Best of
Italy
1970
The Normans in Sicily: The Normans in the South 1016-1130 and the Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194
John Julius Norwich - 1970
The books tell the story of the dazzling Norman kingdom of Sicily founded in the 11th century by an enterprising band of adventurers from Normandy under Robert Guiscard. The state they founded was outstanding in medieval civilization.
Images and Shadows: Part of a Life
Iris Origo - 1970
Originally pubished in 1970.
The End Of Glory: An Interpretation Of The Origins Of World War Ii
Laurence Lafore - 1970
By 1919 the Great Powers of the nineteenth century were dismembered or exhausted, and the Great Powers of the twentieth century, Russia and the United States, lingered in the wings, unwilling to assume their new roles as arbiters of Europe's and the world's fate. The old diplomatic machinery no longer worked, and no one was capable of devising a means for re-establishing a balance of power. Even Churchill, the author points out, did many of the right things for the wrong reasons. The End of Glory provides an accessible view of interwar diplomacy and describes the tragic decades of the 1920s and 1930s with dramatic clarity.