Stella & Rose's Books

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Contents

• THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY IN EUROPE I
• Contents of Volume I
• Introduction
• Note on the Text
• Author's Preface
• Author's Introduction: The Great Powers of Europe
• 1 The Diplomacy of Revolution, 1848
• 2 The Diplomacy of Reaction, 1849-1850
• 3 The End of The Holy Alliance, 1852-1853
• 4 The Crimean War, 1854-1856
• 5 The Congress of Paris and its Consequences, 1856-1858
• 6 The Italian War and the Disruption of the Settlement of Vienna, 1858-1861
• 7 The Polish Crisis, and the End of the Franco-Russian Entente, 1861-1863
• 8 Bismarck's Wars: The Defeat of Austria, 1864-1866
• 9 The Isolation of France, 18660-1870
• 10 The End of French Primacy, 1870-1875
• 11 The Great Eastern Crisis, 1875-1878
• THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY IN EUROPE II
• Contents of Volume II
• 12 Bismarck's Alliances, 1879-1882
• 13 The Breakdown of 'the Liberal Alliance' and its Consequences, 1882-1885
• 14 The Triumph of Diplomacy: The Bulgarian Crisis, 1885-1887
• 15 The Making of the Franco-Russian Alliance, 1888-1894
• 16 The Abortive Continental League, 1894-1897
• 17 The Era of 'World Policy', 1897-1902
• 18 The Last Years of British Isolation: the Making of the Anglo-French Entente, 1902-1905
• 19 The Formation of the Triple Entente, 1905-1909
• 20 The Years of Anglo-German Hostility, 1909-1912
• 21 The Balkan Wars and After, 1912-1914
• 22 The Outbreak of War in Europe, 1914
• 23 The Diplomacy of War, 1914-1918
• Bibliography
• Index
• THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH
• Introduction
• War by Time-Table: How the First World War Began
• 1 The Making of the Time-Tables
• 2 Meeting at Sarajevo
• 3 Decision in Vienna
• 4 Decision in Berlin
• 5 Decision in London
• 6 The End of the Line
• The First World WAr
• Preface
• 1 1914
• 2 1915
• 3 1916
• 3 1917
• 5 1918
• 6 Afterwards: 1919
• War, Revolution and the Aftermath
• 1 France: The Secret of the Third Republic
• 2 The German Army in Politics
• 3 Russia, 1917: the Last European Revolution
• 4 Trotsky
• 5 The Failure of the Habsburg Monarchy
• 6 Politics in the First World War
• 7 Lloyd George: Rise and Fall
• 8 Peace-Making
• 9 Britain the Twenties: A New World?
• 10 The Irish Troubles
• 11 The General Strike
• 12 The Baldwin Years
• 13 Europe:Post-War
• Index
• THE ORIGINS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
• Foreword: Second Thoughts
• 1 Forgotten Problem
• 2 The Legacy of the First World War
• 3 The Post-War Decade
• 4 The End of Versailles
• 5 The Abyssinian Affair and the End of Locarno
• 6 The Half-Armed Peace, 1936-1938
• 7 Anschluss: The end of Austria
• 8 The Crisis over Czechoslovakia
• 9 Peace for Six Months
• 10 The War of Nerves
• 11 War for Danzig
• Bibliography
• Index
• THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH
• Introduction
• The Second World War
• Preface
• 1 World War
• 2 The Beginnings
• 3 The European War, 1939-1940
• 4 War at Long Range, 1940-1941
• 5 The Coming of World War, June-December 1941
• 6 Germany and Japan at their Zenith, 1942
• 7 The Turning-Point, 1942
• 8 Allied Offensives at Last, 1943
• 9 Year of Liberation, 1944
• 10 The End of the War, 1945
• The War Lords
• Preface
• 1 Mussolini
• 2 Hitler
• 3 Churchill
• 4 Stalin
• 5 Roosevelt
• 6 War Lords Anonymous
• From World War to Cold War
• 1 De Gaulle: Triumph of a Legend
• 2 The Cross of Lorraine
• 3 Pen-pals at War
• 4 The War of the British Succession
• 5 Daddy, What Was Winston Churchill?
• 6 Bombing Germany
• 7 More Luck than Judgement?
• 8 Christ Stopped at Potsdam
• 9 Delusions of Grandeur
• 10 The Cold War
• Index