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Spain has never worked as a democracy. Throughout the country's history only one system of government has ever enjoyed any real success: dictatorship and ...
The untold story of the crises and compromises that united a continent
"A work of impressive scholarship and historical imagination, . . . unlike anything written about the ...
The final decade of the Cold War, through the eyes of a laconic and elegant observer
In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series ...
The acclaimed historical portrait of the love triangle between an opera star, a writer and an impresario - and their role in Europe's 19th-century cultural ...
The Holocaust was perpetrated by the Germans, but it would not have been possible without the assistance of thousands of helpers in other countries: state ...
The concept of a 'Renaissance' in the arts, in thought, and in more general culture North of the Alps often evokes the idea of a ...
A superb study of one of the most important, romantic and dynamic figures of European history.
'A fine book ... the web of political intrigue unfolds ...
In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the ravages of the Great War, its people were desperate ...
We think we know ancient Greece, the civilization that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines 'western' culture today, in ...
From the foremost historian of modern Spain comes the bloody, much misunderstood story of how, from 1874 to the present day the Spanish people were ...
The Normans were a relatively short-lived cultural and political phenomenon. They emerged early in the tenth century and had disappeared off the map by the ...
For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and ...
From the bestselling author of Germania, Lotharinigia is the third installment in Simon Winder's personal history of Europe.
In 843 AD, the three surviving ...
The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many called for its ...
According to Stoker novel, Dracula was a cultured man. In reality he was a Romanian warlord of the 15th century. He gained his name, Vlad ...
