Western Europe category: 1822 books
D-Day to Victory
With the men and machines that won the war
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The companion volume to the groundbreaking TV series, this book tells the story of the physical, emotional and psychological journey of Allied soldiers from the beaches of Normandy to the ruins of Berlin. In their own words these brave men from Britain, the United States, Canada and Russia tell us...
Looking for Strangers
The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Dori Katz is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who thought that her lost memories of her childhood years in Belgium were irrecoverable. But after a chance viewing of a documentary about hidden children in German-occupied Belgium, she realized that she might, in fact, be able to unearth those years. Looking...
Renaissance Craftsmen and Humanistic Scholars
Circulation of Knowledge between Portugal and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The study of the relations between Portugal and the German-speaking countries in the 15th and 16th centuries is an intriguing topic that has attracted the interest of scholars for some decades. In recent years evidence accumulated has shown that there was still much to be known and even some large...
by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
The Battle of Waterloo is one of the most important moments in military history.
The might of the French Empire under the leadership of the Emperor Napoleon faced the Coalition army under Duke of Wellington and Gerhard von Blucher for one last time at Waterloo.
The battle saw the culmination...
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by Scott S. F. Meaker
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
*** This is a short and Untold Stories of the Women Heroes in the Extraordinary World War Two *** These women have been footnotes in history and at least one of them was a model for women in James Bond books and movies. The women however have remained in the shadows of the stories of the Second...
God's Bestseller
William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible--A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The English Bible--the most familiar book in our language--is the product of a man who was exiled, vilified, betrayed, then strangled, then burnt.
William Tyndale left England in 1524 to translate the word of God into English. This was heresy, punishable by death. Sir Thomas More, hailed as...
by Pier Paolo Battistelli
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
This book gives a focused, military biography of Heinz Guderian, perhaps the most highly respected tank commander of World War II. Guderian was a typical product of the Prussian military elite; the son of a general in the army, there was little doubt that he would follow in his father's footsteps....
by Kevin Arnett
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Learn the history of World War I in an easy afternoon read. World War One, or the “Great War” as it was called at the time, was the devastating consequence of a Serbian revolutionary group’s 1914 murder of a royal couple of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When the war ended four years later, 9...
The Philosopher and the Druids
A Journey Among the Ancient Celts
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Early in the first century B.C. a Greek philosopher named Posidonius began an ambitious and dangerous journey into the little-known lands of the Celts. A man of great intellectual curiosity and considerable daring, Posidonius traveled from his home on the island of Rhodes to Rome, the capital of the...
Murder in the Métro
Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
On the evening of May 16, 1937, the train doors opened at the Porte Dorée station in the Paris Métro to reveal a dying woman slumped by a window, an eight-inch stiletto buried to its hilt in her neck. No one witnessed the crime, and the killer left behind little forensic evidence. This first-ever...
Nelson's Trafalgar
The Battle That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
An explosive chronicle of history's greatest sea battle, from the co-author of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018)
In the tradition of Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous...
The War for All the Oceans
From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
A brutal, action-packed account of the sea battles of the Napoleonic War by the author of the bestselling Nelson’s Trafalgar and co-author of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018)
As he did with his much lauded Nelson’s Trafalgar, Roy Adkins...
Catalaunian Fields AD 451
Rome’s last great battle
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
The battle of the Catalaunian Fields saw two massive, powerful empires square up in a conflict that was to shape the course of Eurasian history forever. For despite the Roman victory, the Roman Empire would not survive for more than 15 years following the battle, whilst the Huns, shattered and demoralized,...
New Netherland Connections
Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal transactions among women and men. As West India Company ships began sailing westward in the early seventeenth century, soldiers, sailors, and settlers drew on kin and social relationships to function within...