Knaves, Fools and Heroes in Europe Between the Wars
Author | : Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett |
Publisher | : MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett |
Publisher | : MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett |
Publisher | : MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Patrick Crowhurst |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2015-06-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857726927 |
Here, Patrick Crowhurst identifies the crucial political problem that faced Czechoslovakia between 1918 and 1939 - the rift between the Czechs and the Sudeten Germans that would open the way for the rise of Konrad Henlein's right-wing 'Sudeten Deutsch' party, and which was exploited ruthlessly by Hitler during Nazi Germany's 1938 annexation of Czechoslovakia. A History of Czechoslovakia Between the Wars deepens our understanding of a fragile Europe before World War II, and is essential for students and scholars of 20th century history.
Author | : Erik Goldstein |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136328394 |
Most of the works on the crises of the 1930s and especially the Munich Agreement in 1938 were written when it was virtually impossible to gain access to the relevant archive collections on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This text studies the Czechoslovak-German crisis and its impact from previously neglected perspectives and celebrates the post-Cold War openness by bringing in new evidence from hitherto inaccessible archives.
Author | : Robert J. Young |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 1991-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0773563091 |
Neither Barthou's contemporaries nor subsequent historians have known quite what to make of this bourgeois politician who fought a duel with Jean Jaurès and flew with Wilbur Wright. Many concluded he was an individual of considerable talent, few principles, and excessive ambition. No one, reading Power and Pleasure, can maintain that view. Robert Young, constructing a complete picture of Barthou, effectively refutes the charge of unprincipled ambition and deftly deals with the tension between political principles and pragmatism. Young has written a social biography, situating Barthou's life -- both public and private -- in the political and cultural context of the Third Republic. Barthou was a centrist in his politics and, while current scholarship maintains that centrists adopted regressive strategies in response to the social question, Young presents an alternative reading of their position. He argues that although centrists like Barthou were not socialists -- for them "bourgeois" was a positive term -- they were capable of adjusting their ideals to meet the social changes of modern France. Barthou's turbulent political career was tempered both by a thirty-five-year marriage to his supportive wife and by a lifetime of pleasure derived from music, art, history, books, and literature.
Author | : Roderick R. McLean |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2007-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521038195 |
This 2001 book examines the diplomatic role of royal families in the era before the outbreak of the First World War. It argues that previous historians have neglected for political reasons the important political and diplomatic role of monarchs during the period. Particular attention is given to the Prusso-German, Russian and British monarchies. The Prusso-German and Russian monarchies were central in their countries' diplomacy and foreign policy, principally as a result of their control over diplomatic and political appointments. However, the book also argues that the British monarchy played a much more influential role in British diplomacy than has been accepted hitherto by historians. Individual themes examined include relations between Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II, the political significance of the ill-feeling between Wilhelm II and his uncle King Edward VII, the role of Edward VII in British diplomacy, and the impact of royal visits on pre-1914 Anglo-German relations.
Author | : John C. G. Röhl |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2005-09-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521019903 |
As assessment of the Kaiser's character and its implications on Imperial German history.