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America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
In the eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams greatly admired the Persian Empire, while Iranians regarded America as an ideal their own government might emulate. Beginning there, how...
When Words Fail: A Life with Music, War and Peace
Can music make the world a better place? Can it really 'belong' to anyone? Can the magic, mystery and incertitude of music - of the human brain meeting or making...
Clever Girl
Communists vilified her as a raging neurotic. Leftists dismissed her as a confused idealist. Her family pitied her as an exploited lover. Some said she was a traitor, a stooge,...
Infantry Warfare: The Theory and Practice of Infantry Combat in the
From the German stormtroopers of 1918 to the jungles of Vietnam, the role of the infantry soldier has developed and evolved. This book describes the changes in the way that...
A History of the World in the 20th Century (Obee) (Cloth)
In 1980, the first part of the Collins History of the World in the 20th Century was published, covering the years 1900-1945. This is a revision of and extensive expansion...
The Search for Peace
Contrary to the claim that a diplomat is paid to lie for his country, former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd contends that from Machievelli to Metternich, from Sir Edward Grey to...
Letters From the Palazzo Barbaro
When Henry James first visited Venice as a tourist he soon became fascinated by the city, especially the gothic Palazzo Barbaro situated on the Grand Canal and home of the...
Adventures on the Freedom Road
The book titled Adventures on the Freedom Road by the author Bernard-Henry Levy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of
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A brilliant and revealing biography of the two most important Americans during the Cold War era--written by the grandson of one of them Only two Americans held positions of great...
Paper Empires: A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005
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" . . . It is highly recommended to anyone who thinks they have a serious interest in the book . . . or would like to discover to discover...
The Dawn of Universal History
This comprehensive anthology of newly translated writings presents some of Aron's most important essays in 20th-century intellectual history and political commentary.. In this collection of essays written over a period...
Oxford and Empire: The Last Lost Cause?
The book titled Oxford and Empire: The Last Lost Cause? by the author Richard Symonds. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times
The distinguished author of Working explores the theme of hope in the midst of challenging times in a collection of oral histories that links hope with a spirit of activism,...
The Web of Disinformation: Churchill's Yugoslav Blunder
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The book titled The Web of Disinformation: Churchill's Yugoslav Blunder by the author David Martin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Retreat from the Finland Station: The Moral Journeys of the Men Who
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In 1940, Edmund Wilson published "To the Finland Station", a study of the growth of the idea of communism. This book examines the lives of such men as Bukharin, Koestler,...
Vanishing Diaspora - the Jews in Europe since 1945 (Cobee) (Cloth)
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In 1939 there were ten million Jews in Europe. After Hitler there were four million. Today in 1996 there are under two million. On current projections the Jews will become...
American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan,
American Visions of Europe sets three learned and elegantly written portraits against the background of the dramatic events and foreign policy controversies of the twentieth century. John Lamberton Harper's careful...
From the Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the 20th Century
The Jewish story is an extraordinary one: of a 'chosen race' but a 'difficult people', living in all countries but until recently without one to call its own. Over the...
The Illustrated Guide to the History of the 20th Century
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The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish
In his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of...
100 Best-Selling Albums of the 80s
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A totally righteous collection of tunes! From hair metal to the King of Pop, these 100 best-selling albums made up the soundtrack of the '80s. The wild success of artists...
Dictators: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
A New Statesman , Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year 'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN , BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR 'Moving and perceptive' NEW...
The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England
'This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life' THE TIMES 'A brilliant, bloody account of England's most dramatic century ....
Front Page History
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The book titled Front Page History by the author Harold Evans. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History
A fascinating exploration of why Hitler's death was only confirmed in 2018 Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put...
The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War
A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets "A great book."-Michael Goodman, BBC...
Nuclear Weapons: An International History
A groundbreaking history of nuclear weapons across the world, from their invention to the end of the Cold War How should we deal with nuclear weapons? The discovery of nuclear...
Panic Attack: Playing Politics with Science in the Fight Against
"Follow the science" is what they said. "Follow our politics" is what they meant. In Panic Attack , nationally bestselling author and physician Nicole Saphier uncovers the hypocrisy and hysteria...
Empire of Booze: British History Through the Bottom of a Glass
From award-winning booze correspondent Henry Jeffreys comes this rich and full-bodied history of Britain and the Empire, told through the improbable but true stories of how the world's favourite alcoholic...
Money Beyond Borders: Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto
Doubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction, and fraying international alliances. Will the dollar continue to reign supreme? In Money...
Red Plenty: 'Bizarre and quite brilliant.' Dominic Sandbrook, host of
The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things...
1946: The Making of the Modern World
With the end of the Second World War, a new world was born. The peace agreements that brought the conflict to an end implemented decisions that not only shaped the...
Chronicle of the Second World War
This volume continues to use the approach of previous "Chronicles" and details the events of the war from September 1939 to August 1945, week by week and even hour by...
The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth Century History
The book titled The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth Century History by the author Alan Palmer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Experience of World War II
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The book titled The Experience of World War II by the author John Campbell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems 2002-2019
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker's passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting political satire, from elegy to comedy, from celebration...
Falling Upwards: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The
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Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight
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Now in paperback, an "unforgettably good book [told] with compassion and sympathy" (Simon Winchester, New York Times ) about an eccentric aviator and the thrilling early days of flight. From...
Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in
Established in 1898 in the heart of Paris on the Place Vendome, the Hotel Ritz instantly became an icon of the city frequented by film stars and celebrity writers, American...
The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account
Five hundred years after Columbus's first voyage to the New World, the debate over the European impact on Native American civilization has grown more heated than ever. Among the first-and...
The Making of Modern Russia
Drawing on documentation only recently made available in the West, this extensively revised and updated edition reflects current views, in Russia and abroad, on the country's past as it approaches...
Free Agent
Behind the Cold War an unseen war was waged for half a century, between the secret services of East and West. By definition, this other war was invisible to the...
Spy of the Century: Alfred Redl and the Betrayal of Austria-Hungary
'The Redl Affair had everything: sex, espionage, betrayal, a fall from greatness and a sensational climax in which Redl went to his death like a figure of high tragedy.' The...
The World Since 1945: A History of International Relations
Thoroughly updated throughout, this new edition of The World Since 1945 traces the major political, economic, and ideological patterns that have evolved in the global arena from the end of...
International History of the Twentieth Century
This major new global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward. Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors...
Schieffer & Gates : Acting President (Hbk)
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The book titled Schieffer & Gates : Acting President (Hbk) by the author Bob Schieffer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance
'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been used to generate solidarity for the struggle and sympathy...