Western Europe category: 1822 books
Little Escapes net over de grens
208 slaaptips en eetadressen in Nederland, België, Zuid-Engeland, Noord-Frankrijk en West-Duitsland
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Er even tussenuit. Natuurlijk kun je dan naar New York of Ibiza, maar wat als je maar een nachtje of twee weg wilt? Niet te ver of ingewikkeld? Met je partner, of lekker helemaal alleen? Daar hoef je helemaal niet ver voor te reizen.
Na de succesvolle lancering van Little Escapes gaat Maartje...
Willy Brandt et Georges Pompidou
La politique européenne de la France et de l'Allemagne entre crise et renouveau
Language: French
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Depuis la seconde guerre mondiale, l’histoire des relations franco-allemandes est souvent personnifiée. Dans ce contexte, Willy Brandt et Georges Pompidou restent souvent dans l’ombre de couples plus connus. Alors que Brandt est plutôt associé à la nouvelle Ostpolitik, Pompidou est davantage...
by George Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1969
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1969
**A National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century
“One of Orwell’s very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War.”—The New Yorker**
In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George...
Joan of Arc
A Life Transfigured
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose "voices" moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George...
The Death of Caesar
The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
In this story of the most famous assassination in history, “the last bloody day of the [Roman] Republic has never been painted so brilliantly” (The Wall Street Journal).
Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate on March 15, 44 BC—the Ides of March according to the Roman...
A Man Called Intrepid
The Incredible True Story of the Master Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A New York Times Best Seller!
The classic real-life story of the superspy whose vast intelligence network helped defeat the Nazis in World War II.
A Man Called Intrepid is the account of the world’s first integrated intelligence operation and of its master, William Stephenson. Codenamed...
by M. G. Scarsbrook
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
The most handsome man of his era… yet also the most feared...
Cesare Borgia was the most infamous member of history’s original crime family – the Borgias. Son of the scandalous Pope Alexander VI, and brother to the notorious Lucrezia Borgia, he rose above them all to become an icon of...
Those Wild Wyndhams
Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
The three dazzlingly beautiful, wildly rich Wyndham sisters, part of the four hundred families that made up Britain's ruling class, at the center of cultural and political life in late-Victorian/Edwardian Britain. Here are their complex, idiosyncratic lives; their opulent, privileged world; their...
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The name Waterloo has become synonymous with final, crushing defeat. Now this legendary battle is re-created in a groundbreaking book by an eminent British military historian making his major American debut. Revealing how and why Napoleon fell in Belgium in June 1815, The Battle of Waterloo definitively...
The Maid and the Queen
The Secret History of Joan of Arc
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
“Attention, ‘Game of Thrones’ fans: The most enjoyably sensational aspects of medieval politics—double-crosses, ambushes, bizarre personal obsessions, lunacy and naked self-interest—are in abundant evidence in Nancy Goldstone's The Maid and the Queen.” (Laura Miller, Salon.com)
Politically...
by Charles L. Mee Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Until now he has remained a mystery, leaving only a few sentences, the letters of his bankruptcy, a mistress's notarized complaint - and the most glorious, compassionate paintings ever to astonish the eye. The first pure biography of this enigmatic legend is a fascinating detective story in which,...
A Heroine of France
the story of Saint Joan of Arc
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016
The story of Saint Joan of Arc. From CatholicSaints.Info / CatholicSaints.Mobi.
Pepyss London: Everyday Life in London 1650-1703
Everyday Life in London 1650-1703
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Samuel Pepyss London was a turbulent, boisterous city, enduring the strains caused by foreign wars, the Great Plague and the Great Fire, yet growing and prospering. The Restoration in 1660 brought the reopening of the theatres, with women appearing on the stage for the first time, and the period saw...
Aphorismes sur la sagesse dans la vie
( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2018
La solitude offre à l’homme intellectuellement haut placé un double avantage : le premier, d’être avec soi-même, et le second de n’être pas avec les autres. On appréciera hautement ce dernier si l’on réfléchit à tout ce que le commerce du monde apporte avec soi de contrainte, de peine...