Ian Kershaw
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Series
The Penguin history of Europe volume 8
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
With to Hell and Back Ian Kershaw joins the lauded Penguin History of Europe series, offering the full story of the twentieth century's impact on Europe, and on the world. The first volume in his tow=part history brings us into the paroxysms of a conflict that would wrench and upend the continent, the drama and despair of a people waylaid by catastrophe and the new Europe that would emerge as a result. In the summer of 1914, most of Europe plunged...
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English
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Few, if any, twentieth-century political leaders have enjoyed greater popularity among their own people than Hitler did in the decade or so following his rise to power in 1933. The personality of Hitler himself, however, can scarcely explain this immense popularity or his political effectiveness in the 1930s and '40s. His hold over the German people lay rather in the hopes and perceptions of the millions who adored him.
Based largely on the reports...
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English
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Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, the 7th Marquess of Londonderry, was born to power and command. Scion of one of Britain's most aristocratic families, cousin of Churchill and confidant of the king, owner of vast coal fields and landed estates, married to the doyenne of London's social scene, Londonderry was an ornament to his class, the 0.1 percent of the population who still owned 30 percent of England's wealth as late as 1930. But history...
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Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
A2005
Language
English
Description
Use interviews with witnesses and perpetrators, along with archival film and records, to examine how a political party as fundamentally evil as the Nazis could come to power in a modern European nation. Discusses the factors that enabled the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in the economically-devastated Germany of the post-World War I era and looks at the role of ordinary Germans in the Nazi regime. Follows the rise and fall of Nazi Germany,...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
Having now settled into life on the idyllic sun drenched island of Saint Marie, bumbling detective Humphrey Goodman continues to both frustrate and impress his colleagues with his inimitable style of investigation. From a ghostly stabbing during a seance to the confounding drowning of a bride-to-be at her hen party, Humphrey's brilliant puzzle-solving mind is pushed to the limits as he is called upon to crack a whole host of cases. He may be as forgetful,...