A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary

The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918

A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990) was one of the most controversial historians of the twentieth century. He served as a lecturer at the Universities of Manchester, Oxford, and London.

A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. The book offers an insight into the problems inherent in the attempt to give peace, stability and common loyalty to a hetergeneous population.

An Illustrated History

The First World War

A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990) was one of the most brilliant historians of the twentieth century. He served as a lecturer at the Universities of Manchester, Oxford, and London.

A. J. P. Taylor was one of the most acclaimed and uncompromising historians of the twentieth century. In this clear, lively and now-classic account of the First World War, he tells the story of the conflict from the German advance in the West, through the Marne, Gallipoli, the Balkans and the War at Sea to the offensives of 1918 and the state of Europe after the war. Containing photographs and maps, this an essential history of the war that 'cut deep into the consciousness of modern man'.

A J P Taylor

Taylor's most perfect work of art, a miracle of proportion, language and insight

A dazzling exercise in revisionism which summed up Taylor's paradoxical, provocative and inventive approach to history

Taylor was a lifelong dissenter ... at his best - as in <I>The Origins of the Second World War</I> ... he shifted the gorund of major debates

No historian of the past century has been more accessible

Highly original and penetrating ... No one who has digested this enthralling work will ever be able to look at the period again in quite the same way

One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller. Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, he argued provocatively that Hitler did not set out to cause the war as part of an evil master plan, but blundered into it partly by accident, aided by the shortcomings of others. Fiercely attacked for vindicating Hitler, A.J.P. Taylor&rsquo;s stringent re-examination of the events preceding the Nazi invasion of Poland on 1st  September 1939 opened up new debate, and is now recognized as a brilliant and classic piece of scholarly research.<br/>
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&lsquo;Highly original and penetrating &hellip; No one who has digested this enthralling work will ever be able to look at the period again in quite the same way&rsquo; Sunday Telegraph.

A J P Taylor

Praise for The Origins of the Second World War

Taylor's most perfect work of art, a miracle of proportion, language and insight

A dazzling exercise in revisionism which summed up Taylor's paradoxical, provocative and inventive approach to history

Taylor was a lifelong dissenter ... at his best - as in The Origins of the Second World War ... he shifted the gorund of major debates

Taylor's most perfect work of art, a miracle of proportion, language and insight

A dazzling exercise in revisionism which summed up Taylor's paradoxical, provocative and inventive approach to history

Taylor was a lifelong dissenter ... at his best - as in The Origins of the Second World War ... he shifted the gorund of major debates

Taylor's most perfect work of art, a miracle of proportion, language and insight

A dazzling exercise in revisionism which summed up Taylor's paradoxical, provocative and inventive approach to history

Taylor was a lifelong dissenter ... at his best - as in The Origins of the Second World War ... he shifted the gorund of major debates

Books by A J P Taylor

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