Western Europe category: 1822 books
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Liechtenstein 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....
by Graham Kingston
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
In this article we discuss our four day trip to central Bucharest. We present a day-by-day account of our activities, visiting Revolution Square, Herastrau Park, National Village Museum, Arch of Triumph, the Old Town, Palace of the People, Gara de Nord, and Constitution Square. In essence we completed...
by Gary Wonning
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
An undiscovered paradise lies in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. part of the Canary Islands, Lanzarote is a jewel waiting to be discovered,
by John Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
You don’t have to travel far in this city to realize there is one major visual reference in this city, and that’s the superb castle perched high on the hill. Everything tumbles away from this most famous of landmarks. Countless alleyway and steep steps intertwine with tall terraces and imposing...
by Richard W. Unger
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
The beer of today—brewed from malted grain and hops, manufactured by large and often multinational corporations, frequently associated with young adults, sports, and drunkenness—is largely the result of scientific and industrial developments of the nineteenth century. Modern beer, however, has...
Absolute Power
The Real Lives of Europe’s Most Infamous Rulers
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2006
Here, 75 succinct essays cover European royalty from the last king of Rome to Tsar Nicholas II. There is an enduring public interest in royalty and dictatorial rulers: this book covers all of them comprehensively. Far more than just sensational accounts, the book makes a genuine attempt to understand...
by Bob Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Culture Briefing: Hungary provides current, in-depth information found in no other single publication to help you understand the Hungarian way of life. Whether visiting Hungary, working on a class paper or doing business with the Hungarians, you'll find Culture Briefing: Hungary an invaluable...
Sicily
An Island at the Crossroads of History
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Critically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbinding narrative that places the island at the crossroads of world history.
“Sicily,” said Goethe, “is the key to everything.” It is the largest island in the Mediterranean, the stepping-stone...
The Race to the New World
Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and a Lost History of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The final decade of the fifteenth century was a turning point in world history. The Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus sailed westward on the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, famously determined to discover for Spain a shorter and more direct route to the riches of the Indies. Meanwhile, a fellow Italian...
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...
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...
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...
Operation Totalize 1944
The Allied drive south from Caen
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
In Operation Totalize, Lieutenant-General Guy Simonds' II Canadian Corps launched an attack from its positions along the Bourguébus Ridge south of Caen, striking south-southeast astride the main Caen–Falaise road toward the high ground that dominated the town of Falaise and the key west-east lateral...