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  • HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
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    HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
    JOHN LUKACS
    One of the most important developments of Western civilization has been the growth of historical consciousness. Consciously or not, history has become a form of thought applied to every facet of human experience; every field of human action can be studied, described, or understood through its history. In this extraordinary analysis of the meaning of the remembered past, John Lu...

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  • PHILADELPHIA
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    PHILADELPHIA
    JOHN LUKACS
    An unorthodox historian known and respected for his work on the grand conflicts of nations and civilizations, John Lukacs has peopled a smaller canvas in this volume, with seven colourful figures who flourished in Philadelphia before 1950. Their stories are framed by chapters that describe the city in 1900 and in 1950.The Philadelphians selected are a political boss, Boies Penr...

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  • HISTORY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION
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    HISTORY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION
    JOHN LUKACS
    In a career spanning more than sixty-five years, John Lukacs has established himself as one of our most accomplished historians. Now, in the stimulating book  History and the Human Condition , Lukacs offers his profound reflections on the very nature of history, the role of the historian, the limits of knowledge, and more. Guiding us on a quest for knowledge, Lukacs ranges far ...

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  • BUDAPEST 1900
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    BUDAPEST 1900
    JOHN LUKACS
    A distinguished historian and Budapest native offers a rich and eloquent portrait of one of the great European cities at the height of its powers.   Budapest, like Paris and Vienna, experienced a remarkable exfoliation at the end of the nineteenth century. In terms of population growth, material expansion, and cultural exuberance, it was among the foremost metropolitan centers ...

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  • A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF HISTORY
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    A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF HISTORY
    JOHN LUKACS
    A thoughtful look at the value of learning from the past: “Nobody has done more than John Lukacs to turn the short history book into an art form” (Antony Beevor, Toronto Globe & Mail). To study history is to learn about oneself. And to fail to grasp the importance of the past—to remain ignorant of the deeds and writing of previous generations—is to bind oneself by the passions ...

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  • THE LAST EUROPEAN WAR
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    THE LAST EUROPEAN WAR
    JOHN LUKACS
    In this book, originally published in 1977, John Lukacs argues that the years 1939–41 were the decisive phase of the Second World War and The Last European War describes the history of an entire continent during these two years, one of the most crucial periods in Western civilization. Unorthodox in his approach, in this book, the author looks critically at many of the myths, mi...

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  • FIVE DAYS IN LONDON, MAY 1940
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    FIVE DAYS IN LONDON, MAY 1940
    JOHN LUKACS
    A “gripping [and] splendidly readable” portrait of the battle within the British War Cabinet—and Churchill’s eventual victory—as Hitler’s shadow loomed (The Boston Globe).   From May 24 to May 28, 1940, members of Britain’s War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue what became known as the Second World War. In this magisterial work, John Lukacs takes u...

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  • CHURCHILL
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    CHURCHILL
    JOHN LUKACS
    “Lukacs convincingly portrays a leader of an empire in irreversible decline and a towering, if flawed, hero of our time.”—Publishers Weekly In previous works, John Lukacs told the story of Winston Churchill’s titanic struggle with Adolf Hitler in the early days of World War II. Now, he turns his attention to the man himself, the workings of his historical imagination, and his s...

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  • LAST RITES
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    LAST RITES
    JOHN LUKACS
    An accomplished historian delves into his own history: “An often witty and always fascinating—even entertaining—writer.”—TheWashington Post In Confessions of an Original Sinner, an adroit blend of autobiography and personal philosophy, historian John Lukacs paused to set down the history of his own thoughts and beliefs. Now, in Last Rites, he continues and expands his reflectio...

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  • THE DUEL
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    THE DUEL
    JOHN LUKACS
    This day-by-day account of the maneuvering between Britain and Germany in 1940 is “a wonderful story wonderfully told” (George F. Will, New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner). During the late spring and early summer of 1940, Hitler was poised on the edge of absolute victory, having advanced rapidly through a large part of Europe—and Britain was threatened ...

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