La Seconda guerra mondiale è un incubo che tuttora si staglia al centro dell’età contemporanea: in quanto confutazione totale di ogni nozione di progresso umano e in quanto conflitto la cui eredità ancora ci perseguita a settant’anni di distanza. L’avvincente libro di Norman Stone, che si propone di narrare la guerra nel modo più sintetico possibile, rende incredibilmente nuova una vicenda che nei suoi lineamenti fondamentali è familiare ai più. Questo resoconto tanto completo quanto incis...

A pacy, compelling and penetrating account from Wolfson Prize-winning author Norman Stone, that shows World War Two in a fresh new lightThe Second World War is the nightmare that sits at the heart of the modern era - a total refutation of any notion of human progress and a conflict which still haunts us seventy years on.Norman Stone's gripping new book aims to tell the narrative of the war in as brief a compass as possible, making a sometimes familiar story...

“Nel 1914 le truppe partirono per il fronte tra ali di folla plaudente, mentre i generali a cavallo sognavano una statua in una piazza a cui sarebbe stato dato il loro nome. Nessuna guerra è mai cominciata con un malinteso tanto fondamentale sulla sua natura.”

Entre granadas, ametralladoras, trincheras y banderas, las convicciones decimonónicas de la modernidad se disolvieron en la historia. El mundo se tambaleó en 1914, cuando Europa se desangraba en la Primera Guerra Mundial, y se estremeció en 1917, cuando Rusia proclamaba el poder para los sóviets en la Revolución de octubre. Previamente, desde el final de la década de 1870, los europeos habían estado viviendo inmersos en una atmósfera de inaudita paz que preparaba al mundo para el mayor de ...

Con su estilo narrativo único y su profundo conocimiento de nuestra historia reciente, Norman Stone se ha propuesto describir seis años del más sangriento conflicto nunca habido, con cerca de 50 millones de muertos.Una guerra que consumió al mundo y en la que estuvieron implicadas las fuerzas aliadas por un lado y Nazis, fascistas y el imperio nipón por el otro. Desde los orígenes suscitados por las graves depresiones económicas del periodo de entreguerras hasta el estallido de las...

This biography looks beneath the usual assessment of Adolf Hitler the monster, digging deeper into his life and examining his successes alongside his many failings. Through his meticulous research and illuminating writing, Stone reveals a man who was surprisingly human: not the clear-sighted decisive leader he seemed, but rather plagued by doubt and often uncertain about his next course of action.

The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many called for its creation. Norman Stone traces the country's roots from the traditional representative councils of land-owning nobles to the Magyar nationalists of the nineteenth century and the first wars of independence.Hungary's history since 1918 has not been a happy one. Economic collapse and hyperinflation in the post-war years led to fascist dict...

After World War II, the former allies were saddled with a devastated world economy and traumatized populace. Soviet influence spread insidiously from nation to nation, and the Atlantic powers -- the Americans, the British, and a small band of allies -- were caught flat-footed by the coups, collapsing armies, and civil wars that sprung from all sides. The Cold War had begun in earnest.In The Atlantic and Its Enemies, prize-winning historian Norman Stone assesses the years b...

'Without question one of the classics of post-war historical scholarship, Stone's boldly conceived and brilliantly executed book opened the eyes of a generation of young British historians raised on tales of the Western trenches to the crucial importance of the Eastern Front in the First World War' Niall Ferguson 'Scholarly, lucid, entertaining, based on a thorough knowledge of Austrian and Russian sources, it sharply revises traditional assumptions about the First World War.' Michael Howa...

After the unprecedented destruction of the Great War, the world longed for a lasting peace. The victors, however, valued vengeance even more than stability and demanded a massive indemnity from Germany in order to keep it from rearming. The results, as eminent historian Norman Stone describes in this authoritative history, were disastrous.In World War Two, Stone provides a remarkably concise account of the deadliest war of human history, showing how the conflict roared to ...

"Arresting … Stone’s Turkey breaks the popular mould and introduces its readers to a place beyond their presumptions" —The Sunday TimesIn Turkey: A Short History the celebrated historian Norman Stone deftly conducts the reader through the fascinating and complex story of Turkey’s past, from the arrival of the Seljuks in Anatolia in the eleventh century to the modern republic applying for EU membership in the twenty-first. It is an account of epic ...

After the unprecedented destruction of the Great War, the world longed for a lasting peace. The victors, however, valued vengeance even more than stability and demanded a massive indemnity from Germany in order to keep it from rearming. The results, as eminent historian Norman Stone describes in this authoritative history, were disastrous.In World War Two, Stone provides a remarkably concise account of the deadliest war of human history, showing how the conflict roared to ...