European History

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...

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...

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...

Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well The advertising industry tells us the answer lies in the vineyards and olive groves of Tuscany...

An extraordinary story of one woman's attempt to survive the horrors of Vichy France. A bitter, beautiful and important book Robert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENT The French sensation, now in English...

Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Born five years and seven thousand miles apart, they became embodiments of the nations they led....

An unforgettable story about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles... San Francisco, 1906. In...

We - the users turned creators and distributors of content - are TIME's Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge's Advertising Agency of the Year 2007. We form a new...

Late on the afternoon of Sunday, August 20 1911, three men strolled through the Louvre. Disguising themselves as museum staff they hid until nightfall. Sixteen hours later the most famous...

Brave the terrors of the deep and embark on a Viking voyage: a game to play with your friends. The Vikings travelled long distances in their fast ships, but their...

From the internationally bestselling author of Quicksand , a brilliant, gut-wrenching story of childhood friends torn apart by gang violence and class differences. Dogge is from affluent Roennviken in Stockholm....

The inside story of a thoroughly modern monarch, as told by the bestselling and acclaimed biographer, Robert Hardman ________ The bestselling and acclaimed biography of Queen Elizabeth II. With new...

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...

'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...

War destroyed their worlds, now two young girls and their remarkable horses are fighting once more - this time to win. When twelve-year-old Mira stumbles across a white stallion in...

From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles , The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. There...

*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...

The fabled location for a hoard of looted wartime gold is revealed to a band of opportunist treasure-seekers, whose treasure hunt soon becomes a very dangerous mission... When the Allies...

How to cook like a king in France? With the "Mediterranean Specialties" series, it's no problem! In eight individual volumes - France, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Turkey, Greece, Tunisia and Islands...

This is the first account of Giro d''Italia p ublished in English which includes maps and illustrations of the legendary 1949 Tour of Italy. '

The second a child disappears, the clock starts ticking. When the son of a controversial local politician goes missing at election time, Detective Elisenda Domenech is put on the case....

The dire economic situation we find ourselves in is not a result of economic forces alone, but of the policies pursued, and not pursued, by world leaders. In this collection...

This book recounts for the first time the tragic loss of more than 1,000 American soldiers in 1943 when their troopship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean.

As the United Kingdom left the European Union, during a period of international and domestic turmoil, London found itself at a turning point. This critical moment presents an opportunity to...

Powerful witchcraft. A hunt for sunken treasure. Forbidden love on the high seas. Beware the Amalfi Curse... 'Sarah Penner transported me to the sea-swept cliffs of Positano and introduced me...

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,...

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...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year * Drawing on previously classified CIA documents and on interviews with firsthand participants, The Billion Dollar Spy is a...

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...

November 19, 1479: a dynastic alliance, two noble scions, a regal wedding, short-lived and with an unhappy ending. These pages reconstruct the story of the magnificent bas relief in the...

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...

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...

As president first of Czechoslovakia and then of the nascent Czech Republic, Havel led central Europe out of communism and into the twenty-first century before stepping down in February 2003....