Liberation or catastrophe?
Subtitle: reflections on the history of the twentieth century
By: Michael Howard
Publisher: Hambledon Continuum
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781847251596
Subjects: Modern History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Enlightenment and its enemies; title: The twentieth century : liberation or catastrophe?; title: The shifting balance : a changing Britain in a changing world; title: The First World War reconsidered; title: War and peace in 1914; title: War and the making of nations; title: A thirty years' war? : the two world wars in historical perspective; title: A missed opportunity? : Britain and German resistance, 1938-1944; title: The Cold War : a personal retrospect; title: 1945-1995 : fifty years of European peace; title: Cold War, chill peace; title: NATO : an unhappy but successful marriage; title: What is "Europe"? (for the Norwegians); title: The European states-system in an era of change (for the Germans); title: Britain, France, and the making of Europe (for the French); title: War against terrorism; title: September 11 and after; title: Keeping order in a global society : pax americana or global policing?