European History

The greatest 'unsolved mystery' of the American Southwest relates to the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the 11th century converged on Chaco Canyon (now New Mexico) and built a...

Colditz was the last step for prisoners of war in World War II. An impregnable fortress, it was to Colditz that the Germans sent all those prisoners who persisted in...

The extraordinary true story of the triumph of love over repression in Stalin's Russia Almost everything we know about the terrible experience of the Gulag has been based on survivor...

A BBC History magazine, Esquire, Historia magazine and Waterstones History Book of the Year 'James comes alive in full flamboyance ... Russell expertly weaves the bedchamber gossip into the tapestry...

Author: Vircondelet, AlainBinding: HardbackPublished: Flammarion, 2006Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slipcase: GoodThis three‑volume set of cultural history presents Venice through its political rise, artistic triumphs, architectural...

Author: Kate MosseBinding: HardbackPublished: PHOENIX, 2025Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: SignedSet in the medieval Languedoc region of France, Labyrinth weaves a gripping historical...

It offers information on the Rome of the Popes; the poet Shelley, in happiness and tragedy; Sheridan's unravelling of the curious story of Mussolini's son-in-law and the British ambassador; the...

The hilarious story of one man's mishap-ridden attempt to travel the entire length of the Seine by boat When Charles shows his friends the rowing boat he has spent the...

Kara Sullivan is definitely not avoiding her deadline. After all, it's the week of her best friend's wedding and she's the maid of honour, so she's got lots of responsibilities....

Author: John T. A. KoumoulidesBinding: HardbackPublished: Zeno Booksellers & Publishers, 1974Condition:Book: Good, ex-libraryJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThis historical account, Cyprus And The War Of Greek Independence, 1821-1829, chronicles...

Author: Barbara Engelking & Jacek LeociakBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press, 2009Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis profound historical account, The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide To The Perished...

Author: Low; Kingsley MartinBinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerLow's Russian Sketch Book presents a...

Author: J. Christopher HeroldBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton., 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Top-edge discoloured due to tanning. Minor markings to board.J. Christopher Herold's Bonaparte In Egypt...

Author: Brendan O'DowdaBinding: PaperbackPublished: Blackstaff Press, 1981Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis captivating biography, The World Of Percy French, chronicles the life...

Author: Lt. Col. Somerset J. Gough CalthorpeBinding: HardbackPublished: Atheneum, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCadogan's Crimea presents a compelling historical narrative, chronicling the pivotal events and...

Author: Lawrence FitzgeraldBinding: HardbackPublished: Publishers Pty Ltd, Hobart, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsJava La Grande: The Portuguese Discovery Of Australia chronicles a compelling historical argument, presenting evidence...

Author: J.M. RobertsBinding: HardbackPublished: BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe monumental historical narrative The Triumph Of The West by J.M. Roberts presents a comprehensive account...

Author: Elena BassiBinding: HardbackPublished: THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsElena Bassi's The Convento Della Carità transports readers to a...

When people think of culture in the 1970s they usually conjure up a confetti of kitsch, a jumble of disposable trash in which pet rocks vie for space with the...

Author: Denis CosgroveBinding: HardbackPublished: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Slightly bruised spine. Minor staind on fep. Reading copy with markings in...

Author: Luigi BarziniBinding: HardbackPublished: HAMISH HAMILTON, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis insightful non-fiction work, The Italians, offers a penetrating look into the national character and societal intricacies...

Author: George ZarneckiBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1972Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Reading copy with markings in grey lead. The Monastic Achievement by George Zarnecki presents...

A smartly guided romp, entertaining and enlightening, through Europe 's most charismatic and enigmatic city It isn't Europe's most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive...

A dazzling account of London at its height when it was the largest, richest and most rapidly changing city on earth. There is no period in London's history in which...

Sir Walter Raleigh is well-know as an explorer, pirate, lover, poet, courtier, philosopher and political prisoner, a man of timeless fascination. An essential part of the nation's history he embodies...

The problem with the history of 20th-century Europe, asserts the author, is that everyone thinks they know it. The great stories of the century - the two world wars, the...

'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' - Hilary Mantel Born in obscurity in Putney, Thomas Cromwell became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey. After Wolsey's fall,...

As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the...

Author: Reinaldo AlejandroBinding: HardbackPublished: PBC International , 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Small glue stain on FEP. Curated by Reynaldo Alejandro and published by PBC International...

This book on the Treaty of Versailles constitutes a new synthesis of peace conference scholarship. It illuminates events from the armistice in 1918 to the signing of the treaty in...

`I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.' These notorious words, spoken by Churchill in 1942, encapsulate his image...

From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British...

This book brings to life the story of the construction of some of the most outstanding early Renaissance buildings in Venice. Through a series of individual case studies, Richard J....

No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of...

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain's greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and...

This is a study of the political, social, and economic history of Britain during the period 1815-1906. The nineteenth century saw the building of one of the world's greatest empires,...

'The Struggle for Mastery is a work of mature scholarship, which wears its learning lightly. Written with verve for specialist and non-specialist alike, it is a study that will last.'...

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Author: Andrea LeeBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber., 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight sun-fading to spine, foxed edges.This compelling memoir, Russian Journal, chronicles Andrea...

Author: Lauro MartinesBinding: PaperbackPublished: Penguin Books, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical analysis, Power & Imagination: City-States In...

Author: John Ward-PerkinsBinding: HardbackPublished: National Gallery of Victoria., 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis gripping historical thriller chronicles the final days of the ancient Roman city of...

Author: Vera BrittainBinding: PaperbackPublished: Wideview Books., 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA poignant memoir, Testament Of Youth chronicles Vera Brittain's...

Author: Carlo Pietrangeli, Andre Chastel, John Shearman, John O'Malley, S.J., Pierluigi De Vecchi, Michael Hirst, Fabrizio Mancinelli, Gianluigi Colalucci, And Franco BernabeiBinding: HardbackPublished: Harmony Books., 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings:...

Author: Gaspard MérianBinding: HardbackPublished: ÉDITIONS SILOÉ, PARIS, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: mild foxingThis historical account, Paris Au Dix-Septième Siècle, chronicles the vibrant urban landscape and...

Author: Christopher WrightBinding: HardbackPublished: Orbis Publishing., 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Foxed edges.The authoritative The Dutch Painters: 100 Seventeenth Century Masters presents a...

Author: Michael P. FogartyBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Notre Dame Press, 1957Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerChristian Democracy In Western Europe 1820-1953 presents a comprehensive historical account of Christian...

Author: Carlo Maria FranzeroBinding: HardbackPublished: W.H. Allen, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: dust jacket tanned and some marks; pages in good conditionThis biographical work, A Life...