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“igor lukes”

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  • Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler

    The Diplomacy of Edvard Beneš in the 1930s

    by Igor Lukes ...
    The Munich crisis of 1938, in which Great Britain and France decided to appease Hitler's demands to annex the Sudentenland, has provoked a vast amount of historical writing. But historians have had, until now, only a vague understanding of the roles played by the Soviet Union and by Czechoslovakia, the country whose very existence was at the center of the crisis. In Czechoslovakia Between Stalin ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

  • Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler

    The Diplomacy of Edvard Beneš in the 1930s

    by Igor Lukes ...
    The Munich crisis of 1938, in which Great Britain and France decided to appease Hitler's demands to annex the Sudentenland, has provoked a vast amount of historical writing. But historians have had, until now, only a vague understanding of the roles played by the Soviet Union and by Czechoslovakia, the country whose very existence was at the center of the crisis. In Czechoslovakia Between Stalin ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

  • On the Edge of the Cold War

    American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague

    by Igor Lukes ...
    In 1945, both the U.S. State Department and U.S. Intelligence saw Czechoslovakia as the master key to the balance of power in Europe and as a chessboard for the power-game between East and West. Washington believed that the political scene in Prague was the best available indicator of whether the United States would be able to coexist with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. In this book, Igor Lukes ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Munich Crisis, 1938

    Prelude to World War II

    Edited by Erik Goldstein, Igor Lukes ...
    Most of the works on the crises of the 1930s and especially the Munich Agreement in 1938 were written when it was virtually impossible to gain access to the relevant archive collections on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This text studies the Czechoslovak-German crisis and its impact from previously neglected perspectives and celebrates the post-Cold War openness by bringing in new evidence from ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Fateful Choices

    Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941

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    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 related decisions that determined the final outcome of World War II and shaped the course of human ... Read more

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  • Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953

    by Geoffrey Roberts ...
    This breakthrough book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin’s leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. Making use of a wealth of new material from Russian archives, Geoffrey Roberts challenges a long list of standard perceptions of Stalin: his qualities as a leader; his relationships with his own generals and with other great world leaders; his ... Read more

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  • The Holocaust

    A New History

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  • Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany's War in the East, 1941-1945

    Nazi Germany's War in the East, 1941-1945

    by Christian Hartmann ...
    The war between Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union that raged between 1941 and 1945 was the ultimate confrontation between the two great totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century. Unprecedented in the scale of the destruction that it wrought and the deep historical scars that it left behind, it was a gargantuan conflict in every sense of the term: in the vast territories over which it ... Read more

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  • The Devils' Alliance

    Hitler's Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941

    by Roger Moorhouse ...
    History remembers the Soviets and the Nazis as bitter enemies and ideological rivals, the two mammoth and opposing totalitarian regimes of World War II whose conflict would be the defining and deciding clash of the war. Yet for nearly a third of the conflict's entire timespan, Hitler and Stalin stood side by side as partners. The Pact that they agreed had a profound -- and bloody -- impact on ... Read more

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  • The German Opposition to Hitler

    The Resistance, the Underground, and Assassination Plots (1938-1945)

    by Michael Thomsett ...
    Between 1933 and 1945, more than 500,000 German citizens resisted the Nazi government. Many were imprisoned for political crimes which included both active attempts to remove Hitler from office and passive attempts to oppose the Nazi regime. Resistance was found among university students, churches and even in the German military.This fascinating and compelling history of the German resistance ... Read more

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  • Nazi Germany: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Having suffered during World War One – not only the indignities of political betrayal and battlefield defeat but also starvation, fuel shortages and a domestic flu epidemic – the German people were left in widespread discontent. Soon inflation and economic stagnation had further sunk the nation into exhaustion, humiliation and disillusionment ... Read more

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