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Joseph Lelyveld
[Paperback 2012]
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In this ambitious, original study, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhi's accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtrodden--against Gandhi's own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history. About the Book : Great Soul : Mahatma Gandhi And... more
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Norman Lowe
[Paperback 1997, 3rd Edition]
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Book Summary of Mastering Modern World History This best-selling is ideal for first examinations in history. It meets the requirement of Modern History. It is a complete, readable, self-contained course, for individual study or classroom use, and requires no previous knowledge. The third edition includes new material in all chapters... more
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Paul M Kennedy
[Paperback 1989]
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About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe.... more
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Daniel Yergin
[Paperback 2008]
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Now with a new epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, "The Prize" recounts the panoramic history of the world's most important resource: oil. Daniel Yergin's timeless book chronicles the struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for decades and that continues to fuel global rivalries,... more
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P F Clarke
[Paperback 2008]
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About the Book: 'I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.' - Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously proclaimed his loyalty to the world-wide... more
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Eric J Hobsbawm
[Paperback 2003]
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Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the 85 years of Eric Hobsbawm's life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions. He has led a remarkably fulfilling and long life; historian and intellectual, fluent in five languages, a member of the Communist Party of... more
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Peter Watson
[Paperback 2002]
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From Freud to Babbitt, from "Animal Farm "to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, "The Modern Mind" is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced a fluent and... more
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Lucy Moore
[Paperback 2009]
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Description: An exhilarating portrait of the era of jazz, glamour, and gangsters from a bright young star of mainstream history writing. The glitter of 1920s America was seductive, from jazz, flappers, and wild all- night parties to the birth of Hollywood and a glamorous gangster-led crime scene flourishing under Prohibition.... more
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Norman Stone
[Paperback 2012]
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A masterful history of the second half of the 20th century by one of the great historians of the age. Pre-eminent historian Norman Stone's "The Atlantic and Its Enemies" is a masterful history of the Cold War. As Soviet influence spread insidiously from nation to nation, the Americans and British... more
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Frederick Kempe
[Paperback 2012]
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A fresh, controversial, brilliantly written account of one of the epic dramas of the Cold War-and its lessons for today. In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called it "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a... more
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Ken Follett
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Real-life account of an American mission to free hostages from an Iranian prison fortress. *Also appeared in May Buyer's Notes* On Wings of Eagles is the account of an incredible rescue by a Green Beret colonel and a group of corporate executives hastily trained into a fighting team. When Ross... more
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Frances Stonor Saunders
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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At 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 7, 1926, a woman stepped out of the crowd on Rome's Campidoglio Square and shot Mussolini at point-blank range. He escaped virtually unscathed. Violet Gibson, who expected to be thanked for her action, was arrested, labeled a "crazy Irish spinster" and a "half-mad mystic"---and... more
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Gohar Ayub Khan
[Hardcover 2007]
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The author, the son of Pakistan's first military dictator, Mohammad Ayub Khan, offers an insider's view of the people who occupied the corridors of power and of the events that directly and deeply affected the course of Pakistan's unsteady political history.... more
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Martin Gilbert
[Paperback 2006]
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A brilliant survey of Sir Winston Churchill's life-long love affair with the United States, by the doyen of Churchill biographers, which also functions as a portrait of the birth of the 'special relationship'. Is sure to be of particular interest to those who are examining the relationship between Blair and... more
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Ian Kershaw
[Paperback 2008]
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An acclaimed historian re-creaties a dramatic sequence of ten decisions made by the leaders of the world's six major powers--Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Mussolini, and Tojo--that reshaped human destiny. An acclaimed historian re-creaties a dramatic sequence of ten decisions made by the leaders of the world's six major powers--Hitler, Churchill,... more
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R W Johnson
[Paperback 2010]
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The universal jubilation that greeted Nelson Mandela's inauguration of South Africa in 1994 and the banishment of apartheid is one of the most thrilling, hopeful stories in the modern era. This book tells the story of South Africa from that magic period to the bitter disappointment of the present.... more
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Alan Axelrod
[Hardcover 2009]
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The newest entry in Alan Axelrod's engaging, successful Real History series--and the only current illustrated book on a misunderstood and mysterious topic.From the fall of Nazi Germany to the fall of the Berlin Wall, a cold war raged between the US and the Soviet Union. Though not a shot was... more
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Robert Kee
[Paperback 2001]
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Michael Burleigh
[Paperback 2008]
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An award-winning historian offers a brilliant account of the battles over religion in Europe, from the catastrophe of the First World War through the War on Terror. Beginning with the chaotic post-World War I landscape in which religious belief was one way of reordering a world knocked off its axis,... more
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Eduardo Galeano ,
Cedric Belfrage
[Paperback 2010]
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