Western Europe category: 1822 books
by Jacob Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Written in the mid nineteenth century, Early Aeronautics tells the story of the very beginning of flight – parachutes and hot air balloons in their earliest incarnations. Includes original illustrations.
by M C Conway
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
A look at the history and pageants surrounding the Lady Godiva Myth in and around Coventry.
Operation Nordwind 1945
Hitler’s last offensive in the West
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Operation Nordwind is one of the lesser known campaigns of World War II yet one of the more intriguing. Largely overshadowed by the Battle of the Bulge further north, Nordwind was the last great operation by the Waffen-SS Panzer divisions in the west, and the last time the Wehrmacht was on the offensive...
by Hugo Grotius
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
"Mare Liberum" is a book (originally written in Latin) on international law written by the Dutch jurist and philosopher Hugo Grotius. In Mare Liberum, Grotius formulated the new principle that the sea was international territory and all nations were free to use it for seafaring trade. The...
by Gaius Julius Caesar
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The most powerful army of its time is faced with insurgent attacks and revolts on the borders of their lands. A celebrated general proceeds to crush it and in the process makes a name for himself as a military commander. This is the history of the Gallic Wars written by the Roman commander, Gaius Julius...
Summer of Blood
England's First Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
From the New York Times bestselling author of Crusaders and a top authority on the historical events that inspired Game of Thrones, a vivid, blood-soaked account of one of the most famous rebellions in history—the first mass uprising by the people of England against their feudal masters.
In...
by Winston S. Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
The second volume of the Nobel Prize–winning prime minister’s breathtaking history of Britain continues with the growth of monarchy and religious conflict.
In the “wilderness” years after Winston S. Churchill unflinchingly guided his country through World War II, he turned his masterful...
Cromwell in Ireland
A History of Cromwell’s Irish Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
First published in Ireland only in 1883, this book is a fascinating account of the Irish campaign of 1649-1650 led by Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), the English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, as told by the Irish Rev. Denis...
Gandhi & Churchill
The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.
They were born worlds...
The Great Chevauchée
John of Gaunt’s Raid on France 1373
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
In 1373, John of Gaunt set off from Calais on a great raid to strike at the heart of France. Driven by the high ideals of chivalry,the raiders left with epic pageantry. However, the reality soon overwhelmed the raiders. Beset on all sides by French ambushes and plagued by disease and starvation, the...
The Second World Wars
How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian
World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma...
Invasion
From The Armada to Hitler (1588-1945)
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
Most people know that Britain was invaded by the Romans, by the Vikings and by the Normans. Many will know about the Spanish Armada, launched by Philip II in 1588 to bring Protestant England to submission. But fewer people know that Philip launched a second armada in 1596 or that invasion plans were...
Twentieth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 6)
Revolution and State-Building – The Partition of Ireland, the Troubles and the Celtic Tiger
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Professor Dermot Keogh’s Twentieth-Century Ireland, the sixth and final book in the New Gill History of Ireland series, is a wide-ranging, informative and hugely engaging study of the long twentieth century, surveying politics, administrative history, social and religious history, culture and censorship,...
Survivor Transitional Narratives of Nazi-Era Destruction
The Second Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Survivor Transitional Narratives of Nazi-Era Destruction: The Second Liberation examines the historical circumstances that gave rise in the 1960s to the first cohort of Nazi-era survivors who massed a public campaign focusing on remembrance of Nazi racial crimes. The survivors' decision to engage...