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1	Five Days in London: May 1940 more books like this by John Lukacs The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940 altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs's magisterial new book. Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical unfolding of ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £6.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Churchill: Visionary, Statesman, Historian more books like this by John Lukacs A view of Winston Churchill, the workings of his historical imagination, and his successes and failures as a statesman. In previous works John Lukacs told the story of Churchill's titanic struggle with Adolf Hitler in the early days of World War II. In this text he turns his attention to Churchill the man and visionary statesman. Each chapter of ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £3.42! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Duel: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between Churchill and Hitler more books like this by John Lukacs This is a day-by-day account of the 80-day struggle in 1940 between Adolph Hitler, poised on the edge of absolute victory, and Winston Churchill, threatened by imminent invasion and defeat. Map. see all copies from £6.08! new only from £10.89!
4	The Last European War, September 1939/December 1941 more books like this by John Lukacs This absorbing study of the first phase of World War II tells not only how events happened but why. Eminent historian Lukacs presents an extraordinary narrative of these two years, followed by a detailed sequential analysis of the political, military, and intellectual relations and events. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £10.13! \| first editions
5	Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Dire Warning more books like this by John Lukacs Bestselling historian John Lukacs traces the history of Churchill's pivotal first speech before Parliament - a speech that transformed both Churchill and the nation he had come to lead. On 13th May 1940, Churchill stood before Parliament to deliver his first speech as Prime Minister. Britain was embroiled in the first year of World War II; Neville ... see all copies from £8.53! new only from £12.41! \| first editions
6	Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill more books like this by Richard Ketchum THE DECISIVE DAY refers to the first heated battle of the American Revolution. Though the British technically won, the Americans proved their staying power and killed a large number of their enemy's men. The battle actually took place on Breeds Hill, in the Massachusetts countryside in June 1775. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £11.40! \| first editions
7	June 1941: Hitler and Stalin more books like this by John Lukacs This brilliant new work by the author of the best-selling "Five Days in London May 1940", is an unparalleled drama of two great leaders confronting each other in June, 1941. It describes Hitler and Stalin's strange, calculating, and miscalculating relationship before the German invasion of Soviet Russia, with its gigantic (and unintended) ... see all copies from £4.53! new only from £5.46! \| first editions
8	The Siege of Budapest: One Hundred Days in World War II more books like this by Krisztian Ungvary, John Lukacs (Foreword by) The definitive history of one of the fiercest battles of World War II see all copies from £10.54! new only from £13.56! \| first editions
9	The Hitler of history more books like this by John Lukacs Since 1945 there have been over 100 biographies of Hitler, each interpreting Hitler in its own way. This book puts the biographers on trial, considering the personalities, methods and careers behind the major accounts of Hitler's life, asking what aspects of it can be considered "real". see all copies from £5.29! new only from £9.56! \| first editions
10	At the End of an Age more books like this by John Lukacs A reflection on the nature of historical and scientific knowledge. Of broad philosophical, religious and historical scope, it is the product of a historian's lifetime of thought on the subject of his discipline and the human condition. While running counter to most of the accepted ideas and doctrines of our time, it seeks to offer a compelling ... see all copies from £2.11! new only from £6.47! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred more books like this by John Lukacs This intensely interesting - and troubling - book is the product of a lifetime of reflection and study of democracy. In it, John Lukacs addresses the question of how democracy has changed, and why we have become vulnerable to the shallowest possible demagoguery. Lukacs contrasts the political systems, movements and ideologies that have bedeviled ... see all copies from £7.34! new only from £8.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	A Thread of Years more books like this by John Lukacs In this book historian John Lukacs presents a series of fictionalized vignettes of daily life as experienced by ordinary individuals in the United States (although Lukacs takes us to some European countries as well), each in a year from 1901 to 1969, and each followed by a short dialogue in which the author argues with an interlocutor (who may or ... see all copies from £2.75! new only from £2.75! \| first editions
13 view cover	George Kennan: A Study of Character more books like this by John Lukacs A man of impressive mental powers, of extraordinary intellectual range, and of exceptional integrity, George Frost Kennan (1904-2005) was an adviser to presidents and secretaries of state, with a decisive role in the history of this country (and of the entire world) for a few crucial years in the 1940s, after which he was made to retire. He then ... see all copies from £9.53! new only from £14.64! \| first editions
14	Duel CL more books like this by John Lukacs Lukas reveals a startling picture of how close England--and the democratic world--came to losing WWII. He offers an unforgettable portrait of the mortal struggle between his two main antagonists and reveals the motives and personalities of many other key figures, including FDR, Joseph Kennedy, Charles deGaulle, and Neville Chamberlain. see all copies from £4.03! new only from £56.28! \| first editions
15 view cover	A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic more books like this by Georg Lukacs, Esther Leslie (Translator), John Rees (Illustrator) Georg Lukacs was dubbed ""the philosopher of the October Revolution"" and his masterpiece History and Class Consciousness (1923) is commonly held to be the foundational text for the tradition known as ""Western Marxism"" which includes the work of Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. As the liberating ... see all copies from £13.51! new only from £13.51!
16	End of 20th Century CL more books like this by John Lukacs, Konrad Heiden In this important book, historian John Lukacs offers a provocative summing-up of the 20th century, that age of iron which began with the guns of August in 1914 and ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. Distinguished by the author's masterly style, it is a startling examination of where we are, how we got here, and where we are ... see all copies from £3.03! new only from £15.97! \| first editions
17 view cover	A New Republic: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century more books like this by John Lukacs In A New Republic, one of America's most respected historians offers a major statement on the nature of our political system and a critical look at the underpinnings of our society. American democracy, says John Lukacs, has been transformed from an exercise in individual freedom and opportunity to a bureaucratic system created by and for the ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £2.73!
18 view cover	Confessions of an Original Sinner more books like this by John Lukacs In this eloquent and thought-provoking "autohistory", John Lukacs, distinguished historian and writer, describes the history of his own convictions and beliefs. The journey takes us from the Hungary of the 1930s and the ravaged Budapest of World War II to Lukacs's discovery of the New World, his forays into the intellectual life of New York City, ... see all copies from £7.84! new only from £19.10! \| first editions
19	Historical Consciousness: Or the Remembered Past more books like this by John Lukacs see all copies from £8.53! first editions
20	Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture more books like this by John Lukacs see all copies from £9.34! new only from £68.04! \| first editions
21 view cover	Invasion 1940 more books like this by Peter Fleming, John Lukacs (Preface by) see all copies from £2.97! new only from £8.04! \| first editions
22 view cover	Destinations Past: Traveling Through History with John Lukacs more books like this by John Lukacs In Destination Past you will embark on a remarkable voyage in time as John Lukacs shares forty years of travels, ranging from his adoptive city of Philadelphia to his native Hungary to darkest Transylvania. With an unerring eye for detail and a keen ability to recreate the mood of a moment or the essence of an era, Lukacs blends travel and history ... see all copies from £6.14! new only from £42.61! \| first editions
23 view cover	Budapest 1900 more books like this by John Lukacs "Lukacs's book is a lyrical, sometimes dazzling, never merely nostalgic evocation of a glorious period in the city's history. . . . {His} true sympathy lies . . . not with the famous expatriates, but with the writers and intellectuals who lived and died at home: the poets Endre Ady and Mihaly Babits; the novelists Ferenc Herczeg, Sandor Hunyady, ... see all copies from £8.18! new only from £9.49! \| first editions
24	A new history of the cold war more books like this by John Lukacs see all copies from £5.46! first editions
25	Mathematical games more books like this by C. Lukács see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.46! \| first editions

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