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  • The World Reacts
    Clara Duval
    When a regional dispute becomes a world war, the decisive moments rarely happen on the battlefield. They happen in cabinet rooms, parliamentary chambers, and the offices of general staffs, where signatures on mobilisation orders and votes on war credits commit nations to courses of action that prove almost impossible to reverse. This book reconstructs the chain of decisions thr...
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    48,99 €

  • Axis Diplomacy
    Clara Duval
    In September 1940, the foreign ministers of Germany, Italy, and Japan signed a treaty meant to redraw the map of the world. Five years later, two of the signatories had been crushed by force of arms and the third had quietly turned its back on the others. The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo pact was the twentieth century’s most ideologically loud and operationally hollow alliance, and the ga...
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    44,99 €

  • Churchill’s Call
    Clara Duval
    In June 1940, with France defeated and the Channel suddenly a frontier rather than a corridor, Britain faced a question its strategic doctrine had never been built to answer. Continuing the war alone was a choice, not a foregone conclusion, and that choice had to be remade daily across cabinet rooms, broadcasting studios, embassies, and dockyards. This book reconstructs how Bri...
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    45,04 €

  • The World on Edge
    Clara Duval
    What if the most important year before global war was not 1939, but the forgotten twelve months just before it? This book takes readers back to 1938, when headlines screamed about Anschluss and the Sudetenland while cinemas, churches, and trading floors carried on as if normal life could still be protected.Month by month, it reconstructs how societies experienced a mounting cri...
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    35,83 €

  • The Fall of France
    Clara Duval
    How does a state that survived Verdun and the Somme fall in a matter of weeks? Why did Europe place such faith in France as a continental shield, only to watch German armour reach the Channel in a single campaign? This book follows those six weeks in 1940 from calm expectation to stunned collapse.Readers are taken through plans, personalities, and battlefield realities to under...
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    36,02 €

  • Appeasement
    Clara Duval
    In a decade taught to fear the next war more than the last mistake, leaders chose delay, and a continent paid the price. This book reveals how appeasement became common sense-how budgets, ballots, and democratic decision making in crisis turned caution into a creed while an adversary learned to press. Through gripping narrative and clear analysis, it asks the question readers s...
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    31,69 €

  • The Treaty That Broke the World
    Clara Duval
    Power never really left the room; it changed its instruments. Instead of artillery, it spoke through clauses, commissions, maps, and rituals-devices that made Treaty of Versailles rules feel like everyday life. This book reveals how an agreement designed to secure justice scripted humiliation, turning defeat into a renewable political resource and shaping the rise of Hitler ori...
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    31,65 €

  • Axis of Convenience
    Clara Duval
    A photograph can lie. The smiling diplomats, the choreographed handshakes-everything suggested a single will. Yet behind the stage lights, three different wars ran on incompatible clocks. This book takes you inside the machinery of World War II alliances, showing how Italy Germany Japan entered an alliance of convenience that publicised unity while privately pursuing separate, ...
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    31,69 €