European History

Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate...

Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, America had long been involved in a shadow war. Winston Churchill, England's beleaguered new Prime Minister, pleaded with Franklin D. Roosevelt for help....

Don't miss this page-turning love story about two strangers learning to read between each others' lines. Perfect for fans of Emily Henry's Beach Reads ! Sarah and Max should never...

The most beautiful interiors of Barcelona in a stylish book. Barcelona and its buildings form a wonderful symbiosis with its own unique personality. In this book, you get to look...

Nuvolo ( ne Giorgio Ascani, 1926-2008) was born in Citta di Castello, in the province of Perugia. In 1950 Nuvolo moved to Alberto Burri's studio in Rome. After World War...

Miller provides a clear and comprehensible narrative, a coherent and accurate synthesis, intended as a guide for students and the general reader to an extremely complex period in British history....

Scandinavian style is something so familiar and so pervasive that you may not even realize how much of the world we live in has been shaped by its influence. Young...

A fashion icon in her own time, the dress and interiors adopted by Marie Antoinette in the final decades of the 18th century have had a lasting influence over 250...

'Langley ... understands how to excite people about the past - more so, perhaps, than most academics' -- THE NEW YORK TIMES 'Philippa Langley has done it again.' THE TIMES...

From Elly Griffiths, bestselling crime author, writing as Domenica de Rosa, comes a heartfelt, witty story of one woman's journey from heartbreak to adventure, full of gorgeous Italian flavour. Emily...

A gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB "A nerve-racking political thriller with the most exciting detective duo in a long time. Bring...

Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953) was one of the foremost German commanders of the Second World War. After service on both the Western and Eastern Fronts during 1914-1918 he...

Les Miserables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris's criminal underground in the wake of...

'THE FRENCH SUSPENSE KING' NEW YORK TIMES In 1999, after publishing three cult novels, celebrated author Nathan Fawles announces the end of his writing career and withdraws to Beaumont, a...

The Military History of Late Rome Volume 457-518 provides a fresh, new look into the events that led to the collapse of West Rome, while East Rome not only survived...

An illustrated study of the British Army's Anti-Aircraft (AA) Command's performance against the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. When the Battle of Britain commenced in July...

An illustrated account of the clashes between RAF Fighter Command's Hurricane and Spitfire and the Luftwaffe's Ju 87 Stuka in the skies over France, the Channel and southern England. The...

This illustrated study assesses the British Crusader and the Italian M13/40, two medium tanks that played crucial roles in World War II's Desert War. Making its combat debut in North...

For more than thirty years Francesco Lotoro, an Italian pianist and composer has been on an odyssey to recover music written by the inmates of Adolf Hitler's concentration camps and...

' Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.' Timothy Snyder #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday...

A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world Living in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians,...

The Early Anglo-Saxon Kings takes a new look at the adventus Saxonum, the arrival of the Saxons, recorded in the earliest literary sources. As the Roman provincial structure fragmented, new...

The establishment of the Modern Greek state in the late 1820s, after four centuries of Ottoman rule, marks a crucial advance in the long history of the Greek nation. Inspired...

Sir Benjamin Hallowell, one of Admiral Horatio Nelson's famous "Band of Brothers," served a lifetime in the navy of Great Britain through the American and French Revolutions between 1775 and...

Thanks to Shakespeare, the name Macbeth has become a byword for political ambition realised by bloody violence. Fiona Watson has uncovered, buried beneath the layers of myth, a history that...

Old maps provide a rich source of information for all those interested in their local history and they are also a popular field for collectors. Dr. Hindlea s describes the...

A newly updated edition of a classic from a well-known and -respected author. The Crimean War was the most destructive conflict of Queen Victoria's reign, the outcome of which was...

Salvador Dali (1904-89) was one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the twentieth century. A painter of considerable virtuosity, he used a traditional illusionistic style to create disturbing...

At the beginning of each decade for 200 years the national census has presented a self-portrait of the British Isles. The census has surveyed Britain from the Napoleonic wars to...

In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant...

Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the...

A brilliant history of the First World War by the bestselling and prizewinning author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains. Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected...

Dr Robert Ballard's challenge for this work was to discover and photograph the ships sunk in the Battle of Midway, one of the most dramatic engagements of the Pacific War....

Dream job. Dream house. Fake fiance. A year in a gorgeous Italian castle... When Anna Roberts' life implodes, an online search leads her to an ad for the ultimate dream...

'A gorgeous love story ... with more than a touch of magical realism' Independent 'It's fabulous, we should all have copies' Simon Mayo, Scala Radio 'A glorious love story, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn Tuesday 12 May 2009, the art world turned its attention to one of the most captivating auction...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Slipcase - good with minor shelf wear. A landmark work of cultural and historical scholarship, Australians and Greeks presents a sweeping, meticulously...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Signed,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the mid-nineteenth century, thousands of German emigrants made the gruelling sea...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the turbulent mid-nineteenth century, a radical band of young British artists dared to challenge the stale conventions of the Royal Academy,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the gilded courts of Versailles to the candlelit drama of a Caravaggio canvas, the Baroque and Rococo periods represent two of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in world history have cast as long a shadow as Napoleon Bonaparte — soldier, emperor, and architect of a Europe remade by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markings,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBetween the fall of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew civilizations have cast as long a shadow over human history as ancient Greece, and Greece: History -...

Edition: reprCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Slipcase: good. Large square quarto. Heavy. In the decade between 1907 and 1917, Pablo Picasso shattered the conventions of Western art...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: One small tear at back of jacket - repaired with non-acidic tape.Three hundred years after the revocation of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadow of the Second World War's most daring and desperate campaigns, Return to Greece:...

Following in the footsteps of the painters and engravers who portrayed Florence and its dome, Giovanni Fanelli pays a homage to Brunelleschi's masterpiece with a fine collection of drawings: a...