| The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power 1898-1918 |
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the Berlin-Baghdad express ; the ottoman empire and germany's bid for world power (1898-1918) - Sean Mcmeeking - Viking Adult
Prix indicatif : 43.05 €
A seminal work that demonstrates for the first time that Imperial Germany's jihad strategy in World War I-- exploiting pan-Islamism in the Middle East to stoke the fire of native Muslim revolts against the British and against Russia-- played a crucial role in German plans to win the war. Now students of the 'Great War' will no longer be able to dismiss the German 'holy war' strategy as merely peripheral. There is much to be learned in this superb work about the recent past and today in the Middle East. |
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| The General Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved |
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General charles de gaulle and the france he saved - Fenby Jonathan - Simon
Prix indicatif : 41.15 €
This is a magisterial, sweeping biography of one of the great leaders of the twentieth century and of the country with which he so identified himself. Written with terrific verve and narrative skill, and yet rigorous and detailed, it brings alive as never before the private man as well as the public leader through exhaustive research and astute analysis. |
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| Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America Into the Vietnam War |
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Valley of death - Morgan - Casemate
Prix indicatif : 37.90 €
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ted Morgan has now written a rich and definitive account of the fateful battle that ended French rule in Indochina--and led inexorably to America's Vietnam War. Dien Bien Phu was a remote valley on the border of Laos along a simple rural trade route. But it would also be where a great European power fell to an underestimated insurgent army and lost control of a crucial colony. Valley of Death is the untold story of the 1954 battle that, in six weeks, changed the course of history. |
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| The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 |
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War lovers roosevelt lodge hearst and the rush to empire 1898 - Thomas Evan - Little Brown Us
Prix indicatif : 30.85 €
From the bestselling author of Sea of Thunder comes a riveting narrative about America's ferocious drive towards empire during the Gilded Age, and the uncanny resemblance of the Spanish-American War to the Iraq War of today. |
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| The Great Silence: 1918-1920, Living in the Shadow of the Great War |
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Great silence: 1918-1920 living in the shadow of the great war - Nicolson Juliet - Murray
Prix indicatif : 35.45 €
Juliet Nicolson pieces together colorful personalities, historic moments, and intimate details to create a social history of the two years following the Great War in Britain. Not since Nicolson's The Perfect Summer have we seen an account that so vividly captures a nation's psyche at a particular moment in history. |
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