European History

The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by...

TUSCANY--IS THERE ANY OTHER REGION IN THE WORLD WHOSE NAME CONJURES UP SUCH POWERFUL IMAGES AND EMOTIONS? FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER HAD THE PLEASURE OF A TUSCAN SOJOURN, THE...

The book titled Scenes From The End by the author Frank E Manuel. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is a biography of Henrik Ibsen. The author's intention has been to get behind the daunting outside image of the dramatist, in order to reveal the story of Ibsen's...

The history of art has produced few works as ambitious and as valuable as the Amber Room. Famous throughout Europe as the 'eighth wonder of the world', its vast and...

In 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 'undesirable' intellectuals - mostly philosophers, academics, scientists and journalists - to be deported from the new Soviet State. Two...

In this third and concluding volume of his acclaimed portrait, Mr. Marullo relates the struggle of the writer and of the emigr- Russian artistic community in Europe to keep alive...

The book titled Larissa Reisner: A Biography by the author Cathy Porter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

France's Prime Minister and signatory to the Munich Agreement in 1938, Edouard Daladier, was arrested and imprisoned by the Vichy Regime for the duration of World War II. As a...

Defeat in 1940 left the French so chastened and demoralized that they readily supported the Vichy regime, committed not just to pragmatic collaberation but to finding scapegoats for the nation's...

The book titled An Idea of Europe by the author Richard Hoggart. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book aims to provide the reader with a guide to Granada. Divided into ten routes, it takes the visitor, step-by-step, from the poet Federico Garcia Lorca's birthplace in the...

Caught between the memory of a brutal war won at frightful cost and fear of another cataclysm, France in the 1930s suffered a failure of nerve. "The common sight of...

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels...

The book titled Stalin: Man and Ruler by the author Robert H. McNeal. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This new biography of John Evelyn, diarist, scholar, and intellectual virtuoso (1620-1706), is the first account to make full use of his huge unpublished archive, deposited at the British Library...

This delightful book recreates the busy, colorful world of a Catholic bishop and his flock from 1590-1620. Based upon the recently discovered daybook of Mathias Hovius, the book focuses not...

More than 400 years after her death, Mary Queen of Scots remains one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history. Antonia Fraser's classic biography won her the...

Biography of Queen Victoria's eldest child,who married the German emperor, Frederick III and whose eldest child became Kaiser Wilhelm II and took his country to war against his mother's native...

As controversial and explosive as it is elegant and learned, The Long Affair is Conor Cruise O'Brien's examination of Thomas Jefferson, as man and icon, through the critical lens of...

The book titled The Second World War Diary, 1940-45 by the author Hugh Dalton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The letters of Shiela Grant Duff and Adam von Trott zu Solz tell of a friendship - tender, strained, and in the end tragic - between a young Englishwoman who...

The book titled The Spaniards: A Portrait of the New Spain by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Lilliput Goes to War by the author Kaye Webb. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Thomas Mann and His Family by the author Marcel Reich-Ranicki. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A biography of the author's uncle, Ernest Reid, who died in 1917, an officer in the Black Watch, of wounds sustained in the Battle of Arras. Born and raised in...

In Travelers to an Antique Land, Robert Eisner embarks on an engaging journey through centuries of fascination with Greece-a land alternately imagined, idealized, and rediscovered by visitors from across the...

Snow leopards and Cossacks can both be dangerous. But to young British officers in India in the nineteenth century there was only one thing more exciting than shooting wild game...

Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, "The Orientalist" traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling...

This truly unique volume brings together theoretical discussions of liberalizations with studies focused on literature, theatre and the visual arts. To the analysis of developments in selected Eastern European regions...

After the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the three great powers...

Following the success of his memoirs "The Time of My Life", Denis Healey turns his attention in this lively and penetrating collection of essays to the themes which underlie the...

The celebrated French general and emperor Napoleon I was born in Ajaccio in Corsica in 1769. France had acquired Corsica only 15 months before his birth, and in his early...

It's contents are as curious as its price: subtitled Language of the Megaliths' this is a book for believers in the Earth Mother, with corn dollies, megalithic art and sexual...

The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a cross-roads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The...

This is a collection of essays, charting five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia. Ivan Klima was a witness to the horrors of Nazi occupation, to the Stalinist regimes...

The product of the author's lifetime, this powerful narrative, insterrsperses the author's analysis of wars, philosophy, science, manners, sex, religion, morals, art, et al, from the Reformation to the present...

The book titled France, 1815-1914: The Bourgeois Century by the author Roger Magraw. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: Poor Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Binding loose - pages still intact. A charming work of early twentieth-century travel writing and cultural geography, Peeps At Many...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark of Soviet literature, Virgin Soil Upturned: A Novel, Book One chronicles the turbulent collectivization of a Don Cossack...

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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of historiographical scholarship, Historians and the Causes of the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.A landmark work of historical memoir and primary source literature, Historical Memoirs of...