Books by Michael Burleigh and Complete Book Reviews
Michael Burleigh, Author . HarperCollins $29.95 (529p) ISBN 978-0-06-058093-3
Given the continuing discussion of religious values and secular ideals in American life (most recently in "the war on Christmas"), as well as the international crises brought by the perversion of faith into political ideology and of politics
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Michael Burleigh, Author . HarperCollins $27.95 (557p) ISBN 978-0-06-058095-7
In a dazzling display of erudition, British historian Burleigh completes his two-volume chronicle of the interaction between religion and politics in Europe from the French Revolution to the present. The first book, Earthly Powers
(2006), took the...
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Michael Burleigh, Author . Harper $29.99 (592p) ISBN 978-0-06-117385-1
Burleigh (Earthly Powers
), one of the leading English-language scholars of the role of ideas in the modern world, makes another major contribution in this pull-no-punches cultural study of terrorism as it has been lived and practiced for a century...
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Michael Burleigh, Author Hill & Wang $40 (864p) ISBN 978-0-8090-9325-0
After literally thousands of books have been written on the Nazis and their history, the author who attempts another one has to have a compelling reason. Burleigh, professor of history at Washington and Lee University and author of several books on...
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Michael Burleigh, Harper, $29.99 (672p) ISBN 978-0-06-058097-1
A moral history of WWII would be brief, said one wit, but respected British historian Burleigh (Blood Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism) delivers a long, riveting account of awful events and the perverted reasoning behind them. Communist, Nazi,...
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Michael Burleigh. Viking, $36 (464p) ISBN 978-0-670-02545-9
Following the end of WWII, colonial empires collapsed, the Soviet Union and the U.S. dug in for the Cold War, and “hot” conflicts erupted across the globe. In this intriguing history, Burleigh (The Third Reich) surveys these forgotten wars and the...
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Michael Burleigh. Picador UK, $19.99 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-1-529-03017-4
In this wide-ranging survey, historian Burleigh (Populism) examines assassination plots from ancient Rome to the present day. He begins with the murder of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, the most well-known example of “tyrannicide,” or the killing of a...
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