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Sean McMeekin
A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin – not Hitler – was the animating force of World War II in this major new history. World War II endures in the popular…
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A history of an ideology and its tyrannical adherents who stubbornly refuse to go away.
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A single-volume history of the Ottoman empire’s decade-long war for survival. Beginning with Italy’s invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September 1911, the opening salvo in what would soon spiral into…
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From an award-winning historian, a new global history of Communism When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is…
A ground-breaking history of the Second World War, told from the Soviet perspective
In this remarkable, ground-breaking new book Sean McMeekin marks a generational shift in our view of Stalin…
Now in paperback, the first major new history of the Russian Revolution in a decade combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on a great turning…
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL AND THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY
‘Gripping, authoritative, accessible and always bracingly revisionist’ Simon Sebag Montefiore
‘A terrific read … McMeekin…
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Gripping and well-researched… In prose of admirable clarity, [McMeekin] relates the enormously complex events of that fateful summer. -National Review
The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War. Presenting a reinterpretation of the war, this title states that it was neither the British nor…
Between 1911 and 1923, a series of wars–chief among them World War I–would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor states. Beginning with Italy’s invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September…
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Historian Sean McMeekin traces the origins and events of the Russian Revolution, which brought an end to Romanov rule and ushered the Bolsheviks into power –
Explores one of the unresearched subjects of the First World War: the German bid for world power - and the destruction of the British Empire - through the harnessing of…
A provocative, revisionist take on the Second World War (Financial Times) by a prize-winning historian
We remember World War II as a struggle between good and evil, with Hitler propelling…
This is a biography of Willy Munzenberg - an Old Bolshevik who was also a self-promoting tycoon - became one of the most influential communist operatives in Europe between the…
Historians have never resolved a central mystery of the Russian Revolution: how did the Bolsheviks, despite facing a world of enemies and leaving nothing but economic ruin in their path…
In a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war’s beginning as either a Germano-Austrian pre-emptive strike or a miscalculation. The key to the outbreak of violence…
A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin–not Hitler–was the animating force of World War II in this major new history.
We remember World War II as a struggle between good and…
