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A forensic account of political assassinations from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

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A forensic account of political assassinations from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

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A forensic account of political assassinations from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

Explores how the present 'age of anger' has been abetted by elites, autocrats and the legacy of empire.

In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the Western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world should be governed. However, events in the early years of the twenty-first century have threatened the general acceptance that this is the only way forwards.Who could have imagined that China would champion globalization and lead the battle on climate change? Or that post-Soviet Russia...

In questo volume, Michael Burleigh esamina tutta la parabola del nazismo, dalle origini nella Germania sconfitta del 1918 fino alla nuova guerra e all'Olocausto. Per Burleigh, Hitler riuscì a conquistare la nazione perché il nazismo si presentò come religione politica, fondata sulla purezza della razza e sulla promessa messianica di un "nuovo regno tedesco di grandezza e di potere". Proprio la natura pseudoreligiosa del nazismo consente di spi...

Praise for Small Wars, Faraway Places 'Superb, scholarly, insightful and often witty . . . magnificent' Literary Review 'Terrific . . . Burleigh writes with a keen eye for self-righteousness, hypocrisy and unintended consequences. He is quite brilliant at puncturing the vanities of history's great and good' Dominic Sandbrook, Evening Standard'A brilliant, complex and contradictory story, replete with character and incident, pungent and pithy...

Praise for Small Wars, Faraway Places 'Superb, scholarly, insightful and often witty . . . magnificent' Literary Review 'Terrific . . . Burleigh writes with a keen eye for self-righteousness, hypocrisy and unintended consequences. He is quite brilliant at puncturing the vanities of history's great and good' Dominic Sandbrook, Evening Standard'A brilliant, complex and contradictory story, replete with character and incident, pungent and pithy...

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In this sweepingly ambitious overview of World War II, Michael Burleigh combines meticulous scholarship with a remarkable depth of knowledge and an astonishing scope. By exploring the moral sentiments of entire societies and their leaders and how such attitudes changed under the impact of total war, Burleigh presents listeners with a fresh and powerful perspective on a conflict that continues to shape world politics. Whereas previous histories...

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In this sweepingly ambitious history, Michael Burleigh explores the moral sentiments of the societies and leaders of World War II, brilliantly revealing how their attitudes motivated the conflict—and how they were ultimately transformed by the shock of total war. Burleigh's painstaking scholarship and profound sensibility reveal how the choices made by governments, communities, and individuals to enthusiastically embrace evil, to consciously r...

HISTORY / World

Beginning with the chaotic post-World War I landscape, in which religious belief was one way of reordering a world knocked off its axis, Sacred Causes is a penetrating critique of how religion has often been camouflaged by politics. All the bloody regimes and movements of the twentieth century are masterfully captured here, from Stalin's Soviet Union, Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, and Franco's Spain through to the modern scourge of terr...

Distinguished historian and acclaimed author of "Earthly Powers" and "The Third Reich" offers a sweeping, deeply insightful history of terrorism from its 19th-century European and American origins to today's global threat fueled by fundamentalists. color photo insert.

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In this ambitious overview of World War II, Michael Burleigh explores the moral sentiments of entire societies and their leaders and how such attitudes changed under the impact of total war. He offers a fresh perspective on a conflict that continues to shape world politics.