European History

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Recent research into the Duke of Wellington's armies during the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign has enhanced our understanding of the men he led, and this new biographical guide...

Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series, out now. Every relationship comes at a cost in this...

Through well-researched text, as well as drawings and colour photography, this book captures the magnificence of European cathedrals and the brilliance of the Master Builders and craftsmen who designed and...

Eighty nine original Hasidic tales which have been collected by the author from survivors of the Holocaust. These tales provide unique witness to the victim's inner experience of unspeakable suffering...

A wistful fictional love letter to old Hollywood and the films of Billy Wilder, moving from sunny Greece to a modern-day Britain, from one of our greatest British authors. A...

The most celebrated history book of autumn 2006 comes with a massive publicity campaign. Having It So Good evokes Britain emerging from the shadow of war and the privations of...

The luxury of the ancient world is legendary, but the Athenian reputation is sober because this wealthy, successful city-state spent all its money on the conspicuous consumption of ephemeral things....

This is the story of two young Welsh cavalry officers who served for much of the Napoleonic Wars with the 15th (King's) Hussars. Major Edwin Griffith and his nephew, Captain...

'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times Human and curious . . . an admirable family memoir of migration' Guardian Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, lived a life of...

Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on...

This beautifully illustrated book, a companion volume to the best-selling "En passant par la demeure" (published by Verba Volant in 2005), presents three new extraordinary residences decorated by noted French...

Sharpe and his adventures has made the 95th Foot renowned again and the discovery of an unpublished diary by an American from Charleston South Carolina who served, despite his father's...

Like the author's previous book, The British Army Against Napoleon, Charging Against Wellington draws heavily on primary sources, manuals, memoirs, and regimental histories to bring to life the officers and...

The 1st July 1916 was the blackest day in the history of the British Army when 60,000 unsuspecting men of the British 4th Army advanced into the teeth of a...

The book tells the fascinating, compelling and tragic tale of Napoleon Bonaparte from his defeat at Waterloo, through the period of his abdication in Paris to his capture by the...

The second book of Lewis Carroll's timeless Alice in Wonderland middle grade series, now with a beautiful new look, continues Alice's adventures and includes the poem "Jabberwocky!" Alice's second trip...

The ship was almost instantly in flames . . . Some jumped overboard immediately, and all was in indescribable confusion. The masts began to fall one after another, and it...

Cambrai Campaign 1917 is an account of the British Expeditionary Force s battles in November and December of 1917. It starts with the plan to carry out a tank raid...

He became king before his first birthday, inheriting a vast empire from his military hero father; she was the daughter of a king without power, who made an unexpected marriage...

At the beginning of the Second World War, medical experts predicted epidemics of physical and mental illness on the home front. Rationing would decimate the nation's health, they warned; drugs,...

These are the diaries of Gerald Achilles Burgoyne, wrote from the trenches just south of Ypres while he was with the Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War. The author's...

This book explores the liturgical experience of emotions in Byzantium through the hymns of Romanos the Melodist, Andrew of Crete and Kassia. It reimagines the performance of their hymns during...

In this engaging study Jean Dangler examines the way that ideas of difference were forged in four types of medieval Iberian discourse: muwashshah/jarcha poems from al-Andalus, Andalusi "cutting poems," medical...

From the time of the Crimean War through the fall of the Tsar, the question of what to do about the Russian empire's large Muslim population was a highly contested...

Partly autobiographical, this is the third title in Judith Kerr's internationally acclaimed trilogy of books following the life of Anna through war-torn Germany, to London during the Blitz and her...

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After the Napoleonic War British artists red iscovered Italy. The heat of the South lured chilly Northene rs to discover passion amongst its pagan idylls, an allure w hich was...

The Walking the Western Front series started in 2012 with the release of two films on the Ypres Salient. Directed by acclaimed film maker Ed Skelding with guest historian Nigel...

London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. It charts the experiences of hundreds of...

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth...

The huge stone circles built in the British Isles and northwest France from 6,500 to 3,500 years ago are among civilization's strangest monuments. Ignored or plundered for centuries, they have...

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Just as Carla's Paris Tango unveiled the hidden delights of the world's most stylish city. Italian Joy is an insider's tribute to a country of grand passion and true beauty....

An introduction to the causes and consequences of the Korean War, this history seeks to challenge presumptions about Korea favoured by American politicians and network news pundits. Through a judicious...

Circassia was a small independent nation on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea. For no reason other than ethnic hatred, over the course of hundreds of raids the Russians...

In this text, Dorothy Rowe demonstrates how the sexualized image of Berlin in Weimar Germany arose at the same time as radical social changes in the history and position of...

The expansion of the Paris sewer system during the Second Empire and Third Republic was both a technological and political triumph. The sewers themselves were an important cultural phenomenon, and...

An illuminating account of the war in Ukraine - its historical roots, its course, its possible outcomes - from the bestselling, award-winning author of Chernobyl On 24 February 2022, Russia...

Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally seen in geopolitical or ideological terms--and thereby offers a new interpretation of twentieth century communism's...

Henry Miller's landmark travel book, ready to be stuffed into any backpack In 1939 Miller left Paris and headed out with his friend Lawrence Durrell to explore the Grecian countryside,...

The most famous and influential work of English fantasy ever published, reimagined for a new generation of readers by John Matthews, one of the world's leading Arthurian experts, and illustrated...

Forty years after the 1966 floods, a conference recalls that tragic event, offering the opportunity to debate the current decline of the city of Venice and to propose solutions to...

One lone detective faces down a twisted medieval web of spies and intrigue.October, 1338. A great war has begun, one that will define Europe for a century. King's Messenger Simon...

Three friends test the limits of love, life and science in this mesmerising new novel from the author of the Patrick Melrose series. 'I was gripped by it' IAN McEWAN...

Lavishly illustrated and rich with historical information, Jewish Itineraries is an indispensable guide to Jewish monuments and treasures in Venice and its environs. Epic and lyrical fragments of an unspoken...

A wonderfully concise and readable, yet comprehensive, history of the Mediterranean Sea, the perfect companion for any visitor -- or indeed, anyone compelled to stay at home. 'The grand object...

Story of Danny Butler, a Catholic from Belfast, who unsuccessfully sought political asylum in New Zealand.