David Fromkin

The King and the Cowboy

David Fromkin

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Europe's Last Summer: Who Started The Great War In 1914?

David Fromkin

When war broke out in Europe in 1914, it surprised a European population enjoying the most beautiful summer in memory. For nearly a century since, historians have debated the causes of the war. Some have cited the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; others have concluded it was unavoidable.

In Europe’s Last Summer, David Fromkin provides a different answer: hostilities were commenced deliberately. In a riveting re-creation of the run-up to war, Fromkin shows how German generals, seeing war as inevitable, manipulated events to precipitate a conflict waged on their own terms. Moving deftly between diplomats, generals, and rulers across Europe, he makes the complex diplomatic negotiations accessible and immediate. Examining the actions of individuals amid larger historical forces, this is a gripping historical narrative and a dramatic reassessment of a key moment in the twentieth-century.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2004

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Europe's Last Summer: Who Started The Great War in 1914?

David Fromkin

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Other editions: 2004, 2004

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Kosovo Crossing: The Reality of American Intervention in the Balkans

David Fromkin

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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

David Fromkin

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Other editions: Softcover - 1990

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The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century

David Fromkin

How did we get here?David Fromkin provides arresting and dramatic answers to the questions we ask ourselves as we approach the new millennium. He maps and illuminates the paths by which humanity came to its current state, giving coherence and meaning to the main turning points along the way by relating them to a vision of things to come. His unconventional approach to narrating universal history is to focus on the relevant past and to single out the eight critical evolutions that brought the world from the Big Bang to the eve of the twenty-first century.He describes how human beings survived by adapting to a world they had not yet begun to make their own, and how they created and developed organized society, religion, and warfare. He emphasizes the transformative forces of art and the written word, and the explosive effects of scientific discoveries. He traces the course of commerce, exploration, the growth of law, and the quest for freedom, and details how their convergence led to the world of today.Historys great movements and moments are here: the rise of the first empires in Mesopotamia; the exodus from Pharaohs Egypt; the coming of Moses, Confucius, the Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad; the fall of the Roman Empire; the rise of China; Vasco da Gama finding the sea road to India that led to unification of the globe under European leadership. Connections are made: the invention of writing, of the alphabet, of the printing press, and of the computer lead to an information revolution that is shaping the world of tomorrow. The industrial, scientific, and technological revolutions are related to the credit revolution that lies behind today's world economy. The eighty-year world war of the twentieth century, which ended only on August 31, 1994, when the last Russian troops left German soil, points the way to a long but perhaps troubled peace in the twenty-first.Where are we now? The Way of the World asserts that the human race has been borne on the waters of a great river--a river of scientific and technological innovation that has been flowing in the Western world for a thousand years, and that now surges forward more strongly than ever. This river highway, it says, has become the way of the world; and because the constitutional and open society that the United States champions is uniquely suited to it, America will be the lucky country of the centuries to come. Fromkin concludes by examining some of the choices that lie ahead for a world still constrained by its past and by human nature but endowed by science with new powers and possibilities. He pictures exciting prospects ahead--if the United States takes the lead, and can develop wisdom on a scale to match its good fortune.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2000

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Kosovo Crossing: American Ideals Meet Reality on the Balkan Battlefields

David Fromkin

The author of the bestselling "A Peace to End All Peace" offers a penetrating examination of the conflict in Kosovo, America's first role, and the implications for American leadership in the 21st century. Maps.

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In the Time of the Americans: Fdr, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, Macarthur-The Generation That Changed America's Role in the World

David Fromkin

In the Time of the Americans traces the lives and thoughts of an impressive group of American leaders who, over the course of less than a century, moved the United States from its position as a resolutely isolated nation, wary of "foreign entanglements", to preeminence in international affairs. David Fromkin, author of the best-selling A Peace to End All Peace, shows how this improbable fraternity - disparate in background, politics, and personality - shaped and educated Americans to realize that they had something unique to contribute to the world. The men in question ranged from East Coast patrician Franklin Roosevelt to middle western storekeeper Harry Truman to career soldiers Dwight Eisenhower, George Marshall, and Douglas MacArthur. Members of a generation exhorted by Theodore Roosevelt to make its mark on the world, and inspired by Woodrow Wilson to remake the world in the service of an ideal, FDR and his contemporaries strove to carve out for America its proper - its best possible - place in the international arena. Agreeing that history had ordained an exceptional mission for the United States, they were beset by doubts as to what that mission should be. Their careers were launched on the battlefields and in the diplomatic adventures of the First World War and its aftermath; but it was in the 1940s and 1950s that they finally took in hand the destinies of mankind, embarking on a visionary - indeed, radical - program of anti-imperialistic, often altruistic, intervention outside the Western Hemisphere.

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A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922

David Fromkin

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1989

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The Independence of Nations

David Fromkin

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Other editions: Softcover - 1981, Softcover - 1981, 1981

The Question of Government: An Inquiry into the Breakdown of Modern Political Systems

David Fromkin

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