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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of ...
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 ...
