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Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of historyThe 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 conte ...Show more
Roller-Coaster - Europe 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
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
$37.99 AUD
Category: 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
$29.99 AUD
Category: 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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