European History

What does the delicate beauty of the Wilton Diptych reveal about medieval Britain? How do Francis Bacon s lurid canvases reflect the bloody upheavals of the twentieth century? Are there...

It's easy to reduce France to the sum of its parts: weekend breaks amid the culture of Paris or summer holidays basking in the sunshine of the south; accounts of...

The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943) As the silver thread woven through Britain's centuries, the Thames is the subject of this significant biography. Following its course, geologically...

"Born to Rule" tells the fascinating stories of five royal granddaughters of Queen Victoria: Alexandra, whose faith in Rasputin and tragic end have become the stuff of legend; Marie, the...

Henry VIII always had problems with women. Born on 28 June 1491, he lived in the shadow of his elder brother Arthur and his dour and autocratic father, Henry VII....

The book titled The Life and Times of Charles I by the author D.R. Watson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Making use of every possible contemporary source-diaries, memoirs, advice books,government papers, almanacs, even the register of Patents - Liza Picard presentsan entralling picture of how life in London was really...

Since the 1960s, the Italian altarpiece has attracted much scholarly attention, bringing liturgical, social and technical considerations to bear on the subject. The eight contributors to this book provide a...

World War II surpassed all previous wars in the sheer cost of many millions of lives, most of them civilian. It left a world reeling from physical destruction on a...

One of the greatest historical records of fourteenth-century England and France The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the...

1916. The Somme. With over a million casualties, it was the most brutal battle fo the First World War. It is a clash that even now, over 90 years later,...

The new sun-drenched summer read from the bestselling author and TV presenter 'Soak up the glamour' PRIMA You're invited to the most glamorous wedding of the year... The guests are...

'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal...

*Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize* A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the...

London is special. For centuries, it has been amongst the greatest cities of the world. But a city is nothing without its people. This sparkling new history of London, told...

From the author of `Britain BC', `Britain AD' and `Britain in the Middle Ages' comes the fourth and final part in a critically acclaimed series on Britain's hidden past It...

A thrilling account of treachery, loyalty and martyrdom in Elizabethan England from an exceptional new writer. As darkness fell on the evening of Friday, 28 October 1588, just weeks after...

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

Design Directory takes a fresh new look at design concepts originating in a specific country, encompassing everything from shoe designers to hi-fi systems, from cutlery to cameras, from lights to...

What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate...

'Hutchinson brilliantly conveys the atmosphere of terror...a gripping narrative' DAILY MAIL ' A brilliantly readable account of Henry's last years' SUNDAY TIMES ' Vivid and shocking' BOOKSELLER The Tudors retained...

Discover the stories of the brave men and women who worked, trained and fought across the UK, from Bletchley Park in southern England all the way to Arisaig in northern...

Every child has heard of Guy Fawkes and will most likely have watched a 'guy' being burnt on a bonfire and fireworks lighting up the night sky on Bonfire Night....

Morgan reveals how the Allies recruited agents in Europe and ran their operations in enemy-controlled territory. But as well as the espionage story, she also tells the personal stories of...

The book titled Battles of the English Civil War by the author Austin Woolrych. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In 1406 a young Venetian nobleman, Marin Contarini, married into another ancient patrician clan. His wife's family owned an old palace on the Grand Canal. Contarini demolished the old palace...

A study of Renaissance Italy and the north, focusing on crosscurrents in the time of Durer, Bellini and Titian. It contains essays on subjects such as the invention of oil...

The greatest 'unsolved mystery' of the American Southwest relates to the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the 11th century converged on Chaco Canyon (now New Mexico) and built a...

Colditz was the last step for prisoners of war in World War II. An impregnable fortress, it was to Colditz that the Germans sent all those prisoners who persisted in...

The extraordinary true story of the triumph of love over repression in Stalin's Russia Almost everything we know about the terrible experience of the Gulag has been based on survivor...

A BBC History magazine, Esquire, Historia magazine and Waterstones History Book of the Year 'James comes alive in full flamboyance ... Russell expertly weaves the bedchamber gossip into the tapestry...

The epic conclusion to Camilla Lackberg and Henrik Fexeus' pulse-racing Swedish crime thriller trilogy 'Hello Niklas Sockenberg. We hope you have been satisfied with our services during this time, which...

It offers information on the Rome of the Popes; the poet Shelley, in happiness and tragedy; Sheridan's unravelling of the curious story of Mussolini's son-in-law and the British ambassador; the...

The hilarious story of one man's mishap-ridden attempt to travel the entire length of the Seine by boat When Charles shows his friends the rowing boat he has spent the...

Kara Sullivan is definitely not avoiding her deadline. After all, it's the week of her best friend's wedding and she's the maid of honour, so she's got lots of responsibilities....

A richly illustrated book that breaks new ground in exploring the relationship between science and power at the French court of Versailles - published to accompany the exhibition at London's...

When people think of culture in the 1970s they usually conjure up a confetti of kitsch, a jumble of disposable trash in which pet rocks vie for space with the...

A smartly guided romp, entertaining and enlightening, through Europe 's most charismatic and enigmatic city It isn't Europe's most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive...

A dazzling account of London at its height when it was the largest, richest and most rapidly changing city on earth. There is no period in London's history in which...

Sir Walter Raleigh is well-know as an explorer, pirate, lover, poet, courtier, philosopher and political prisoner, a man of timeless fascination. An essential part of the nation's history he embodies...

The problem with the history of 20th-century Europe, asserts the author, is that everyone thinks they know it. The great stories of the century - the two world wars, the...

'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' - Hilary Mantel Born in obscurity in Putney, Thomas Cromwell became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey. After Wolsey's fall,...

As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the...

From the Wall Street Journal 's award-winning international investigations team comes a spellbinding account of a spy war between the U.S. and Russia that transformed into a ruthless game of...

From the international bestselling author and notable journalist Aldo Cazzullo comes a brilliantly researched and extremely accessible journey through the history and legacy of the Roman Empire. "The only way...

A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year; A Spectator Best Book of the Year It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn't...

Vivacious, confident and striking, young Australian Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Lord Loughborough, in Egypt during the First World War. Arriving in London as a young married woman, she...