World War History Books
The LightsThat Failed
In 'The Lights that Failed', Steiner challenges the assumption that the Treaty of Versailles led to the opening of a second European war and provides an analysis of the attempts to reconstruct Europe during the 1920s. The peace treaties represented an almost impossible attempt to solve the problems caused by a murderous world war. In The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933, part of the Oxford History of Modern Europe series, Steiner challenges the common assumption that the Treaty of Versailles led to the opening of a second European war. In a radically original way, this book characterizes the 1920s not as a frustrated prelude to a second global conflict but as a fascinating decade in its own right, when politicians and diplomats strove to re-assemble a viable European order. Steiner examines the efforts that failed but also those which gave hope for future promise, many of which are usually underestimated, if not ignored. She shows that an equilibrium was achieved, attained between a partial American withdrawal from Europe and the self-imposed constraints which the Soviet system imposed on exporting revolution. The stabilization painfully achieved in Europe reached it fragile limits after 1925, even prior to the financial crises that engulfed the continent. The hinge years between the great crash of 1929 and Hitler's achievement of power in 1933 devastatingly altered the balance between nationalism and internationalism. This wide-ranging study helps us grasp the decisive stages in this process. In a second volume, The Triumph of the Night , Steiner will examine the immediate lead up to the Second World War and its early years. Very good condition with some very minor wear.
Rendezvous With Destiny - A History of the 101st Airborne Division
At the front of the book is a moving excerpt about William Haddick, Private First Class, one of the 2,043 men of the 101st. who died in the 2nd World War. There are thirteen chapters covering the experiences of the 101st. Airborne Division from the USA via Britain to the continent of Europe End papers are aerial photographs. 107 maps and many photographs throughout the book. Included are copies of airborne songs and poems - an added bonus. Insignia of Division on front of book. Front hinge is slightly loose but the remainder of the book is tight. Top and bottom edges are frayed. Corners slightly bumped. Content of book is clean with no evidence of foxing.
History of Economic Analysis
This classic text, which Schumpeter was working on right up until his death in 1950, provides a complete history of economic theory from Ancient Greece to the end of World War II. At the time of his death in 1950, Joseph Schumpeter was working on...
No Insignificant Part
No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War is the first history of the only primarily African military unit from Zimbabwe to fight in the First World War. Recruited from the migrant...
Britain and World War One
The First World War appears as a fault line in Britain's twentieth-century history. Between August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperial Germany and her allies consumed more people, more money and more resources than any...
Medicine in an Age of Commerce and Empire
Harrison's writing about the fighting is gripping and the importance of medical developments is deftly interwoven with the wider campaigns. The book succeeds in throwing light, not just on the history of medicine during the Second World War...
Blood, Sweat, and Toil
Blood, Sweat, and Toil is the first scholarly history of the British working class in the Second World War. It integrates social, political, and labour history, and reflects the most recent scholarship and debates on social class, gender...
The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory
The book explores the changing relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans through the prism of remembrance for the German-Jewish soldiers who fought in the First World War. The First World War saw almost 100,000 German Jews wear the...
Paris and the Spirit of 1919
This history of Paris in 1919 explores the global implications of French political activism at the end of World War I. This transnational history of Paris in 1919 explores the global implications of the revolutionary crisis of French society at...
Essential Modern World History
Designed as an entry-level textbook for GCSE students, this volume covers the essentials of modern world history, including sections on: World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and international relations 1919-1939. This teachers' book...
Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World War
The first comprehensive examination and comparison of the indigenous peoples of the five British dominions during the First World War. This pioneering comparative history of the participation of indigenous peoples of the British Empire in the...
The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry, 1778-1914
This is the first full-length history of the Scottish cotton industry, from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century to its premature decline in the years leading up to the First World War. This is the first full-length history of the...
The Second World War
6 Volumes of a history of the The Second World War. Vol 1 - The Gathering Storm - Events leading to the war; the drama surrounding the outbreak of the war continuing to the first 7 months of the war. Vol 2- Their Finest Hour - Deals with the period of the war between May 1940 and the end of that year. Vol 3 - The Grand Alliance - The story continues through the year 1941, from Britain's struggle alone through the formation of the Grand Alliance. Vol 4 - The Hinge of Fate - 1942 - with the first six months of almost uninterruped defeat to the second six months where the tide turned in favour of the Allies. Vol 5 - Closing the Ring - Mr Churchill;s memoirs covers the decisive twelve months between June 1943 and June 1944 concluding with the eve of the Normandy landings. Vol 6 - Triumph and Tragedy - In this volume Mr Churchill brings to a close his history of the second world war. It covers the whole of the tremendous climax from the Anglo-American landings in Normandy until the surrender all Britain's enemies fourteen months later.
World War One
This is an indispensable and accessible new introduction to the global history of World War One and its revolutionary consequences. World War One was the cause, catalyst, trigger and accelerator of revolutionary change on an unprecedented scale.
Constructing a Post-war Order
This analysis of the period immediately after World War II will appeal to researchers of history and international relations, as well as those interested in the political economy of the post-war world. The years 1942 to 1946 saw the acceleration...