Product Description: War by Time-table is a history of the mobilization of the armies of the Great Powers in 1914. AJP Taylor not only argues that the circumstances were already set for a general war, (he may state in the opening pages of his First World War that Europe of the early 1910s was a peaceful looking place, nevertheless he knew about the figures of industrial production, colonial expansion, and territorial demands of the era) he also names the specific flaw in the war plans of the Great Powers (especially Germany) that, when ignited, would make the war unavoidable...read more

A life story of Bismarck which analyzes his policies and character by the standards of his time.

British events during the two world wars and the troubled years between them are carefully chronicled (view table of contents)

Product Description: Historian A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990) established his reputation through his work in diplomatic history. This collection brings together a selection of his essays and reviews in international history.

A. J. P. Taylor could never be dull, least of all in the essay. The medium was perfect for his qualities. In expression he displayed elegant brevity: in argument paradox: in knowledge lightly-worn mastery. The result was an aphoristic concinnity only perhaps bettered among historians by Macaulay. Faber are reissuing three volumes of essays expertly assembled and introduced by Chris Wrigley. This second volume concentrates on the twentieth-century and, among other virtuoso displays, includes his controversial reappraisal of the beginnings of the First World War, 'War by Timetable' in which his relish of the paradox is seen at its most stimulating. 'Once you start reading, it is hard to stop ... The style is always arresting, the conclusions often startling. Taylor's subjects rage from Trotsky to Churchill, from Bernard Shaw to Malcolm Muggeridge.' Adam Sisman in the Observer

A British historian maintains that diplomatic blunders, not Hitler's acts, caused World War II

Contains essays selected from previous collections bringing together the author's best work on nineteenth-century British and continental European history

Provides an overview of World War II from the invasion of Poland to V-J day, and covers major campaigns and battles

The controversial historian offers a candid account of his education, conversion to socialism, personal life, career as historian, and friendships with such personalities as Rebecca West, Lord Beaverbrook, and Lewis Namier

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This famous historian's collected occasional writings encompass the wide range of his interests and opinions, including reviews of some famous legal cases and essays on Queen Anne, the nuclear bomb, and class war

Biographical studies of Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill, Hitler, and Mussolini portray them as exercising supreme command during World War II and a sixth sketch shows absence of such a figure in Japan (view table of contents)

Brief biographies of forty-three outstanding field and air marshalls, generals, and admirals of this century, from Jellicoe to Juin, incorporate analyses of their characters, talents, and strategies

Highlights key figures and events of the Great War and examines its destructive impact on the countries involved

Product Description: A provocative analysis of Bismarck’s motives for colonial expansion. Professor Taylor’s analysis is original, meticulously documented, and, whether it delights or outrages the reader, unquestionably stimulating. In the years between 1881 and 1912, the European powers extended their influence and empires over Africa and large parts of Asia...read more

Product Description: One of A.J.P. Taylor's best-known books, The Course of German History is a notoriously idiosyncratic work. Composed in his famously witty style, yet succinct to the point of sharpness, this is one of the great historian's finest, if more controversial, accomplishments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)