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Day of the Assassins - A History of Political Assassination by Michael Burleigh
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The traditional image of a political assassin is a lone wolf with a gun, aimed squarely at the head of those they wish to kill. But while there has been enormous speculation on what lay behind notorious individual political assassinations - from Gaius Julius Caesar to John F. Kennedy - the phenomenon it ...Show more
Earthly Powers : Religion and politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War by Michael Burleigh
26.99 NZD
Category: History
This is a major work setting out the inextricable link between politics and religion over the past two centuries, from the French Revolution to the present day's War on Terror. In this dazzling and hugely relevant book, Michael Burleigh explores the way in which religion, broadly construed, functions wi ...Show more
Moral Combat: A History of World War II by Michael Burleigh
29.99 NZD
Category: History
A clear, chronological narrative exploring many of the ethical dilemmas posed for real people during and after the Second World War. Literature on the Second World War is voluminous. In 'Moral Combat', however, Michael Burleigh achieves what few historians can claim to have done; by exploring the moral ...Show more
Small Wars, Faraway Places - The Genesis of the Modern World 1945-65 by Michael Burleigh
39.99 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: good
The collapse of Western colonial empires after the Second World War led to any number of vicious struggles for power whose bloody consequences haunt us still. Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's brilliant analytic skills and clear eye for common themes underpins this powerful account of those struggl ...Show more
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times - A History of Now by Michael Burleigh
37.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
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 - first, the 2003 war with Iraq and its chaotic aftermath an ...Show more
The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh
32.95 NZD
37.99 (13% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
A brilliant and indispensable one-volume history of the Third Reich from a leading historian. In it, Michael Burleigh sets Nazi Germany in a European context, showing how the Third Reich's abandonment of liberal democracy, decency and tolerance was widespread in the Europe of the period. He shows how a ...Show more
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