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From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the world

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A major new history of the Second World War by a prize-winning historian

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The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth ce…

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