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  • The Duel

    The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill & Hitler

    by John Lukacs ...
    This day-by-day account of the maneuvering between Britain and Germany in 1940 is "a wonderful story wonderfully told" (George F. Will, New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner).During the late spring and early summer of 1940, Hitler was poised on the edge of absolute victory, having advanced rapidly through a large part of Europe—and Britain was threatened by imminent invasion ... Read more

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  • Five Days in London, May 1940

    by John Lukacs ...
    A "gripping [and] splendidly readable" portrait of the battle within the British War Cabinet—and Churchill's eventual victory—as Hitler's shadow loomed ( The Boston Globe).From May 24 to May 28, 1940, members of Britain's War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue what became known as the Second World War. In this magisterial work, John Lukacs takes us hour by hour into ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Budapest 1900

    A Historical Portrait of a City & Its Culture

    by John Lukacs ...
    A distinguished historian and Budapest native offers a rich and eloquent portrait of one of the great European cities at the height of its powers.Budapest, like Paris and Vienna, experienced a remarkable exfoliation at the end of the nineteenth century. In terms of population growth, material expansion, and cultural exuberance, it was among the foremost metropolitan centers of the world, the ... Read more

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  • Last Rites

    by John Lukacs ...
    An accomplished historian delves into his own history: "An often witty and always fascinating—even entertaining—writer."— The Washington PostIn Confessions of an Original Sinner, an adroit blend of autobiography and personal philosophy, historian John Lukacs paused to set down the history of his own thoughts and beliefs. Now, in Last Rites, he continues and expands his reflections, this time ... Read more

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  • Churchill

    Visionary. Statesman. Historian.

    by John Lukacs ...
    "Lukacs convincingly portrays a leader of an empire in irreversible decline and a towering, if flawed, hero of our time."— Publishers WeeklyIn previous works, John Lukacs told the story of Winston Churchill's titanic struggle with Adolf Hitler in the early days of World War II. Now, he turns his attention to the man himself, the workings of his historical imagination, and his successes and ... Read more

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  • History and the Human Condition

    A Historian's Pursuit of Knowledge

    by John Lukacs ...
    In a career spanning more than sixty-five years, John Lukacs has established himself as one of our most accomplished historians. Now, in the stimulating book History and the Human Condition, Lukacs offers his profound reflections on the very nature of history, the role of the historian, the limits of knowledge, and more.Guiding us on a quest for knowledge, Lukacs ranges far and wide over the past ... Read more

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  • Refugee

    A True Story of Coming of Age in a War Zone

    by Lukacs John Varda, Dan Kwarcinski ...
    By the age of six, John Varda had already been twice a refugee. A member of the Hungarian Székely, traditionally thought to be descended from a son of Attila the Hun, his community was thrice relocated under treaty agreements as the countries of Eastern Europe jockeyed for territory, both through alliances and brute force. They were finally settled in Tolna County, Hungary, after World War II. ... Read more

    $1.79 USD

  • The Hitler of History

    by John Lukacs ...
    In this brilliant, strikingly original book, historian John Lukacs delves to the core of Adolf Hitler's life and mind by examining him through the lenses of his surprisingly diverse biographers.Since 1945 there have been more than one hundred biographies of Hitler, and countless other books on him and the Third Reich. What happens when so many people reinterpret the life of a single individual? ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • June 1941

    by John Lukacs ...

    $12.79 USD

  • A Short History of the Twentieth Century

    by John Lukacs ...
    The great themes woven through John Lukacs's spirited, concise history of the twentieth century are inseparable from the author's own intellectual preoccupations: the fading of liberalism, the rise of populism and nationalism, the achievements and dangers of technology, the continuing democratization of the globe, and the limitations of knowledge. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • George Kennan

    by John Lukacs ...

    $11.99 USD

  • The Last European War

    September 1939/December 1941

    by John Lukacs ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In this book, originally published in 1977, John Lukacs argues that the years 1939–41 were the decisive phase of the Second World War and The Last European War describes the history of an entire continent during these two years, one of the most crucial periods in Western civilization. Unorthodox in his approach, in this book, the author looks critically at many of the myths, military and political ... Read more

    $73.99 USD