European History

A comprehensive biography of the Treatise of the Three Impostors , a controversial nonexistent medieval book. Like a lot of good stories, this one begins with a rumor: in 1239,...

The memoirs of Tony Blair - a worldwide publishing sensation In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen...

Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics - often hailed as the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis poignant narrative, Neither King Nor Saint: A Man...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFall Of The Roman Republic: Six Lives By Plutarch presents a compelling collection of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageRob Mundle's Bligh: Master Mariner presents a compelling biographical account of William Bligh, a...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageD. M. Field's Leonardo Da Vinci chronicles the extraordinary life and unparalleled achievements of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIgnacio Vidal-Folch's Barcelona: The Secret Museum uncovers the hidden narratives and overlooked treasures of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFabrizio Mancinelli's The Catacombs Of Rome And The Origins Of Christianity presents a compelling...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Protective covering (removable), light foxing throughout front prelims, light tanning page edgesThis scholarly work chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical account, Norse In The South: The Hansen Berg Family Høvding...

In The Paris Gourmet , Trish Deseine serves up a definitive guide to French cuisine, divulging her secrets on all aspects of Gallic food and entertaining. Her extensive black book...

Why is Italy still riven with internal conflict? And why does one man - Silvio Berlusconi - appear to own everything from Padre Nostro to Cosa Nostra? Tobias Jones set...

As one of the first investigative journalists to publicly question Berlusconi's fitness for government, Economist writer David Lane sparked an uproar in Italy. Now, after years of research and using...

In the summer of 1957, rebelling against her family and anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at...

Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is:...

Author: J. S. LingsmaBinding: PaperbackPublisher: Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Rotterdam/The Hague, 1970Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageJ. S. Lingsma's...

Author: Bernice MurphyBinding: PaperbackPublisher: Australian Gallery Directors Council, Sydney, 1979Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageUSSR: Old Master Paintings by...

Author: Denise [cataloguer]. B. Weinreb Architectural Books Ltd ChaferBinding: PaperbackPublisher: B. Weinreb Architectural Books Ltd., 1978Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown...

Author: -Binding: PaperbackPublisher: Apollo Magazine, 1994Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis authoritative historical account chronicles the opulent and politically...

Author: Colin J. MarsdenBinding: PaperbackPublisher: Ian Allan, 1981Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis Is Waterloo presents a vivid and...

Author: Volker HelasBinding: PaperbackPublisher: Benedikt Taschen, 1991Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. **text in German, English, and French**Villenarchitektur /...

Author: Annie SacerdotiBinding: PaperbackPublisher: Israelowitz Publishing, 1989Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis comprehensive travel guide, Guide To Jewish Italy,...

The sexual assault that stunned the world. A courageous woman's rallying call for 'shame to change sides'. For the very first time, Gis le Pelicot tells her story. The extraordinarily...

The Euromaidan uprising in Kiev, followed by radical regime change, the annexation of the Crimea and the war in Eastern Ukraine, have shattered European security. The Western response to Russian...

'A triumph' INDEPENDENT 'A thought-provoking and indispensable book' DAILY MAIL 'An instant classic ... I have been reading it with unalloyed admiration and delight' EVENING STANDARD Roy Strong has written...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Author: A. R. And Mary BurnBinding: PaperbackPublished: SCHOCKEN BOOKS, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe Living Past Of Greece by A.R. and...

Author: Peter PartnerBinding: PaperbackPublished: University of California Press, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical account chronicles the vibrant and tumultuous...

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...

Author: Francesca Cappelletti and Patricia Cavazzini (editors)Binding: PaperbackPublished: Officina Libraria, 2023Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis academic work chronicles the intricate...

'What a page turner!' Daisy Wood, author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris ' A delicious Art Deco novel with a delightfully acerbic heroine.' Marius Gabriel, author of The German...

Author: Elizabeth Horodowich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In this colourful new history of Venice, Elizabeth Horodowich, one of the leading experts on Venice, tells the story of the...

Author: Irena Chernenko (English Translation By)Binding: PaperbackPublished: International Cultural Corporation of Australia Limited, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBetween 1978 and 1980...

Author: Asa BriggsBinding: PaperbackPublished: London: Thames & Hudson (), 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner inscription on inside of front and end coverThis seminal work...

Author: Pierre GillesBinding: PaperbackPublished: Italica Press, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imagePierre Gilles's The Antiquities Of Constantinople presents a meticulous historical account...

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...