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Easter 1916 by Charles Townshend
$59.95 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
As we approach the 90th anniversary of the rebellion it is time for a new account of what really happened over those fateful few days.
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
God's War by Christopher Tyerman
$85.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
The story of how warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East is one of the most extraordinary of all epics. The crusaders' stunning initial success started a sequence of great Crusades, each with its own story. This book presents an account o ...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
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.
Mussolini's Italy by Richard Bosworth
$75.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
For Hitler when he came to power Mussolini was the great inspiration and model fascism, totalitarianism, the charismatic ruler, terror and intimidation were all worked out and perfected in Italy many years before they came to Germany. And yet, as Richard Bosworth shows in his brilliant new book, there w ...Show more
Restoration by Tim Harris
$79.95 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
Charles II 1660-1685
The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton
$65.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Allen Lane History S.
What is fascism? How can we comprehend it? Fascism was a major political innovation of the 20th century and the source of much of its pain. This study shows that we cannot understand the phenomenon in the abstract, but only in terms of its actions.
The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to the Present by J.M. Roberts
$36.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History Ser. | Reading Level: good
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 transform ...Show more
The Revolution by Tim Harris
$75.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
To an extraordinary extent everyone in Britain still lives under the shadow of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. It was a massive, brutal and terrifying event, which completely changed the governments of England, Scotland and Ireland and which was only achieved through overwhelming violence. Initiated ...Show more
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