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The gripping story of the years that ended the Great War and launched Europe and America onto the roller coaster of the twentieth century, Crucible ...
A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today
In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth ...
In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist when Francis II became Emperor of Austria. 112 years later, the Habsburg empire collapsed after the ...
At Histories of the Unexpected, we believe that everything has a history - even the most unexpected of subjects - and that everything links together in unexpected ...
This is NOT just another retelling of the Fall of Constantinople, though it does include a very fine account of that momentous event. It is ...
The definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present
After the overwhelming horrors of the first ...
Britain's most passionate Francophile takes us on a wonderfully rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon ...
Have you ever found yourself watching a show or reading a novel and wondering what life was really like in the Middle Ages? What did ...
"The Swan King" is the biography of one of the most enigmatic figures of the 19th century, described by Verlaine as 'the only true king ...
The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical world
The Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies ...
Comprehensive account of the Viking art of war, weapons and the history of their conquests with over 380 illustrations. Vikings at War is a sumptuous ...
A major new biography of one of the most extraordinary of all European rulers
Charles, king of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable ...
In January 1933, on the very day Hitler seized power in Germany, Joseph Roth fled to Paris. There, in what he called the 'hour before ...
For My Legionaries is the passionate autobiography of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, a Romanian patriot from the early 20th Century who founded the Legion of Michael ...
'This new edition returns a mercurial, bravura work to the bookshelves, from which it has been absent too long' Dan Jones, author of The Templars ...
