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Lancaster Pamphlets eBook Series

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  • The Weimar Republic 1919-1933

    by Ruth Henig ...
    Series series Lancaster Pamphlets
    This book represents a much-needed reappraisal of Germany between the wars, examining the political, social and economic aims of the new republic, their failure and how they led to Nazism and eventually the Second World War. The author includes: * an examination of the legacy of the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles * discussion of the early years of crisis culminating in the Ruhr ... Read more

    $71.45 CAD

  • Versailles and After, 1919-1933

    by Ruth Henig ...
    Series series Lancaster Pamphlets
    Ruth Henig's fully revised and extended second edition of Versailles and After includes a new chapter on recent historiography of the subject and provides students with concise coverage of the following topics:* the terms of the Treaty of Versailles* the inadeqacies of the League of Nations as a supranational peacekeeping body* why hopes of long term stability gradually faded. ... Read more

    $72.68 CAD

  • The Origins of the Second World War 1933-1941

    by Ruth Henig ...
    Series series Lancaster Pamphlets
    Updated and expanded throughout to take into consideration the most up-to-date historical research, this new edition of The Origins of the Second World War analyzes the reasons for the outbreak of the Second World War.Experienced historian Ruth Henig considers:* the long-term factors that led to war* the effect of British appeasement policies* the significance of American isolation* the ambitions ... Read more

    $72.68 CAD

  • The Origins of the First World War

    by Ruth Henig ...
    Series series Lancaster Pamphlets
    First published in 2003. There is an enormous literature on the origins of the First World War and this pamphlet focuses on the major issues involved in the topic and assesses the validity of the different interpretations. Beginning with the legacy of Bismarck's diplomacy between 1871 and 1890, Ruth Henig surveys the roots of the conflict and outlines the assassination crisis which led to war in ... Read more

    $72.68 CAD

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  • Islam and Nazi Germany’s War

    by David Motadel ...
    In the most crucial phase of the Second World War, German troops, fighting in regions as far apart as the Sahara and the Caucasus, confronted the Allies across lands largely populated by Muslims. Nazi officials saw Islam as a powerful force with the same enemies as Germany: the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Jews. Islam and Nazi Germany’s War is the first comprehensive account of Berlin ... Read more

    $25.64 CAD

  • Rashi

    by Elie Wiesel ...
    Translated by Catherine Temerson ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesFrom Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages.Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged by outbursts of anti-Semitism ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Freud: A Life for Our Time

    A Life for Our Time

    by Peter Gay ...
    Norton celebrates the 150th anniversary of Freud’s birth by reissuing Peter Gay’s best-selling biography, featuring a new introduction. ... Read more

    $27.35 CAD

  • The Age of Gladiators

    by Rupert Matthews ...
    The great spectacles of ancient Rome have become proverbial for their cruelty, bloodlust and glory. In the arena, the games were savage and brutal. Gladiators fought each other to the death, wild animals were put to fight each other and criminals were executed by barbaric means. Military victories were marked by the Triumphs when generals paraded through the city, the defeated were sacrificed to ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paris 1919

    Six Months That Changed the World

    by Margaret MacMillan ...
    A landmark work of narrative history, Paris 1919 is the first full-scale treatment of the Peace Conference in more than twenty-five years. It offers a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries were created—Iraq, Yugoslavia, Israel—whose troubles haunt us still.Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize • Winner of the PEN Hessell ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • A Perfidious Distortion of History

    the Versailles Peace Treaty and the success of the Nazis

    by Jürgen Tampke ...
    A controversial and important work of revisionist history that rebuts the accepted version of the role of the Versailles Peace Treaty in the rise of Nazism and the unleashing of World War II.The Versailles Peace Treaty, the pact that ended World War I between the German empire and the Allies, has not enjoyed a positive reputation since its signing in June 1919. Conventional wisdom has it that the ... Read more

    $49.31 CAD

  • Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014 is a serious contemplation of what it means to engage in major world conflicts, and the price we pay when we do.The First World War was Canada's baptism of fire, or at least the only one that people now remember. (Montrealers in 1776 or Torontonians in 1814 would have taken a different view.) From 1914 to 1918, after a century of peace, Canadians were ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Winston Churchill

    A Life

    by John Keegan ...
    Series series Penguin Lives
    One of the greatest historians writing today gives us a defining portrait of the incomparable Winston ChurchillIn his landmark biography of Winston Churchill, acclaimed historian John Keegan offers a very human portrait of one of the twentieth century's enduring symbols of heroic defiance. From Churchill's youth as a poor student to his leadership during World War II, Keegan reveals a man whose ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD