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Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History
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
$70.00 NZD
Category: World History | 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
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History
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
Luck of the Devil : The Story of "Operation Valkyrie" by Ian Kershaw
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History
'It is now time that something was done. But the man who has the courage to do something must do it in the knowledge that he will go down in German history as a traitor. If he does not, however, he will be a traitor to his own conscience' - Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, July 1944. The July 1944 plot t ...Show more
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
$65.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
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
Roller-Coaster - Europe 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History | 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
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
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
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 by Ian Kershaw
$38.00 NZD
Category: World History
In the summer of 1914, most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its survivors, shocked that a civilisation that had blandly assumed itself to be a model for the rest of t ...Show more
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