The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. The sheer complexity and scale of the war have encouraged historians to write books ...
This book is a fascinating introduction to the complex era from 1878 to the end of World War I. The forty years before 1914 were a period of extraordinary peace and prosperity, but this world came to a dramatic end with the start of the First World War. Stone explores the political history of the period running up to the war, setting events in the ...
The Atlas charts the Empire's entire 400-year history, depicting in maps, illustrations, and some 60,000 words of text how it was explored, created, settled, governed, consolidated by commerce and culture, mythologized and finally liquidated. 50 color maps, 150 color photos and illustrations, and 150 black-and-white illustrations.
The story of Russia, a vast empire straddling Europe and Asia, is enigmatic and tangled, rife with paradox and mystery. In The Russian Chronicles, the people themselves speak out and tell the story of their troubled land from its beginnings to the momentous upheaval of the Revolution in 1917. These first-hand accounts are complemented by vividly ...
This is the classic, standard account of Japanese war crimes; a best seller in its time, but out of print for many years. Between 1931 and 1945 Japanese troops rampaged through one defeated country after another, executing civilians, despoiling cities, massacring prisoners and cruelly exploiting prisoners of war and native populations. This ...
Where is "The Other Russia"? The answer to that is to be found throughout the world in the memories of people exiled from their motherland by the drama of the Russian Revolution. This book recounts the experiences of three generations of emigres from Russia, why they fled, how, where they chose to go and what they found when they got there. ...
The essays are devoted to the four "eights" in Czech history: 1918, when the Republic was founded; 1938, when its western parts were handed over to Hitler; 1948, when the Communists took power; and 1968, when an effort to create "socialism with a human face" was crushed by Soviet tanks.
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