"For them it was a question of swimming or sinking. For some of this generation it can certainly be said that but for Hitler and the Nazis they would never have gone as far in life as they did." Noted historian (Weimar: A Cultural History;...
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Walter Laqueur, Author . Continuum $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8264-1435-9
One of the West's leading scholars of terrorism, author of The New Terrorism
and other titles, takes on the vexing questions about its origins and manifestations and provides a lot to chew on along the way. Laqueur, of the Center for Strategic...
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Walter Laqueur, Author Scribner Book Company $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19030-3
When Mikhail Gorbachev speaks of democratic reforms, he really means an ``enlightened'' dictatorship under continued one-party rule, asserts Laqueur ( Terrorism ; Weimar Culture ). It is this historian's view that the Soviet Union's move toward...
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Walter Laqueur, Author Penguin Books $17.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-14-013969-3
In this straightforward update of Europe Since Hitler (1969), Laqueur analyzes the political, economic, social and cultural evolution of Europe from the start of the Cold War to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. (Jan.)
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Walter Laqueur, Author Sourcebooks $26.95 (345p) ISBN 978-1-4022-0632-0
A quasi-memoir of his time spent living and working in Jerusalem, Laquer's volume exploits the author's experiences and relationships with key figures in Jerusalem's history (Eliezer Sukenik, Golda Meir, Richard Kauffman, Gershom Scholem, Mordechai...
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Walter Laqueur, Author Scribner Book Company $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19203-1
An invaluable synthesis of the new body of evidence, released under glasnost , of Stalin's atrocities, this masterful biographical study is one of the few essential books on the Soviet ruler. The latest revelations show that the purges and the...
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Walter Laqueur, Author Simon & Schuster $17.45 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-54694-6
Historians Laqueur (A History of Zionism, etc.) and Breitman here tell the story of the German industrialist, who, at great risk, was the first to inform the world that Hitler had begun a systematic extermination of the Jews. Eduard Schulte, a...
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Walter Laqueur, Author Little Brown and Company $19.95 (385p) ISBN 978-0-316-51478-1
An updated version of Laquer's 1977 Terrorism, the present study seeks to disentangle truth from the mythology of terrorism that has emerged during the last two decades. The arguments are essentially negative: terrorism is neither a new phenomenon...
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Walter Laqueur, Author Little Brown and Company $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-51479-8
``In the author's controversial view, terrorism is a side-show affecting the lives of a relative handful of people,'' PW reported. According to this update of Laqueur's Terrorism, the danger of international terrorism is not in the acts themselves,...
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Walter Laqueur, Author St. Martin's Press $0 (201p) ISBN 978-0-312-04425-1
Even if the Soviet Union eventually permits full cultural freedom, Laqueur ( The Long Road to Freedom ) is pessimistic about the prospects for political freedoms: ``The most that can be expected is a policy of little steps forward.'' Other...
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Walter Laqueur, Author HarperCollins Publishers $27.5 (317p) ISBN 978-0-06-018336-3
With the collapse of communism, Russia's rightwing extremists have made a comeback. Political analyst Laqueur ( The Age of Terrorism ) combed Russian journals, manifestos, booklets, leaflets and other sources to produce the first in-depth,...
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Walter Laqueur, Author Oxford University Press, USA $30 (248p) ISBN 978-0-19-508978-3
In a devastating postmortem of Soviet history, Laqueur (Black Hundred) challenges much conventional thinking as he illuminates two central questions: why the U.S.S.R. lasted as long as it did, and why it collapsed. He notes that the Bolshevik...
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Walter Laqueur, Author Oxford University Press, USA $30 (272p) ISBN 978-0-19-509245-5
Although the mass totalitarian movements of Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy may seem like historical aberrations, fascism could nevertheless make a comeback, albeit in different forms, predicts eminent historian Laqueur in this lucid,...
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Walter Laqueur. St. Martin%E2%80%99s/Dunne, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-06475-2
Veteran foreign affairs writer Laqueur (After the Fall) provides an incisive look at recent Russian history and Vladimir Putin’s role in it, a topic that could hardly be more timely given recent events in Ukraine. Laqueur makes the depressing...
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Walter Laqueur and Christopher Wall. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-250-14251-1
Historian Laqueur and Wall, a counterterrorism instructor for the Navy, adeptly connect terrorism’s current Islamist incarnations with secular, socialist forebears that plagued Russia and Europe in centuries past. A brief, fast-paced historical...
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