From the Boer War to the Cold War : essays on twentieth-century Europe
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From the Boer War to the Cold War : essays on twentieth-century Europe
(Penguin history)
Penguin, 1996
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First published by Hamish Hamilton 1995
Includes index
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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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