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1914-1918 : The History of the First World War by David Stevenson
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions, destroying four empires and costing millions of lives. Even the victorious countries were scarred for a generation, and we still today remain within the conflict's shadow. In this major ...Show more
Cross & The Crescent: Christia by Richard Fletcher
Category: Spirituality | Series: Allen Lane History S.
A short account of the relations between Islam and Christianity from Muhammad to the Reformation. The author shows how religious misunderstanding and antagonism between "the peoples of the book" has been present since their earliest encounters.
Easter 1916 by Charles Townshend
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.
Empire Made Me by Robert A. Bickers
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
Shanghai in the wake of World War I was one of the world's most dynamic, brutal and exciting cities. Into this maelstrom stepped a tough and resourceful ex-veteran Englishman to join the police. This is his story, told in part through his rediscovered photograph albums and letters.
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
Flesh in the Age of Reason by Roy Porter
Category: unmapped | Series: Allen Lane History Ser.
In this "readable and humane book" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), the late historian Roy Porter traces the course of man's philosophical journey from the superstitious, spiritually obsessed Dark Ages to our modern perspective, based on reason and grounded in the body. He demonstrates how the explosion ...Show more
Forgotten Wars by Christopher Bayly
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
Following the immense praise for Bayly and Harper's "Forgotten Armies", its authors now tackle with the same verve, controversy and wit the even more contentious issue of how new nations were born from the wreck of Britain's empire in southeast Asia. The almost continual fighting that followed Japan's d ...Show more
God's War by Christopher Tyerman
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
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
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.
Mussolini's Italy by Richard Bosworth
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
Napoleon's Wars : An international history 1803-1815 by Charles J. Esdaile
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
No other soldier has provoked as much argument as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was Napoleon a monster, driven on by an endless, ruinous quest for military glory - or was he a social and political visionary brought down by the petty, reactionary kings and emperors, clinging to their privileges? "Napoleon's Wars" ...Show more