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[edit] Books That I Have Read Recently

• Kershaw, Ian Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris, New York: W.W Norton & Company, 1998, 1999, ISBN 0-393-04671-0.
• Elton, Geoffrey England under the Tudors London : Methuen, 1974 ISBN 0416706908.
• Weir, Alison The Six Wives of Henry VIII, New York: Ballantine Books, 1991 ISBN 0-345-38072-X.
• Kimball, Roger & Kramer, Hilton (editors) The Survivial of Culture Permanent Values In A Virtual Age, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002 ISBN 10566663-4660-0
  • "The New Epicureans" pages 3-27 by Kenneth Minogue.
  • "The Battle of the Book" pages 28-53 by Eric Ormbsy.
  • "The Felicific Calculus of Modern Medicine" pages 54-74 by Anthony Daniels.
  • "A Malign Legacy" pages 75-97 by David Pryce-Jones.
  • "The Cultural War on Western Civilization" pages 98-121 by Keith Windschuttle.
  • "The Slyer Virus: The West's Anti-Westernism" pages 122-147 by Mark Steyn.
  • "Burke and Political Liberty" pages 148-170 by Martin Greenberg.
  • "The Pillars of the Temple of Liberty" pages 171-190 by Diana Schaub.
  • "Adversary Jurisprudence" pages 191-222 by Robert Bork.
  • "The Fortunes of Permanence" pages 223-248 by Roger Kimball.
• Kimball, Roger & Kramer, Hilton (editors) The Future of the European Past Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1997 ISBN 1-566663-178-5.
  • "Ancient Ghosts Stir" pages 3-24 by David Pryce-Jones.
  • "A Dearth of Feeling" pages 25-50 by Anne Applebaum.
  • "The Eclipse of Listening" pages 51-68 by Roger Scruton.
  • "Knocking About The Ruins" pages 69-88 by John Gross.
  • "A Devitalized Wariness" pages 89-108 by Ferdinand Mount.
  • "Possessing the Golden Key" pages 109-126 by John Herington.
  • "The Real Stuff of History" pages 127-152 by Keith Windschuttle.
  • "Present-Tense Culture" pages 153-176 by Mark Steyn.
  • "The Postmodern Assault" pages 177-194 by Hilton Kramer.
  • "Experiments Against Reality" pages 195-218 by Roger Kimball.
• Duffy, Christopher Red Storm on the Reich The Soviet March on Germany 1945, Edison, New Jersey, Castle Books, 1991, 2002 ISBN 0-7857-1624-0.
• Steyn, Mark The Face Of The Tiger And Other Tales From The New War, Montreal: Stockade Books, 2002 ISBN 0-973570-0-3.
• Bagehot, Walter Physics And Politics Or: Thoughts On The Application of the Principles of "Natural Selection" and "Inheritance" to Poltical Society edited with an introduction by Roger Kimball, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1999 ISBN 1056663-221-8.
• Landes, David The Unbound Prometheus Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1970.
• Windschuttle, Keith The Killing of History How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering Our Past, San Francisco: Encounter Books, 1996, 2000 ISBN 1-893554-12-0.
• Origo, Iris The Merchant of Prato Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City, Penguin Books: London, 1957, 1963, 1992 ISBN 0 14 01. 7218 1
• Chang, Iris The Rape of Nanking The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II Penguin Books: London, 1997, 1998 ISBN 0-14-0277744-7.
• Dalrymple, Theodore So Little Done The Testament Of A Serial Killer, John Ferrington, Bookseller & Publisher: London, 1995, 2004 ISBN 1-898490-36-8.
• Dalrymple, Theodore Life At The Bottom The Worldview That Makes The Underclass Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001 ISbn 1-56663-505-5.
• Scarisbrick, J. J. Henry VIII, Berkeley : University of California Press, 1968.
• Ferguson, Niall (editor) Virtual History Alternatives and Counterfactuals, New York: Basic Books, 1997, 1999 ISBN 0465023223.
  • "Introduction Virtual History: Towards a `chaotic' theory of the past" pages 1-90 by Niall Ferguson.
  • "England Without Cromwell: What if Charles I had avoided the Civil War?" pages 91-124 by John Adamson.
  • "British America: What if there had been no American Revolution?" pages 125-174 by J. C. D. Clark .
  • "British Ireland: What if Home Rule had been enacted in 1912?" pages 175-227 by Alvin Jackson.
  • "The Kaiser's European Union: What if Britain had `stood aside' in August 1914?" pages 228-280 by Niall Ferguson.
  • "Hitler's England: What if Germany had invaded Britain in May 1940?" pages 281-320 by Andrew Roberts.
  • "Nazi Europe: What if Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union?" pages 321-347 by Michael Burleigh.
  • "Stalin's War or Peace: What if the Cold War had been avoided?" pages 348-367 by Jonathan Haslam.
  • "Camelot Continued: What if John F. Kennedy had lived?" pages 368-391 by Diane Kunz.
  • "1989 Without Gorbachev: What if Communism had not collapsed?" pages 392-415 by Mark Almond.
  • "Afterward: A Virtual History, 1646-1999" pages 416-440 by Niall Ferguson.
• Rothfels, Hans The German Opposition To Hitler An Assessement, London: Oswald Wolff Ltd, translated into English by Lawrence Wilson, 1961.
• Arnold, Thomas The Renaissance At War, Cassel & Co: London, 2001 ISBN 0-304-35270-5.
• Hillgruber Andreas Germany and the Two World Wars, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981 ISBN 0-674-35321-8.
• Kiriakopoulous, G.C. Ten Days To Destiny The Battle for Crete 1941, Franklin Watts Inc: New York, 1985, ISBN 0-531-09785-4.
• Fenby, Jonathon Chiang Kai-Shek China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost, Carroll & Graf Publishers: New York, 2003, 2004 ISBN 0-7867-1318-6.
• Marshall, William Peter the Great London: Longman, 1996 ISBN 0582003555.
• Allen, Frederick Lewis Only Yesterday An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties, Harper & Row Publishers: New York, 1986 ISBN 0-517-60355-1.
• Whitfield, Stephan J. The Culture of the Cold War, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1991, 1996 ISBN 0-8018-5196-3.
• Knight, Alan The Mexican Revolution Volume 1 Porfirians, Liberals, and Peasants Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 1984 ISBN 0521244757.
• Knight, Alan The Mexican Revolution Volume 2 Counter-Revolution and Reconstruction , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 1986 ISBN 0521266513.
• Oshinsky, David A Conspiracy So Immense : the World of Joe McCarthy, New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, 1983 ISBN 0029234905.
• Farwell, Byron The Great Boer War, London : A. Lane, 1977, ISBN 0713908203.
• Lee, Emanoel To The Bitter End : A Photographic History of the Boer War 1899-1902, London : Viking, 1985 ISBN 0670801437.
• Guilmartin Jr, John Galleons and Galleys, London: Cassels & Co, 2002, ISBN 0-304-35263-2.
• Childs, John Warfare In The Seventeenth Century, London: Cassels & Co, 2001, ISBN 0-304-35289-6.
• Black, Jeremy Warfare In The Eighteenth Century, London: Cassles & Co, 1999, ISBN 1-552780-104-6.
• Brant, Stefan (Harpprecht, Klaus) The East German Rising, 17th June 1953 Hyperion Press :Westport, Connecticut, United States, 1979.
• Ross, Corey The East German Dictatorship : Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of the GDR, London : Arnold, 2002, ISBN 0340762667.
• Gaddis, John Lewis We Now Know Rethinking Cold War History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, 1998 ISBN 13:978-0-19-878071-7.
• Weinberg, Gerhard The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany Diplomatic Revolution in Europe 1933-36, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970, ISBN 226-88509-7.
• Maiolo, Joseph The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany, 1933-39 A Study in Appeasement and the Origins of the Second World War, Macmillan Press: London, 1998, ISBN 0-312-21456-1.
• Bloch, Michael Ribbentrop, New York: Crown Publishers Inc, 1992, ISBN 0-517-59310-6.
• Weinberg, Gerhard The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany Starting World War II 1937-39, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980, ISBN 0-226-88511-9.
• Strobl, Gerwin The Germanic Isle: Nazi Perceptions Of Britain, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 0521782651.
• Rock, William British Appeasement In The 1930s, New York : Norton, 1977, ISBN 0393056686.
• Adams, R.J.Q. British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement 1935-39, Stanford University Press: Stanford, California, United States of America, 1993, ISBN 0804721009.
• Trevor-Roper, Hugh The Hermit of Peking The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse, New York: Alfred A. Knnopf, 1977, ISBN 0-394-41104-8.
• Watt, D.C. How War Came : The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939, New York : Pantheon Books, 1989, ISBN 039457916X.
• Goodwin, Jeff No Other Way Out States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 2003, ISBN 0-521-62069-4.
• Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel Montaillou Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324, Penguin Books Ltd: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom, 1978, 1984 ISBN 0-14-055.175 1.
• Bloch, Marc Strange Defeat A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940 W.W. Norton & Company : New York, 1968, 1999 ISBN 0-393-31911-3
• Vatikiotis, Panayiotis Nasser and His Generation, London : Croom Helm, 1978, ISBN 0856644331.
• Young, Robert France and the Origins of the Second World War, St. Martin's Press: New York, 1996, ISBN 9 780312 161866
• The French Defeat of 1940 Reassessments edited by Joel Blatt Berghahn Books, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, 1998, ISBN 1-571181-109-5.
  • "Introdution" by Joel Blatt pages 1-12.
  • "Strategy and Scapegoatism: Reflections on the French National Catastrophe, 1940" by Nicole Jordan pages 13-38.
  • "Marc Bloch and the drôle de guerre: Prelude to the "Strange Defeat" by Carole Fink pages 39-53.
  • "Martyers' Vengeance: Memory, Trauma and Fear of War in France, 1918-1940" by Omer Bartov pages 54-84.
  • "Domestic Politics and the Fall of France in 1940" by William D. Irvine pages 85-99.
  • "Edouard Daladier: The Conduct of the War and the Beginings of Defeat" by Elisabeth du Réau pages 100-125.
  • "The Missed Opportunity: French Refugee Policy in Wartime, 1939-1940" by Vicki Caron pages 126-170.
  • "Prelude to Defeat: Franco-Soviet Relations, 1919-1939" by Michael Jeabara Carely pages 171-203.
  • "France and the Illusion of American Support, 1919-1940" by William Keylor pages 204-244.
  • "In the Eye of the Beholder: The Cultural Representation of France and Germany by The New York Times, 1939-1940" by Robert J. Young pages 245-268.
  • "Reflections on France, Britain and the Winter War Problem, 1939-1940" by John C. Cairns pages 269-295.
  • ""Fighting to the Last Frenchman"? Reflections on the BEF Deployment to France and the Strains in the Franco-British Alliance, 1939-1940" by Martin Alexander pages 296-326.
  • "French Defeat in 1940 and its Reversal in 1944-1945: The Deuxième Division blindée" by Philip Farwell Bankwitz pages 327-353.
  • "The Trauma of 1940: A Disaster and its Traces" by Stanley Hoffmann pages 354-370.
• May, Ernest Strange Victory Hitler's Conquest of France, New York: Hill & Wang, 2000, ISBN 0-8090-8906-8.
• The Fascist Challenge and the Policy of Appeasement edited by Wolfgang Mommsen & Lothar Kettenacker, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983, ISBN 0-04-940068-1.
  • Foreword by Wolfgang J. Mommsen pages ix-xii.
  • 1 "The European Civil War" by Donald C. Watt pages 3-21.
  • 2 "The Failure of Collective Security in British Appeasement" by R.A.C. Parker pages 22-29.
  • 3 "Nazi Dynamics, German Foreign Policy and Appeasement" by Ronald Smelser pages 48-60.
  • 4 "The German Military Opposition Before the Second World War" by Klaus-Jürgen Müller pages 61-75.
  • 5 "Chamberlain and Appeasement" by Roy Douglas pages 78-88.
  • 6 "Had Baldwin Resigned in 1936: A Speculative Essay" by Robert P. Shay Jr 89-99.
  • 8 "The Domestic Background to British Appeasement Policy" by Gustav Schmidt pages 101-124.
  • 9 "The British Left and Appeasement: Political Tactics or Alternatives Policies?" by Sabine Wichert pages 125-141.
  • 10 "Keynes, the Economics of Rearmament and Appeasement" pages 142-156.
  • 11 "'Economic Appeasement'-A Crisis Strategy" by Bernd-Jürgen Wendt pages 157-172.
  • 12 "The British Military Establishment and the Policy of Appeasement" by John Dunbabin pages 174-196.
  • 13 "The Continental Commitment in British Strategy in the 1930s" by Brian Bond pages 197-206.
  • 14 "The Impact of the Economic Situation on the Foreign Policy of France, 1936-39" by René Girault pages 209-226.
  • 15 "Against Appeasement: French Advocates of Firmness, 1933-38" by Maurice Vaïsse paes 227-235.
  • 16 "The Decline of France and French Appeasement Policies, 1936-39" by Robert Frankenstein pages 236-245.
  • 17 France and the Coming of War" by Anthony Adamthwaite pages 246-256.
  • 18 "Appeasement as a Factor in Mussolini's Foreign Policy" by Denis Mack Smith pages 258-266.
  • 19 "The Anglo-Italian Gentleman's Agreement of January 1937 and Its Aftermath" pages 267-282.
  • 20 "Was There a Soviet Appeasement Policy?" by Lord Beloff pages 284-285.
  • 21 "British Attitudes and Polices towards the Soviet Union and International Communism, 1933-39" by Gottfried Niedhart pages 286-296.
  • 22 "British Perceptions of Soviet Military Capability, 1935-39" by James S. Herndon pages 297-319.
  • 23 "Britain, the Dominions and the Coming of the Second World War, 1933-9" by Ritchie Ovendale pages 323-338.
  • 24 "British Imperial Interests and the Policy of Appeasement" by Reinhard Meyers pages 339-351.
  • 25 "The Road to Singapore: British Imperialism in the Far East, 1932-42" by William Roger Louis pges 352-388.
  • 26 "The Ambiguities of Appeasement: Great Britain, the United States and Germany, 1937-39" by Hans-Jürgen Schröder pages 390-399.
  • 27 "The United States, Appeasement, and the Open Door" by Caalum A. MacDonald pages 400-412.
  • 28 "The United States and National Socialist Germany" by Arnold Offner pages 413-427.
• Behr, Edward The Last Emperor, Toronto: General Paperbacks, 1987, ISBN 0-7736-8025-X.
• Robbins, Richard G. The Tsar's Viceroys Russian Provincial Governors In The Last Years Of The Empire, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987m ISBN 0-8014-2046-6.
• Tobias, Fritz The Reichstag Fire Legand and Truth, London: Seekr & Warburg, 1963.
• Karsh, Efraim Islamic Imperialism A History, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-300-10603-3.
• Buruma, Ian & Margalit, Avishai Occidentalism The West In the Eyes of Its Enemies, Penguin Press, New York, New York, United States of America, ISBN 1-59420-008-4.
• Lewis, Bernard What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East, New York: Perennial, 2002, 2003, ISBN ISBN 0-06-051605-4.
• Xuequin Cao The Story of the Stone The Golden Days Volume 1, translated by David Hawkes, London: Penguin Books, 1973, ISBN 0-140-44293-6.
• Kershaw, Sir Ian The Nazi Dictatorship Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation, London: Arnold Press, 2000, ISBN 0340 76928 1.
• Urban, Mark Generals Ten British Commanders Who Shaped The World, London: Faber & Faber, 2005, ISBN 0-571-22487-3.
• Xuequin Cao The Story of the Stone The Crab-Flower Club Volume 2, translated by David Hawkes, London: Penguin Books, 1977, ISBN 0-14-044326-6.
• Ungvárgy, Krisztián The Siege of Budapest 100 Days In World War II, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-300-11985-2.
• Spence, Jonathan D. Chinese Roundabout Essays in History and Culture, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992, ISBN 0-393-033555-4.

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