European History

Reimagine family-friendly comfort food: this comprehensive cookbook makes daily home cooking a nourishing, easy, and anticipated part of the day. At Home Favorites provides cozy home cooks with flavorful and...

This is a landmark book, full of insight and intelligent judgement and sheer diligent research, which deals with the complexity of the Irish revolution and its aftermath. Ferriter is at...

Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when they both vied to be the world's greatest city....

The outbreak of the First World War was 'a drama never surpassed'. One hundred years later, the characters still seem larger than life: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, brooding heir to the...

The dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order Steam power transformed our world. It revolutionized work and production, but...

Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry. 'I cannot remember the last time I read a book so...

A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor J zsef Debreczeni A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first...

A wildly inventive, intimate and mischievous story collection from legendary film director Almod var A wildly inventive story collection from legendary film director Pedro Almod var The Last Dream brings...

Enjoy holidays the Scandinavian way with seasonal, family-friendly food and crafts! Whether you're a fan of whimsical modern Scandinavian style or have Scandinavian heritage yourself, you'll love this hygge handbook...

The story of the early athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars. In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European...

An exciting new telling of the life of Anne Boleyn, using new archival research to reveal the woman behind the myth, from the acclaimed historian Dr Estelle Paranque. A queen...

Some of what they say about witches is true. A witch story unlike any other, from one of the UK's most outstanding LGBT writers. She dug her mother's grave in...

NOW A MAJOR NEW TV SERIES: CAROL DRINKWATER'S SECRET PROVENCE The first in Carol Drinkwater's bestselling series set on a Provencal olive farm. 'She writes so well you can almost...

'Majestic, ambitious' Literary Review _________________________________________________________________________________________ We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity, sophistication and self-assurance, and even their insistence that...

Skulduggery, power struggles and politics. A fascinating re-examination of Anglo-Saxon England told through the secret lives of the saints. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina 'Ramirez blasts a...

A fascinating exploration of an often misunderstood period in British history This edition of Michael Wood's groundbreaking first book explores the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the...

In 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. This tremendous story of England and its people was made at the behest of the Norman...

Lake Como, 1919. The garden of Villa Marchese was once a sight to behold. Now, overgrown and unloved, the flowers that once bloomed are nothing but a reminder of the...

Within days of the D-Day landings, the Das Reich 2nd SS Panzer Division marched north through France to reinforce the front-line defenders of Hitler's Fortress Europe. Veterans of the bloodiest...

One of Inspector Maigret's strangest and most compelling cases The discovery of a dismembered body in the Canal Saint Martin leads Maigret into a tangled, baffling case involving a taciturn...

The dramatic story of the men who fought a new and terrifying kind of war amidst the carnage of the trenches in World War I: the British pioneer volunteers who...

A spectacular presentation of photographs of Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buildings captured just before their destruction - most seen here for the first time. This endlessly absorbing book that is...

Over 300 spectacular photographs of London's lost buildings from the London Metropolitan Archive in Panoramic format. Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buidings, some of them historic masterpieces, captured in location just...

'When I was at primary school, my teacher asked if any of us had heard of Charles Dickens. I was amazed she knew his name, because, until that moment, I...

His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming...

'The Anvil of War' details the German strategies and tactics employed by the commanders on the cataclysmic Russian Front in the Second World War. Monographs by two officers who served...

In 1918, the Germans launched the Spring Offensive. Aware that American troops would soon be arriving in Europe, the Germans saw this as their last chance to win the war....

Blood and Steel 3, The Wehrmacht Archive: The Ardennes Offensive, December 1944 to January 1945 is an extensive and colourful collection of translated German military documents, private letters and diaries...

Generations of readers have enjoyed the adventures of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist and narrator in Robert Louis Stevenson s Treasure Island, but little is known of the real Jim...

30 inside stories of the American Mafia, Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Camorra and 'Ndrangheta Images of life in the Mob pervade our film and TV screens, some glamorous, some horrific -...

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....

The first comprehensive study of the various assassination attempts on Hitler - and a history of the Third Reich from an illuminating new angle. Most people have heard of the...

'A beautiful, deeply affecting and powerful marriage between art and activism' - KHALED HOSSEINI, bestselling author of The Kite Runner 'These are vital conversations. Everyone should eavesdrop on them'- KAMILA...

Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and valleys of fruit orchards and olive groves, down glittering coastlines and along viaducts towering above plunging ravines there is no better...

Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to 'set Europe...

This inspiring book examines the often incredible and nearly always tragic examples of Jewish resistance in ghettos and concentration camps during the Nazis 'Final Solution'. It shows that the Warsaw...

The German Spring offensive - or Kaiserschlacht - was a period of great danger for the Allies. Both sides were exhausted after years of bitter fighting and huge losses. While...

Barcelona is a bustling, vibrant city with plenty to do and see, from a tour of the iconic Nou Camp, to a stroll down Las Ramblas, to relaxing on one...

This brand new and fully updated edition provides a comprehensive and highly visual introduction to Sardinia. Superb new photography captures the rich history, rugged landscape, local people and variety of...

Insight Pocket Guide Nice, Cannes and Monte Carlo is a concise, full-colour travel guide that combines lively text with vivid photography to highlight the very best of these three glamorous...

The Where to Go chapter details all the key sights in the capital Oslo and the other principal cities - Bergen, Stavanger and Trondheim. Each region is covered in detail,...

Now more than ever, you can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Rome. Explore ancient ruins and view Renaissance masterpieces...

From the time of the tsars to the waning days of Communist regime, Russian leaders tried to control the flow of ideas by controlling its citizens' movements. They believed strict...

Summer in the beautiful Perigord region of southern France, the Dordogne Mysteries are the perfect combination of mystery and escapism. In the little down of St Denis, Bruno is busy...

This selection of over 150 photographs provides a visual guide to the desperate air war fought over the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945. Most of these black-and-white wartime photographs...

Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There are detailed studies of campaigns...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the acclaimed author of Hamnet , The Marriage Portrait is a dazzling evocation of the Italian Renaissance in all its beauty and brutality. Winter,...