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Reflections on a Ravaged Century
by Robert Conquest  Synopsis The author presents the modern ideologies and distorted philosophies that have corrupted the 20th century and sent millions to the slaughterhouse....
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On the Edge of the New Century
by Eric Hobsbawm Publisher Comments "On the Edge of the New Century" is the sequel to Eric Hobsbawm's "The Age of Extremes", a serious and challenging historical analysis that became a bestseller. Hobsbawm's book continues his "magisterial" ("The New York Times Book Review") analysis of...
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History of the Twentieth Century Volume 1
by Martin Gilbert Publisher Comments Martin Gilbert's three-volume history of the twentieth century begins with a masterful narrative covering the critical thirty-three years which began this remarkable span of time: from the dawn of aviation through a great war that left six million...
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We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History
by John Lewis Gaddis Publisher Comments Based on the latest findings of Cold War historians and extensive research in American archives as well as the recently opened archives in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and China, this book provides a vividly written, eye-opening account of...
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Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?
by David Fromkin Publisher Comments From the author of the best-selling A Peace to End All Peace (“extraordinarily ambitious, provocative, and vividly written”–Washington Post Book World), a dramatic reassessment of the causes of the Great War. The early summer of 1914...
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Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?
by David Fromkin Publisher Comments When war broke out in Europe in 1914, it surprised a European population enjoying the most beautiful summer in memory. For nearly a century since, historians have debated the causes of the war. Some have cited the assassination of Archduke Franz...
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NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts
by Mary Ann Heiss Publisher Comments There is no shortage of literature addressing the workings, influence, and importance of Nato and the Warsaw Pact individually or how the two blocs faced off during the decades of the Cold War. However, little has been written about the various intrabloc...
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Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second World War
by Warren F Kimball Publisher Comments In this meticulously researched, highly readable narrative, a noted historian examines how FDR and Churchill developed the strategies that won the World War II, and performed a delicate, diplomatic minuet around their mistrusted ally, Stalin. Photos....
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A Brief History of the Cold War
by John Hughes-wilson Publisher Comments The Cold War was an undeclared war, fought silently and carefully between ideological opponents armed with the most fearsome weapons mankind has ever seen. Here, author Hughes-Wilson takes a cool look at this war, from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to...
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Living Through the End of the Cold War (Living Through the Cold War)
by Jeff Hay Publisher Comments This volume examines what life was like for ordinary people during the exciting years of the 1980s and 1990s when the decades-long Cold War came to an end. It includes the speeches and ideas of such leaders as U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Soviet...
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Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders
by Gerhard L Weinberg Publisher Comments Visions of Victory explores the views of eight war leaders of the major powers of World War II - Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin, Churchill, de Gaulle, and Roosevelt - and compares their visions of the future assuming their side had...
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The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century
by Michael Elio Howard Publisher Comments Of all the centuries in recorded history, none has seen more change, none has ended more differently than it began, than the twentieth. In 1900, Queen Victoria still ruled over England, the Imperial Manchu dynasty over China, and the Romanov Tsars over...
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The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness of the Twentieth Century
by Raymond Aron Publisher Comments In this collection of essays written over a period of almost forty years, Raymond Aron explores the rise of nationalism in Europe through the two world wars and the subsequent disintegration of her empires. With a richness of detail and sweeping breadth...
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900
by Andrew Roberts Publisher Comments In 1900, where Churchill ended the fourth volume of his History of the English-Speaking Peoples, the United States had not yet emerged onto the world scene as a great power. Meanwhile, the British Empire was in decline but did not yet know it. Any number...
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History of European Family #03: Family Life in the Twentieth Century: The History of the European Family: Volume 3
by David Kertzer Publisher Comments This volume completes the History of the European Family series, a comprehensive synthesis of what is known about European families across the past five centuries. The profound political and social transformations that occurred from 1914-2000 were...
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Written Into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from the New York Times
by Anthony Lewis Publisher Comments With each news day, history unfolds as steadfast journalists uncover facts and public opinion. Drawn from the "New York Times"'s archive of an unparalleled eighty-one Pulitzer Prizes, "Written into History" offers a fascinating record of the twentieth...
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The Killing Trap: Genocide in the Twentieth Century
by Manus Midlarsky Publisher Comments The Killing Trap offers a comparative analysis of the genocides, politicides and ethnic cleansings of the twentieth century, which are estimated to have cost upwards of forty million lives. The book seeks to understand both the occurrence and magnitude...
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Diana & Jackie: Maidens, Mothers, Myths
by Jay Mulvaney Publisher Comments History has seen only a few women so magical, so evanescent, that they captured the spirit and imagination of their times. Diana, Princess of Wales and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis were two of these rare creatures. They were the most famous women of the...
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A Short History of the 20th Century
by Geoffrey Blainey Publisher Comments Most readers will find much that is new to them here, and sometimes material that refutes what they thought they knew. Blainey's analysis of the world's great religions alone justifies the book, but it is only part of a broad tapestry that ranges across...
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Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators
by Riccardo Orizio Publisher Comments Inspired by newspaper clippings he had kept about two former African dictators accused of cannibalism, journalist Riccardo Orizio set out to track down tyrants around the world who had fallen from power—to see if they had gained any perspective on...
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