CLARK CHRISTOPHER

(P/B) IRON KINGDOM
Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 is a compelling account of a country that played a pivotal role in Europe's fortunes and fundamentally shaped our world. Prussia began as a medieval backwater, but transformed itself into a major European power and the force behind the creation of the German empire, until it was finally abolished by the Allies after the Second World War. With great flair and authority, Christopher Clark describes Prussia's great battles, dynas...
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ΟΙ ΥΠΝΟΒΑΤΕΣ
Το πρωί της 28ης Ιουνίου του 1914, όταν ο Αρχιδούκας Φερδινάνδος, διάδοχος της Αυστρίας, έφτασε με τη σύζυγό του στον σιδηροδρομικό σταθμό του Σαράγεβου, η Ευρώπη ζούσε ακόμη εν ειρήνη. Τριανταεπτά μέρες αργότερα βρισκόταν σε πόλεμο. Η σύγκρουση που ακολούθησε άφησε πάνω από δεκαπέντε εκατομμύρια νεκρούς, κατέστρεψε τρεις αυτοκρατορίες και άλλαξε ριζικά την παγκόσμια ιστορία. Πώς μπόρεσαν τα Βαλκάνια -μια περιφέρεια απομακρυσμένη από τα ευρωπαϊκά κέντρα της ισχύος και του πλούτου- να γίνουν το επίκεντρο ενός δράματος τέτοιου μεγέθους; Ο Κρ...
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(P/B) TIME AND POWER
This groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws on four key figures from German history-Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia, Frederick the Great, Otto von Bismarck, and Adolf Hitler-to look at history through a temporal lens and ask how historical actors and their regimes embody unique conceptions of time. Elegantly written and boldly innovative, Time and Power reveals the connection between political power and the disti...
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(P/B) THE SLEEPWALKERS
The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought down four great empires, killed millions of men and destroyed a civilization. What made a seemingly prosperous and complacent Europe so vulnerable to the impact of this assassination? In The Sleepwal...
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