A leading historian’s guide to great-power competition, as told through America’s successes and failures in the Cold War “There is an undeniable ease and fluidity to Mr. Brands’s …
A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past century This book offers a major reassessment …
How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II "e;A landmark in the political history of journalism."e;-Michael Kazin, author of …
The first major history of Chile's most significant peasant rebellion and the violent repression that followed In 1934, peasants turned to revolution to overturn Chile's oligarchic …
The essential history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) during the Nixon Administration How did Richard Nixon, a president so determined to compete for strategic …
A major new account of Britain's military strategy between 1914-1945, including the two world wars and everything betweenThe First and Second World Wars were separated by a mere …
The Cold War reconsidered as a limited nuclear war “[A] grimly important analysis of the cold war.”—Andrew Robinson, Nature “Inexorable clarity and care for his fellow humans …
What happened on the last day of the Great War? Each year since we have marked the end of the war with tributes and remembrance, solemnity and respect. But as Peace at …
Rethinking the causes and consequences of Britain's default on its First World War debts to the United States of AmericaThe Long Shadow of Default focuses on an important but …
