Skilfully interwoven with each other, Theo Aronson's accounts of these reigns, abdications and exiles capture the scope and variety of what Victoria used to call the Royal Mob.' Elizabeth Longford Ever since the instant success of his first book The Golden Bees: The Story of the Bonapartes, Theo Aronson has steadily built up his reputation as an historical biographer specializing in the Royal Houses of Europe. Among his many widely read books are Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story, Crowns in Conflict: The Triumph and the Tragedy of European Monarchy 1910-1918 and The King in Love: Edward VII's Mistresses. His books have been published in Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Holland and Belgium; in paperback, in book club editions and in serialization. THE KING IN LOVE: King Edward VII's Mistresses 'I found it totally absorbing... a thoroughly enjoyable book from start to finish.' Auberon Waugh, The Independent 'Mr Aronson is scrupulously fair . . . his book is entertaining and lively.' Brian Masters, The Standard NAPOLEON AND JOSEPHINE: A Love Story 'He tells their story superbly well . . . Aronson has a wonderful eye for significant detail as well as a shrewd appreciation of character. Above all his book is wonderfully readable.' Patrick Taylor-Martin, Sunday Times 'Mr Aronson, an exceptional authority on the world's crowned or once crowned heads, makes Josephine irresistible . . . absorbing and scholarly.' Alastair Forbes, Sunday Telegraph

    Nearly forty maps and a detailed commentary follow the voyages of Columbus, Magellan, and Cook, the ebb of power from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic seaboard, and the protracted European struggle for control of a vastly new money economy.

    He traces the origins of the Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos's Ionian Vision to his joint conception with David Lloyd George of an Anglo-Greek entente in the Eastern Mediterranean. This narrative text presents a comprehensive account of the disaster which has shaped the politics and society of modern Greece.

    This classic biography carefully traces Bukharin's rise to and fall from power, focusing particularly on the development of his theories and programmatic ideas during the critical period between Lenin's death in 1924 and the ascendancy of Stalin in 1929.

    The central figure in this study of a crumbling society that gave birth to the modern world is Wittgenstein, the brilliant and gifted young thinker. With others, including Freud, Viktor Adler, and Arnold Schoenberg, he forged his ideas in a classical revolt against the stuffy, doomed, and moralistic lives of the old regime. As a portrait of Wittgenstein, the book is superbly realized; it is even better as a portrait of the age, with dazzling and unusual parallels to our own confused society. Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin have acted on a striking premise: an understanding of prewar Vienna, Wittgenstein s native city, will make it easier to comprehend both his work and our own problems .This is an independent work containing much that is challenging, new, and useful. New York Times Book Review."

    Although there is a vast literature on the Spanish Civil War, this is the first book in English that is devoted to the experiments in workers’ self-management, both urban and rural, which constituted one of the most remarkable social revolutions in modern history. - Paul AvrichThe eyewitness reports and commentary presented in this highly important study reveal a different understanding of the nature of socialism and the means for achieving it. - Noam ChomskyTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Murray BookchinPart One: Background1. The Spanish RevolutionThe Two RevolutionsThe Trend Towards Workers’ Self-Management2. The Libertarian TraditionThe Rural Collectivist TraditionThe Anarchist InfluenceThe Political and Economic Organization of Society3. Historical NotesThe Prologue to RevolutionThe Counter-Revolution and the Destruction of the Collectives4. The Limitations of the RevolutionPart Two: The Social Revolution5. The Economics of RevolutionEconomic Structure and CoordinationA Note on the Difficult Problems of ReconstructionMoney and Exchange6. Workers’ Self-Management in Industry7. Urban CollectivizationCollectivization in CataloniaThe Collectivization of the Metal and Munitions IndustryThe Collectivization of the Optical IndustryThe Socialization of Health ServicesIndustrial Collectivization in AlcoyControl of Industries in the North8. The Revolution of the Land9. The Coordination of CollectivesThe Peasant Federation of LevantThe Aragon Federation of Collectives: The First Congress10. The Rural CollectivesA Journey Through AragonThe Collectivization in GrausLibertarian Communism in AlcoraThe Collective in BinefarMiralcampo and AzuquecaCollectivization in CarcagenteCollectivization in Magdalena de PulpisThe Collective in Mas de Las Matas11. An Evaluation of the Anarchist CollectivesThe Characteristics of the Libertarian CollectivesConclusionBibliographyIndexAppendixPhotographs and Posters

    Dramatic incidents of his reign, such as his quarrel with Archbishop Becket and his troubled relations with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons, have attracted the attention of historical novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers, but with no unanimity of interpretation. That he was a great king there can be no doubt. Yet his motives and intentions are not easy to divine, and it is Professor Warren's contention that concentration on the great crises of the reign can lead to distortion. This book is therefore a comprehensive reappraisal of the reign based, with rare understanding, on contemporary sources; it provides a coherent and persuasive revaluation of the man and the king, and is, in itself an eloquent and impressive achievement.

    It offers a description and analysis of Marlborough's qualities; details the battle of Sedgemoor, Marlborough's first engagement in which he played a leading role; examines the Art of War in early 18th century warfare; and explores Continental campaigns such as Donauworth, Hochstadt, Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, and Malplaquet.

    “Chip” Bohlen witnessed the sweep of nearly thirty-five years of Soviet-American relations. He helped reopen the U.S. embassy in Moscow in 1934, attended the last of the great purge trials of the thirties and served as FDR's interpreter and advisor during the wartime meetings with Churchill and Stalin at Teheran and Yalta and again with Truman at Potsdam. Bohlen served as chief advisor on Soviet affairs to three secretaries of state during the early Cold War crises in Iran and Korea. He served four years as U.S. ambassador in Moscow and tells of the death of Stalin, Khrushchev's rise and the secret speech denouncing Stalin, the Hungarian uprising, and the Suez crisis. Bohlen later filled ambassadorial posts in Manila and Paris.In his memoirs Chip Bohlen faced up to the issues, admitted errors, pointed fingers of blame, gave credit where due, appraised personalities, and offered his assessment of the future. He exemplified the nonpartisan foreign policy coalition active in Washington throughout the Cold War era. Ambassador Bohlen died in 1974.

    Drawing on his philosophical works, political tracts & personal correspondence it shows how his concern with social problems influenced his concept of state.PrefacedBeginningsPositivity & freedomThe modernization of GermanyThe new era Modern life & social realityThe owl of Minerva & the critical mindThe political economy of modern society Social classes, representation & pluralismThe state: the consciousness of freedomWarThe English Reform Bill: the social problem againHistory: the progress towards the consciousness of freedomEpilogueBibliographyIndex

    It is narrated in a vivid close-up style…by a man who spent two years in caves and other hideouts in the White Mountains, venturing to the coast only to guide a supply submarine with flashing torch, or to smuggle endangered or exhausted colleagues to safety in Cairo…It is remarkable that he lived to tell the tale; that he does so with such modesty, grace and humour is extraordinary."—James Campbell, Times Literary Supplement"Xan Fielding was a gifted, many-sided, courageous and romantic figure, at the same time civilized and Bohemian, and his thoughtful cast of mind was leavened by humour, spontaneous gaiety, and a dash of recklessness. Almost any stretch of his life might be described as a picaresque interlude."—Patrick Leigh FermorIn January 1942, Xan Fielding landed on German-occupied Crete with orders to disrupt the resupply of Rommel's Afrika Korps and establish an intelligence network in cooperation with the Cretan resistance movement. Working with bands of Cretan partisans, he succeeded magnificently. In this memoir of his wartime exploits, Fielding presents a portrait of the quintessential English operative—amateur, gifted, daring, and charming.From the new foreword by Robert Messenger:"Hide and Seek is a classic of British war literature, an understated account of a man's coming-of-age thanks to the sudden shouldering of great responsibility. Fielding is deprecating about the dangers and his own achievements. It is typical of the quiet and reticent man who preferred to live outside the limelight and wrote matter-of-factly about the war rather than with a gloss of adventure or heroism. There's a scene, late in 1943, when Fielding and a group of partisans study the German's list of 'wanted' men. He notes 'with regrettable but only human pride that the entry under my local pseudonym, which outlined in detail my physical characteristics, aliases and activities for a period of eighteen months, took no less than three-quarters of an octavo page in closely-set small-point type.' The Germans had surely measured his worth."Xan Fielding (1918–1991) was a British writer and traveler, and a lifelong friend of Patrick Leigh Fermor, who served with him in Crete during World War II. (The introduction to Fermor's A Time of Gifts is written as a "Letter to Xan Fielding.") Fielding also translated many novels from French, most notably, The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Planet of the Apes.Robert Messenger is the books editor of the Wall Street Journal.

    In bringing together a rich collection of contemporary accounts of the period, this volume chronicles the rise and fall of the cult of witchcraft that swept through Europe between the 11th and 18th centuries.

    This volume tells the story of that offensive, one which eventually involved more than four and a half million troops, including ninety-one divisions, sixty-one of which were American. The focus of the volume is on the role of the American armies -First, Third, Seventh, Ninth, and, to a lesser extent, Fifteenth- which comprised the largest and most powerful military force the United States has ever put in the field. The role of Allied armies -First Canadian, First French, and Second British- is recounted in sufficient detail to put the role of American armies in perspective, as is the story of tactical air forces in support of the ground troops.

    After an introduction that places Hitler and the Nazi regime in the perspective of German history, Professor Rich relates Hitler's actual theories to the rise of the Nazi state and the development of a system of men and institutions dedicated to carrying out the Führer's orders. This system was to provide the machinery of expansion that becomes the focus of this study, as the spread of the Nazis is traced in detail from the annexation of Austria to Hitler's attack on Russia and declaration of war against the United States.