European History

Hereditary rule once dominated European politics. A few families, believing in divine rule, controlled the destinies of millions before they were ousted. This book takes an irreverent look at the...

Late on the afternoon of Sunday, August 20 1911, three men strolled through the Louvre. Disguising themselves as museum staff they hid until nightfall. Sixteen hours later the most famous...

Published in Antwerp in 1570, the THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM did something no previous book had done: here was the world in all its component parts, the chance to see our...

Five hundred years ago the legendary Renaissance genius, Michelangelo (1475-1564), put the first brushstroke to his most ambitious creation. As he started work on his vast fresco cycle for the...

'This book...ought to be required reading in schools and newsrooms for it cuts through the often subtle propaganda about our times and tells us much about the new world order...

'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal...

This book recounts for the first time the tragic loss of more than 1,000 American soldiers in 1943 when their troopship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean.

Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc?...

Combining intellectual history, biography and the analysis of particular institutions, GERMANY TURNS EASTWARDS shows the relations between the Nazi regime and contemporary scholarly experts on eastern Europe, which eventually put...

Features more than four hundred American, Allied, and German photographs that present the dramatic events of the invasion from both sides.

This title discusses women's artistic productions within established historical and geographical frameworks, also provides a survey of women professionally active as painters, engravers and sculptors in 16th and 17th century...

November 19, 1479: a dynastic alliance, two noble scions, a regal wedding, short-lived and with an unhappy ending. These pages reconstruct the story of the magnificent bas relief in the...

Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth-century's towering literary figures, is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch...

Narrated with the heartbreaking innocence of a thirteen-year-old girl and the wisdom of a woman of eighty-two, Gazing at the Stars is a record of survival in the face of...

Out of the ruins and savagery of Second World War, the figure of Benito Mussolini looms large as one of the most influential during the first half of the twentieth...

At the age of 17, Shusha Guppy left Iran and her family to study at the Sorbonne in Paris. Diving into the unknown - a world of unimagined freedoms and...

Author: Zofia KrukBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson London, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Inscription to previous owner on front end-page and minor...

Author: Orhan PamukBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber, 2022Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedNobel laureate Orhan Pamuk presents "Nights of Plague," a sweeping work of historical fiction set in 1901 on the fictional...

Author: K. J. M. SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 2002Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book presents a biographical account of James Fitzjames Stephen. It examines his intellectual contributions and...

This pioneering art series combines stunning high-quality color reproductions with expert commentary on the most popular artists of all time at an extremely accessible price. Giotto, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci,...

In the fall of 1944, Fey von Hassell, the 24-year-old wife of Italian Detalmo Pirzio-Biroli, was seized by the SS at her villa at Brazza near Venice and shuttled by...

Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India--a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light In 1841, twenty-year-old...

A history of the Enlightenment retraces the innovations in representative government, industrialization, religious tolerance, and individualism that made the eighteenth century so important in the history of England, and the...

The Restoration was a decade of experimentation: from the founding of the Royal Society for investigating the sciences to the startling role of credit and risk; from the shocking licentiousness...

Goethe's famous account of his time and travels in Italy In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe set out on...

This book looks at the Battle of the Somme, which was planned as "The Big Push" that would at last break the long stalemate on the Western Front in World...

Grass's landmark novel in a stunning new translation and with a new foreword by the author WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR On his third birthday Oskar decides to...

An epic historical heist novel of plundered treasure, savage empire, lasting love and a young man's dream to make his mark on the world. From an Indian American writer at...

An inspired yet haunted genius Caspar David Friedrich's paintings capture the raw power of nature. Find out how this great 19th-century Romantic painter created works of intense and mysterious beauty...

Although overlooked for centuries Piero della Francesca is now regarded as the supreme 15th-century Renaissance artist. Discover how he experimented with perspective to create powerful and profound works. Exploring art...

In the last quarter of the nineteenth-century, around 200,000 visitors from Australia landed in Britain. As members of the colonial elite, they sailed to the Old Country to experience their...

Inspired by the swashbuckling travelogues of Victorian diplomat Lord Dufferin, frail surburbanite Tim Moore sets out to prove his physical and spiritual worth before his sceptical Nordic in-laws by retracing...

Since first setting eyes on Italy at the age of 22 through the periscope of a submarine, Eric Newby has come to feel it is the country he knows and...

Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing in its...

This full story of German espionage in World War II, illustrated with 150 black-and-white photographs, explores the rivalry between Nazi intelligence services. Includes Nazi counter-intelligence operations and examines the popular...

Spring in Sicily is a magical season of abundant growth and fertility. Fruit treesand vines are in new leaf, wheat fields stretch to the horizon, wild flowers growin profusion along...

By the time of the Calvinist Reformation, the cities of Holland had established a very long tradition of social provision for the poor in the civic community. Calvinists however intended...

(Updated 2023) Michelin Road Atlas Benelux and North of France is the perfect companion for an enjoyable and safe drive. Convenient and easy to use thanks to its spiral bound...

Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) is best known for his circumnavigation of the globe from 1766 to 1769. throughout a long and distinguished life however, he participated in many of...

A.L. Rowse's journals extend over the greater part of the 20th century. Born in 1903, the son of a poor, virtually illiterate Cornish china-clay worker, he became one of the...

A unique and beautifully illustrated survey of the arts in Britain from the Celts to the present day - the companion volume to The Story of Britain. In this comprehensive...