European History

Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them,...

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...

The million-copy bestselling phenomenon, Fredrik Backman's heartwarming debut is a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step. Perfect for...

Combining intellectual history, biography and the analysis of particular institutions, GERMANY TURNS EASTWARDS shows the relations between the Nazi regime and contemporary scholarly experts on eastern Europe, which eventually put...

What was it like, making history? What sense did these individuals have of what they were doing, either at the time or later? Did they feel they were caught up...

A very enjoyable, nicely illustrated book on one of royalty's most captivating personalities: Mary, Queen of Scots. Her rivalry with Queen Elizabeth I, over Mary's claim to the throne of...

In this queer retelling of the classic novel and third book in Tirzah Price's Jane Austen Murder Mystery series, Mansfield Park is the center of a deadly accident (or is...

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

The myth of the Universal Museum, a place where cultures and the arts would be documented and preserved for future generations, inspired by the tradition of the Museum and the...

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...

1,500 kilometers.500,000 years of history.One crazy family. Three hundred thousand people complete the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage every year, but not many of them attempt both the French and Spanish...

One April night, people living near Chernobyl see a great flash in the sky...Everyone is told to move out of the forbidden zone around the destroyed nuclear reactor, but two...

Narrated with the heartbreaking innocence of a thirteen-year-old girl and the wisdom of a woman of eighty-two, Gazing at the Stars is a record of survival in the face of...

The 1992 High Court's Mabo decision has provoked much controversy in contemporary Australia. As the ruling has increasingly become the subject of intense debate throughout the community, the implications of...

Welcome to our village. Meet Elpida, who cures bad backs with a raw egg and spells.Ajax the death-dealing butcher.Saint John the goat-headed saint . . . beautiful Eleni yearning for...

'With a glint in his eye, Rob turns and asks me if I want to 'touch his furry puma'. we are only hours into the trip and things have already...

The stark, vast beauty of the remote Arctic Europe landscape has been the focus of human exploration for thousands of years. In this striking blend of travel writing, history and...

Out of the ruins and savagery of Second World War, the figure of Benito Mussolini looms large as one of the most influential during the first half of the twentieth...

Dear Joan comprises a unique series of letters between a young airman, Tony Ross, and Joan Charles, a girl he met briefly in England before he was posted to the...

Praise for the author: 'Gibson's well written and well-documented account of James and the bishops will surely become the new standard authority on these "implausible revolutionaries" for many decades.' Barbara...

In April 1945 Churchill said to Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 'There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without...

Scotland is a fascinating country with a dark and bloody past - filled with characters who thought nothing of using torture, murder and treachery to get what they wanted. Many...

"Vagabond is classic travel writing at its finest... Mark takes you on a journey through the heart of Spain which is rich in detail and bursting with life." - Sir...

No city on earth has preserved its past as has Rome. Visitors stand on bridges that were crossed by Julius Caesar and Cicero, walk around temples visited by Roman emperors,...

'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, fled the Russian threat in Ukraine for Vienna in 1914. Blinded in the First World War, he...

'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...

The British Army was not highly regarded before World War I; the Kaiser was said to have called it "contemptible"; the French regarded it as a colonial police force with...

Stackpole is pleased to introduce the final two installments in the Who's Who in British History series. Chronologically arranged and extensively indexed, these eight volumes are an indispensable guide to...

Pisciculture -- the process of raising fish -- held a lasting fascination for the people of ancient Rome. Whether bred for household consumption, cultivated for sale at market, or simply...

A great deal of Holocaust survival stories revolve around disguise--many Jews were forced into impersonation by the desperateness of their plight. Imagine if a person, by the accident of birth,...

Alan Johnson's moving sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller, This Boy The award-winning autobiography from the British politician and author of the Sunday Times bestseller, This Boy. In July 1969,...

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...

'Warm, romantic and funny' Katie Fforde Jo Thomas's new novel invites you to a special cherry orchard in Spain, where sunshine, romance and family secrets are the order of the...

Vito Ciancimino - Don Vito da Corleone - spent forty years in the grip of death, mafia, politics, business deals and the secret service. Don Vito recounts years of previously...

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...

** Eastern Eye 's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2023 ** ** Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2024** The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality and...

Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the...

How did people make sense of the end of one era and the start of another? The Year 1000 plunges readers into the past in colorful detail and provides them...

One of the great derisive monuments to the imbecilities of the tourist experience, Mark Twain's (1835-1910) account of his tour with a group of fellow Americans around the sights of...