Western Europe category: 1822 books
by Jeannie Meekins
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
You’ve probably heard of Saint Valentine’s Day. You may have given someone a card or a present. You may even have done it in secret, and watched the look of happiness on their face. You probably tried not to blush as that person tried to figure out who their secret Valentine was.
But what do you...
by David Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Not many people would claim to be saints, or alternatively, consider themselves entirely without redeeming qualities. Some are unquestionably worse than others, but few have been held in greater infamy than Richard Plantagenet, afterwards Duke of Gloucester and, later still, King Richard III. Richards...
by Alexandre Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
This antiquarian book contains Alexandre Dumas’s 1849 novel, “The Queen’s Necklace”. It is based on a famous case of fraud and royal scandal concerning Marie Antoinette’s complicity in a plot to deceive the crown jewellers as to the cost of a diamond necklace, which further spoiled the already-tarnished...
Le Lion de Flandre
( Edition intégrale ) Tome I et II - annoté
Language: French
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Publié en 1838, initialement en flamand, voici un roman historique qu'on peut qualifier de la même trempe qu'un Alexandre Dumas !
Inconnu en France (et pour cause), il célèbre la révolte des villes flamandes contre l'occupation cruelle que leur fait subir Philippe le Bel, roi de France,...
Nederland - Belgie 0-1
hoe Nederland Belgie aan de WK-winst helpt
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Nederland-België 0-1 is een boek voor alle fans van de Oranje Leeuwen én de Rode Duivels voor de fans van het werelkampioenschap voetbal. Zowel het Nederlands elftal als van België heeft zich gekwalificeerd voor de eindronde van het wereldkampioenschap voetbal in Brazilië, een unieke gebeurtenis....
Making Monte Carlo
A History of Speculation and Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
“A brisk historical tour of the marketing and selling of the small principality of Monaco and its famous city…A well-researched, dramatic rags-to-riches urban tale” (Kirkus Reviews) of Monte Carlo’s rise from small principality to prosperous resort town of the 1920s.
Monte Carlo has...
by Bies van Ede
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Het spannende historische jeugdboek ‘Vrienden onder vuur’ van Bies van Ede vertelt het verhaal van jeugdvrienden Eva en Evert. Tijdens de Tachtigjarige Oorlog belegeren de Spanjaarden hun woonplaats: het Oranjegezinde Haarlem. Maar niet alle Haarlemmers hopen dat de legers van Willem van Oranje...
Hitler's Children
Sons and Daughters of Third Reich Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017
“A mesmerizing, blood-chilling book . . . The contrast between innocent childhood experience, and the awful understanding of that experience that came with time, is enough to make you weep"
– Los Angeles Times
Göring. Hess. Mengele. Dönitz. Names that conjure up dark memories...
The Renaissance
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The Renaissance holds an undying place in the human imagination, and its great heroes remain our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Montaigne. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern; reviving the city as the...
by Martin Luther, William R. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
For the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, a new translation of Martin Luther's most famous works by leading Luther scholar and pastor William Russell
This volume contains selections from Martin Luther's most evocative and provocative writings, freshly translated, for the 21st century. These...
by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The Everlasting Man is a two-part history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity, by G. K. Chesterton. This Kobo edition includes 136 endnotes and 13 illustrations that help contemporary reader to better understand the author, his ideas, historical context, his references to numerous names and events....
The Face of Battle
A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 1983
Master military historian John Keegan’s groundbreaking analysis of combat and warfare
The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the "point of maximum danger." Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia,...
Uncovering Paris
Scandals and Nude Spectacles in the Belle Époque
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
From 1889 to 1914 nude spectacles increased at an astonishing rate as a result of burgeoning artistic experimentation, the commercialization of the female body, and the rise of urban nightlife. In particular, artists’ balls and music halls provided creative spaces in which women, artists, impresarios,...
The Force of Beauty
Transforming French Ideas of Femininity in the Third Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The market for commercial beauty products exploded in Third Republic France, with a proliferation of goods promising to erase female imperfections and perpetuate an aesthetic of femininity that conveyed health and respectability. While the industry's meteoric growth helped to codify conventional standards...