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A CENTURY OF CONFLICT 1848-1948 (5 VOLUMES)

by A.J.P. Taylor

Published by Folio Society. 1st thus. 1998

Slightly better than very good condition. Contains: The Struggle for Mastery In Europe Volumes I (1848-1878) and II (1878-1914); The First World War and its Aftermath 1914-1919; The Origins of the Second World War 1919-1939 and The Second World War and Its Aftermath 1939-1948.

Top edge of text blocks very, very slightly dusty with a couple of tiny spots, else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcase which is shelf-scuffed, especially to bottom, also some bubbling of the surface paper (not bad).

Stock no. 1208981

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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

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