European History

Author: Pavel ŠtechaBinding: HardbackPublished: Orbis Pictus, 1990Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Book is in CZECH - no English text. Dust jacket has minor general wear marks.A...

Author: C. C. DysonBinding: HardbackPublished: John Long, Limited, 1910Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Purple cloth with minor...

Author: Georgy ButikovBinding: HardbackPublished: Aurora Art Publishers, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.This architectural history details the...

Author: Amy KellyBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1978Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical biography chronicles the extraordinary life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of the most powerful...

Author: Gordon Brook-ShepherdBinding: HardbackPublished: Little, Brown and Company., 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsGordon Brook-Shepherd's "November 1918" is a compelling work of historical non-fiction...

Author: Isaac Bashevis SingerBinding: HardbackPublished: H. Wolff., 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Discolouration on pages edge due to foxing, minor...

Author: Georges DubyBinding: HardbackPublished: University of California Press., 1990Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor sun damage to spine and slight foxing to fore-edge.Georges...

Author: David KnowlesBinding: HardbackPublished: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis academic history presents a rigorous...

Author: Mabel BrookesBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan of Australia, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight tears in dust jacketMabel Brookes' "Riders of Time" is a captivating...

Author: Richard LambBinding: HardbackPublished: Buchan & Enright, Publishers, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis historical analysis, "Montgomery In Europe 1943-45: Success Or Failure?" by Richard Lamb, meticulously examines...

Author: Mildred SavageBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, 1959Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Mildred Savage's...

Author: F.C. RoeBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Stained endpapers. This academic text, "Modern France" by F.C. Roe, offers a comprehensive historical...

Instagram is more popular than ever before. Over 80 million new photos are posted daily on this social networking site. How to pick the very best of them? We have...

Avery is a little curious child who simply loves history and... can travel in it! Every title is an adventure in history bringing together fiction and non-fiction: follow the "fictional"...

On the night of 9-10 July 1943, an Allied armada launched the invasion of Sicily, a larger operation than the Normandy landings the following year. Over the next thirty-eight days,...

During the Second World War Fritz Kolbe worked as a Foreign Ministry official in Germany. He hated the Nazi regime and in an attempt to aid its demise he offered...

The story of Jennie, Clara and Leonie Jerome is one of glamour, money and love in equal measure. Their father Leonard was a profligate New York stockbroker whose beautiful wife...

Originally published in 1970 and out of print for nearly thirty years, this book has already earned its place as a classic of submarine history by an author with an...

This is the first book in any language to offer a comprehensive analysis of the political culture of the Russian Revolution. Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii examine the diverse ways...

On the evening of Monday, 5th June 1944, the people of Britain went to bed with a sense of great events impending. They knew that any day now would come...

With an elegant pink rose-foil hardcover, Rose Cocktails is an evocative collection of 60+ rose cocktail recipes perfect for any occasion all year round! It's always rose season! And this...

Published in Antwerp in 1570, the THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM did something no previous book had done: here was the world in all its component parts, the chance to see our...

Five hundred years ago the legendary Renaissance genius, Michelangelo (1475-1564), put the first brushstroke to his most ambitious creation. As he started work on his vast fresco cycle for the...

"The book of the moment" Sunday Times A Guardian Book of the Year "Highly entertaining . . . subtle and complex" Guardian "Despentes at her very best" New European "Full...

In Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots , Jade Scott, a historian and expert on Mary's correspondence, draws on hundreds of her encrypted letters to paint...

Features more than four hundred American, Allied, and German photographs that present the dramatic events of the invasion from both sides.

This title discusses women's artistic productions within established historical and geographical frameworks, also provides a survey of women professionally active as painters, engravers and sculptors in 16th and 17th century...

'A n outstanding revisionist portrait of an age' Telegraph 'Targoff tells their stories with vim and vigour' i Paper '[A] fascinating excavation of four intellectual powerhouse women' Tina Brown, New...

'Chinese' or 'Any other Asian'. The boxes that people of vastly varied East and South East Asian heritage have to tick when declaring their ethnicity on many forms in the...

Author: Zofia KrukBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson London, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Inscription to previous owner on front end-page and minor...

Author: Orhan PamukBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber, 2022Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedNobel laureate Orhan Pamuk presents "Nights of Plague," a sweeping work of historical fiction set in 1901 on the fictional...

Author: K. J. M. SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 2002Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book presents a biographical account of James Fitzjames Stephen. It examines his intellectual contributions and...

'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times 'Beautifully written and elegiac . . . a masterpiece' Damien Lewis, Sunday Times bestselling author Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women...

In the fall of 1944, Fey von Hassell, the 24-year-old wife of Italian Detalmo Pirzio-Biroli, was seized by the SS at her villa at Brazza near Venice and shuttled by...

Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India--a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light In 1841, twenty-year-old...

A history of the Enlightenment retraces the innovations in representative government, industrialization, religious tolerance, and individualism that made the eighteenth century so important in the history of England, and the...

The Restoration was a decade of experimentation: from the founding of the Royal Society for investigating the sciences to the startling role of credit and risk; from the shocking licentiousness...

WINNER OF THE 2021 NDR BOOK PRIZE IN GERMANY 'A must-read' Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History at Oriel College, OxfordFishing quotas on Lake Constance. Common lands in the UK....

In Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots , Jade Scott, a historian and expert on Mary's correspondence, draws on hundreds of her encrypted letters to paint...

'Brilliantly written ... evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland, author of Pax and co-host of The Rest is History'A wondrous, gorgeously-written book' Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of...

From a renowned scholar and translator, the definitive translation of Aesop's Fables Aesop's fables are among the most familiar and best-loved stories in the world. Tales like "The Tortoise and...

FOR FANS OF THE BBC SERIES SAS ROGUE HEROES , THIS IS THE REAL STORY OF BLAIR 'PADDY' MAYNE Summer 1944: the SAS were charged with the most crucial D-Day...

1338: England has declared war on France, and Jeanette of Kent , cousin to King Edward III, says goodbye to her family and travels overseas with the royal court for...

'A stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland, The Daily Telegraph , Five stars 'Terrifying' Simon Schama Ponar, Lithuania. 1944. The Nazis have enslaved Jewish men to exhume...