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The year 1066: a battlefield in England, a mighty king lies prone on the ground, his lifeblood ebbing out of him. As he draws his ...
The War of the Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1714 to decide who should inherit the Spanish throne, was a conflict on an unprecedented ...
This is a comprehensive history of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as 'child-devouring cannibals' and 'bloodthirsty ...
Byzantium Triumphant describes in detail the wars of the Byzantine emperors Nicephorus II Phocas, his nephew and assassin John I Tzimiskes, and Basil II. The ...
This is a comprehensive history of Portugal that covers the whole span, from the Stone Age to today. An introduction provides an understanding of geographical ...
A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions.
We ...
The definitive history of Ukraine which helps us understand the country's past and the current crisis
Located at the western edge of the Eurasian ...
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of ...
From one of our greatest historians, the epic story of how 20th-century Europe went to hell and back
In the summer of 1914 most of ...
At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe ...
A clear, concise and thought-provoking introduction to the history of East Germany which engages critically with key debates and advances new interpretations of the origins ...
'Awe-inspiring ... stunning ... no review can really do this book justice- it is a superlative work' Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph
'The Penguin History of Europe series ...
The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against ...
Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The War Diaries illuminates a ...