Steiner - The triumph of the dark: European international history 1933-1939

OXFORD HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE

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LORD BULLOCK and SIR WILLIAM DEAKIN

Oxford History of Modern Europe

THE LIGHTS THAT FAILED
EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY 19191933
ZARA STEINER

IRELAND
THE POLITICS OF ENMITY 17892006
PAUL BEW

BULGARIA
R. J. CRAMPTON

A PEOPLE APART
A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN
EUROPE 17891939
DAVID VITAL

THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE 18011917
HUGH SETONWATSON

THE STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY IN EUROPE 18481918
A. J. P. TAYLOR

THE TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPEAN POLITICS
17631848
PAUL W. SCHROEDER

THE LOW COUNTRIES 17801940
E. H. CROSSMAN

GERMANY 18661945
GORDON A. CRAIG

EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY 19331939

ZARA STEINER

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