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Books : History : Countries & Regions : Europe : General AAS

• Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

  Mary Beard

  
  
   

• The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster (Allen Lane History)

  Richard J. Evans

  
  
   

• The Discovery of France

  Graham Robb

  
  
   

• The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919

  Mark Thompson

  
  
   

• Mein Kampf

  Adolf Hitler

  
  
   

• The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

  Orlando Figes

  
  
   

• Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife 49'

  
  
   

• Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

  Tom Holland

  
  
   

• I Never Knew That About England

  Christopher Winn

  
  
   

• The Complete Maus

  Art Spiegelman

  
  
   

• Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)

  George Orwell

  
  
   

• Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century

  Mark Mazower

  
  
   

• Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (Allen Lane History)

  Mark Mazower

  
  
   

• Fifty Things You Need to Know About British History

  Hugh Williams

  
  
   

• Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chamber

  Filip Muller

  
  
   

• A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924

  Orlando Figes

  
  Written in a narrative style that captures both the scope and detail of the Russian revolution, Orlando Figes' history is certain to become one of the most important contemporary studies of Russia as it was at the beginning of the 20th century. With an almost cinematic eye, Figes captures the broad movements of war and revolution, never losing sight of the individuals whose lives make up his subject. He makes use of personal papers and personal histories to illustrate the effects the revolution wrought on a human scale, while providing a convincing and detailed understanding of the role of workers, peasants, and soldiers in the revolution. He moves deftly from topics such as the grand social forces and mass movements that made up the revolution to profiles of key personalities and representative characters.

  Figes' themes of the Russian revolution as a tragedy for the Russian people as a whole and for the millions of individuals who lost their lives to the brutal forces it unleashed make sense of events for a new generation of students of Russian history. Sympathy for the charismatic leaders and ideological theorising regarding Hegelian dialectics and Marxist economics--two hallmarks of much earlier writing on the Russian revolution--are banished from these clear-eyed, fair-minded pages of A People's Tragedy. The author's sympathy is squarely with the Russian people. That commitment, together with the benefit of historical hindsight, provides a standpoint Figes can take full advantage of in this masterful history.

  
   

• The Strange Laws of Old England

  Nigel Cawthorne

  
  
   

• Decline and Fall: Byzantium at War: 0 (Field of Glory)

  Richard Bodley Scott

  
  
   

• The Coming of the Third Reich

  Richard J. Evans

  
  
   

• Europe Since 1870: An International History

  James Joll