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The First World War: A Complete History

The First World War by Martin Gilbert
ISBN: 0795337256

Publication Date: 2014-06-05

In this sweeping narrative, best-selling historian Martin Gilbert provides a view of the conflict that's both global and personal, drawing on eyewitness accounts, contemporary reporting, and first-hand documentation.

A World Undone

A World Undone by G. -J. Meyer
Call Number: Stacks ; D521 .M56 2006

ISBN: 0553803549

Publication Date: 2006-05-30

In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europes mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today.

The Guns of August

Guns of August by Outlet Book Company Staff; Random House Value Publishing Staff
Call Number: Stacks ; D 530 .T8

ISBN: 9780517385746

Publication Date: 1986-12-31

In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize-winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world.

The World War I Reader

The World War I Reader by Michael S. Neiberg (Editor)
ISBN: 9780814758335

Publication Date: 2006-12-01

An accessible compilation of primary and secondary scholarship on the frequently misunderstood First World War.

The Third Reich at War

The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans
Call Number: Stacks ; D757 .E83 2009

ISBN: 9781594202063

Publication Date: 2009-03-19

Interrogations

Interrogations by Richard Overy
Call Number: Stacks ; D 736 .O94 2001

ISBN: 9780670030088

Publication Date: 2001-10-15

Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945 fills a gap in the history of the Second World War, allowing us for the first time to witness the initial interrogations of the German high command in the summer of 1945 by the American, British, and Russian allies.

Hitlers Furies

Hitler's Furies by Wendy Lower
Call Number: Stacks ; D810 .W7 L69 2013

ISBN: 9780547863382

Publication Date: 2013-10-08

Wendy Lower's stunning account of the role of German women on the World War II Nazi eastern front powerfully revises history, proving that we have ignored the reality of women's participation in the Holocaust, including as brutal killers.

Hiroshima

Hiroshima by John R. Hersey
Call Number: Stacks ; D767.25.H6 H4 1989

ISBN: 9780606001946

Publication Date: 1985-01-01

1945: Year Zero

1945 by John Lukacs
Call Number: Stacks ; D842 .L83

ISBN: 9780385115025

Publication Date: 1978-03-01

The End

The End by Ian Kershaw
Call Number: Stacks ; D757 .K38 2011

ISBN: 9780143122135

Publication Date: 2012-08-28

From the author of To Hell and Back, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II.

Iron Curtain

Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum
Call Number: Stacks ; DJK45 .S65 A67 2012

ISBN: 9780385515696

Publication Date: 2012-10-30

Totalitarianism in the 20th Century

Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini by Bruce F. Pauley
Call Number: Stacks ; D 445 .P38 1997

ISBN: 9780882959351

Publication Date: 1997-01-01

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Provides access to academic historical journals that cover the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Coverage is from 1955 to the present.

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The Gathering Storm

The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill
Call Number: Stacks ; D 743 .C47 1961 v.1

ISBN: ‎ 9780395410554

The Twilight Years

The Twilight Years by Richard Overy
Call Number: Stacks ; DA578 .O79 2009

ISBN: 9780670021130

Publication Date: 2009-10-29

By the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. In The Twilight Years, award-winning historian Richard Overy examines the paradox of this period and argues that the coming of World War II was almost welcomed by Britain?s leading thinkers, who saw it as an extraordinary test for the survival of civilization.

The Twenty Years Crisis

Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939 by Edward H. Carr
Call Number: Stacks ; JX 3091 .C3 1964

ISBN: 9780061311222

Publication Date: 1964-03-25

E. H. Carr's classic work on international relations published in 1939 was immediately recognized by friend and foe alike as a defining work.

The Great Terror

The Great Terror by Robert Conquest
Call Number: Stacks ; DK267 .C649 1990

ISBN: 9780195055801

Publication Date: 1990-05-10

The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968.

Moscow 1937

Moscow 1937 by Karl Schlögel; Karl Schlögel
Call Number: Stacks ; DK267 .S27513 2012

ISBN: 9780745650760

Publication Date: 2012-08-27

Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin's dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence. In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the 'Great Terror.

The Road to War

The Road to War by Richard Overy
Call Number: Stacks ; D741 .O85 1999

ISBN: 9780140285307

Publication Date: 2000-07-01

Without resort to hindsight, this study looks at why the world's greatest powers were at war 60 years ago. It aims to recapture the concerns, anxieties and prejudices of the statesmen of the 30s and the people they led.

The Bombing War

The Bombing War by Richard Overy
Call Number: Stacks ; D785 .O937 2013

ISBN: 9780713995619

Publication Date: 2013

HitlerLand

Hitlerland by Andrew Nagorski
Call Number: Stacks ; DD253 .N225 2012

ISBN: 9781439191019

Publication Date: 2013-03-19

World War II historian Andrew Nagorski recounts Adolf Hitler's rise to and consolidation of power, drawing on countless firsthand reports, letters, and diaries that narrate the creation of the Third Reich.

Hitler

Hitler by Ian Kershaw
Call Number: Stacks DD247 .H5 K4622 2010

ISBN: 9780393337617

Publication Date: 2010-01-18

"The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century" (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw's Hitler is a one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work.

Lenin Stalin and Hitler

Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler by Robert Gellately
Call Number: Stacks - JC495 .G45 2007

ISBN: 9781400040056

Publication Date: 2007-08-14

History: The World Wars: Books and Journals

The First World War: A Complete History

A World Undone

The Guns of August

The World War I Reader

The Third Reich at War

Interrogations

Hitlers Furies

Hiroshima

1945: Year Zero

The End

Iron Curtain

Totalitarianism in the 20th Century

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