European History

Author: Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieBinding: PaperbackPublished: Yale University Press., 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Water damage to various pages and edges, foxed edges, previous...

Author: A. KostenevichBinding: HardbackPublished: Aurora Art Publishers., 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Hermitage, one of the world's biggest treasuries of Western European art, already had a wide...

Author: Diana MosleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Sidgwick & Jackson., 1980Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis biographical account The Duchess Of Windsor chronicles the extraordinary life of Wallis Simpson, the American...

"Studies in Ancient Technology" forms a series of books, each containing a number of essays on ancient technology, covering both the preclassical and classical period and demonstrating the continuity and...

A timeless guide to one of the world's greatest cities. Franz Hessel was an observer par excellence of the increasingly hectic metropolis that was Berlin in the late 1920s. In...

England, late 1547. Henry VIII is dead. His 14-year-old daughter Elizabeth is living with the old king's widow Catherine Parr and her new husband Thomas Seymour. Ambitious, charming and dangerous,...

This is a composite biography of the queens and royal bedfellows of these centuries, and provides a fascinating picture of their political importance and the many factors that affected their...

During the Second World War, Winston Churchill won two resounding victories. The first was a victory over Nazi Germany, the second a victory over the legion of sceptics who had...

This study is an exploration of the collective values and activities of lay society in Western Europe between the tenth century and the thirteenth. Arguing that medieval attitudes and behaviour...

An Open Elite? sets out to test the traditional view that for centuries English landed society has been open to new families made rich by business or public office. From...

The brilliant sequel to the prize-winning Enlightenment. 'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and...

This book studies the evolution of the family from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and how the process radically influenced child-rearing, education, contraception, sexual behaviour and marriage.

How did Edward VII, whose reign lasted for only nine years, become one of the most popular and well-known of British monarchs? This biography, combining informative text with illustrations, provides...

Most people will admit to a passion for islands. For some it's the romance of a Swiss Family Robinson adventure, for others simply the discovery of a hideaway where a...

It's November in Massachusetts. Leo Coffin is making a birthday cake for his wife, Liv, due home soon from a trip to Norway, when a stranger comes to the door...

La Roja is bestselling author Jimmy Burns tremendous opus on Spanish soccer. From its early beginnings when the first soccer on the shores of Bilbao and Buenos Aires was played...

From the Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure - an eerie historical mystery about desire, memory and madness If you eat the bread, you'll die, he said. The statement made...

Author: Antony BeevorBinding: PaperbackPublished: Penguin Books, 2002Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAntony Beevor's Berlin: The Downfall 1945 chronicles the brutal final weeks...

Author: Jose Shercliff; with 14 drawingss by Toulouse-LautrecBinding: HardbackPublished: Jarrolds Publishers , 1952Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis biographical account...

The children of survivors of the Holocaust, the second generation, are in middle life, their own children already independent. This volume contains a collection of personal reflections of the child...

Author: Musée d'OrsayBinding: PaperbackPublished: San Francisco, CA Munich; New York [Paris, France]: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; DelMonico Books/Prestel Publishing; Musée d'Orsay, 2005Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No...

Author: Nienke BakkerBinding: HardbackPublished: Van Gogh Museum, 2011Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis insightful art history volume, Vincent Van Gogh And Montmartre, chronicles a pivotal period in the artist's...

From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Adele Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love - and the writer who chased after her more than...

"What a country is Spain for a traveller," remarked Washington Irving, "where the most miserable inn is as full of adventure as an enchanted castle." He was not the first...

Author: Olwen H. HuftonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Fontana Press, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical analysis, Europe: Privilege And Protest 1730-1789, chronicles...

Author: Giles TremlettBinding: PaperbackPublished: Faber & Faber, 2010Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageGiles Tremlett's Catherine Of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen chronicles the...

Author: Sir Maurice PowickeBinding: HardbackPublished: Clarendon Press, 1953Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative historical account, The Thirteenth Century: 1216-1307, chronicles...

Author: James Pope-HennessyBinding: HardbackPublished: LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO, 1952Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Minor nick/tear on half-title page.'Aspects Of...

Author: Walter PfeifferBinding: HardbackPublished: THAMES AND HUDSON, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis volume presents a captivating visual and historical journey through the...

Author: Iris OrigoBinding: HardbackPublished: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 1111Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Stained book block. The acclaimed historical work The Last Attachment:...

Author: Compiled By The Editors Of The Danish National EncyclopediaBinding: HardbackPublished: The Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1996Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive volume presents an...

The fashion industry is killing the planet but I really need that new designer handbag...Her daughter is divorcing and she's going to die because of it... The mother must be...

A moving tale of survival, heroism and the courage of children, as Ruth, Edek and Bronia hunt for their parents across the battlefields of Europe Discover this amazing adventure story...

Author: Charles DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: Readers Digest Association., 1999Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA sweeping historical novel, A Tale Of Two Cities chronicles the tumultuous years leading up to and during...

Author: H. V. MortonBinding: HardbackPublished: METHUEN & CO. LTD, LONDON, 1956Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsA Stranger In Spain...

Author: M. S. AndersonBinding: HardbackPublished: LONGMANS, 1963Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative historical account, Europe In The Eighteenth Century: 1713-1783, chronicles a pivotal...

Author: F.M. PowickeBinding: HardbackPublished: Odhams Press Limited, 1949Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Stain on book block. Insect damage on a...

Author: A. J. P. TaylorBinding: HardbackPublished: HAMISH HAMILTON LONDON, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling historical analysis, The War Lords, chronicles the lives and decisions...

Author: J. H. ShennanBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames & Hudson, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markings'Philippe Duke Of Orléans: Regent Of France 1715-1723 presents a meticulous historical account of...

Author: J. H. ParryBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson University Library, 1949Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work chronicles the transformative period between 1415 and 1715, detailing Europe's burgeoning global...

Author: Sir Charles Petrie, Br.Binding: HardbackPublished: Hollis and Carter Ltd., 1949Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsEarlier Diplomatic History: 1492-1713 presents a comprehensive account of...

Author: J. StevensonBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work, The Catacombs: Rediscovered Monuments Of Early Christianity, presents a meticulous examination of the...