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Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 9
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
Far from a mere dictator, Napoleon was a military, political and social visionary whose legacy can still be felt in France and all over the world. Horne examines the one-time emperor at his most human, from his greatest triumphs to his disastrous failures.
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 17
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 17
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
From Darwin's essential trip to the Galápagos, to the most contemporary studies in sociobiology, this work takes listeners both into the field and laboratories of the world's greatest evolutionary scientists, and shows how the theory of evolution has itself evolved.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
This entertaining volume provides a concise history of one of the world's premiere cities. Acclaimed author A.N. Wilson starts at the beginning, when London was founded by the Romans, and continues to contemporary times, hitting all the historical highlights along the way.
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 19
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 23
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
11) Nazism and war
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
The Third Reich, led by a band of political gangsters, came to power with a deep ideological commitment to war and racism. As the driving force behind the economics, social policy and propaganda of Germany, racial hatred was the catalyst that plunged Europe into war.
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 27
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 30
Publisher
Modern Library, Random House Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 32
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A revisionist account of the controversial war examines perspectives on both sides of the conflict while assessing its cultural contradictions and lasting influence, placing particular focus on the roles of McCarthyism and the media.
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 34
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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