Europe category: 12800 books
The New Vichy Syndrome
Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time. On the one hand, Europeans believe they have at last created an ideal social and political system in which man can live comfortably. In many ways, things have never been better on the old continent. On the...
by Henrietta Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
IN the first centuries of our era the one great power of the world was Rome. All southern Europe bowed beneath the conquering sword of the Romans. Africa and Asia, too, owned their sway. For the Mediterranean, the great trade route of the then known world, was theirs, and the countries bordering upon...
by Josef Tarnowski
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Walking with Shadows is a book of exile and of odyssey: the incredible and moving story of a young Polish freedom fighter, Joe Tarnowski, who survived the frozen hell of the war-time Soviet Gulag to travel half-way round the globe to join the Free Polish Forces in Scotland.
A Paratrooper who...
by Richard Fenigsen, Antony Polonsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
"An extraordinary memoir.” Luba Vinogradova, co-author of A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist With the Red Army, 1941-1945
“An important contribution to our understanding of the Second World War in Eastern Europe, and also very funny, which I was not expecting.” Antony Polonsky,...
by Luca Leone, Carla Del Ponte
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Srebrenica represents a dark and painful chapter in late twentieth-century European history. Here, a still unknown number of Bosnian Muslim citizens were tortured and killed in July 1995. About 8.500 deaths have so far been confirmed, but survivors say 10.701 people died as a result of the blind and...
Where the Wild Winds Are
Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Selected as a Book of the Year by the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator
"Travel writing in excelsis." -Jan Morris, author of Venice
"A thrilling and gorgeous tale, packed with meteorological wonder." -Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun
Nick Hunt sets off on...
How To See Europe on 50¢ a Day
A Tramp's Trip
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The original college-dropout backpacker that started it all-this traveler’s classic is reissued here for the first time, and follows the adventures of Lee Meriwether in 1886 as he boards a steamer in Brooklyn and heads for Italy-to travel Europe on two quarters a day. Escaping a jail sentence in...
Slovakia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Slovakia has struggled with a low international profile. Often overlooked as the Czech Republic's little sister, it is a young country with an old culture and history, and a people who are proudly Central (not Eastern) European. Although for much of the twentieth century Czechs and Slovaks lived together...
Balkan Departures
Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive − traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory definitions of the West as modern,...
Stalin’s Nose
Across the Face of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
In Rory MacLean's ground breaking debut, Winston the pig drops onto uncle Peter's head and kills him dead. It is a distressing end to a distinguished Soviet spy. After the funeral aunt Zita, a faded Austrian aristocrat and a vivacious eccentric, refuses to remain at home in East Germany. Instead she...
Modern Albania
From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
In the early 1990s, Albania, arguably Europe’s most closed and repressive state, began a startling transition out of forty years of self-imposed Communist isolation. Albanians who were not allowed to practice religion, travel abroad, wear jeans, or read “decadent” Western literature began to...
Dreamland
Europeans and Jews in the Aftermath of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
By the end of World War I, in November 1918, Europe’s old authoritarian empires had fallen, and new and seemingly democratic governments were rising from the debris. As successor states found their place on the map, many hoped that a more liberal Europe would emerge. But this post-war idealism all...
Lingo
Around Europe in Sixty Languages
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Six thousand years. Sixty languages. One “brisk and breezy” whirlwind armchair tour of Europe “bulg[ing] with linguistic trivia” (The Wall Street Journal).
Take a trip of the tongue across the continent in this fascinating, hilarious and highly edifying exploration of the many ways...
by Francois Louis, Peter N Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
This book is a project in comparative history, but along two distinct axes, one historical and the other historiographical. Its purpose is to constructively juxtapose the early modern European and Chinese approaches to historical study that have been called "antiquarian." As an exercise...