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(Paperback)
By: Charles Emmerson
ISBN: 9780099575788
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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If Downton Abbey still colours your impression of what Britain was like on the cusp of the First World War, 1913 could be a useful corrective Scotsman
2018 marks the centenary of the end of the Great War.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Florian Illies
ISBN: 9781846689611
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 12th June 2014
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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From James Joyce to Coco Chanel, 1913 is an irreverent but poignant portrait of Europe on the brink of war.
(Paperback)
By: David Stevenson
ISBN: 9780718197957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions, destroying four empires and costing millions of lives. This title re-examines the causes, course and impact of this 'war to end war', placing it in the context of its era and exposing its underlying dynamics.
(Paperback)
By: Allan Mallinson
ISBN: 9780857500595
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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'No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening', wrote Churchill. In this history, the author brings his experience as a professional soldier to bear on the circumstances, events, actions and individuals and speculates - tantalizingly - on what might have been...
(Paperback)
By: Keith Jeffery
ISBN: 9781408834329
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 14th July 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A fascinating examination of the First World War beyond the Western Front told through the significant global events of 1916, which dramatically altered the fate of many nations.
(Paperback)
By: Tim Pat Coogan
ISBN: 9780753818527
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2005
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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An account of the events, personalities and repercussions of the Irish rebellion
(Paperback)
By: Peter Hart
ISBN: 9780753826898
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The story of the huge mobile battles of 1918, which finally ended the Great War.
(Hardback)
By: Mark Jones
ISBN: 9781529360721
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2023
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The astonishing story of one of the most significant years in modern European history.
(Hardback)
By: Scott Martelle
ISBN: 9780806541860
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 28th November 2023
Publisher: Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Frederick Taylor
ISBN: 9781509858767
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2020
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A vivid people's history of the twelve months leading up to the outbreak of war in 1939.
(Paperback)
By: Richard Overy
ISBN: 9780141041308
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
UK Publication Date: 29th April 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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24 August 1939: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance. Hitler has ambitions to invade Poland and hopes Stalin will now help him. The West must try to stop him. Nothing was predictable or inevitable. The West hoped that Hitler would see sense if they stood firm. Hitler was convinced the West would back down.
(Paperback)
By: Anne De Courcy
ISBN: 9781474625135
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 23rd June 2022
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Marc Wortman
ISBN: 9781786491190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The thrilling story of the hidden war fought by America before they entered World War II, revealing how President Roosevelt aided Churchill in the fight against the Nazis.
(Hardback)
By: Taylor Downing
ISBN: 9781408713709
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A gripping new work of popular history about a critical year in world history, and Britain's bleakest hour, by the acclaimed author of 1983: The World at the Brink.
(Paperback)
By: Taylor Downing
ISBN: 9781408713716
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A gripping new work of popular history about a critical year in world history, and Britain's bleakest hour.
(Paperback)
By: Taylor Downing
ISBN: 9780349144528
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 19th January 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A gripping new work of popular history about a critical year in world history, and Britain's bleakest hour, by the acclaimed author of 1983: The World at the Brink.
(Hardback)
By: Prof. Peter Caddick-Adams
ISBN: 9781529151701
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Cornerstone
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(Paperback, Unabridged edition)
By: Victor Sebestyen
ISBN: 9780330544856
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A compelling account of a crucial year in post-war history, in the tradition of Margaret MacMillan's award-winning and bestselling The Peacemakers.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Simon Hall
ISBN: 9780571312337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2016
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Vibrantly and sympathetically told, this is the story of one year - a capsule history of exhilarating triumphs and shattering defeats around the world.
(Hardback)
By: Eric Burns
ISBN: 9781538139950
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From Sputnik and the beginning of the space race to Little Richard and the underappreciated influence of rock n' roll in bringing blacks and whites closer together, to President Eisenhower's Interstate Highway Act, which forever changed the landscape, 1957 represents the year when all of the energy and anxiety that had followed the end of World War II exploded.
(Paperback)
By: Tom Segev
ISBN: 9780349115955
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* A vivid account of the year 1967 and the impact it made on the Middle East and the rest of the world.
(Hardback)
By: Robert C. Cottrell
ISBN: 9781538107751
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The year 1968 is recalled most of all as a year when revolution beckoned or threatened. On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, cultural historians Robert Cottrell and Blaine T. Browne provide a well-informed, up-to-date synthesis of the events that rocked the world, emphasizing the revolutionary possibilities.
(Paperback)
By: Taylor Downing
ISBN: 9781408710531
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A tense, thrilling account of how, in 1983, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly caused global Armageddon.
(Paperback)
By: David Stubbs
ISBN: 9781910924280
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2016
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
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