness of oppression, the green of the ruling classes. For the world's elite, the near-universal adoption of capitalism today reveals modern history as a narrative of unbroken progress.Eschewing conventional chronological accounts, The Twentieth Century is organized around the major themes of the ... Read more

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  • The Cold War

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    An essential history of the Cold War, from the author of The Penguin History of the World**.****"[A] big, serious, and thoroughly intelligent stud[y] of the cold war." -**New York Review of BooksWe think of the Cold War as a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. But in The Cold War, award-winning historian Odd Arne Westad argues that the war must be understood as a glob ... Read more

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  • Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"

    How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World

    by Patrick J. Buchanan ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment?In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen—Winston Churchill first among them—the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British ... Read more

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  • Why The Allies Won

    by Dr Richard Overy ...
    The Allied victory in 1945 - though comprehensive - was far from inevitable. By 1942 almost the entire resources of continental Europe were in German hands and Japan had wiped out the western colonial presence in Asia. Democracy appeared to have had its day.In this remarkable study, Richard Overy provides a reinterpretation of the war through an account of the decisive military campaigns that ... Read more

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  • The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century

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    by J M Roberts ...
    This dazzling overview of a turbulent century explores both dramatic events and underlying trends. Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-fold leap in population, women's lives have been transformed, America has assumed undisputed political and cultural leadership. The Penguin History of the ... Read more

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  • Blood and Ruins

    The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945

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  • The Struggle for Europe

    The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945 to the Present

    by William I. Hitchcock ...
    From the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous transformation of Europe from a deeply fractured land to a continent striving for stability, tolerance, democracy, and prosperity. Exploring the role of Cold War politics in Europe’s peace settlement and the half century that followed, Hitchcock reveals how leaders such as Charles de Gaulle, Willy ... Read more

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  • The Myth of the Strong Leader

    Political Leadership in the Modern Age

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  • The Cold War

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  • 1914-1918

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    1914-1918, David Stevenson's history of the First World War, has been acclaimed as the definitive one-volume account of the conflictIn the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions, destroying four empires and costing millions of lives. Even the victorious countries were scarred for a generation, and we still today remain within ... Read more

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