European History

The Templars' entire story, covering the Crusades and the Holy Grail, right up to the bestsellers and blockbusters. Formed in the twelfth century to guard pilgrims on the road in...

A glorious illustrated history of sixteen of the world's greatest cathedrals, interwoven with the extraordinary stories of the people who built them. 'An impeccable guide to the golden age of...

When Robert Francis Prevost OSA appeared on the loggia of St. Peter's on 8th May 2025, he surprised the world. The first North American pope is a quiet man few...

A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in...

Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many...

Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many...

The problem-solving capacity, and hence the democratic legitimacy, of national governments is being weakened by the dual processes of legal and economic integration in Europe; and the loss is not...

The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a...

Europe is the smallest of the world's continents, yet its culture and languages have come to dominate the world we know today. The History Atlas of Europe explores the extraordinary...

Otto Dov Kulka's Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death, translated by Ralph Mandel, is a memoir of astounding literary and emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by...

A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the...

Robert Solomon here brings together a collection of his published articles, focusing on key issues in the writings of major continental philosophers, including Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Camus.

Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917, the worst year of the...

The book titled The Good Old Days by the author Klee. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Arms and Armour of the Medieval Knight by the author David Edge. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled '45: Final Drive from the Rhine to the Baltic by the author Charles Whiting. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The book titled Concise History of Western Architecture by the author Robert Furneaux Jordan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Imperial War Museum Book of Victory in Europe by the author Julian Thompson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The definitive biography of one of the darkest times in modern history; the twelve years when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi army ruled over Germany. This is an eyewitness account...

The discovery of minerals beneath our feet has transformed our species. Ochre first prompted humans to express themselves in art; tin and copper helped instigate the Bronze Age and later...

The book titled The Gardens of Europe by the author Penelope Hobhouse. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Aimed at the general reader, enthusiasts and wargamers. Sharpe and Patrick O'Brian have ensured that the period has never been more popular. Authoritative and complete: 200,000 words and 1000 separate...

The masterpiece of Britain's leading Renaissance scholar, winner of the Time-Life Silver Pen Award and The Royal Society of Literature Award, beautifully reissued in Harper Perennial. The Civilisation of Europe...

'I need to ride now, to explore, to uncover more life; to reach strangers, to feel danger and to learn; to share this old, slow way, with man's patient, most...

The book titled Modern Painting & the Northern Romant by the author Robert Rosenblum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Originally published in 1962, J. Christopher Herold's Bonaparte in Egypt is the best modern account of this extraordinary campaign. In a detailed study, elegantly written, Herold covers all aspects of...

In the 19th and early 20th century, painters and photographers from many countries travelled for inspiration to the Islamic worlds of Egypt, Turkey, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria and Palestine. Published...

Can European thought be dislodged from the center of the practice of history in a non-European place? What problems arise when we translate cultural practices into the categories of social...

The book titled Patton's Third Army at War by the author George Forty. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Despite the fact that its capital city and over one third of its territory was within the continent of Europe, the Ottoman Empire has consistently been regarded as a place...

Among German crimes of the Second World War, the Nazi massacre of 642 men, women, and children at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is one of the most notorious. On...

The eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy....

The book titled Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer by the author Richard Holmes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Masterly.' - Daily Mail 'Stunning.' - History Today 'Magnificent.' - Literary Review Napoleon's life reached its most extraordinary stage between 1805 and 1810. At war with Britain, Russia, and Austria,...

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and artist Juanita Londono, this lyrical celebration of the first day of school across every continent explores what going back to...

Explore Europe's most thrilling cycling routes with the latest installment in the Epic series from Lonely Planet. From dreamy getaways on sun-dappled Mediterranean Islands to challenging alpine crossings, bike enthusiasts...

The book titled The Allied Forces in Italy 1943-45 by the author Guido Rosignoli. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A profound, powerful and moving collection of 100 letters from around the world responding to the climate crisis, introduced by Emma Thompson and lovingly illustrated by CILIP award winner Jackie...

The book titled Breaking the Silence: Secret Mission of Eduard Schulte, Who Brought by the author Walter Laqueur. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Scientists and physicians are respected in civilized societies for the objectivity, rigour and purity of scientific thinking. Yet fifty years ago human geneticists played a crucial role in the atrocities...

Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly...

The power and prestige of music in the modern world has given its practitioners extraordinary wealth and moral authority. This is taken for granted now and yet for much of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 "As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel" ( The Economist ), the incredible true story--part...

A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the...

A Nazi scheme to capture the Pope, an IRA plan to invade Northern Ireland, a British plan to attack the Soviet Union after the defeat of Hitler or a Japanese...