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  • July Crisis

    The World's Descent into War, Summer 1914

    de T. G. Otte ...
    This is a magisterial new account of Europe's tragic descent into a largely inadvertent war in the summer of 1914. Thomas Otte reveals why a century-old system of Great Power politics collapsed so disastrously in the weeks from the 'shot heard around the world' on June 28th to Germany's declaration of war on Russia on August 1st. He shows definitively that the key to understanding how and why ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Leuthen

    Great Battles

    de T. G. Otte ...
    Series series Great Battles
    Leuthen (1757) is one of the best-known battles of the Seven Years' War, the most consequential conflict in continental Europe between the Thirty Years' War and the wars of Revolutionary and then Napoleonic France. It was a victory against the odds, over a vastly superior Austrian enemy who held the initiative in the war. Leuthen confirmed the reputation of Frederick II ('the Great') of Prussia as ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Statesman of Europe

    A Life of Sir Edward Grey

    de T. G. Otte ...
    'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office at the end of August 1914, are amongst the most famous in European history, and encapsulate the impending end of the nineteenth-century world.The man who spoke them was Britain's longest-ever serving Foreign Secretary (in a ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • British World Policy and the Projection of Global Power, c.1830–1960

    de T. G. Otte ...
    A fundamental truth about British power in the nineteenth century and beyond was that Britain was a global power. Her international position rested on her global economic, naval and political presence; and her foreign policy operated on a global scale. This volume throws into sharp relief the material elements of British power, but also its less tangible components, from Britain's global network ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • The Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1854-1946

    de Keith Neilson, T.G. Otte ...
    Series series British Politics and Society
    Chief among the personnel at the Foreign Office is the Permanent Under-secretary, the senior civil servant who oversees the department and advises the Foreign Secretary. This book is a study of the twelve men who held this Office from 1854–1946. ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • The Foreign Office Mind

    The Making of British Foreign Policy, 1865–1914

    de T. G. Otte ...
    With this pioneering approach to the study of international history, T. G. Otte reconstructs the underlying principles, élite perceptions and 'unspoken assumptions' that shaped British foreign policy between the death of Palmerston and the outbreak of the First World War. Grounded in a wide range of public and private archival sources, and drawing on sociological insights, The Foreign Office Mind ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

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  • Europe's Last Summer

    Who Started the Great War in 1914?

    de David Fromkin ...
    When war broke out in Europe in 1914, it surprised a European population enjoying the most beautiful summer in memory. For nearly a century since, historians have debated the causes of the war. Some have cited the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; others have concluded it was unavoidable.In Europe’s Last Summer, David Fromkin provides a different answer: hostilities were commenced ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • Peace and War

    Britain in 1914

    de Nigel Jones ...
    1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent hue; and suspicions of Germany's ambitions bred a paranoia that was expressed in a rash of 'invasion scare' literature.Then when shots rang out in Sara-jevo on 28 June, they set in train a tumble of ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!

    A World Without World War I

    de Richard Ned Lebow ...
    Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! presents an intellectually invigorating set of hypotheticals about the twentieth century--had we been smart enough to avoid World War I.The "Great War" claimed nearly 40 million lives and set the stage for World War II, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. More than one hundred years later, historians are beginning to recognize how unnecessary it was. In Archduke Franz ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • A Stricken Field

    A Novel

    de Martha Gellhorn ...
    "Powerfully illustrates how Western societies fail in their duty to protect the most vulnerable among us: stateless and homeless refugees." —Anne Boyd Rioux, LitHubMartha Gellhorn was one of the first—and most widely read—female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during WWII and for her brief marriage to Ernest Hemingway, ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Mad Catastrophe

    The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire

    de Geoffrey Wawro ...
    A masterful account of the Hapsburg Empire's bumbling entrance into World War I, and its rapid collapse on the Eastern FrontThe Austro-Hungarian army that attacked Russia and Serbia in August 1914 had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging obsolete weapons, the Habsburg troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • July 1914

    Countdown to War

    de Sean McMeekin ...
    **The definitive account of the month after Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, revealing how reckless statesmen directly led to World War I.“Almost impossible to put down ... A punchy and riveting narrative.” —New York Review of Books**When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, no one could have imagined the shocking bloodshed that would soon follow. ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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