European History

Sensational new evidence in one of the most sensational stories of the century -the fate of the Romanovs.

-- First-hand account of SAS operations in France 1944 -- Written immediately after the events took place -- First trade paperback edition (hardback first published 1994) In this exciting first-hand...

It was known as the Comet Line. It was the greatest escape route in the Resistance Movement and in its three years of life it saved over 800 airmen and...

Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to 'set Europe...

A "fresh, fast-paced, and bracing" ( Wall Street Journal ) new biography of Winston Churchill, revealing how his relationships with the other great figures of his age shaped his own...

An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world history Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war,...

'A riotously good novel, witty and earnest, brimming with sharply drawn characters and creeping suspense. David Thewlis is a fabulous writer' ANNA BAILEY, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF TALL BONES...

On a mild winter's evening in 1850, Isabella Robinson set out for a party. Her carriage bumped across the wide cobbled streets of Edinburgh's Georgian New Town and drew up...

The number of aircrew of Bomber Command who lost their lives during the Second World War was 55,573, yet no campaign medal was awarded and their bravery and sacrifice went...

In 1637 Scotland exploded in rebellion against King Charles I. The rebellion sought not only to undo hated anglicising policies in the Church, but to reverse the wholesale transfer of...

Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived -...

Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the...

Chronicling one of the most spectacular events of the sixteenth century, The Armada is the definitive story of the English fleet's infamous defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. The...

On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely...

Charting the adventures of affable yet bumbling Nigel, looking for a place to renovate in the deepest Ardeche, this compelling, original and slightly bonkers tale sees him first foray to...

Shielded from St Petersburg society, the last tsar's four daughters enjoyed a simple life of almost cloudless happiness. Their evenings were spent with their parents, reading aloud and pasting snapshots...

During World War Two the Special Operation Executive's French Section sent more than 400 agents into Occupied France -- at least 100 never returned and were reported 'Missing Believed Dead'...

Britain's Secret War tells the astonishing story of how Britain's spies, boffins and special operations teams helped to win the Second World War. The work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers...

In 1942, with a black-market chicken under his arm, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went to war. He was twenty-two and a Cryptographer...

When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that would take place...

The final resting places of illustrious men and women exercise a mysterious attraction to the traveller, and in this book the burial sites of over 350 prominent figures in English...

Surrounded by the English Channel to the north, the Celtic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Bay of Biscay to the south, Brittany is a picturesque...

'What do you hold close? Where is your secret place of belonging? If you had to leave everything behind and begin again, who would you be?' In a series of...

Athenai, In Search of Home expands Niko J. Kallianiotis' first monograph America in a Trance , and the work produced in Pennsylvania, which for two decades became his second home....

Jacqueline Roberts makes portraits on glass and aluminum plates using a 150-year-old technique called wet plate collodion. The long exposures required by the process ease the subjects into detaching themselves...

Heliopolis 21 projects and researches in fact aims at a radical change of architecture, starting from the convincement that the global crisis are due to the way we have built...

The dominant role of female beauty in sixteenth-century Venice is unique both in the history of the Republic and other parts of the world. One reason for this is the...

Founded in 1984 by women around Gabriele Stoetzer, the Erfurt Women Artists' Group pursued a radically creative lifestyle to counter the rigid structures of everyday life in the GDR, over...

The art of Boris Lurie (* 1924, Leningrad) and Wolf Vostell (* 1932, Leverkusen) is determined by the break in civilization in Germany in 1933, which made the German genocide...

A characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century artistic production is that casual acquaintances and close intimates, friends, lovers, or sometimes even rivals come together to work collaboratively on the realization of...

In Ulrike Flaig's art practice, the media of drawing, installation, performance, and experimental music overlap. She describes her works, among other things, as making images audible - and thus as...

Over the last 20 years architecture in and from Berlin has emerged as a global brand. Like Vol. 1, this new edition of Architecture Berlin showcases the most interesting 70...

The full-color series for both domestic and overseas destinations designed for the independent traveler. The Discover Guides -- feature special essays that vividly reveal the spirit of each destination, --...

A captivating fantasy for middle grade readers - power, corruption and friendship collide in this enthralling adventure! 'a captivating fantasy ... This enthralling adventure will make readers yearn for their...

Containing material never before seen They W ere Never Told includes original statements from those caugh t up in the disaster, a full examination of the Board of Enq uiry''s...

Based on official U.S. Navy and Marine Corps sources, as well as British Admiralty and Japanese records, a dramatic narrative unfolds, reflecting the hard-fought carrier actions, air strikes, kamikaze assaults,...