John Lukacs, Author . Yale Univ. $21.95 (202p) ISBN 978-0-300-09769-6
A prolific senior historian of modern Europe, Lukacs has written about Churchill many times before, most recently in Five Days in London, May 1940.
That recycled a small part of his The Duel: 10 May–31 July: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between...
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John Lukacs, Author . Yale Univ. $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-300-10773-9
A prolific historian and theorist of international relations, Lukacs (The Hitler of History
) offers a compact view of political change in Europe and the United States from the Napoleonic Wars to the present, with a particular focus on his area of...
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John Lukacs, Author . Yale Univ. $26 (201p) ISBN 978-0-300-11439-3
Several enigmas surrounding WWII are explored in this wide-ranging but unfocused rumination. Veteran historian Lukacs (Five Days in London
) argues that the war was the main event of the 20th century, then devotes a series of loosely episodic...
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John Lukacs, Author University of Missouri Press $44.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-8262-0956-6
There are some strong moments in this uneven miscellany of historian Lukacs's ( The End of the Twentieth Century and the Passing of the Modern Age ) travel-history essays. Published over a 40-year period in such diverse periodicals as the National...
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John Lukacs, Author Yale University Press $60 (490p) ISBN 978-0-300-07188-7
The prolific Lukacs, author or editor of 18 previous books (including The Hitler of History), has written something so original in form that describing it is difficult. Starting with the year 1901 and ending with the year 1969, Lukacs presents...
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John Lukacs, Author George Weidenfeld & Nicholson $0 (255p) ISBN 978-1-55584-060-0
During the period 1896-1906, Budapest, in contrast to its twin capital Vienna, was an optimistic, self-confident, less neurotic, relatively new city, characterized by both virile provinciality and urbane Magyar sensitivity. Lukacs, who has written...
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John Lukacs, Author George Weidenfeld & Nicholson $0 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55584-143-0
A ``European Catholic in America,'' Lukacs is a Hungarian-born historian ( Budapest 1900 ) who has taught in Pennsylvania for 40 years. Believing that he is living during the end of an age, he explores the development of his ``unoriginal, bourgeois,
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John Lukacs, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (258p) ISBN 978-0-89919-967-2
This study concentrates on Churchill's and Hitler's perceptions of each other during an early crucial period of WW II, from the German invasion of Western Europe to the time, 80 days later, when the fuhrer decided to attack Russia rather than risk a
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John Lukacs, Author Yale University Press $22 (236p) ISBN 978-0-300-08030-8
Eminent historian Lukacs (Thread of Years, etc.) delivers the crown jewel to his long and distinguished career with this account of five days--May 24-28, 1940--""that could have changed the world."" Lukacs posits that it was during those five days...
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John Lukacs, Author Yale University Press $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-300-09296-7
""We have arrived at the stage of history when we must begin thinking about thinking itself. This is something as different from philosophy as it is from psycho-analysis,"" writes celebrated historian John Lukacs (Five Days in London, May 1940) ...
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John Lukacs. Harvard/Belknap, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-674-72536-2
In this slim, dense volume, historian Lukacs (History and the Human Condition) delivers an insightful overview of the “historical” 20th century, a span beginning in 1914 with WWI and ending in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. In attempting to...
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John Lukacs, Author, Konrad Heiden, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-395-58472-9
While ``the twentieth century was the American Century,'' distinguished historian Lukacs contends that the 21st century is not likely to be dominated by U.S. interests. From his perspective, the end of the modern age is at hand, as superpower...
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John Lukacs, Author, Shelby Hearon, Author Knopf Publishing Group $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-44649-1
Historian Lukacs has demonstrated in many of his 15 previous books that he is an original thinker. The concept of this new book is brilliant: the volume presents a history of the evolution of knowledge about Hitler by studying the biographies and...
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