Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“glyn stone”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “glyn stone”
Skip side bar filters

  • Anglo-French Relations since the Late Eighteenth Century

    Edited by Glyn Stone, Thomas G. Otte ...
    This work, intended to commemorate the centenary of the Entente Cordiale in 2004, examines aspects of Anglo-French relations since the late eighteenth century when both Britain and France were pre-eminent great powers at war with one another through to the post-Second World War period when both had become rival second class powers in the face of American and Soviet dominance.The chapters in this ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Decisions and Diplomacy

    Studies in Twentieth Century International History

    Edited by Dick Richardson, Professor Glyn A Stone, Glyn Stone ...
    The growing significance of international history and relations in recent years has been reflected in a growth of research and development of new courses. This collection of essays focus on three broad themes: the League of Nations and collective security, problems in British foreign policy, and European/International security in the interwar years. The book, in memory of Esmonde Robertson and ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century

    Rivalry and Cooperation

    by Alan Sharp, Glyn Stone ...
    Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century is a collection of studies on the key episodes of the difficult and often discordant Anglo-French exchange over the past century. The authors critically re-evaluate: * the role of Spain in Anglo-French relations up to 1918* the missed opportunity of the 1920s with the failure of France and Britain to find sufficient common ground and co-operation* ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Great War

    1914-1918

    by Ian F. W. Beckett ...
    Series series Modern Wars In Perspective
    The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of of the conflict's strategic, political, economic, social and cultural impact.Starting with the context and origins of the war, including assasination, misunderstanding and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 2, The State

    Edited by Jay Winter ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the First World War
    Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the First World War offers a history of the war from a predominantly political angle and concerns itself with the story of the state. It explores the multifaceted history of state power and highlights the ways in which different political systems responded to, and were deformed by, the near-unbearable pressures of war. Every state involved faced issues of ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Churchill: History in an Hour

    by Andrew Mulholland ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour…Sir Winston Churchill was a soldier, journalist, writer, Nobel Prize winner and, above all, a leader. Conservative then Liberal then Conservative again, his political instincts won him a sustained career at the summit of British government, while his resolve and politics of personality made him broadly regarded as one of the greatest wartime ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Pity of War

    Explaining World War I

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I.“A rich and provocative book, evocative and heartbreaking.” — AtlanticThe Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England’s fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims, thereby transforming a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • His Finest Hour

    A Biography of Winston Churchill

    by Christopher Catherwood ...
    Who was Winston Churchill? Even fifty years after his death, he is one of the most iconic figures in British history. As a young man he was a maverick journalist; his many positions in politics before 1940 marked him as a courageous but foolhardy man.Yet it is Churchill’s record in war, which has recently been questioned, that confirms his genius as a military commander and national leader—someone ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Britain in the Second World War

    by Mark Donnelly ...
    Britain in the Second World War presents a new and vivid survey of politics, society, culture and military strategy between 1939 and 1945. Structured around themes such as 'Wartime Media', and 'Britain and its Allies', the book covers the major historical debates of these areas, including Britains commitment to remain in the conflict until unconditional surrender and the effect of war on the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Britain and Victory in the Great War

    by Peter Liddle ...
    How can we begin to make sense of the Great War now that over 100 years have passed since it ended with the defeat of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman empire and Bulgaria, and the collapse of Tsarist Russia? The conflict had such a profound influence on world history that is it difficult to reconcile the different perspectives and draw clear conclusions. That is why this thought-provoking ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King

    So Similar, So Different

    by Terry Reardon ...
    Born just two weeks apart in 1874, Winston Churchill and William Lyon Mackenzie King took different paths to achieve their objective of a parliamentary career, Churchill through military exploits and King via academic excellence. When he became prime minister, King realized that Canada had to progress from a subservient position to an independent one. Thus, when the Second World War broke out, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Long Shadow

    The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century

    by David Reynolds, Ph.D. ...
    **Winner of the 2014 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for the Best Work of History"Brilliant…the most challenging and intelligent book on the Great War and our perceptions of it that any of us will read." —John Charley, The Times [London]**One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ghostly war fought in a ... Read more

    $12.29 USD