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  • Petain

    de Nicholas Atkin ...
    Series series Profiles In Power
    Pétain (1856-1951) remains one of the most controversial figures in the history of modern France. He was saviour of his country at Verdun in 1916 during the First World War, but tried for treason as head of state of the collaborationist Vichy government after World War II. Were his actions those of a traitor? - or a patriot facing the total disintegration of his country? In exploring the actions ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • The French at War, 1934-1944

    de Nicholas Atkin ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    The years 1934 to 1944 remain the most contentious and dramatic decade in modern French history. Covering the Occupation, the Vichy regime, the Resistance and collaboration, Nick Atkin provides an important introduction to this key period. Accessible and concise, the book offers a wide-ranging synthesis of key themes and events. Looking ahead to the present day, the book also examines how the ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • The forgotten French

    de Nicholas Atkin ...
    It is assumed that those French in Britain during World War II - Dunkirk refugees; servicemen; Vichy consular officials; colonists - were supporters of De Gaulle. This study examines the hopes and fears of these communities: how they fitted into British life and how the British viewed them. ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • The Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789

    de Nicholas Atkin, Michael Biddiss, Frank Tallett ...
    The Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789 is an authoritative and accessible reference guide to the major people, events, and issues that have shaped the development of Europe from the French Revolution to the present day.Features almost a thousand alphabetical entries on modern European historyOffers extensive cross-references to enhance clarity and reveal historical ... Leer más

    $128.00 USD

  • Themes in Modern European History, 1890-1945

    Edición de Nicholas Atkin, Michael Biddiss ...
    Series series Themes in Modern European History Series
    Themes in Modern European History, 1890–1945 brings together an international team of scholars to address an eclectic range of developments and issues in European history in the period between 1890 and the end of the Second World War. This lively collection of essays adopts a thematic approach, in order to explore comprehensively a period of great change and upheaval in Europe.Concentrating on the ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

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  • The General

    Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved

    de Jonathan Fenby ...
    No leader of modern times was more uniquely patriotic than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first president of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself as “carrying France on [his] shoulders.”In his twenties, he fought for France in the trenches and at the epic battle of Verdun. In the 1930s, he waged a lonely battle to enable France to better resist Hitler’s Germany. Thereafter, he ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Fall of France:The Nazi Invasion of 1940

    The Nazi Invasion of 1940

    de Julian Jackson ...
    Series series Making of the Modern World
    On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through the French lines on the River Meuse at Sedan and elsewhere, only five days after launching their attack. Churchill, who had been telephoned by Prime Minister Reynaud the previous evening to be told that the French were beaten, rushed to Paris to meet the French ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

  • The Paris Game

    Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble that Won France

    de Ray Argyle ...
    At a crucial moment in the Second World War, an obscure French general reaches a fateful personal decision: to fight on alone after his government’s flight from Paris and its capitulation to Nazi Germany.Amid the ravages of a world war, three men — a general, a president, and a prime minister — are locked in a rivalry that threatens their partnership and puts the world’s most celebrated city at ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Fleeing Hitler

    France 1940

    de Hanna Diamond ...
    Wednesday 12th June 1940. The Times reported 'thousands upon thousands of Parisians leaving the capital by every possible means, preferring to abandon home and property rather than risk even temporary Nazi domination'. As Hitler's victorious armies approached Paris, the French government abandoned the city and its people, leaving behind them an atmosphere of panic. Roads heading south filled with ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Russian Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    de S. A. Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole--on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, youth. Its central concern is to understand how one structure of domination was replaced by another. The book registers the primacy of ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Barbarism and Civilization

    A History of Europe in our Time

    de Bernard Wasserstein ...
    The twentieth century in Europe witnessed some of the most brutish episodes in history. Yet it also saw incontestable improvements in the conditions of existence for most inhabitants of the continent - from rising living standards and dramatically increased life expectancy, to the virtual elimination of illiteracy, and the advance of women, ethnic minorities, and homosexuals to greater equality of ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Russia in Revolution

    An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928

    de S. A. Smith ...
    The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Historian S. A. Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire, from the last years of the nineteenth century, through the First World War and the ... Leer más

    $13.29 USD