Walter Laqueur: 21 books
The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism
From Ancient Times to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London--the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism--Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this phenomenon. Laqueur begins with an invaluable historical...
by Walter Laqueur
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Assassinations, bombings, hijackings, diplomatic kidnappings-terrorism is the most publicized form of political violence. The history of terrorism goes back a very long time, but the very fact that there is such a history has frequently been ignored, even suppressed. This may be because terrorism...
Harvest of a Decade
Disraelia and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This is a selection of essays written during the first decade of the twenty-first century, by a figure widely acknowledged as the conscience of European liberalism. In Walter Laqueur's lifetime, there have been more acutely dangerous situations, such as the coming of a world war or the seemingly unstoppable...
Optimism in Politics
Reflections on Contemporary History
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"This new collection by Walter Laqueur, one of the most distinguished historians and political commentators of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, vividly brings to life his perspective on fifty years of political life. The essays in this volume deal with events ranging from more than seventy...
Reflections of a Veteran Pessimist
Contemplating Modern Europe, Russia, and Jewish History
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Having been exposed early in life to the dangers of extreme nationalism, journalist and historian Walter Laqueur chose to align his thinking with Victor Hugo’s ideal of a “European Brotherhood” where the European nations would merge into a “superior unit” overcoming war and strife. However,...
Worlds Ago
A Memoir of My Journeying Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Originally published in 1993, Worlds Ago is not only about the politics of the times, but also about the world into which Walter Laqueur was born and raised and the world that shaped him: pre-war Germany in 1921, where he witnessed the rise of the Nazi party. It is a story of families, friendships,...
The Dream that Failed
Reflections on the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1996
Walter Laqueur as been hailed as "one of our most distinguished scholars of modern European history" in the New York Times Book Review. Robert Byrnes, writing in the Journal of Modern History, called him "one of the most remarkable men in the Western world working in the field."...
Best of Times, Worst of Times
Memoirs of a Political Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Walter Laqueur has been writing and teaching for over six decades, primarily in the fields of twentieth century history and politics, always as a shrewd and thoughtful generalist in an age of specialization. In this engaging memoir, Laqueur focuses on the political and historical events that shaped...
Putinism
Russia and Its Future with the West
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
There is no question that tensions between Russia and American are on the rise. The forced annexation of Crimea, the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, and the Russian government's treatment of homosexuals have created diplomatic standoffs and led to a volley of economic sanctions. Much of the...
The New Terrorism
Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 1999
Recent attacks in Oklahoma City, at the World Trade Towers, and at American embassies in Africa demonstrate the horrifying consequences of a terrorist strike. But as technological advances make weapons of mass destruction frighteningly easy to acquire, a revolution is occurring in the very nature...
The Last Days of Europe
Epitaph for an Old Continent
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
• In Brussels in 2004, more than 55 percent of the children born were of immigrant parents
• Half of all female scientists in Germany are childless
• According to a poll in 2005, more than 40 percent of British Muslims said Jews were a legitimate target for terrorist attacks
What happens...
The Future of Terrorism
ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Alt-Right
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
An expert on terrorism and an expert on counterterrorism answer the two questions everyone is asking about the rise of terrorism today: why is this happening, and when will it end?
Since the death of bin Laden in 2011, ISIS has risen, al-Qaeda has expanded its reach, and right-wing extremists...
The Terrible Secret
Suppression of the Truth About Hitler's "Final Solution"
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book seeks to answer three vital questions about the worldwide response to Hitler's "Final Solution": When did information about the genocide first become known to Jews and non-Jews? Through what channels was this information transmitted? What was the reaction of those who received...
The Political Psychology of Appeasement
Finlandization and Other Unpopular Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
First published in the 1980s, The Political Psychology of Appeasement contains some of the most influential political journalism of the 1970s. The author, a leading contemporary historian and commentator on international affairs, provides an incisive critique of the weaknesses and inconsistencies...
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