A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire, Paperback - Geoffrey Wawro

Reducere. A masterful account of the Hapsburg Empire's bumbling entrance into World War I, and its rapid collapse on the Eastern Front The Austro-Hungarian a...

Reducere. The common explanation for the outbreak of World War I depicts Europe as a minefield of nationalism, needing only the slightest pressure to set off...

Contributor(s): Author: John ZameticaExamining the origins of the First World War has been called "the ultimate who dunnit." In his book, published...

Reducere. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, ...

The Outbreak of the First World War: Structure, Politics, and Decision-Making - Jack S. Levy, John A. Vasquez

The Austrian Empire was not a colonial power in the sense that fellow actors like 19th-century England and France were. It nevertheless oversaw a m...

DescriptionThe Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical worldThe Empire of ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and cau...

DescriptionWinner of the 2015 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book PrizeSerbia and the Balkan Front, 1914 is the first history of the Great War to address...

Reducere. The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 violently changed the course of European History. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and the Prussian a...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Prof. Peter (Ostasieninstitut, Germany) WetzlerNumber of pages: 256Collection: SOAS Studies in Moder...

The Opium War of 1839-42 is a subject of enduring interest. The Chinese historian Mao Haijian presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and it...

The Opium War of 1839-42 is a subject of enduring interest. The Chinese historian Mao Haijian presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and it...

Reducere. DescriptionDrawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War IWhile their story is almost a...

Reducere. Anyone with even a passing interest in conspiracy has heard claims that a powerful elite controls both the economies and the politics of the West. ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ismee (Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) TamesIllustrat...

This 2002 study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987 - the disintegration of the Soviet state - became the seemingly inev...

Germany's Tiger tank, whether in the form of the Tiger I or later Tiger II (King Tiger), was the most feared tank of WWII. Despite production total...

Reducere. Discover the captivating history of Europe's second-oldest dynasty-the Habsburgs!The Habsburg family ruled central Europe since the early medieval ...

Reducere. Discover the captivating history of Europe's second-oldest dynasty-the Habsburgs!The Habsburg family ruled central Europe since the early medieval ...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered how a man like Adolf Hitler could have come into power?How did he legally become a dictator by using a democratic process?Or...

Reducere. The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million peopl...

Reducere. Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to ...

DescriptionDuring World War I, American army camps, navy stations and marine barracks formed football's first true all-star teams, competing agains...

Publisher: Wildside PressAuthor(s): Francis A MarchIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 260Publication date: 2008Dimensions...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (1898-1935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of ...

Reducere. Considered by many to be the finest American combat memoir of the First World War, Hervey Allen's Toward the Flame vividly chronicles the experienc...

In this transnational history of World War II, Kelly Hammond places Sino-Muslims at the centre of imperial Japan's challenges to Chinese nation-bui...

How did we get from the end of the Cold War to Trump and Putin?Publisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): Peter ConradiNumber of pages: 496Publicat...

Reducere. According to accepted historical wisdom, the goal of the African Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 to return freed slaves to Africa, was ...

Reducere. Two manuscripts in one book: History of Austria: A Captivating Guide to Austrian HistoryThe Habsburg Empire: A Captivating Guide to the House of Au...

This book reveals for the first time the extraordinary true story of the worst naval catastrophe of the First World War and how Churchill covered i...

A brilliantly original take on the First World War, tracing the Indian army's journey from a small professional service to a crucial part of the co...