The Red Millionaire (Inbunden)
avSean McMeekin
ISBN: 9780300098471 - UTGIVEN: 2004-01A committed communist and a tireless con man, Lenin's friend and the Soviet Union's most persuasive myth-maker, Willy Munzenberg changed the course of European history. Willy Munzenberg - an Old Bolshevik who was also a self-promoting tycoon - became one of the most influential communist operatives [...]
History's Greatest Heist (Inbunden)
avSean McMeekin
ISBN: 9780300135589 - UTGIVEN: 200812Historians have never resolved a central mystery of the Russian Revolution: how did the Bolsheviks, despite facing a world of enemies and leaving nothing but economic ruin in their path, manage to stay in power through five long years of civil war? In this penetrating book, Sean McMeekin draws on pr[...]
July 1914 (Inbunden)
avAssistant Sean McMeekin
ISBN: 9780465031450 - UTGIVEN: 201305When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand's own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the Hapsburg heir, saying simply, "It is God's will." Certainly, there was nothing to suggest that the[...]
July 1914: Countdown to War (Häftad)
avSean McMeekin
ISBN: 9780465060740 - UTGIVEN: 2014-04When an assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, no one could have imagined the shocking bloodshed that would soon follow. Indeed, as award-winning historian Sean McMeekin reveals in "July 1914," World War I might indeed have been avoided entirely had it not been for the acti[...]
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power (Inbunden)
avSean McMeekin
ISBN: 9780674057395 - UTGIVEN: 2010-09The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the full story of how war actually came to the region. As Sean McMeekin reveals in this startling reinterpretation of the war, it was neither the British nor the French but rather a small clique of Germans and Tur[...]
The Russian Origins of the First World War (Inbunden)
avSean McMeekin
ISBN: 9780674062108 - UTGIVEN: 201111The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit. Now, in a major reinterpretation of the conflict, Sean McMeekin rejects [...]
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power (Häftad)
avSean McMeekin
ISBN: 9780674064324 - UTGIVEN: 2012-05The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the full story of how war actually came to the region. As Sean McMeekin reveals in this startling reinterpretation of the war, it was neither the British nor the French but rather a small clique of Germans and Tur[...]
The Russian Origins of the First World War (Häftad)
avSean McMeekin
ISBN: 9780674072336 - UTGIVEN: 2013-05The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit. Now, in a major reinterpretation of the conflict, Sean McMeekin rejects [...]
