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Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
$36.00 NZD
Category: History
In 1940 the world was on a knife-edge. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months their fates would be determined. ...Show more
Fateful Choices : Ten decisions that Changed the World 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
$69.95 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. It has become, in effect, a tragedy with each leader and each country playing an assigned part. Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily thought- ...Show more
Hitler by Ian Kershaw
$36.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Now available in a single, abridged paperback, Ian Kershaw's Hitler is the definitive biography of the Nazi leader. Ian Kershaw's two volume biography, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis, was greeted with universal acclaim as the essential work on one of the most malign figures in hi ...Show more
Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
$29.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Ian Kershaw's "Hitler" allows us to come closer than ever before to a serious understanding of the man and of the catastrophic sequence of events which allowed a bizarre misfit to climb from a Viennese dosshouse to leadership of one of Europe's most sophisticated countries. With extraordinary skill and ...Show more
Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
$29.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Allen Lane History Ser.
Following the enormous success of "Hitler: Hubris" this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginning ...Show more
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution by Ian Kershaw
$37.95 NZD
Category: History
This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw's research on the Holocaust for the first time. The wr ...Show more
Luck of the Devil : The Story of "Operation Valkyrie" by Ian Kershaw
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
'It is now time that something was done. But the man who has the courage to do something must do it in the knowledge that he will go down in German history as a traitor. If he does not, however, he will be a traitor to his own conscience' - Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, July 1944. The July 1944 plot t ...Show more
Making Friends with Hitler : Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War by Ian Kershaw
$59.95 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S. | Reading Level: very good
Ian Kershaw's powerful new book is a revelatory account of Britain's ambiguous relations with Germany before the Second World War.
Making Friends with Hitler : Lord Londonderry and Britain's road to war by Ian Kershaw
$32.00 NZD
Category: History
Britain, as the most powerful of the European victors of World War One, had a unique responsibility to maintain the peace in the aftermath of the Treaty of Versailles. The outbreak of a second, even more catastrophic war in 1939 has therefore always raised painful questions about Britain's failure to de ...Show more
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
$29.99 NZD
$35.00 (14% off)
Category: No Category
The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of historyThe modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless conte ...Show more
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of history The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless con ...Show more
Roller-Coaster - Europe 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw
$28.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catast ...Show more