'Do we need another history of the First World War? The answer in the case of Norman Stone's short book is, yes - because of its opinionated freshness and the unusual, sharp facts that fly about like shrapnel' Literary ReviewIn 1914 a new kind of war, and a new kind of world, came about. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. The First World Wa...

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...

A virtuoso performance by historian Norman Stone, who has lived and worked in the country since 1997, this concise survey of Turkeys relations with its immediate neighbours and the wider world from the 11th century to the present day. Stone deftly conducts the reader through this story, 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 historical account of epic proportions, featuring rapaciou...

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...

'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 ...

Those who survived the Second World War stared out onto a devastated, morally ruined world. Much of Europe and Asia had been so ravaged that it was unclear whether any form of normal life could ever be established again - coups, collapsing empires and civil wars, some on a vast scale, continued to reshape country after country long after the fighting was meant to have ended.Everywhere the 'Atlantic' world (the USA, Britain and a handful of allies) was on the defensive and its enemi...

La primera guerra mundial resultó un conflicto desconcertante para sus protagonistas y lo sigue siendo en buena medida para los historiadores. Lo que debía ser un guerra con botines imperiales y enfrentamientos relámpago, se convirtió en una carnicería sin sentido, con millones de hombres exterminados mediante una atroz mecanización bélica.La mayoría de los estados implicados acabaron arruinados, e incluso los nominalmente ganadores se vieron irreparablemente afectados. El botín se...

Following the creation of the Duchy of Normandy, the Normans were soon introduced to the castle and they built them in large numbers.In the mid-11th century, other Norman adventurers began carving out dominions for themselves in Southern Italy: some crossed to Sicily in 1061 and by 1091 had conquered the whole island. As in Normandy, they were keen to assimilate new ideas, including architectural styles, resulting in some striking buildings.This title, a co...