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In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens ...
A dramatic and timely account of Stalin's failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed
In ...
The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of history
The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command ...
This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired ...
Triumph and Illusion is the final volume of Jonathan Sumption's epic history of the Hundred Years War. It tells the story of the collapse ...
In this compelling book, Lithuanian author Ruta Vanagaite holds an extended conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann. His exploration of the causes and consequences of ...
This is the untold story of The Lados Group, a group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists based in Switzerland during the Second World War ...
"Gretchen Starr-LeBeau's Seven Myths of the Spanish Inquisition provides an excellent introduction to Habsburg Spain's most reviled and misunderstood institution. Drawn from archival ...
The war in Ukraine did not start on 24 February 2022. It began eight years earlier in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. In his new ...
Russia's large-scale invasion on the 24th of February 2022 once again made Ukraine the focus of world media. Behind those headlines remain the complex ...
Peter Hainsworth's sparkling, eminently readable new English translation ofThe Book of the Courtier, Baldesar Castiglione's (14781529) literary and philosophical masterpiece, captures all the ...
An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history
'People embraced each other, shook hands, joy radiated from every eye, there ...
Updated and revised, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a detailed overview of the most long-standing, and the most militarily and politically ...
A cultural history of Europe's response to the Roma
This remarkable book describes a dark side of European history- the rejection of the Roma ...
After the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna's attempt to guarantee peace and stability across Europe, a new revolutionary ...
