Alan Palmer Libri

The book offers a fresh perspective on World War I, highlighting the tragic mistakes and immense bloodshed that characterized the conflict. It explores the war's profound impact on the 20th century, providing a detailed analysis through the lens of a distinguished historian. Accompanied by maps and photographs, the narrative sheds light on the complexities of the war and its lasting consequences.

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely They have their entrances and exits." -As You Like It Covering the period from the Spanish Armada in 1588 to the publication of the First Folio in 1623, this work presents over 700 c

The political and constitutional developments of the century are of central concern in this brief history

As a man Metternich emerges as very different from the austere figure of popular imagination. Worldly, urbane and witty, he was a connoisseur of good living and enjoyed a sequence of scandalous love affairs and as much at home in Paris as Vienna.

This revised edition of "The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth Century History" provides a compact reference guide to the political, diplomatic, military, social, economic and religious affairs of the present century.

Francis Joseph , emporor of Austria and King of Hungery, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia has reigned in sovereignty for longer than no other ruler in history. Thsi book traces his life and times including his personal decision which were vital to both the Crimean War and WWI sixty years later.

The birth of Queen Victoria's grandson, Kaiser William II, in Berlin in 1859 was welcomed in London as though he were a British rather than a Prussian prince. But by 1915 he had become the most hated man in Britain.

The Decline & Fall of the Ottoman Empire offers a provocative view of the Empire's decline from the failure to take Vienna in 1683 to the abolition of the Sultanate by Mustafa Kemal (Attaturk) in 1922 during a revolutionary upsurge in Turkish national pride. The narrative contains instances of violent revolt and bloody reprisals, such as the massacres of Armenians in 1896, and other "ethnic episodes" in Crete and Macedonia. More generally, the narrative emphasizes recurring problems: competition between religious and secular authority; the acceptance or rejection of Western ideas; and the strength or weakness of successive Sultans. The book also highlights the special challenges of the early twentieth century, when railways and oilfields gave new importance to Ottoman lands in the Middle East--Publisher's description