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  • The Origins of the First World War

    by William Mulligan ...
    Series Book 52 - New Approaches to European History
    A second edition of this leading introduction to the origins of the First World War and the pre-war international system. William Mulligan shows how the war was a far from inevitable outcome of international politics in the early twentieth century and suggests instead that there were powerful forces operating in favour of the maintenance of peace. He discusses key issues ranging from the military, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • War and Peace

    by Leo Tolstoy, Louise and Aylmer Maude, Amy Mandelker ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.' Isaac Babel Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in parallel with their lives. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • Postwar

    A History of Europe Since 1945

    by Tony Judt ...
    **Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century“Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal“Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston Globe**Almost a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Fall of Rome:And the End of Civilization

    And the End of Civilization

    by Bryan Ward-Perkins ...
    Why did Rome fall?Vicious barbarian invasions during the fifth century resulted in the cataclysmic end of the world's most powerful civilization, and a 'dark age' for its conquered peoples. Or did it? The dominant view of this period today is that the 'fall of Rome' was a largely peaceful transition to Germanic rule, and the start of a positive cultural transformation.Bryan Ward-Perkins encourages ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • History of the Peloponnesian War

    by Thucydides ...
    Translated by Rex Warner ...
    'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration - for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and genocide' Tom HollandThe long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta plunged the ancient Greek world into decades of war. Thucydides was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Reformations

    The Early Modern World, 1450-1650

    by Carlos M. N. Eire ...
    This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day. Eire connects the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A History of Magic and Witchcraft

    Sabbats, Satan & Superstitions in the West

    by Frances Timbers ...
    The author of Magic and Masculinity explores the history and development of magic and witchcraft in Western society.Broomsticks, cauldrons, familiars, and spells—magic and witchcraft conjure a vivid picture in our modern-day imagination. While much of our understanding is rooted in superstition and myth, the history of magic and witchcraft offers a window into the past. It illuminates the lives of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • July 1914

    Countdown to War

    by Sean McMeekin ...
    When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand's own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the Hapsburg heir, saying simply, "It is God's will." Certainly, there was nothing to suggest that the episode would lead to conflict -- much less a world war of such massive and horrific proportions ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Wars of German Unification

    by Professor Dennis Showalter ...
    Series series Modern Wars
    The Wars of German Unification is the definitive account of the three of the most decisive conflicts in the history of modern Europe. In this new edition, Dennis Showalter offers a thoroughly updated look at the wars and their context that will be invaluable for those interested in the military, social and political history of the period.Showalter explores how the Schleswig-Holstein conflict of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Conquerors

    How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

    by Roger Crowley ...
    In Conquerors, New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley gives us the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the daring and navigational skill of its explorers—a tactical advantage no other country could match. Portugal’s discovery of a sea route to India, campaign of imperial conquest over Muslim rulers, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • The Witch

    A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present

    by Ronald Hutton ...
    This “magisterial account” explores the fear of witchcraft across the globe from the ancient world to the notorious witch trials of early modern Europe (The Guardian, UK).The witch came to prominence—and often a painful death—in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In The Witch, historian Ronald Hutton sets the European witch trials in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Holocaust in Hungary

    Evolution of a Genocide

    by Zoltán Vági, Gábor Kádár, László Csosz ...
    Series series Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context
    The Holocaust in Hungary provides a comprehensive documentary account of one of the most brutal and effective killing campaigns in history. After Nazi Germany took control of Hungary late in World War II, Jews were rounded up with unprecedented speed and sent directly to Auschwitz. They would form the largest group of victims who perished in that camp. The complex interplay between German and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Sexuality in Europe

    A Twentieth-Century History

    by Dagmar Herzog ...
    Series Book 45 - New Approaches to European History
    This original book brings a fascinating and accessible account of the tumultuous history of sexuality in Europe from the waning of Victorianism to the collapse of Communism and the rise of European Islam. Although the twentieth century is often called 'the century of sex' and seen as an era of increasing liberalization, Dagmar Herzog instead emphasizes the complexities and contradictions in sexual ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Catastrophe 1914

    Europe Goes to War

    by Max Hastings ...
    From the acclaimed military historian, a history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles—the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg—that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches.In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a conflict different from the familiar one of barbed wire, mud and futility. He traces the path to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Grand Spas of Central Europe

    A History of Intrigue, Politics, Art, and Healing

    by David Clay Large ...
    The Grand Spas of Central Europe leads readers on an irresistible tour through the grand spa towns of Central Europe—fabled places like Baden-Baden, Bad Ems, Bad Gastein, Karlsbad, and Marienbad. Noted historian David Clay Large follows the grand spa story from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present, focusing especially on the years between the French Revolution and World War II, a period in which ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Last Stalinist: The Life of Santiago Carrillo

    by Paul Preston ...
    The life of the complex, ruthless adversary of General Franco, whose life spanned much of Spain’s turbulence in the 20th century.From 1939 to 1975, the Spanish Communist Party, effectively lead for two decades by Santiago Carrillo, was the most determined opponent of General Franco’s Nationalist regime. Admired by many on the left as a revolutionary and a pillar of the anti-Franco struggle and ... Read more

    $3.49 USD $1.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Art

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Laurie Schneider Adams ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Munch's The Scream. Van Gogh's Starry Night. Rodin's The Thinker. Monet’s water lilies. Constable's landscapes. The nineteenth-century gave us a wealth of artistic riches so memorable in their genius that we can picture many of them at an instant. However, at the time their avant-garde nature was the cause of much controversy.Professor Laurie Schneider Adams brings vividly to life the paintings, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Shadows of the Slain

    the thrilling new Bernicia Chronicles adventure

    by Matthew Harffy ...
    Series Book 10 - The Bernicia Chronicles
    The thrilling new instalment in the action-packed Bernicia Chronicles from Matthew Harffy. Warlord Beobrand travels to holy Rome... but sinister plots and bloody conflict line his path once more.AD 652. After surviving dark intrigues at the Merovingian court of Frankia, Beobrand is finally able to undertake the mission his queen set him: to escort a party of pilgrims to the holy city of Rome.But ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Over My Dead Body

    Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries

    by Greg Melville ...
    Journalist Greg Melville’s Over My Dead Body is an “astonishing . . . fascinating . . . powerful” (New York Times Book Review) tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our dead.“You hold in your hands a treasure map, a gentle, sly, and poignant presence leading us to places in America and in our lives that have been hiding in plain sight. This tale is ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History Of The Knights Templar

    by Charles G. Addison ...
    The History of the Knights Templarby Charles G. Addison"This is a mainstream history of the Knights Templars, written in the 19th century. Addison details the rise of the Templars to become, essentially, the first multinational corporation. The Templars were entrusted by the Church and States of Europe to be the spearhead of the crusades. In the process they gained immense wealth and influence, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Economic War

    Ukraine and the Global Conflict between Russia and the West

    by Maximilian Hess ...
    Vladimir Putin's first invasion of Ukraine, in 2014, set off a global economic clash, as the West used its clout with international markets to deter and penalize the Kremlin. The battlelines of this 'war by other means' traversed a series of deep economic connections, built up during Russia's oil, gas and commodities boom: global equity and capital markets, and transnational kleptocracy. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Short History of Europe

    From Pericles to Putin

    by Simon Jenkins ...
    A sweeping, illustrated history of Europe--a continent whose imperial ambitions, internal clashes, and existential threats are as vital today as they were during the conquests of Alexander the GreatIn just a few hundred years, a modest peninsula off the northwest corner of Asia has seen the rise and fall of several empires; served as the crucible for scientific dynamism, cultural innovation, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The French Revolution: A History in Documents

    Edited by Dr Micah Alpaugh ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Sourcebooks
    The French Revolution: A History in Documents explores the rapidly evolving political culture of the French Revolution through first-hand accounts of the revolutionary (and counterrevolutionary) actors themselves. It demonstrates how radical Enlightenment philosophy fused with a governmental crisis to create a moment of new political possibilities unlike any the world had previously seen. In so ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • A Chronology of the Crusades

    by Timothy Venning, Peter Frankopan ...
    A Chronology of the Crusades provides a day-by-day development of the Crusading movement, the Crusades and the states created by them through the medieval period. Beginning in the run-up to the First Crusade in 1095, to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, and ending with the Turkish attack on Belgrade in 1456, this reference is a comprehensive guide to the events of each Crusade, concentrating on ... Read more

    $55.99 USD