European History

At the very beginning of the Second World War Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. Yet less than a year later some of Belgiums citizens volunteere...

Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after October, Ronald Grigor Suny-one of the world's leading historians of the p...

Hitlers Germany made sustained efforts to inflict a terror campaign on the streets of Britain through the use of secret agents and agents provocate...

Sicily is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, and for over 2000 years has been the gateway between Europe, Africa and the East. It has long bee...

From its vantage point overlooking Loch Ness, Urquhart Castle dominated the region for centuries. The probable site of a Pictish hill-fort, it may ...

These essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Rancière has pursued across forty years, with four interwove...

It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country...

A Civil War is a history of the wartime Italian Resistance, recounted by a historian who, when only a boy, took part in the struggle against Mussol...

This title deals with ancient Greece and the rise of Macedonia, the campaigns of Alexander and his mighty empire. This stirring history of the age ...

Born and bred in what is now northern Spain to a family of olive-oil magnates, Hadrian was lucky enough to benefit from the patronage of his matern...

Rome began as a collection of primitive huts on the banks of the Tiber, some considerable time before Romulus founded the great city. Ruled by king...

It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to build an atomic bomb. They have the physicists, but they don't have enough 'heavy water' essential for their...

William the Conquerors intellect is said to have remained clear right up to his death. He would have questioned whether any of his three sons indiv...

1930s Warsaw was a thoroughly cosmopolitan, even swinging city. Larger than Chicago, it was host to a rich Jewish cultural life. It seemed inconcei...

WORLD WAR ONE BOOK OF THE YEAR In a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War a multi-racial, mult...

Greece has always been celebrated for its classical past, whitewashed villages and cerulean seas, but in recent years the country has been at the c...

WORLD WAR ONE BOOK OF THE YEAR In a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War a multi-racial, mult...

A mixed infantry formation made up of about 3,000 men armed with pikes, swords and handguns, the innovative and influential tercio or 'Spanish squa...

A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world, as part of the stunning Landmark Library...

It's damned hard lines asking for bread and only getting a bullet! The dramatic and chaotic events surrounding the Russian Revolution have been ...

Built in 1927, the German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the RMS Titanic and one of the most celebrated luxury liners in...

The second volume of a new narrative history of the rise and fall of the Nazi regime, by an expert on the Third Reich. 'This book is like a time m...

In July 1917, a young man in the 12th East Surrey Regiment kept a journal of his experiences at the front. This poignant and moving account is narr...

Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the...