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'I adored this book - a wondrous compendium of Iceland's best sagas' - Hannah Kent A new friendship. An unforgettable journey. A beautiful and bloody history ...
An extraordinary account of the occupants of the Prague Villa Petschek, and their place against the history of Europe, written by the former US ambassador ...
After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell ...
Charles, king of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule a European super-state. That is why he is so often ...
In this celebrated, landmark history of the Balkans, Misha Glenny investigates the roots of the bloodshed, invasions and nationalist fervour that have come to define ...
Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian - and ...
In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a ...
Part memoir, part reflection, this book will bring to life central Europe during the last ten years of the Cold War. It begins in Trieste ...
Greece has been brought under repeated scrutiny during the financial crises that have convulsed the country since 2010. The worldwide coverage has shown up how ...
In this collection Freda Hodge retrieves early voices of Holocaust survivors. Men, women and children relate experiences of deportation and ghettoisation, forced labour camps and ...
Hungary has an unusually fascinating and complicated history. The nation was only created in 1918 at the end of the First World War from the ...
War,' wrote Cardinal Richelieu,is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men'. Yet the prelate's mournful observation scarcely ...
War,' wrote Cardinal Richelieu,
Europe is an astonishingly successful place. In this dazzling new history, bestselling author Simon Jenkins grippingly tells the story of its evolution from warring peoples ...
On returning from Germany on 30 September 1938 after his agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain spoke to the crowds at ...
A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes
From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini ...
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