The Origins of the Second World War

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Par Alan John Percival Taylor

Continuing our review of military classics, Military Times looks at A J P Taylor’s controversial publication on the causes of the Second World War . For a book about events a quarter of a century in the past, the storm raised by the publication of A J...

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Eisenhower: Soldier and President

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Par Stephen E. Ambrose

Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president. He gives us a masterly...

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The triumph and tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House years

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Par Jr. Califano

From LBJ's domestic adviser, a memoir that shows the President ``with the bark off''cagey, crude, demanding, and, finally, Shakespearean in his pitiful descent from power. Here, unlike in Governing America (1981), his take-no- prisoners account of his...

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Nicolas II, le dernier tsar

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Par Henri Troyat

D'un naturel flexible et velléitaire, Nicolas II, le dernier tsar, " n'était pas né, selon son propre ministre des Finances, le comte Witte, pour le magistral rôle historique que la destinée lui avait imposé". Et il est vrai que, dans la Russie tumultueuse...

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