European History

Author: Ilse KoehnBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis poignant memoir, "Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood In Nazi Germany," chronicles Ilse Koehn's extraordinary experiences growing...

Author: Charles MccorquodaleBinding: HardbackPublished: Studio Editions, 1994Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive art history text presents a detailed examination of European painting during the Renaissance, spanning the pivotal...

Author: Lady HerbertBinding: HardbackPublished: M. H. Gill And Son, 1885Condition:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Bumping on spine...

Author: Prince Constantine Of BavariaBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld And Nicholson, 1954Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Yellowing on both end papers.This compelling...

Author: Pierre Van PaassenBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus and Robertson Ltd, 1941Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn this compelling memoir, Pierre Van Paassen...

Author: James Graham-CampbellBinding: HardbackPublished: Ticknor & Fields, New Haven, 1980Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis comprehensive academic text, "The Viking World" by James Graham-Campbell, presents an authoritative overview...

Author: Susan Mary AlsopBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsSusan Mary Alsop's "The Congress Dances; Vienna 1814-1815" is a captivating work...

Author: Aidan CrawleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis biography chronicles the life and political career of Charles de Gaulle,...

Author: Giancarlo GasponiBinding: HardbackPublished: Trento : Editoria, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Slipcase: Good. In this captivating travelogue, "Rome: A Special Journey," Giancarlo Gasponi guides readers through...

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: Sir Denis BroganBinding: PaperbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Spine and cover is scratched and...

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: Salvador De MadariagaBinding: HardbackPublished: Frederick A. Praeger, 1958Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks:...

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: 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...

In this wide-ranging study of the Napoleonic regime, Digby Smith tracks Napoleon's rise to power, his stewardship of France from 1804 15, and his exile. He highlights his military mistakes,...

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,...

After the June 1944 D-Day landings Donitz withdrew his U-boat wolf-packs from the Atlantic convoy war and sent them into coastal waters, where they could harass the massive shipping movements...

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...

Read the international sensation already translated into 10 languages! Unearthing the network that hid the 'Angel of Death', the infamous Nazi doctor who escaped justice for more than three decades....

On paths, roads, seas, in the air, and in space there has never been so much human movement. In contrast we think of the past as static, 'frozen in time'....

The first half of the 20th century saw the birth of the airplane and its development as an instrument of war and commerce. Within five decades, contraptions barely able to...

Fourteen papers explore a variety of inter-disciplinary approaches to understanding the Viking past, both in Scandinavia and in the Viking diaspora. Contributions employ both traditional inter- or multi-disciplinarian perspectives such...

Charting 400 years of history, this is the astonishing true story of the Anne Frank House, beautifully illustrated by Britta Teckentrup. In the middle of Amsterdam, stands a tall, narrow...

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...

For most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the British ruled over a colossal empire that stretched from one end of the map to the other. One cannot contemplate modern...

This text gives an overview of a single day in World War II - 25th October 1944, as it was seen on all fronts. Through a succession of vignettes, showing...

Following on from the success of author Ann Rickard's two books, Not Another Book About Italy, and Not Another Greek Salad, Ann knew one thing was certain, her readers wanted...

How Many Lies Can She Get Away With? A gripping domestic thriller of secrets, lies, extramarital affairs and murder. "A wonderful storyteller" Chris Whitaker Is it worse to lie to...

'Wars are not won by evacuations' 'We can take it!' 'Westward look, the land is bright' This collection of speeches from one of the great modern orators includes Churchill's famous...

Following the success of J'aime Paris and J'aime New York , Alain Duccasse's comprehensive collection of his favourite eating haunts in these capital cities, comes a luxuriously produced compact city...

Gallipoli was a First World War tragedy, a side show that had ambitious hopes to end the war early. Despite the immense gallantry displayed by those fighting, from the beginning,...

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...

As the motorist speeds past Arras on the motorway south to Paris, a look to the east should bring into view the hilltop village of Monchy le Preux. This farming...

A biography of the 18th century revolutionary Edward Fitzgerald, the son of Emily Lennox, one of the sisters featured in ARISTOCRATS. The book naturally follows on from ARISTOCRATS and is...

This book is an updated and revised edition of a classic introduction to one of the key periods in modern European history. Olwen Hufton not only illuminates the complex and...

Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and...

It's Eloise's sixtieth birthday-though she's still not a day over six. Celebrate by joining Eloise on a Parisian adventure in this storybook that now comes with a CD narrated by...

The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction--its rules, its pleasures, its secrets France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its...

Hereditary rule once dominated European politics. A few families, believing in divine rule, controlled the destinies of millions before they were ousted. This book takes an irreverent look at the...

For decades readers and critics have acclaimed Yves Bonnefoy as France's greatest living poet. His most recent book of verse, The Curved Planks , crowns an oeuvre that has won...