Antes de la aparición de esta obra, ganadora del prestigioso Premio de Ensayo Samuel Johnson 2001 , no existía una historia completa sobre la Alemania nazi, a pesar de que ha sido uno de los fenómenos más estudiados del siglo...
Antes de la aparición de esta obra, ganadora del prestigioso Premio de Ensayo Samuel Johnson 2001 , no existía una historia completa sobre la Alemania nazi, a pesar de que ha sido uno de los fenómenos más estudiados del siglo...
El final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial no supuso el comienzo de la paz, sino la transición a conflictos con una localización más lejana derivados de un choque de ideologías más amplio. La caída de los imperios colo...
Fully revised and updated for paperback - a gripping tour dâhorizon of the state of todayâs world from one of Britainâs leading award-winning historians.
The collapse of Western colonial empires in the twenty years after the Second World War led to a series of vicious struggles for power - in Africa, Asia and the Middle EAst - whose bloody consequences haunt us still. Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's...
This examination of the Second World War explores the moral sentiment of entire societies and their leaders, and how this changed under the impact of total war. Opening with the 'predators' - Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito - Burleigh analyses the...
Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth-century, 'Sacred Causes' provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped twentieth-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day 'War on Terror'.
A major work setting out the inextricable link between politics and religion over the past two centuries, from the French Revolution to the present day's War on Terror.
Between 1933 and 1945 the Nazi regime in Germany tried to restructure a "class" society along racial lines. This book deals with the ideas and institutions that underpinned this mission, and shows how Nazi policy affected various groups of people,...