Sleepwalkers - How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Clark Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Clark Christopher)(Paperback)

Sleepwalkers - How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Clark Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule and it

To Hell and Back - Europe, 1914-1949 (Kershaw Ian)(Paperback / softback)

In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. This title presents the narrative of events. It also deals with the most difficult issues that the events raise - with what

World War 1 - When the lights went out in Europe, Liam and Aoife's story (Smith Rod)(Paperback / softback)

How to Plan a Crusade - Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages (Tyerman Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (Clark Christopher)(Paperback)

In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia--a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe's development--ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth, the Allies believed that Prussia, the very embodiment of German militarism, had to be abolished. But as

Russia in War and Revolution, 1914-1922 - A Documentary History(Paperback / softback)

Mitrokhin Archive - The KGB in Europe and the West (Andrew Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

Kaiser Wilhelm II - A Life in Power (Clark Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

King of Prussia, German Emperor, war leader and defeated exile, Kaiser Wilhelm II was one of the most important figures in the history of twentieth-century Europe. This book presents a fresh interpretation of this contentious figure, focusing on how his thirty-year reign from 1888 to 1918 affected

World War I Battlefield Artillery Tactics (Clarke Dale)(Paperback)

From the beginning of 'trench warfare' in winter 1914/15, artillery became the absolutely dominant arm in all the major armies for the rest of World War I, to a degree never seen before or since. The numbers and capabilities of the guns and ammunition available governed all the generals' battle

My Guru and His Disciple (Isherwood Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the

Brave Men (Pyle Ernie)(Paperback)

Europe was in the throes of World War II, and when America joined the fighting, Ernie Pyle went along. Long before television beamed daily images of combat into our living rooms, Pyle's on-the-spot reporting gave the American public a firsthand view of what war was like for the boys on the front

Wars (Findley Timothy)(Paperback / softback)

Robert Ross, a sensitive nineteen-year-old Canadian officer, went to war - the War to End All Wars. In this world gone mad, Robert Ross performed a last desperate act to declare his commitment to life in the midst of death.The Wars is quite simply one of the best novels ever written about the First

Montreal at War, 1914-1918 (Copp Terry)(Paperback)

Montreal at War tells the story of how citizens in Canada's largest city responded to the challenges of the First World War. Drawing from newspapers, journals, government reports, and archival records, Terry Copp - one of Canada's leading military historians - raises important questions about how

Great War: The First World War 1914-18 (Brooman Josh)(Paperback / softback)

Practical topic books for key periods in 20th Century

Farewell to Arms (Hemingway Ernest)(Paperback / softback)

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his

Pursuit of Power - Europe, 1815-1914 (Evans Richard J.)(Paperback / softback)

Catastrophe - Europe Goes to War 1914 (Hastings Max)(Paperback / softback)

The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total

Dalwood Great War Memorial 1914-1919 (Morgan Alison)(Paperback / softback)

Vertigo Years - Change And Culture In The West, 1900-1914 (Blom Philipp)(Paperback / softback)

A panorama of Europe, 1900-1914, describing the cultural, economic and political life before the First World

Ashenden (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play. The stories collected in Ashenden are rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage, its intrigue

Great War: 1914-1918 (Hart Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history. In this magnum opus, the author examines the conflict in every arena around the world, in a history that combines scholarship with vivid and unfamiliar eyewitness accounts, from kings and generals, and

World War One - A Short History (Stone Norman)(Paperback / softback)

In 1914 a new kind of war, and a new kind of world, came about. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. This title provides a terse, opinionated and wry short history of the First World

War On Heresy - Faith and Power in Medieval Europe (Moore Professor R. I.)(Paperback / softback)

A passionate history of the war on heresy which dominated medieval