Western Europe category: 1822 books

The fifth and final volume in this collection of the British prime minister’s oratory contains the final speeches and addresses of his life. Legendary politician and military strategist Winston S. Churchill was a master not only of the battlefield, but of the page and the podium. Over the...

Author C. S. Forester was a history enthusiast who contributed many illuminating articles to popular publications of his day. His interest spanned centuries, his research was impeccable, and, as a story teller to the core, he makes the facts came to life with compelling force. Included in...

Key note: The Battle of Albuera was one of the bloodiest, and yet least decisive of the battles fought in the Peninsular War. In the spring of 1811, the French armies in Portgual were in headlong retreat, falling back into Spain to regroup. As they fell back they left a powerful garrison in...

"Woutertje Pieterse" (or The History of Walter Pieterse) by Multatuli was his second novel and published posthumously in 1890. It is also the most famous work by the author after "Max Havelaar". The history of Wouter Pieterse appeared as fragments in the Ideas , which also forms...

This title represents the second instalment of the captivating study of the Waterloo campaign, one of the defining events in European history. In particular it focuses on the desperate struggle for Ligny, which saw the Prussians pushed back by the French Army after heavy fighting in what was to be...

This the mournful tale of a lost spirit and an unsolved mystery in Scarborough.

Esta es una de las pocas obras de Esquilo que ha sobrevivido a los siglos. Es una tragedia basada en la derrota de los persas en la batalla de Salamina, el punto de viraje que termino con los sueños de dominación de Jerjes.

The Crusades were the bridge between medievl and modern history, between feudalism and colonialism. In many ways, the lttle explored later Crusades were the most significant of them all, for thy made the crisis truly global. The Last Crusaders is about the perio's last great conflict between East...

The Seven Years' War was the pinnacle of 18th-century warfare, with dramatic campaigns and battles, famous leaders, and wide variety of colourful uniforms. Compared with the later Napoleonic Wars, tactics were simpler, armies more professional, and battles tended to be smaller. Using these quick-to-learn...

The Norman conquerors of Anglo-Saxon England have traditionally been seen both as rapacious colonizers and as the harbingers of a more civilized culture, replacing a tribal Germanic society and its customs with more refined Continental practices. Many of the scholarly arguments about the Normans and...

¿Fue realmente Churchill el gran valedor de la unidad europea de la posguerra? ¿Iba su idea de Europa más allá de una mera cooperación entre gobiernos? ¿Cuál era su opinión sobre la participación británica? Sería tan sencillo como inútil recurrir a una cita aislada del popular político...

“There were dead men everywhere, and a good number of our cavalry. We passed Fritz artillery with dead horses attached to their limbers. I come across a wounded Fritz. He was just a young boy and our tanks had run over him. A crew of five had a gun mounted in a shell-hole and the tank had flattened...

A free eBook, offering an illustrated contribution about the ancient legal term 'Thing', being a court of justice, a public assembly or both. Both historical and actual use of the expression is provided.It starts with a god called Thincsus and through the ages it also connect to related modern parliaments in several countries.

The First International was held in London in 1864 during which the European working class discussed its emancipation from the capital. The First Congress of the Spanish Section of the Internacional was held in 1870 and later, in 1883 a commission was formed to study the social problems created by the government.