European History

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Life-filled and life-affirming history, steeped in romance and written with verve' GUARDIAN'Richly entertaining and imp...

This splendid and often moving work of history Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing ...

Voices from the Napoleonic Wars reveals in telling detail the harsh lives of soldiers at the turn of the eighteenth century and in the early years ...

The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany.'Deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description ...

In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in...

'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to be...

Now available in a single, abridged paperback, Ian Kershaw's Hitler is the definitive biography of the Nazi leader. Ian Kershaw's two volume biogr...

Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea. Otto von Bismarck had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine indiv...

This rich history of Antwerp was a Times Book of the Year and Radio 4 Book of the WeekEven before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North Sea port at ...

Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war.War pressed against every fronti...

Incoherent, obsessive and violent, Hitler's ideas nonetheless found an audience of millions and led to one of the most horrific and devastating con...

The world premiere of the musical stage play Star of Strait Street took place in Valletta on 4 April 2017. It celebrates the life of Christina Ratc...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, the most comprehensive portr...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE 2020'Brilliant ... a historical masterpiece' The Times Literary SupplementFrom one...

'Masterly' - Robert Harris, author of Imperium 'Essential reading for anyone interested in Ancient Rome' Independent*****Caesar Augustus schemed an...

'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... Students, scholars and the g...

Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2011The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) to...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages th...

'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and pla...

Twenty-five thousand feet above Malta that is where the Spitfires intercepted the Messerschmitts, Macchis and Reggianes as they swept eastwards i...

This introduction presents Martin Luther as historians now see him. Instead of singling him out as a modern hero, the book emphasizes the context i...

The first paperback edition, in line with latest historiography - Ottoman Empire is a major and advanced early modern power, this book is based on ...

War, revolution, treason and love the thrilling tale of Sir John of Gaunt brought to life by medieval history's rising star. The Red Prince annou...

The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder.   Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has ...

Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain either as a paradise of enlightened tolerance, or as the site where civilisations clashed. Award-winnin...

The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into six...

From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar, this is the engrossing story of the often-overlooked German counteroffensive post-Stali...

* PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW *- Why did the Allies decide to invade Southern Italy?- How did the weather and Italian terrain complicate the fighting?-...

Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, th...