European History

A NEW SERIES OF BEAUTIFUL PAPERBACK CLASSICS FROM DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN WRITERS, TO CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING Green accompanies the reader on an imaginative stroll around the French capital,...

Enjoy all the traditional, rustic flavours of Italian cooking through contemporary recipe ideas and variations that allow you to experience the taste of Italy without the high fat, salt and...

This book is a major history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs conveys...

Experience Barcelona the local way with this insider's guide Barcelona is a cultural colossus- ancient streets, top-notch museums and Modernista masterpieces. But what's beyond the well-trodden sights? Old pharmacies hosting...

The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries they...

This Very Short Introduction might prove disappointing to those expecting an introduction to a very short man. Dispelling the myth of Napoleon Bonaparte's short stature, as well as the other...

Henry James was a renowned observer of European culture, both in his fiction and in his life. In particular, he loved Italy, visiting it 14 times and setting several of...

The Merchant Navy suffered proportionately the highest casualties of any of the Services in the Second World War, approximately 30,0000 of the 185,000 seamen who served being killed. Yet their...

The Second World War was the first in which amphibious landings played a truly significant part in the outcome of a global conflict and in this work, drawing on the...

Harry the Valet began his criminal career out of grief, but became Europe s most notorious jewel thief out of love. The story of a real-life Raffles a man who...

On 22 May 1941 the cruiser HMS Gloucester (The Fighting 'G') was sunk by aircraft of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Crete. Of her crew of 807 men, only...

ANNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK , A NEW BBC/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES. 'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing: Anne Lister's diaries are an...

Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to conclusions about who we are. They even shape our...

Do you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey across Europe from London to Venice. Escaping the rat race for a...

'Haywood's lucid explanations of the cultures of the Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians are vital to understanding the motivations for their movements' KIRKUS REVIEWS . The violent and predatory society of...

"Superb" NICK COHEN, author of What's Left? "Tremendously entertaining" DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Sunday Times "Like his previous histories of the Seventies and Eighties, A Classless Society is an extraordinarily comprehensive work....

'A masterly mix of shrewd analysis, historical detail and telling quotes... Indispensable' Mail on Sunday 'Among a host of recent books on the 1980s, Turner's stands out as comfortably the...

'A masterful work of social history and cultural commentary, told with much wit. It almost makes you feel as if you were there' ROGER LEWIS, Mail on Sunday The 1970s....

Chefs Bjrn Frantzen and Daniel Lindeberg dish the kitchen secrets that have made their restaurant (Frantzen/Lindeberg) renowned as the Best Swedish Restaurant of 2012, earning two Michelin stars and delighted...

The author of Villa Decor and French by Design celebrates the Old World in New World decor by presenting the flare and pomp of French style through breathtaking photographs of...

This critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach--and the moment it began to topple. September 29, 1923. Once the...

A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in...

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, "an expansive and generous history" of East Germany ( New Republic...

A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian Justinian is a radical reassessment of an emperor and his times. In the sixth century CE, the emperor Justinian presided over...

'I squealed laughing at this but now worry that my knowledge of history has been dangerously ruined' Matt Forde A fascinating and hilarious gallop through twentieth-century British history, by comedian...

Now a major Sky TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril, and Patrick Melrose, now a husband and father, is trying to gather...

A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or...

Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the "rousing" (Jay Winik, author of 1944 ) story of the liberation of Paris during World War II-a triumph achieved only through...

This volume compares one of the largest instances of 'ethnic cleansing' - the German expellees from the East (Vertriebene) - with the most important case of decolonization migration - the...

In nineteenth-century Italy, the wife of General Garibaldi bakes biscuits as a peace offering for the defeated French army.

In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the...

Experience Lisbon the local way with this insider's guide Experience Lisbon the local way with this insider's guide Lisbon is picture-perfect, with its mosaicked tiles, bright yellow trams and plates...

An enigmatic island of towering mountains, timeless villages and chic seaside resorts, Corsica more than lives up to its moniker of the "Island of Beauty". Make the most of your...

Europe and the Making of Modernity, 1815-1914 is a clear and engaging chronicle of the political, economic, social, and cultural changes that transformed Europe during the nineteenth century. An introduction...

The Sunday Times bestsellerTHE STORY OF BRITAIN during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Find out how Britain changed in this entrancing, lively portrait of Britain's Elizabethan Age by...

SHARPE IS BACK. The brand new novel from Bernard Cornwell in the global bestselling Sharpe series. If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe . . . And...

Anna Del Conte brought Italian cooking to Britain at a time when the nearest most of us came to pasta was a tinned spaghetti hoop. Sharply observant, evocative, full of...

Zlata Filipovic was given a diary shortly before her 11th birthday and began to write in it regularly. The preoccupations of an ordinary, if unusually intelligent and articulate little girl,...

History of the Inca Realm, by Maria Rostworowski de Diez Canseco, is a classic work of ethnohistorical research which has been both influential and provocative in the field of Andean...

From the terra cotta and ocher of the Ionian Islands to the brilliant blues and whites of the Aegean, the villages of Greece and its islands are incomparable. The variety...

When Jacqueline moves to south-west France with her husband, she embraces rural village life and buys two pigs to rear for slaughter. But as she gets to know the animals...

One of the most celebrated heroines of the Second World War, Odette Churchill was 27 and living in England with her English husband and their three children when war broke...

The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII s second wife, in May 1536 was unprecedented in the annals of English history. It was sensational in its day,...

How much of a surprise was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour? History has tended to blame the two commanders of Hawaii's military installations, Admiral Kimmel and General Short, for...

Set amongst the rolling vineyards and gentle courtyards of a small seaside village in Catalonia, Patrick O'Brian's second novel is a poignant story of tumultuous love, complex faith and one...

On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome... 'Four...

Memories of Maggie brings together personal reminiscenes and anecdotes from those who experienced close encounters with the Iron Lady, including Norman Tebbit, Cecil Parkinson, Kenneth Baker, George Bush, Helmut Kohl,...