Europe category: 12800 books
The Illustrious Dead
The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
“Gripping . . . a compelling story of personal hubris and humbling defeat.”
—Jack Weatherford,author of the New York Times bestseller Genghis Khan and the Making of the
Modern World
In a masterful dual narrative that pits the heights of human ambition and achievement against the supremacy...
The Journeying Moon
Sailing into History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A memoir of life as an adventurer and sailor in the Mediterranean, by the noted naval historian.
Ernle Bradford spent his twenty-first birthday in Egypt, serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. It was there that he came across the profoundly affecting words of Anton Chekhov: “Life does...
by Ernle Bradford
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The bestselling author of The Journeying Moon explores the history and culture of Sicily in this colorful travel memoir.
In his memoir The Journeying Moon, historian Ernle Bradford recounts the call to adventure that brought him and his wife, Janet, to a life on the sea. Continuing their adventures...
The Greatest Battle
Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
The battle for Moscow was the biggest battle of World War II -- the biggest battle of all time. And yet it is far less known than Stalingrad, which involved about half the number of troops. From the time Hitler launched his assault on Moscow on September 30, 1941, to April 20, 1942, seven million...
Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 18) Isle of Man TT Races
The Greatest Road Racing On Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
These nine published magazine articles from the Backroad Bob's Motorcycle Adventures - GPs, MotoGPs, England, Ireland, & The Isle Of Man CD are about the greatest motorcycle racing event on the planet - the two-week long festival of speed known as the Isle of Man TT Races.
You may have heard about...
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005
The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Rome generated its own nemesis. Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors it called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling...
Charlemagne's Courtier
The Complete Einhard
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
Among the readings included are several existing letters by Emma (Einhard's wife), The Life of Charlemagne, and The History of His Relics. The latter work transports us into an almost unknown world as Einhard, the cool rationalist, arranges for a relic salesman, a veritable bone seller, to acquire...
Edward Heath Made Me Angry
(The later memoirs of a West of Scotland ‘baby-boomer’)
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Stuart Christie was released from a Spanish prison in September 1967, having served over three years of a 20-year sentence for his part in an anarchist plot to assassinate General Franco, the last of the Axis dictators. He came back to a world of social and industrial turbulence, growing anger at...
Rescuing the Czar
Two Authentic Daries
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Rescuing the Czar
Two Authentic Daries
FOREWORD
ByW.E. Aughinbaugh, M.D., LL.B., LL.M.
Is the former Czar and his Imperial family still alive? There are millions of people in Europe and America who are asking this question.
European governments have considered the question of...
Parallel Histories
Muslims and Jews in Inquisitorial Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
The distinct religious culture of early modern Spain -- characterized by religious unity at a time when fierce civil wars between Catholics and Protestants fractured northern Europe -- is further understood through examining the expulsion of the Jews and suspected Muslims. While these two groups had...
by M. Sükrü Hanioglu
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most volatile....
They Would Never Hurt a Fly
War Criminals on Trial in The Hague
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
"Who were they? Ordinary people like you or me—or monsters?” asks internationally acclaimed author Slavenka Drakulic as she sets out to understand the people behind the horrific crimes committed during the war that tore apart Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Drawing on firsthand observations of the...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Crimea (Ukraine) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
Final Solution
The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
David Cesarani’s Final Solution is a magisterial work of history that chronicles the fate of Europe’s Jews. Based on decades of scholarship, documentation newly available from the opening of Soviet archives, declassification of Western intelligence service records, as well as diaries and reports...