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The definitive history of Austria's multinational army and its immense role during three centuries of European military history
Among the finest examples of deeply ...
In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans. Across ...
Stefan Zweig was a leading talisman of a united Europe of unfettered movement, of pro-active cultural exchange, humane decency and tolerance, all polar opposites of ...
"Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention... Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a ...
If I had been present at the Creation," the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, Many faults in the universe would ...
The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. Voltaire ...
Historians, journalists, and even politicians uphold the Muslim kingdom in medieval Spain - "al-Andalus" - as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived ...
The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600 ...
In this book, acclaimed history David Brewer investigates explores 1940s Greece -- one of the most tumultuous decades in Greece's modern history.
Beginning in 1941 ...
The Company of Scotland and its attempts to establish the colony of Caledonia in the late seventeenth century is one of the most tragic moments ...
The gripping story of the last great unexplored aspect of the Second World War
For nearly two years the two most infamous dictators in history ...
Christianity and European-style monarchy--the cross and the scepter--were introduced to Scandinavia in the tenth century, a development that was to have profound implications for all ...
Kathryn Harrison gives us a Joan of Arc for our time-a shining exemplar of unshakable faith, extraordinary courage, and self-confidence on the battlefield, in the ...
