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Margaret MacMillan's history follows the Paris Peace Conference as the victorious powers dismantled the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, German, and Russian empires and drew new borders across Europe and the Middle East, creating states including Iraq, Yugoslavia, and a mandate for Palestine.\n\nMacMillan, a historian and the great-granddaughter of Lloyd George, draws on the conference's private correspondence and diaries to portray the personalities and rivalries of the men who shaped the settlement, alongside the delegations pressing rival territorial claims. 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A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times--modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society--and in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment. With The First World War, John Keegan, one of our most eminent military historians, fulfills a lifelong ambition to write the definitive account of the Great War for our generation. Probing the mystery of how a civilization at the height of its achievement could have propelled itself into such a ruinous conflict, Keegan takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations among Europe's crowned heads (all of them related to one another by blood) and ministers, and their doomed efforts to defuse the crisis. He reveals how, by an astonishing failure of diplomacy and communication, a bilateral dispute grew to engulf an entire continent. But the heart of Keegan's superb narrative is, of course, his analysis of the military conflict. With unequalled authority and insight, he recreates the nightmarish engagements whose names have become legend--Verdun, the Somme and Gallipoli among them--and sheds new light on the strategies and tactics employed, particularly the contributions of geography and technology. No less central to Keegan's account is the human aspect. He acquaints us with the thoughts of the intriguing personalities who oversaw the tragically unnecessary catastrophe--from heads of state like Russia's hapless tsar, Nicholas II, to renowned warmakers such as Haig, Hindenburg and Joffre. But Keegan reserves his most affecting personal sympathy for those whose individual efforts history has not recorded--\"the anonymous millions, indistinguishably drab, undifferentially deprived of any scrap of the glories that by tradition made the life of the man-at-arms tolerable.\" By the end of the war, three great empires--the Austro-Hungarian, the Russian and the Ottoman--had collapsed. But as Keegan shows, the devastation ex-tended over the entirety of Europe, and still profoundly informs the politics and culture of the continent today. 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As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets--among them a Tea Party activist whose town has been swallowed by a sinkhole caused by a drilling accident--people whose concerns are actually ones that all Americans share: the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for their children. Strangers in Their Own Land goes beyond the commonplace liberal idea that these are people who have been duped into voting against their own interests. Instead, Hochschild finds lives ripped apart by stagnant wages, a loss of home, an elusive American dream--and political choices and views that make sense in the context of their lives. Hochschild draws on her expert knowledge of the sociology of emotion to help us understand what it feels like to live in \"red\" America. 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As in his earlier celebrated books Europe: a history and The Isles, Norman Davies aims to subvert our established view of what seems familiar, and urges us to look and think again. This stimulating surprising book, full of unexpected stories, observations and connections, gives us a fresh and original perspective on the history of Europe. -- Product Description.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6nygmmx7q6nj6f9hecehpt.jpg?v=8364edc35a","LhJbdCs,%LRk?wjrjZt7ITofWBog",2011,672,[291],{"id":292,"slug":293,"name":294},"01kx6nygmjg03sqqgca3pa3m3x","norman-jordan-davies-2ro5","Norman Jordan Davies",[296,297],{"id":34,"name":35,"slug":36,"is_fiction":15},{"id":30,"name":31,"slug":32,"is_fiction":15},[],{"pace":300,"complexity":7,"audience":75,"mood":301,"themes":302,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},"slow",[77,79,78],[],{"id":304,"slug":305,"title":306,"description":307,"primary_cover_url":308,"cover_blurhash":309,"first_publish_year":310,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":311,"authors":312,"genres":317,"series":321,"enrichment":322},"01kx6p6zeh7ck2h945zcp74vas","diplomacy-ejuz","Diplomacy","In Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger traces the practice of international relations from the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 through the end of the Cold War, with particular focus on the twentieth century. 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The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had been the most peaceful era Europe had known since the fall of the Roman Empire. In the first years of the twentieth century, Europe believed it was marching to a golden, happy, and prosperous future. But instead, complex personalities and rivalries, colonialism and ethnic nationalisms, and shifting alliances helped to bring about the failure of the long peace and the outbreak of a war that transformed Europe and the world. The War That Ended Peace brings vividly to life the military leaders, politicians, diplomats, bankers, and the extended, interrelated family of crowned heads across Europe who failed to stop the descent into war: in Germany, the mercurial Kaiser Wilhelm II and the chief of the German general staff, Von Moltke the Younger; in Austria-Hungary, Emperor Franz Joseph, a man who tried, through sheer hard work, to stave off the coming chaos in his empire; in Russia, Tsar Nicholas II and his wife; in Britain, King Edward VII, Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, and British admiral Jacky Fisher, the fierce advocate of naval reform who entered into the arms race with Germany that pushed the continent toward confrontation on land and sea. There are the would-be peacemakers as well, among them prophets of the horrors of future wars whose warnings went unheeded: Alfred Nobel, who donated his fortune to the cause of international understanding, and Bertha von Suttner, a writer and activist who was the first woman awarded Nobel's new Peace Prize. Here too we meet the urbane and cosmopolitan Count Harry Kessler, who noticed many of the early signs that something was stirring in Europe; the young Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty and a rising figure in British politics; Madame Caillaux, who shot a man who might have been a force for peace; and more. With indelible portraits, MacMillan shows how the fateful decisions of a few powerful people changed the course of history. 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The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world and its aftershocks still reverberate today. In Putin's autocratic Russia, the Revolution itself is considered a crime and its one hundredth anniversary was largely ignored. In stark contrast, the centenary of the massacre of the Imperial Family will be a huge ceremony attended by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. While the murder itself has received major attention, what has never been investigated in detail are the various plots behind the scenes to save the family--on the part of their royal relatives, other governments, and Russian monarchists loyal to the Tsar. Rappaport refutes the accusation that the fault lies entirely with King George V, as has been the traditional claim for the last century. The responsibility for failing the Romanovs must be equally shared. 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Challenging a century of myth, this moving portrait of the end of an era also offers the startling truth behind the Sarajevo assassinations--including Serbian complicity--and examines rumors of conspiracy and official negligence.--From publisher description.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6pdrfyn0x2vx6hqnvh2m22.jpg?v=738ff85ac7","L04-;A0e00M|^+M|0LWV00?H?F-o",384,[674,678],{"id":675,"slug":676,"name":677},"01kx6pdrfrev9d852607s3xmxf","greg-king-hcww","Greg King",{"id":679,"slug":680,"name":681},"01kx6nacznktxab0tnp6kdfx1r","sue-woolmans-xowp","Sue Woolmans",[683,684,685,686,687],{"id":241,"name":242,"slug":243,"is_fiction":15},{"id":26,"name":27,"slug":28,"is_fiction":16},{"id":30,"name":31,"slug":32,"is_fiction":15},{"id":246,"name":247,"slug":248,"is_fiction":15},{"id":656,"name":657,"slug":658,"is_fiction":15},[],{"pace":72,"complexity":7,"audience":75,"mood":690,"themes":691,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[77,662,425],[],{"id":693,"slug":694,"title":695,"description":696,"primary_cover_url":697,"cover_blurhash":698,"first_publish_year":699,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":700,"authors":701,"genres":706,"series":711,"enrichment":712},"01kx6pbeg9t46zqya04psy9gnh","the-zimmermann-telegram-csxm","The Zimmermann telegram","In January 1917, British code-breakers in the secret Room 40 office intercepted a telegram from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann to his ambassador in Mexico. 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Born in splendor difficult to imagine today, she endured a lifetime of relentless tragedy with courage and exceptional powers of adjustment. The Last Grand Duchess is a valuable account of the final decades of the house of Romanov as seen through the eyes of its last surviving member. Through Olga, we meet Queen Victoria, George V of England, Rasputin, Mrs. Anderson - on whose story the movie Anastasia was made - and other impostors who plagued the exiled duchess with false hope. 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Sarah Piper's lonely threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis--rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed by ghosts--has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide. Maddy hated men in life, and she will not speak to them in death. But Sarah is unprepared to go alone into a haunted barn looking for the truth. She's even less prepared for the arrival of Alistair's associate, rough, unsettling Matthew Ryder, also a veteran of the trenches, whose scars go deeper than Sarah can reach. Soon, Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle. For Maddy's ghost is no hoax--she's real, she's angry, and she has powers that defy all reason. Can Sarah and Matthew discover who Maddy was, where she came from, and what is driving her desire for vengeance...before she destroys them all?\"--","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2ff41z0r7j9w41re40v7xr.jpg?v=9474da65d5","L8FqRF@J?Wko01~m-oni%LKK4;$%",2012,"4.00",431,[803],{"id":804,"slug":805,"name":806},"01ktt0qrs0nbfggypmdev1nbeq","simone-st-james-74u8","Simone St. James",[808,812,816,817],{"id":809,"name":810,"slug":811,"is_fiction":16},212,"Historical Mystery","historical-mystery",{"id":813,"name":814,"slug":815,"is_fiction":16},35,"Paranormal Romance","paranormal-romance",{"id":26,"name":27,"slug":28,"is_fiction":16},{"id":818,"name":819,"slug":820,"is_fiction":16},141,"Paranormal","paranormal",[],{"pace":72,"complexity":7,"audience":75,"mood":823,"themes":825,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[824,662],"mysterious",[],{"id":827,"slug":828,"title":829,"description":830,"primary_cover_url":831,"cover_blurhash":832,"first_publish_year":310,"community_rating_avg":833,"community_rating_count":335,"page_count":834,"authors":835,"genres":844,"series":847,"enrichment":848},"01kx6n3cc2h01qn6mkpvq0pbpn","czars-ixc2","Czars","Discusses the reigns of the czars and czarinas who ruled Russia.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6n3ccj4a5wxk4fd65qwrdh.jpg?v=7fd512670b","L5LTNL+}00=e_Mo2iIt700WC~WOr","3.00",372,[836,840],{"id":837,"slug":838,"name":839},"01kx6n3ccc1z58v1rcgwtcxsqw","james-p-duffy-livg","James P. 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