Europe

The emperor Constantine changed the world by making the Roman Empire Christian. Eusebius wrote his life and preserved his letters so that his policy would...

A French Memoir In The Age Of #metoo. A Literary Sensation, Vanessa Springora's Consent Weaves Her Personal Narrative Of A Relationship During Her Childhood...

The Astonishing But True Story Of One Of The Most Notorious Spy Cases From The Cold War--and The International Manhunt That Seized Global Attention As It Re...

The young W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood spent, between them, the years 1928 to 1933 in Berlin. It was a crucial stage in the development of the two ...

the Shocking Secrets Of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Artwork the Recent Cleaning Of The Sistine Chapel Frescoes Removed Layer After Layer Of Centuries Of...

The long-awaited memoir by one of the most important political leaders of our time For 16 years, Angela Merkel bore the governmental responsibility for Germ...

The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates, from the journalist who has spent years studying them. Who really runs the show and, as Char...

V. 1. The Prodigy, 1881-1906 -- V. 2. The Cubist Rebel, 1907-1916 -- V. 3. Triumphant Years, 1917-1932. John Richardson ; With The Collaboration Of Marilyn ...

Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another "explosive and compulsive" (Stephen Fry) thriller chroniclin...

Venice--a city of masks and riddles, where narrow streets and passageways form a giant maze that confounds the uninitiated and deepens the sense of myster...

Called 'disgraceful, ' 'third-rate, ' And 'not Nice' By Donald Trump, Nbc News Correspondent Katy Tur Reported On -- And Took Flak From -- The Most Volatile...

Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo – a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who ...

A history of National Socialist Germany is presented from the perspective of Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production, and offers insight into how ...

One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 and a NYT Bestseller, and now the basis for the Netflix film 22 July, from acclaimed filmmak...

Warlord is the definitive chronicle of Churchill's crucial role as one of the world's most renowned military leaders, from his early adventures on the Nor...

Married at 17 to the grandson of a confirmed lunatic and widowed at 20, Catherine Parr chose a Yorkshire lord twice her age as her second husband. Caught up...

An uproarious, eye-opening history of Europe's notorious royal houses that leaves no throne unturned and will make you glad you live in a democracy. Do yo...

Justin Vovk's In Destiny's Hands is the heartbreaking story of five children of Austria's iconic empress, Maria Theresa, who watched as their royal worlds ...

Divorced at ten, a mother at thirteen & three times a widow. The extraordinary true story of the 'Red Queen', Lady Margaret Beaufort, matriarch of the T...

In this true-life thriller, Kati Marton draws on her skill as an investigative reporter to discover who her journalist parents really were—-and how they s...

The runaway international bestseller is now an American must-read for lovers of adventure, travel writing, and romance. Corinne Hofmann tells how she falls ...

For Fans Of The Netflix Series The Crown And From The New York Times Bestselling Author Of 17 Carnations Comes A Captivating Biography Of Queen Elizabeth Ii...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “addictively readable” (The Washington Post) inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the drama...

At The Turn Of The Century, When Prussia Was At Its Peak, The Wallich Family, Wealthy German-jewish Bankers, Owned A Splendid Italianate Villa A Few Dozen Y...

Peter Hathaway Capstick died in 1996. At the time of his death, the world-renowned adventure writer was putting the finishing touches on this, a stirring a...

Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden — just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat — Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childh...

"I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I...

When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (Th...

Perfect for fans of The Crown, this captivating biography from a New York Times bestselling author follows Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret as the...

Gitta Sereny first saw Albert Speer on trial at Nuremberg. Over the last years of his life she came to know him - through hundreds of hours of conversation...

From our foremost historian of World War II, a vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime.With unparalleled insight, Max Hastings brin...

A Biography Of Edith Stein, A Jewish Woman Who Converted To Catholicism, Became A Nun, And Went On To Achieve Success In The World Of German Philosophy, Onl...

In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center o...

"A wonderful offbeat memoir.... Holroyd has written perhaps his best book yet."—Ben Macintyre, New York Times Book Review Renowned biographer Michael Ho...

For fans of Downton Abbey, this New York Times bestseller is the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWIA...

From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage a...

A Net Of Complex Currents Flowed Across Jacobean England. This Was The England Of Shakespeare, Jonson And Bacon; Of The Gunpowder Plot; The Worst Outbreak O...

Vogue's "special royal salute" to Queen Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor.\"Vogue, like the royal family, has been through many evolutions of its own, a...

this Is A Charming Portrait Of Childhood In The Russian Market Town Where The Great Painter And His Wife Grew Up. Bella's Warm, Humorous Stories Of Her Piou...

Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of a relentless and harrowing international manhunt. When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of t...

This Book Is A Tale Of Three Cities: The Fictional London That Lives In The Pages Of Writers From Shakespeare To P.d. James And Martin Amis; The Historical ...

From His Teenage Years In Provincial Russia To His Premature Death In 1904, Anton Chekhov Wrote Thousands Of Letters To A Wide Range Of Correspondents. This...

An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual -- though, as she maintained, a virgin -- Elizabeth ...

Ingrid Carlberg ; With An Introduction By Kofi A. Annan ; Translated From The Swedish By Ebba Segerberg. Originally Published By Norstedts, Stockholm In 201...

A Timely, Riveting Book That Presents For The First Time An Alternative History Of 1930s Britain, Revealing How Prominent Fascist Sympathizers Nearly Succee...

This Volume Is The First Fully Illustrated Book About Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) And The Early Years Of The Telephone - An Invention That Transformed...

Tells The Interwoven Stories Of Two Men--hawley Crippen, A Very Unlikely Murderer, And Guglielmo Marconi, The Obsessive Creator Of A Seemingly Supernatural ...