In August 1914, the European powers plunged the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems & set the world on course for the bloodiest century in human history. On the eve of the 100th anniversary of that terrible year, Ham takes the reader on a journey into the labyrinth, to reveal the complexity, the layered motives, the flawed & disturbed minds that drove the world to war. What emerges is a clear sense of what happened & why. ` To understand the past, ` Ham concludes, `and share that understanding, is the chief role of the historian. To understand the past is to liberate ourselves from its awful shadow & steel ourselves against it happening again.` ...

The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries & North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, & events elsewhere significantly affected its course. Covering the twelve months of 1916, eminent historian Keith Jeffery uses twelve moments from a range of locations & shows how they reverberated around the world. As well as discussing better-known battles such as Gallipoli, Verdun & the Somme, Jeffery examines Dublin, for the Easter Rising, East Africa, the Italian front, Central Asia & Russia, where the killing of Rasputin exposed the internal political weakness of the country`s empire. &, in charting a wide range of wartime experience, he studies the `intelligence war`, naval engagements at Jutland & elsewhere, as well as the political consequences that ensued from the momentous US presidential election. Using an extraordinary range of military, social & cultural sources, & relating the individual experiences on the ground to wider developments, these are the stories lost to history, the conflicts that spread beyond the sphere of Europe & the moments that transformed the war. ...

The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries & North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, & events elsewhere significantly affected its course. Covering the twelve months of 1916, eminent historian Keith Jeffery uses twelve moments from a range of locations & shows how they reverberated around the world. As well as discussing better-known battles such as Gallipoli, Verdun & the Somme, Jeffery examines Dublin, for the Easter Rising, East Africa, the Italian front, Central Asia & Russia, where the killing of Rasputin exposed the internal political weakness of the country`s empire. &, in charting a wide range of wartime experience, he studies the `intelligence war`, naval engagements at Jutland & elsewhere, as well as the political consequences that ensued from the momentous United States presidential election. Using an extraordinary range of military, social & cultural sources, & relating the individual experiences on the ground to wider developments, these are the stories lost to history, the conflicts that spread beyond the sphere of Europe & the moments that transformed the war. ...

The 1916 Easter Rising & its aftermath changed Ireland for ever. The British government`s execution of 14 republican rebels transformed a group hitherto perceived as cranks & troublemakers into national heroes. Those who avoided the British firing squads of May 1916 went on to plan a new
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- struggle for Ireland`s independence, shaping their country`s destiny for the century to come. But what sort of country did they create? & to what extent does post-1916 Ireland measure up to the hopes & aspirations of ` Mac Donagh & Mac Bride / & Connolly & Pearse`? Best-selling historian Tim Pat Coogan offers a strongly personal perspective on the Irish century that followed the Rising
- charting a flawed history that is marked as much by complacency, corruption & institutional & clerical abuse, as it is by the sacrifices & nation-building achievements of the Republic`s founding fathers.


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100 years since the Russian Revolution: the 20th century`s greatest Russian writers respond ` This is the last of you, old world
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In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles Mac Donogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was clearly a threat to the entire world. In that year The Third Reich came of age & the Fuhrer showed his hand
- bringing Germany into line with Nazi ideology & revealing long-held plans to take back those parts of Europe lost to ` Greater Germany` after the First World War. The sequence of events began in January with the purging of the army, & escalated with the merger with Austria
- the Anschluss, & the first persecutions of Viennese Jewry. In the following months Hitler moulded the nation to his will. Elections brought him a 99 per cent approval rating. Mac Donogh gives a full account of the nationalist opposition that failed to topple Hitler in September 1938. By the end of the year the brutal reality of the Nazi regime was revealed by Joseph Goebbels in Kristallnacht, a nationwide assault on Germany`s native Jewish population. Mac Donogh`s access to many new sources gives insights into what life was like under the eye of the regime, revealing the role of the Anglican Church after the Anschluss, saving those Jews who were willing to convert, & also the Kendrick Affair
- the still-secret details of the Austrian double agent who brought down the whole MI6 operation in Austria & Germany, just as the Chamberlain government began negotiations with Hitler at Munich. A remarkable & revealing account of Hitler`s opening moves to war.


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