Europe category: 12800 books
by Avia
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
"My Whirlwind romance with Europe" is an exciting, contemporary novella about The protagonists Family background, her recent European travels and some of her Life experiences.
Make a coffee and enjoy a multi-cultural, adventurous journey with Avia through the "old world"...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
This book deals with the Second World War in Southeastern Europe from the perspective of conditions on the ground during the conflict. The focus is on the reshaping of ethnic and religious groups in wartime, on the "top-down" and "bottom-up" dynamics of mass violence, and on the...
Jacques-René Rabier
Fonctionnaire-militant au service dune certaine idée de lEurope
Language: French
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Montmartrois né en en 1919, Jacques-René Rabier a vu sa vie professionnelle épouser l’Europe telle qu’elle se construit depuis la « Déclaration Schuman » en 1950. Engagé par Jean Monnet au Commissariat général du Plan, il le rejoint à Luxembourg où vient de s’installer la Haute Autorité...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
The Rough Guide Snapshot to the Czech Republic is the ultimate budget guide to this beautiful part of Europe. It leads you through the country with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the top sights and attractions, from Prague and Plzen to fairytale Ceský Krumlov.
Detailed...
by Catherine the Great
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Empress Catherine II brought Europe to Russia, and Russia to Europe, during her long and eventful reign (1762—96). She fostered the culture of the Enlightenment and greatly expanded the immense empire created by Czar Ivan the Terrible, shifting the balance of power in Europe eastward. Famous for...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
*Includes pictures of Vlad and important people and places in his life. *Includes historical accounts that describe Vlad the Impaler and his notorious rule.*Discusses the authenticity of the accounts accusing Vlad of impaling tens of thousands and his other infamous misdeeds*Analyzes Vlad's legacy and...
The Pope Who Would Be King
The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Pope and Mussolini tells the story of the bloody revolution that stripped the pope of political power and signaled the birth of modern Europe.
“[David I.] Kertzer’s brilliant treatment of the crisis in the papacy between 1846 and 1850 reads like...
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war...
Royal Babylon
The Alarming History of European Royalty
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
An uproarious, eye-opening history of Europe's notorious royal houses that leaves no throne unturned and will make you glad you live in a democracy.
Do you want to know which queen has the unique distinction of being the only known royal kleptomaniac? Or which empress kept her dirty underwear...
Charles V
The World Emperor
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Charles V (1500-58), King of Aragon, ruler of Castile and Roman Emperor is one of the most interesting and perplexing of the great European monarchs. Son of Philip the Handsome and Juana, Queen of Castile, who was regarded as insane, by the age of nineteen he was the most powerful monarch in Europe....
Frederick the Great
King of Prussia
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The definitive biography of the legendary autocrat whose enlightened rule transformed the map of Europe and changed the course of history
Few figures loom as large in European history as Frederick the Great. When he inherited the Prussian crown in 1740, he ruled over a kingdom of scattered...
by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
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In Europe and Asia there are two countries separated from each other by a narrow strip of water. One of these is spoken of as Turkey in Europe, and the other as Turkey in Asia. They are held together under one ruler called the Sultan. He has absolute power...
Brand Luther
How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--and Started the Protestant Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
A revolutionary look at Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the birth of publishing, on the eve of the Reformation’s 500th anniversary
When Martin Luther posted his “theses” on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, protesting corrupt practices, he was virtually unknown. Within months,...
Where the West Ends
Stories From the Balkans, the Black Sea, and the Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2012
Prize-winning author Michael J. Totten returns with a masterpiece of travel writing and history in this journey through thirteen nations—all but two formerly communist—just beyond the edge of the West where few casual travelers venture. His work as an independent foreign correspondent takes him...