European History

Ireland played the central role in maintaining European culture when the dark ages settled on Europe in the fifth century: as Rome was sacked by Visigoths and its empire collapsed,...

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...

A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. 'This really is an impressive...

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...

In The Story of Scandinavia , political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture....

Przemysl, Poland, 1939. Two-year-old Renata is woken by her Mamusia in the middle of the night and bundled into the basement. The peacock quilt she is wrapped in reminds her...

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...

Cult Francophone travel writing by an author who combines the talents of Chatwin and Kerouac. This is the story of a road journey from Serbia to Afghanistan in the 50s...

This work focuses on English cultural attitudes toward Jews during what is known as the "longer" 18th century, from roughly 1660 to 1830. Frank Felsenstein describes the persistence through the...

The Third Crusade of Richard the Lionheart is well known but the build-up to it less so. The years that led up to the Battle of Hattin in 1187 is...

'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...

Inspired by the swashbuckling travelogues of Victorian diplomat Lord Dufferin, frail surburbanite Tim Moore sets out to prove his physical and spiritual worth before his sceptical Nordic in-laws by retracing...

Summer 1312. The brutal murder of King Edward II's favourite, Peter Gaveston, unleashes a horde of demons . . . Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the Secret Seal, hastens to...

Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing in its...

'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...

Most British travel writers head south for a destination that is hot, exotic, dangerous or all three. Harry Pearson chose to head in the opposite direction for a country which...

*PLUTARCH AWARD FOR THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE* ' SUBLIME ' A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ' STUNNINGLY GOOD ' THE...

In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of the ancient imperial city. But another presence has dominated Rome for...

Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the hands of a family - a dynasty;...

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...

Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British...

How did upstart outsiders forge vast new empires in early modern Asia, laying the foundations for today's modern mega-states of India and China? In How the East Was Won, Andrew...

This full story of German espionage in World War II, illustrated with 150 black-and-white photographs, explores the rivalry between Nazi intelligence services. Includes Nazi counter-intelligence operations and examines the popular...

This is popular WW2 history at its heart-stopping best, fuelled by an incredible, previously untold story of the Jewish refugees who fought in Britain's most secretive special-forces unit THE UNTOLD...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2023 This extraordinarily affecting debut novel captures life inside the Siege of Sarajevo. Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse...

From New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer comes an exuberant YA historical coming-of-age novel about a rising star French pianist, navigating his way into high society as he explores...

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...

The course of true love never did sail smooth... Things on this yacht are about to get rocky... When feisty chef Sofia and strait-laced first officer Jack are thrown together...

Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these...

By the time of the Calvinist Reformation, the cities of Holland had established a very long tradition of social provision for the poor in the civic community. Calvinists however intended...

(Edition revised in 2023) The MICHELIN Calvados, Manche local map, scale 1/150,000 is the ideal companion to fully explore the coastal part of Normandy and provides star-rated Michelin tourist itineraries...

(Edition updated in 2023) MICHELIN zoom map Costa Daurada is the ideal travel companion to fully explore the Spanish Gold Coast, thanks to its easy-to-use format and its scale of...

(Edition updated in 2017) MICHELIN zoom map Zoom Barcelona & Costa Brava is the ideal travel companion to fully explore this tourist destination thanks to its easy-to-use format and its...

Michelin s local map series with its high level of road detail is ideal for exploring the villages, towns and back roads of France. Bike paths and nature trails are...

Michelin s local map series with its high level of road detail is ideal for exploring the villages, towns and back roads of France. Bike paths and nature trails are...

Michelin s local map series with its high level of road detail is ideal for exploring the villages, towns and back roads of France. Bike paths and nature trails are...

Michelin s local map series with its high level of road detail is ideal for exploring the villages, towns and back roads of France. Bike paths and nature trails are...

Michelin s local map series with its high level of road detail is ideal for exploring the villages, towns and back roads of France. Bike paths and nature trails are...

(Edition updated in 2023) MICHELIN zoom map Normandy Coast is the ideal travel companion to fully explore this French destination, thanks to its easy-to-use format and its scale of 1/150,000....

(Edition updated in 2020) MICHELIN zoom map French Riviera is the ideal travel companion to fully explore this destination thanks to its easy-to-use format and its scale of 1/100,000. This...

(Edition updated in 2019) The MICHELIN zoom map Bordeaux & surrounding areas is the ideal travel companion to fully explore this French tourist destination thanks to its easy-to-use format and...

(Edition updated in 2023) The MICHELIN Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne local map, scale 1 / 150 000 is the ideal companion to fully explore France';s Tarn Gorges area and provides star-rated Michelin...