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Häftad, Engelska, 1998
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A groundbreaking historical study, Norman Stone's The Eastern Front 1914-1917 was the very first authoritative account of the Russian Front in the First World War to be published in the West.In this now-classic history he dispels the myths surrounding a still relatively little-known aspect of the war, showing how inefficiency rather than economic shortage led to Russia's desperate privations and eventual retreat. He also interprets the connection between the war and the chaos that followed, arguing that although fighting had almost ceased by the end of 1916, Russia was still in turmoil - undergoing a period of change that would inexorably lead towards revolution.'A landmark in its field ... it is still the best book on the eastern front'Orlando Figes'A classic account ... that even after thirty years remains essential reading'Sunday Times'Without question one of the classics of post-war historical scholarship'Niall Ferguson'One of the outstanding historians of our age'Spectator'Fills an enormous gap in our knowledge and understanding of the Great War'Sunday TelegraphNorman Stone is one of Britain's most celebrated historians. He is the author of The Atlantic and its Enemies, Hitler: An Introduction, Europe Transformed and World War One: A Short History.
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
152 kr
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'Do we need another history of the First World War? The answer in the case of Norman Stone's short book is, yes - because of its opinionated freshness and the unusual, sharp facts that fly about like shrapnel' Literary ReviewIn 1914 a new kind of war, and a new kind of world, came about. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. The First World War marked a revolution in the technology of slaughter as trench warfare, artillery barrages, tanks and chemical warfare made their mark on the battlefield for the first time.The sheer complexity and scale of the war have encouraged historians to write books on a similar scale. But in only 140 pages, Norman Stone distils a lifetime of teaching, arguing and thinking to reframe the overwhelming disaster whose aftershocks shaped the rest of the twentieth century.'Bold, provocative and witty ... one of the outstanding historians of our age' Spectator'Entertaining and insightful ... one of the handful of living historians who can write with style and wit' Tibor Fischer, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
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A pacy, compelling and penetrating account - from the great Norman Stone'The best short primer on the war in twenty years' Andrew RobertsNorman Stone's gripping book tells the narrative of the Second World War in as brief a compass as possible, making a sometimes familiar story utterly fresh and arresting. As with his highly acclaimed World War One: A Short History, there is a compelling sense of a terrible story unfolding, of a sceptical and humorous intelligence at work, and a wish to convey to an audience who may well have no memory of the conflict just how high the stakes were.
E-bok
Engelska, 200891 kr
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'Do we need another history of the First World War? The answer in the case of Norman Stone's short book is, yes - because of its opinionated freshness and the unusual, sharp facts that fly about like shrapnel' Literary ReviewIn 1914 a new kind of war, and a new kind of world, came about. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. The First World War marked a revolution in the technology of slaughter as trench warfare, artillery barrages, tanks and chemical warfare made their mark on the battlefield for the first time.The sheer complexity and scale of the war have encouraged historians to write books on a similar scale. But in only 140 pages, Norman Stone distils a lifetime of teaching, arguing and thinking to reframe the overwhelming disaster whose aftershocks shaped the rest of the twentieth century.'Bold, provocative and witty ... one of the outstanding historians of our age' Spectator'Entertaining and insightful ... one of the handful of living historians who can write with style and wit' Tibor Fischer, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year
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Engelska, 2010129 kr
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Those who survived the Second World War stared out onto a devastated, morally ruined world. Much of Europe and Asia had been so ravaged that it was unclear whether any form of normal life could ever be established again - coups, collapsing empires and civil wars, some on a vast scale, continued to reshape country after country long after the fighting was meant to have ended.Everywhere the 'Atlantic' world (the USA, Britain and a handful of allies) was on the defensive and its enemies on the move. For every Atlantic success there seemed to be a dozen Communist or 'Third World' successes, as the USSR and its proxies crushed dissent and humiliated the United States on both military and cultural grounds. For all the astonishing productivity of the American, Japanese and mainland western European economies (setting aside the fiasco of Britain's implosion), most of the world was either under Communist rule or lost in a violent stagnancy that seemed doomed to permanence. Even in the late 1970s, with the collapse of Iran, the oil shock and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the initiative seemed to lie with the Communist forces. Then, suddenly, the Atlantic won - economically, ideologically, militarily - with astonishing speed and completeness.The Atlantic and Its Enemies is a surprising, highly entertaining and pugnacious history of this tumultuous period.
E-bok
Engelska, 2008118 kr
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'Without question one of the classics of post-war historical scholarship, Stone's boldly conceived and brilliantly executed book opened the eyes of a generation of young British historians raised on tales of the Western trenches to the crucial importance of the Eastern Front in the First World War' Niall Ferguson 'Scholarly, lucid, entertaining, based on a thorough knowledge of Austrian and Russian sources, it sharply revises traditional assumptions about the First World War.' Michael Howard
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
306 kr
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Public Relations is one business function an organisation cannot decide it does not want. The only option is whether to manage PR as a conscious and deliberate activity, or to leave it to chance and hope for the best - a sure route to bad public relations. In this text the author provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of PR drawing on a variety of illustrations and case histories and referring to a whole battery of techniques. It will be essential reading for students and others wishing to understand the dynamics and importance of Public Relations.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
610 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2010
375 kr
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The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, four empires were destroyed, and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. World War I took humanity from the nineteenth century forcibly into the twentieth,and then, at Versailles, cast Europe on the path to World War II as well. In World War One , Norman Stone, one of the world's greatest historians, has achieved the almost impossible task of writing a terse and witty short history of the war. A captivating, brisk narrative, World War One is Stone's masterful effort to make sense of one of the twentieth century's pivotal conflicts.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
113 kr
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From the eminent historian Norman Stone, who has lived and worked in the country since 1997, comes this concise survey of Turkey’s relations with its immediate neighbours and the wider world from the 11th century to the present day. Stone deftly conducts the reader through this story, from the arrival of the Seljuks in Anatolia in the eleventh century to today’s thriving republic. It is an historical account of epic proportions, featuring rapacious leaders such as Genghis Khan and Tamerlane through the glories of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent to Kemal Atatürk, the reforming genius and founder of modern Turkey. At its height, the Ottoman Empire was a superpower that brought Islam to the gates of Vienna. Stone examines the reasons for the empire’s long decline and shows how it gave birth to the modern Turkish republic, where east and west, religion and secularism, tradition and modernity still form vibrant elements of national identity. Norman Stone brilliantly draws out the larger themes of Turkey’s history, resulting in a book that is a masterly exposition of the historian’s craft.
Del 1 - Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe
Europe Transformed
1878-1919
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
553 kr
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This book provides readers with an introduction to the complex era from 1878 to the end of World War I.
Inbunden, Engelska, 1999
1 984 kr
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This book provides readers with an introduction to the complex era from 1878 to the end of World War I.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 1989708 kr
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The essays are devoted to the four "eights" in Czech history: 1918, when the Republic was founded; 1938, when its western parts were handed over to Hitler; 1948, when the Communists took power; and 1968, when an effort to create "socialism with a human face" was crushed by Soviet tanks.
Häftad, Engelska, 1989
566 kr
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The essays are devoted to the four "eights" in Czech history: 1918, when the Republic was founded; 1938, when its western parts were handed over to Hitler; 1948, when the Communists took power; and 1968, when an effort to create "socialism with a human face" was crushed by Soviet tanks.
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PDF, Engelska, 1995316 kr
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Public Relations is one business function an organisation cannot decide it does not want. The only option is whether to manage PR as a conscious and deliberate activity, or to leave it to chance and hope for the best - a sure route to bad public relations. In this text the author provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of PR drawing on a variety of illustrations and case histories and referring to a whole battery of techniques. It will be essential reading for students and others wishing to understand the dynamics and importance of Public Relations.
E-bok
Engelska, 2013102 kr
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This biography looks beneath the usual assessment of Adolf Hitler the monster, digging deeper into his life and examining his successes alongside his many failings. Through his meticulous research and illuminating writing, Stone reveals a man who was surprisingly human: not the clear-sighted decisive leader he seemed, but rather plagued by doubt and often uncertain about his next course of action.
E-bok
Engelska, 2019138 kr
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The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many called for its creation. Norman Stone traces the country''s roots from the traditional representative councils of land-owning nobles to the Magyar nationalists of the nineteenth century and the first wars of independence. Hungary''s history since 1918 has not been a happy one. Economic collapse and hyperinflation in the post-war years led to fascist dictatorships and then Nazi occupation. Optimism at the end of the Second World War ended when the Iron Curtain descended, and Soviet tanks crushed the last hopes for independence in 1956 along with the peaceful protests in Budapest. Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, consistent economic growth has remained elusive.This is an extraordinary history - unique yet also representative of both the post-Soviet bloc and of nations forged from the fall of empires.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
132 kr
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The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many called for its creation. Norman Stone traces the country's roots from the traditional representative councils of land-owning nobles to the Magyar nationalists of the nineteenth century and the first wars of independence.Hungary's history since 1918 has not been a happy one. Economic collapse and hyperinflation in the post-war years led to fascist dictatorships and then Nazi occupation. Optimism at the end of the Second World War ended when the Iron Curtain descended, and Soviet tanks crushed the last hopes for independence in 1956 along with the peaceful protests in Budapest. Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, consistent economic growth has remained elusive.This is an extraordinary history - unique yet also representative of both the post-Soviet bloc and of nations forged from the fall of empires.
E-bok
Engelska, 2013102 kr
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A pacy, compelling and penetrating account from Wolfson Prize-winning author Norman Stone, that shows World War Two in a fresh new lightThe Second World War is the nightmare that sits at the heart of the modern era - a total refutation of any notion of human progress and a conflict which still haunts us seventy years on.Norman Stone's gripping new book aims to tell the narrative of the war in as brief a compass as possible, making a sometimes familiar story utterly fresh and arresting. As with his highly acclaimed World War One: A Short History, there is a compelling sense of a terrible story unfolding, of a sceptical and humorous intelligence at work, and a wish to convey to an audience who may well have no memory of the conflict just how high the stakes were.This is a beautifully written, clever and imaginative attempt to convey what can almost not be conveyed. About the author:Norman Stone is one of Britain's greatest historians. His major works include The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 (winner of the Wolfson Prize and published by Penguin), Europe Transformed and The Atlantic and Its Enemies (published by Penguin). He has taught at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Bilkent, where he is now Director of the Turkish-Russian Centre. He lives in Ankara.Reviews:'Professor Norman Stone has achieved the impossible; he has somehow written a comprehensive history of the Second World War in just under 200 pages, summarising the entire conflict while leaving out nothing of importance and bringing his lifetime of study of the subject to bear in a witty, incisive and immensely readable way ... Norman Stone has proved yet again that he is one of the most original, witty and powerful British historians writing today' Andrew Roberts, Standpoint'The joy and strength of this compact history, besides its trenchancy and, in the publishers' words, the "sceptical and humorous intelligence at work", is its narrative clarity ... a book to clear the mind after the grand tour of the big volumes' Allan Mallinson, The Times'Novices will receive a painless introduction, but educated readers should not pass up the highly opinionated prologue and epilogue and the author's trademark acerbic commentary throughout ... Readers of all stripes ... will find plenty to ponder' Kirkus Reviews
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Rumänska, 202137 kr
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După distrugerile fără precedent provocate de Marele Război, lumea tânjea după o pace de durată. Cu toate acestea, învingătorii au prețuit mai mult răzbunarea decât stabilitatea și au solicitat despăgubiri importante din partea Germaniei pentru a preveni reînarmarea acesteia. Rezultatele, după cum descrie eminentul istoric Norman Stone în acest volum, au fost dezastruoase. În Al Doilea Război Mondial, Stone ne oferă o relatare remarcabil de concisă a celui mai ucigător război din istoria omenirii, arătându-ne cum a prins viață conflictul din cenușa Primului Război Mondial.Profesionist desăvârșit, Stone conduce cititorii prin toate etapele conflictului. Al Doilea Război Mondial reprezintă o contribuție extrem de valoroasă la înțelegerea secolului XX și a conflagrației sale definitorii.Norman Stone are un talent real de a spune multe într-un spațiu concentrat, majoritatea secțiunilor acestei cărți fiind capodopere ale conciziei.Richard J, Evans, New StatesmanO istorie antrenantă... Novicii vor avea parte de o introducere plăcută, iar cititorii educați nu vor rata prologul și epilogul, dar și comentariile prin care autorul își exprimă cu curaj opinia... Cititorii de toate felurile vor descoperi că au numeroase lucruri la care să se gândească.Kirkus Reviews
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Rumänska, 202137 kr
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Primul Război Mondial a fost un dezastru copleșitor în care și-a avut originea orice eveniment important al secolului XX. Au murit 14 milioane de combatanți, au fost distruse patru imperii și chiar și imperiile câștigătorilor au fost rănite mortal. Cu Primul Război Mondial, Norman Stone, unul dintre cei mai cunoscuți istorici ai secolului XX, a realizat sarcina aproape imposibilă de a scrie un volum de dimensiuni reduse care să includă tot ce a avut mai important această confruntare epică. O istorie captivantă, a cărei concizie îi subliniază bogăția de detalii, Primul Război Mondial al lui Stone este povestea genial spusă a războiului care a creat lumea modernă. Doar un virtuoz putea, în spațiul ocupat de un eseu mai lung, să acopere luptele de pe toate fronturile și să mai găsească loc de politică înaltă, comentariu tranșant și detalii de culoare. Financial Times (Cartea anului) [Normal Stone este] un erudit excepțional înzestrat, cu o stăpânire de invidiat a limbilor străine, o originalitate a gândirii și un discurs neconvențional care luminează tot ce a scris... splendid. Sir Michael Howard, Sunday Times
E-bok
Spanska, 2019151 kr
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Entre granadas, ametralladoras, trincheras y banderas, las convicciones decimonónicas de la modernidad se disolvieron en la historia. El mundo se tambaleó en 1914, cuando Europa se desangraba en la Primera Guerra Mundial, y se estremeció en 1917, cuando Rusia proclamaba el poder para los sóviets en la Revolución de octubre. Previamente, desde el final de la década de 1870, los europeos habían estado viviendo inmersos en una atmósfera de inaudita paz que preparaba al mundo para el mayor de todos los conflictos vistos hasta el momento. Cuarenta años de frágil optimismo en los que la atmósfera se fue enrareciendo hasta ser irrespirable. Cuarenta años en los que la red de alianzas entre las potencias de Occidente se afianzaba, el dominio colonial europeo se apropiaba de África y se endurecía la competición por ser el motor del mundo. Un periodo en el que las viejas estructuras sociales y políticas hubieron de replegarse ante la emergencia de los movimientos nacionalistas, la aparición de los partidos de izquierda y el portentoso desarrollo de la nueva maquinaria estatal. El mundo emergente después de la Primera Guerra Mundial ya no se reconocería en su versión previa, se había transformado. La vieja Europa había muerto, la nueva se asomaba temerosa al siglo xx.Norman Stone, uno de los mayores expertos en historia contemporánea de Europa, le da sentido en este libro a una de las épocas más complejas de la historia europea. Además de desgranar cada uno de los hitos políticos y explicar sus antecedentes y consecuencias, el autor, con una extraordinaria narración, revela el devenir de cada potencia europea y expone los desarrollos culturales de mayor relevancia del periodo.