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Poisoned Peace: 1945 - The War That Never Ended

1 review
Gregor Dallas

John Murray Publishers, 2006

Interesting but accurate?
The story in itself is fascinating and well worth of a book. Dallas tells the story well and I must say I became fascinated by the account. I did catch a few things that gave me some pause, though: one of them was the description of British concentration camps (set up during the Boer War) as being set up to protect Boer families from the dangers of war. Others (for example, Samantha Powers, in ...

1945: The War That Never Ended

15 reviews
Gregor Dallas

Yale University Press, 2005

A nit to pick--but rather a large nit
I found this book interesting and instructive almost to its end. But when he calls Truman a banker, based on an early (pre-World War I) experience working in a bank, my Kansas City background does a triple flip. My best recollection is that Truman, far from being a successful banker, was drowning in red ink trying to breathe life into the men's store he and a friend had started in downtown ...

Metrostop Paris: History from the City's Heart
Gregor Dallas

Hodder Murray, 2008

Metro Stop Paris: An Underground History of the City of Light
Gregor Dallas

Walker & Company, 2008

A history of Paris in twelve métro stops. Métro Stop Paris recounts the extraordinary and colorful history of the City of Light, by way of twelve Métro stops—a voyage across both space and time. At each stop a Parisian building, or street, or tomb or landmark sparks a story that holds particular significance for that area of the city. Dallas takes us to the jazz cellars and literary cafés of Montparnasse and Saint-Germain-des-Prés; ...

1918: War and Peace

7 reviews
Gregor Dallas

Overlook TP, 2002

Finally, the truth about Versailles
Five stars to Gregor Dallas! He has written one of the best history books on WW1 that I have read at any time and with a particular interest in WW1 this mean I have read many. It is eminently comparable to Massie's "Dreadnought" in depth and readability. Come to think of it, the one complements the other since there can be no better introduction to the origins of WW1 and no better narrative of ...

1815: The Roads to Waterloo
Gregor Dallas

Random House UK, 2001

The 17 months from April 1814 to August 1815 were an extraordinary period in European history—a period that saw two sieges of Paris, a complete revision of Europe’s political frontiers, an international Congress set up in Vienna, civil war in Italy, and international war in Belgium. Gregor Dallas tells the story of these days through the perspective of three very different European cities: the great metropolis of London, ...

At the Heart of a Tiger: Clemenceau and His World 1841-1929

2 reviews
Gregor Dallas

Carroll & Graf Pub, 1993

uncompromising biography of a complex man
"At the Heart of a Tiger: Clemenceau and His World 1841-1929" by Gregor Dallas is a passionate epic of the life of one of the most enigmatic statements of the 3rd Republic. Georges Clemenceau, a medical doctor, a journalist, radical member of the assembly, passionate defender of France's honor during the Dreyfus affair, turned as a Prime Minister in power extremely tough and conservative, a ...

1945: The War That Never Ended
Gregor Dallas, 2005

The cessation of hostilities in 1945 did not correspond with peace, a bitter paradox Dallas scrutinizes in this exacting history. Although the origin of the cold war may seem controversial, according to Dallas, its cause was simple: Stalin's determination to cash in his 1939 pact with Hitler--with or without Hitler himself. The Soviet dictator's success--it permanently set international boundaries and fueled the imposition of Communist regimes ...