Europe category: 12800 books
Blood Ties
Religion, Violence and the Politics of Nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia, 1878–1908
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
The region that is today Macedonia was long the heart of the Ottoman Empire in Europe. It was home to a complex mix of peoples and faiths who had for hundreds of years lived together in relative peace. To be sure, these people were no strangers to coercive violence and various forms of depredations...
The Rhine
Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
From rowing the canals of Amsterdam to riding a cow through the Alps, via Cold War nuclear bunkers, raucous Gay Pride parades, tranquil Lake Constance and snowy mountain climbs, The Rhine blends travelogue and offbeat history to tell the fascinating story of how a great river helped shape a continent.
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Love and Science
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Long before he became one of the world's most celebrated immunologists, Jan Vilcek began life in Slovakia as the child of Jewish parents at a time when Jews were being exterminated all across Europe. He owes his and his mother’s survival to the courage of brave people and good luck. As a young man...
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
From its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effect on public life in Europe, the Age of Enlightenment is the defining intellectual and cultural movement of the modern world. Using reason as its core value, the Enlightenment believed...
Heavenly Intrigue
Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Heavenly Intrigue is the fascinating, true account of the seventeenth-century collaboration between Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe that revolutionized our understanding of the universe–and ended in murder.One of history’s greatest geniuses, Kepler laid the foundations of modern physics with his...
Surf Guns of Morocco
Escaping the Guns of Morocco
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
These are my true European and Moroccan surf and survival stories. It begins with us being attacked by Moroccans with AK47s. We could only survive if we could get out of there in our van under a hail of bullet fire. When we took the ferry over to Spain we thought we were safe We still have to get past the 'Coast of Death' in northern Spain. The odds were stacked against us that's for sure.
by Zachary Karabashliev
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
CO-WINNER OF THE 2012 CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN WRITERS CONTEST
Distraught over the sudden disappearance of his wife Stella, Zack tries to drown his grief in Tijuana, where he encounters a violent scene, and trying to save a stranger's life, nearly loses his own. Escaping with the van of his attackers,...
Under the Southern Sun
Stories of the Real Italy and the Americans It Created
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Recently there has been a seemingly endless stream of books praising the glories of ancient and modern Rome, fretting over Venice's rising tides and moldering galleries, celebrating the Tuscan countryside, wines and cuisine. But there have been curiously few writings that deal directly with Italy...
by Thomas Okey
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
The mediæval scribe in the fulness of a divinely-revealed cosmogony is wont to begin his story at the creation of the world or at the confusion of tongues, to trace the building of Troy by the descendants of Japheth, and the foundation of his own native city by one of the Trojan princes made a fugitive...
Three Minutes in Poland
Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
When Glenn Kurtz stumbles upon an old family film in his parents' closet in Florida, he has no inkling of its historical significance or of the impact it will have on his life. The film, shot long ago by his grandfather on a sightseeing trip to Europe, includes shaky footage of Paris and the Swiss...
I Wish It Were Fiction
Holocaust Memories - 1938–1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2006
The writer of this memoir, Aaron Starkman, was barely 20 years old, when he was driven in into the Nazi Hitler hell. He decided to keep a diary, where he made notes of everything that was happening. He did not know whether he would survive. When he was liberated, he gathered all the notes and deposited...
by Jaume Sobrequés i Callicó
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This is an ideal introduction to the whole history of Catalonia from the remotest times until the present. It is a rigorous and accessible vision aimed at everyone, which can be read quickly and easily. The book brings the Catalan past to all Catalans and to foreigners who, when they visit Catalonia,...
Raised to Rule
Educating Royalty at the Court of the Spanish Habsburgs, 1601-1634
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
The children of Philip III of Spain (1578--1621) and Margarita de Austria (1584--1611) inherited great potential power: the abilities to declare war or make peace, to advocate religious doctrine, and to exert lasting influence over art, culture, and taste. The leadership provided by this generation...
The Great Powers and Poland
From Versailles to Yalta
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
This definitive study provides a comprehensive diplomatic history of Poland during the most seminal period in its existence, when its destiny lay in the hands of France, Great Britain, and the United States. Although sovereign in principle, Poland was little more than an object of the Great Powers’...