Modern History


Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
The Guns of August
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
The Age of Empire, 1875–1914
Gulag: A History
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
The Diary of a Young Girl
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
The Age of Capital, 1848–1875
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
John Lukacs
It was a roiling and mobile civilization marked by a steady increase in carnality, vulgarity, brutality. Yet, oddly, the institutions and the accustomed frameworks of liberal parliamentary democracy, of that highest creation of the now passing Modern Age, continued to exist--at a time when civilization itself (a term first appearing in English in 1601) was coming apart. History is not governed by logic: but we must at least consider that this strange duality cannot exist much longer: that sooner ...more
John Lukacs, Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred

Alexei Navalny
We must do what they fear -- tell the truth, spread the truth. This is the most powerful weapon against this regime of liars, thieves and hypocrites. Everyone has this weapon. So make use of it.
Alexei Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir

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