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Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rockies by Linda Kershaw; Ian Sheldon (Illustrator); Lee Craig (Editor)
Category: Gardening
Throughout human history, plants have provided us with food, clothing, medicine and shelter. The Rocky Mountains are home to a diversity of plant species that have helped native peoples and settlers survive through the centuries. EDIBLE AND MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE ROCKIES describes 333 common trees, shr ...Show more
Fateful Choices - Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
Category: History
The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw's analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display. From May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world's six major powers made a series of rela ...Show more
Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
Category: Military
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
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
Category: History
Now at last in a single, abridged volume - the definitive life. When the two volumes of Ian Kershaw's biography of "Hitler, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris" and "Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis" were published, they were immediately greeted around the world as the essential works on perhaps the most malign figure ev ...Show more
Hitler by Ian Kershaw
Category: History
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
Category: Military
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
Category: History | 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: A Biography by Ian Kershaw
Category: Biography
The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw s Hitler is a one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work. From Hitler s origins as a failed artist in fin-de-si cle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw s richly illustrated biogra ...Show more
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution by Ian Kershaw
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
Category: Military
'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
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
Ian Kershaw's powerful new book is a revelatory account of Britain's ambiguous relations with Germany before the Second World War.