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Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
$27.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
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
$59.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics | 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
$42.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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 by Ian Kershaw
$65.00 AUD
Category: Biography
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, 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
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
Making Friends with Hitler : Lord Londonderry and Britain's road to war by Ian Kershaw
$33.00 AUD
Category: History and Politics
Britain, as the most powerful of the European victors of World War One, had a unique responsibility to maintain the peace in the aftermath of the Treaty of Versailles. The outbreak of a second, even more catastrophic war in 1939 has therefore always raised painful questions about Britain's failure to de ...Show more
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
$55.00 AUD
Category: History and Politics
The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of history The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless con ...Show more
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
$29.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of historyThe modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless conte ...Show more
Roller-Coaster: Europe 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw
$59.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics
After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catast ...Show more
Roller-Coaster - Europe 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw
$22.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Reading Level: very good
After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catast ...Show more
The End: Germany, 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw
$22.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
What made Germany keep fighting to the death, even when it was clear they would lose the Second World War? Why did its rulers not cut a deal to save their own skin? And why did ordinary people continue to obey the F#65533;hrer's suicidal orders, with countless Germans executing their own countrymen for ...Show more
The End : Hitler's Germany, 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw
$49.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
The last months of the Second World War were a nightmarish time to be alive. Unimaginable levels of violence destroyed entire cities. Millions died or were dispossessed. By all kinds of criteria it was the end: the end of the Third Reich and its terrible empire but also, increasingly, it seemed to be th ...Show more