Europe

In 1993, Sigrid Rausing, A Young Student Working On A Phd In Anthropology, Went To Spend A Year Living In Estonia, A Remote Baltic State That Had Just Gaine...

This is a highly illustrated and full-color collection of the greatest propaganda images ever. From Napoleonic war paintings via anti-Hitler posters to brut...

Compelling account of the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union The Soviets expected to crush Finnish forces in mere days, but the Finns broke the...

On December 25, 1991, at 7:35 p.m., soldiers lowered the red Soviet flag flying over the Kremlin and raised the Russian tri-color in its place. The moment ...

The Former Uk Press Secretary Chronicles The Rise Of New Labour, The Negotiations For Peace In Northern Ireland, The War On Iraq And Gives Insight Into Tony...

Familiar to anyone versed in the history of World War II or interested in the study of modern intelligence work, Bletchley Park was arguably the most succ...

An Award-winning Author Reconsiders The Role Of Historians In Political Debate. For Generations, British Thinkers Told The History Of An Empire Whose Story ...

Albanians -- Serbs -- Creating History -- From Dardania To Yugoslavia -- Kosovo In Yugoslavia -- From The Golden Age To The Memorandum -- The Milošević-ru...

On 2 June 1953, 27-year-old Princess Elizabeth of York was crowned Queen, the eyes of the world upon her as she dedicated herself to her country. It is fasc...

No Empire Has Been Larger Or More Diverse Than The British Empire. At Its Apogee In The 1930s, 42 Million Britons Governed 500 Million Foreign Subjects. Bri...

The second edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated to include expanded coverage of the late eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, an...

Gender History : Meanings, Methods, And Metanarratives -- Feminist History After The Linguistic Turn : Historicizing Discourse And Experience -- Difficult D...

Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was ...

A wonderful history of the Red Indians of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book shares all available information conce ing every aspect of Beothuk...

the Closest Thing To Total War Before World War One, The Seven Years' War Was Fought In North America, Europe, The Caribbean And India With Major Conseque...

A World of Nations: The International Order Since 1945 provides an analytical narrative of the origins, evolution, and end of the Cold War. But the book i...

A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary...

Based on a landmark BBC2 series, The Rise and Fall of Rome follows a fast-paced, plot-driven narrative, focusing on the pivotal moments in Roman history, an...

The history of Guinness, one of the world’s most famous brands, reveals the noble heights and generosity of a great family and an innovative business. It...

Jeffrey Burton Russell. Includes Index.Categories: Religion & Spirituality Religious Studies Theology ChristianAngelology & Demonology

Physical description; 58 p. : ill., maps ; 16 cm. Subjects; Paganism - Ireland - History. Paganism - Ireland - History - Pictorial works. Sacred space - Ire...

The Life, Times, And Work Of Herbert Marcuse, One Of The 20th Century's Most Remarkable Cultural Figures-- Assimilation & Catastrophe -- The Sorrows Of ...

The Rich Pageant Of Britains History Emerges Nowhere More Colorfully Than In The Story Of Its Kings And Queens. This New Paperback Offers An Attractive And ...

For thirty dramatic years, England ruled a great swath of France at the point of the sword—an all-but-forgotten episode in the Hundred Years’ War that ...

During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could be concluded. Peace at the ...

Decades ahead of the amusing but distorting buffoonery of Blackadder Goes Forth, this complete edition of the Wipers Times, the famed trench newspaper of th...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?It is now in vogue to celebrate non-West...

Early Republic / Stephen P. Oakley -- Power And Process Under The Republican Constitution / T. Corey Brennan -- The Roman Army And Navy / David Potter -- Th...

The Business Of L'oreal Is Beauty. It Is The World's Largest Cosmetics Firm. This Startling Book Shows The Other Face Of Beauty. It Is The Story Of How This...

Introduction: Kossovo Day -- History: War By Other Means -- Slobodan. Milosevic@gov.yu -- Phantom State -- Homeland Calling -- Friends From The Woods -- Quo...

the Tragedies Of Bosnia And Kosovo Are Often Explained Away As The Unchangeable Legacy Of Centuries-old Hatreds. In This Richly Detailed, Expertly Balance...

Covering A Vast Area, From The Home Front To Nazi Europe And Japan, Lyn Smith Has Compiled A Richly Diverse And Moving Collection Of Testimonies, Which Reve...

Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals, alive in memory as a scourge, hero, military genius and demi-god. To Muslims, Russians and westerners, he is a ...

A visceral history of Pompeii - the living city brought back to life. This startling new book concentrates on the twenty years between 59 and 79AD, thus beg...

This Latest Addition To The Landmark Penguin History Of Europe Series Is A Fascinating Study Of 16th And 17th Century Europe And The Fundamental Changes Whi...

Words are the strongest thing in the World The words that you use can put you at the top of the world or keep you down. Many people have been slave of their...

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the US found itse...

General Francisco Franco came to prominence during the days of David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson and was able to cling to absolute political power unti...

Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the sin...

This volume forms the third part of one of the finest general introductions to the medieval world of prevailing times. Lavishly illustrated, with numerous a...

'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade ...

Now in paperback, the #1 San Francisco Chronicle bestseller that is an enchanting and lyrical look at the life, the traditions, and the cuisine of Tuscany,...

Never before in German military history did the German Artillery possess such variety and magnitude as in the World War II era. From North Cape to Tobruk, B...

This is the first full history of fascism - as a force and as a phenomenon - in Europe and elsewhere between the world wars. This history encompasses all th...

The history and philosophy of the mysterious Cathar religion and its lost treasure • Demonstrates that Catharism is not simply a heretical Christian cul...

The contested creation of free movement—for people and goods—in the Schengen area of EuropeEurope is a place of free movement among nations—or is it? ...

Meticulously Written Recipes Explain The Basics--rules That Will Help Anyone Become A Better Cook--while Providing The Deep Satisfaction That Comes From Cre...

Why did the once-ardent hero of the American Revolutionary cause become its most dishonored traitor? General Benedict Arnold’s failed attempt to betray t...