By the middle of 1933, the democracy of the Weimar Republic had been transformed into the police state of the Third Reich, mobilized around the cult of the leader, Adolf Hitler. In The Third Reich in Power, Richard J. Evans chronicles the incredible story of Germany's radical reshaping under Nazi rule. As those who were deemed unworthy to be counted among the German people were dealt with in in…
Europe is one area that we Americans have a grasp of-think again. The great stories of the century-the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and Communism- are self-evident in their importance. But behind the politics and the ideologies lies another history: the history of forces that shaped the lives of individual Europeans and the lives of men and women around the world. These are stori…
The story of the Spanish Armada, sent crashing to destruction in stormy seas by English battleships, is one of the most famous & popular of British history. Philip II of Spain's crusade to conquer Protestant England was the culmination of an undeclared war between the two nations which had simmered for years. The dramatic destruction of the Spanish fleet by Howard, Drake & their men ensured tha…
This book describes the turbulent political history of Afghanistan from the communist upheaval of the 1970s through to the aftermath of the events of 11 September 2001. It reviews the importance of the region to external powers and explains why warfare and instability have been endemic. The author analyses in detail the birth of the Taliban and the bloody rise to power of fanatic Islamists, inc…
Pada peringatan dua puluh tahun berakhirnya Perang Dingin, Conor O'Clery telah membangun narasinya yang menarik dan dibangun dengan cemerlang tentang kejatuhan Uni Soviet sekitar suatu hari, 25 Desember 1991, tanggal Gorbachev mengundurkan diri dan Uni Soviet secara efektif tercatat dalam sejarah. Dari sana, O'Clery melihat kembali peristiwa-peristiwa enam tahun sebelumnya: kebijakan reformasi …
Much has been written about Clinton, but The Natural is the first work to cut through the gossip, scandals, media hype, and emotional turbulence that Clinton always engendered, to step back and rationally analyze the eight years of his tenure, a period during which America rose to unprecedented levels of prosperity. Joe Klein puts that record into perspective, showing us what worked and what di…
Contents: 1. Welcome to Indonesia! 2. Shocks 3. On Bahasa Indonesia 4. First impressions 5. Climate 6. Bugs and health 7. Food 8. Eating out, etc.
Whether you are a tourist, a business traveler or an expatriate, this book is an essential companion. The Arab World Handbook collects everything into one essential volume. Covering all the countries of the Arabian peninsula - Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Yemen - it contains advice on planning a visit and making a home in the Arab world. The book covers everythi…
In this immensely important book, journalist Robert Lacey draws on years of access to every circle of Saudi society giving readers the fullest portrait yet of a land straddling the worlds of medievalism and modernity. Part 1 : Kingdom of good Part 2 : Kingdom at war Part 3 : Al-Qaeda comes home
In this succinct, modest, and refreshingly forthright book--now revised and updated for the new century--Starr introduces to the uninitiated reader the background, basic data, and issues at stake in China's crisis-ridden present and future. After ten years, John Bryan Starr has thoroughly revised and updated his classic introduction to the background of, the data about, and the issues at sta…