European History

"Each First World War battle deserves a historian; not every battle finds one...A moving, dramatic, and intensely human account. One of the most powerful war books that I have read'...

A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year A brilliant narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer...

'A splendid book by authors who long ago detected Germany's fragility - and aimed at readers who take no pleasure in the sight of its precipitous decline' Yanis Varoufakis 'The...

From Jamaica to Charleston, Sierra Leone to Bombay, China to Australia, back to England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, this is the story of the heiresses. Their assets, the product of...

An insightful and fascinating portrait of Queen Victoria, from her childhood through her adult life, detailing her personal life and relationships with friends, family, and the public. A "vivid" (...

Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands...

From August 1950 until 1966, Harold Macmillan kept one of the fullest and most entertaining political diaries of the 20th century. This first volume starts in the last full year...

A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade "This is a landmark study given its clear status as easily the best...

"She's accessible and deeply human and a joy -- though it is a dark kind of joy -- to read... She is a poet to live with." - Robert Hass,...

USA Today Bestseller "This is a truly original novel that has earned its place among my favorite works of historical fiction."--Jennifer Robson, USA Today bestselling author of The Gown An...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAmong the most elite and unconventional fighting forces of the Second World War, the Luftwaffe's airborne...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings,Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the skies above a continent at war, Der Adler...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the primordial dawn of human civilisation to the glittering intellectual rebirth of the Renaissance, History of the World: Prehistory...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the turn of the twentieth century, a revolution in taste was quietly unfolding across the Atlantic, as the radical canvases of Paul Cézanne...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the thundering cavalry charges of the Norman Conquest to the disciplined pike formations of the late Middle Ages, Medieval Warfare presents a sweeping and...

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With the aid of 116 extraordinarily detailed and accurate line drawings, Technical Aircraft Drawings of World War II shows how a wide selection of classic military aircraft were put together...

The story of Germany's disastrous last cross-Channel Blitz in early 1944, which left the Luftwaffe devastated and barely able to oppose the D-Day landings. Operation Steinbock , or as it...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodRenaissance Italy comes alive with menace and beauty in Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait, a gripping historical novel that reimagines the brief, ill-fated life of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat begins as a celebration of love quickly curdles into something far more unsettling in Alberto...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, understanding the vast and enigmatic Soviet Union was not merely an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, a chilling question haunted the world's most powerful nations: what happens...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the glittering yet corrupt underbelly of Second Empire Paris, a city intoxicated by wealth, spectacle, and moral...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the storm-shadowed final days of Leon Trotsky's life in Mexican exile, The Great Prince Died reconstructs, with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThere are holidays, and then there are the Larkins — and when Pop, Ma, and their wonderfully chaotic...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadowy world of Parisian crime, Inspector Maigret confronts one of his most frustrating investigations yet —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the gaslit streets and shadowed back alleys of nineteenth-century Paris emerges a woman who cannot outrun the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, a provocative question rang out across the European left: could communism...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the golden and turbulent age of Shakespeare and the Virgin Queen, Elizabethan People: State and Society presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to think freely in an empire built on repression? Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the sun-drenched plains of the Po Valley, a stubborn parish priest and an equally obstinate Communist mayor wage an eternal, affectionate war —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most audacious and brilliantly satirical works ever written, Candide and Other Romances follows the relentlessly...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhen the guns of August 1914 shattered the long peace of Europe, the world was drawn into a conflict of unprecedented scale and brutality —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn one of the most harrowing true accounts of Jewish survival during the Second World War, The Army-Cap Boy chronicles the extraordinary story of a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder mark,Previous ownerBehind the dramatic battlefields of World War II, a fierce and largely hidden conflict raged among the Allied high command —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadow of the Third Reich, where survival demanded impossible choices, Werner Rings' Life with the Enemy: Collaboration and Resistance in Hitler's Europe...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the turbulent backdrop of Soviet Russia's forced collectivisation campaign of the early 1930s,...