Europe

Acclaimed journalist Glass looks to the American expatriate experience of Nazi-occupied Paris to reveal a fascinating forgotten history of the greatest gene...

This beautifully illustrated and updated DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: The Netherlands shows off this country region-by-region, from the Frisian Islands in t...

An extraordinary memoir of a Jewish family spanning two world wars and its flight from Nazi-occupied Austria.Meriel Schindler spent her adult life trying t...

Edited By John W. Hall And Jeffrey P. Mass ; Contributors, David L. Davis ... [et Al.]. Originally Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1974. Inclu...

Vintage bookCategories: History EuropeFrance Book details Author: MICHAEL BAIGENT~RICHARD LEIGH~HENRY LINCOLN Format: hardcover Edition: Book Club E...

The Most Profound Characteristic Of Western Europe In The Middle Ages Was Its Cultural And Religious Unity, A Unity Secured By A Common Alignment With The P...

1. War And Peace -- 2. The Fight For Peace -- 3. On The Brink -- 4. Trials By Fire -- 5. Pushing The Envelope -- 6. Hitting The Fan -- 7. Doubling The Stake...

The Contributors To Early Modern Europe Set Out To Convey The Feel Of The Changes In Life, Beyond The Raw Historical Data. Their Chapters Are Extensively Il...

This book explores the lives, deaths, enemies, and victims of the most powerful guerrillas of twentieth-century Ireland: those of the Cork I.R.A. between 19...

A new abridged edition of a highly acclaimed biography of Edward VIII, who left England as the Duke of Windsor less than eleven months after succeeding his ...

Kati Marton.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsMemoirs

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...

The Inspiring Story Of Two Pioneering Suffragette Doctors Who Ran The Only Military Hospital Staffed Entirely By Women During World War I -- And Who Transfo...

This unique reader presents primary source documents that offer insights into women's lives throughout the course of European history. Each chapter augmen...

At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloo...

Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to...

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 1992 The British Secret Intelligence Service Exfiltrated From Russia A Defector Whose Presence In The West Has Remained Secret Until The Publication Of T...

The author, a friend and unpaid financial advisor to the Duchess of York, describes the Duchess's four-year affair with American businessman John Bryan, whi...

Barbara H. Rosenwein's bestselling survey text continues to stand out by integrating the history of three medieval civilizations (European, Byzantine, and I...

Includes insights into the lives of the current royal family Britain's heritage told through the colourful lives of its kings and queens The monarchy is at...

Bess Hardwick, Born Into The Most Brutal And Turbulent Period Of England's History, The Fifth Of Six Daughters Of An Impoverished Derbyshire Nobleman, Did N...

This innovative introduction to the Scientific Revolution features more than 80 foundational documents that chronicle the emergence of organized science. Fr...

Dispatches From The New Britain: A Slyly Funny And Compulsively Readable Portrait Of A Nation Finally Refurbished For The Twenty-first Century. Naughty Boys...

Witch-hunting In Scotland Presents A Fresh Perspective On The Trial And Execution Of The Hundreds Of Women And Men Prosecuted For The Crime Of Witchcraft, A...

Today The Word 'shtetl' (yiddish For 'small Town') Summons Only Hazy, Distant Associations: Images Of Chagall-like Crooked Streets And Glowing Sabbath Dinne...

The Hungarians is the most comprehensive, clear-sighted, and absorbing history ever of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe...

Preface / R. Baine Harris -- A Word Of Thanks / Paulos Mar Gregorios -- Does Geography Condition Philosophy? On Going Beyond The Occidental-oriental Distinc...

Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: The Biography with a book that once again plumbs the history of England and uncovers the continuities that link ...

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it A Financial Times Book of the Year 2024 'What Manchester thinks today, En...

A photographic chronicle of World War II uses both famous and previously unpublished images to retell the dramatic story of this important conflict.Categori...

This survey is a major reinterpretation of France's achievement as a nation and of the individual experience of the French, which has taken its place as one...

A photographic celebration of the history, culture, people, and places that make up a century of life in Ireland.\Covering all 32 counties, this beautiful, ...

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...

The Russo-turkish War Was One Of The Most Decisive Conflicts Of The 18th Century. In This Book, Brian Davies Offers A Thorough Survey Of The War And Explain...

Rommel's War In Africa is a vivid and detailed account of the fighting between the German Afrika Korps and the British 8th Army during WWII. It details the ...

Algernon Percy. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 230-233) And Index.Categories: HistoryWorld

This Text Focuses On A Selection Of Case-studies Drawn From Events In The Habsburg, Romanov And Ottoman Empires, As Well As The Nation-states That Arose Fro...

In the first full-scale history of the reign of Catherine to appear in almost a century Isabel de Madariaga uses a broad range of Western and Soviet scholar...

The author of fourteen books, Charles Maier is one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history. Recasting Bourgeois Europe, his first b...

"There was a smell in the air of tar and rope and rusted chain, a smell of tidal water. Down harbour, around the point, was the open sea. Here was the freed...

"An Italian ROOTS." The Washington Post Book WorldAt long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gi...

The third edition of Europe 1783-1914 provides a comprehensive overview of Europe from the outbreak of the French Revolution to the origins of the First Wo...

The greatest accomplishment of Western civilization is arguably the achievement of individual liberty through limits on the power of the state. In the war...

Leonardo of Pisa-better known today as Fibonacci-was the first Westerner to recognize the power of the Hindu-Arabic number system (featuring the numerals 0 ...

This book tells how to reclaim your innate magical power and take control of your destiny. With this work women can regain those long-forgotten secrets and ...

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...

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