From the Boer War to the Cold War : essays on twentieth-century Europe

Author(s)

• Taylor, A. J. P. (Alan John Percivale)
• Wrigley, Chris

Bibliographic Information

From the Boer War to the Cold War : essays on twentieth-century Europe

A. J. P. Taylor ; edited with an introduction by Chris Wrigley

（Penguin history）

Penguin, 1996

Note

First published by Hamish Hamilton 1995

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is a collection of essays by A.J.P Taylor, on 20th-century European history.

Table of Contents

• The rise and fall of "pure" diplomatic history
• the traditions of British foreign policy
• war and peace
• moving with the times
• economic imperialism
• the Jameson raid
• the Boer War
• Milner - the man of no luck
• hunting slim Jannie
• prince of storytellers
• Joseph Chamberlain
• Balfour - odd man in
• Shaw - the court jester
• the man who tried to work miracles
• the rogue elephant
• the entente cordiale
• the Anglo-Russian entente
• "We want English and we won't wait"
• a great man?
• H. H. Asquith
• farce before tragedy
• Holstein - the mystery man
• the ruler in Berlin
• war by time-table
• stumbling to the brink
• back on their pedestals
• a monument to the revolution
• how it all began
• voice from the dead
• politics in the First World War
• Lloyd George - rise and fall
• the perfect secretary
• a patriot for one Ireland
• distressful country
• saving Lloyd George's soul
• Seebohm Rowntree - the workers' friend
• Trotsky
• the great antagonists
• Mussolini - the cardboard lion
• the Baldwin years
• man behind the scenes
• Leo Amery
• too good for this world
• a wasted life
• Ernest Bevin
• a socialist saint
• Bolshevik soul in a Fabian muzzle
• intellectual in politics
• the road to great turnstile
• bewitched by power
• St Mugg of Manchester
• thus spake Hitler
• Hitler's seizure of power
• Brummagem statesmanship
• reaching for Russia
• bombing Germany
• boom and bombs
• strong silent man
• the cross of Lorraine
• pen pals at war
• the war of the British succession
• to our everlasting shame
• the Cold War
• the Cold War spreads
• Christ stopped at Potsdam
• Churchill - the statesman
• Lancashire.

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Details

• NCID: BA28235037
• ISBN:
  • 0140230874
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xxv, 454 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 940
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Europe -- History -- 20th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA19012541