Western Europe category: 1822 books
Never Surrender
Winston Churchill and Britain's Decision to Fight Nazi Germany in the Fateful Summer of 1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
“WWII scholar John Kelly triumphs again” (Vanity Fair) in this remarkably vivid account of a key moment in Western history: The critical six months in 1940 when Winston Churchill debated whether England should fight Nazi Germany—and then decided to “never surrender.”
London in April,...
Divine Art, Infernal Machine
The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its very early days the printing press was viewed by some as black magic. For the most part, however, it...
The Assassination of Theo van Gogh
From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent shot van Gogh, slit his throat, and pinned a five-page indictment of Western society to his body. The murder set off a series of reactions,...
by Nicholas Higham, M. J. Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from the Western world and ends with the Norman takeover of England. Between these epochal events, many of the contours and patterns of English life that would endure for the next millennium...
Reading 1759
Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British “year of victories” during the Seven Years’ War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics....
The Norman Conquest
England after William the Conqueror
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Exploring the successful Norman invasion of England in 1066, this concise and readable book focuses especially on the often dramatic and enduring changes wrought by William the Conqueror and his followers. From the perspective of a modern social historian, Hugh M. Thomas considers the conquest's wide-ranging...
by Steven Beller
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate. This Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious conflict to 'new' antisemitism in the 21st century....
Soldier of Rome: Rise of the Flavians
Year of the Four Emperors, #2
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
It is April of 69 A.D., and Rome's first civil war in a hundred years has ended. Emperor Otho, who violently overthrew the tyrannical Galba just three months before, is dead. The triumphant armies of the Rhine coerce the senate into ratifying their governor, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor. While there...
by Elizabeth Lapina
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
In Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade, Elizabeth Lapina examines a variety of these chronicles, written both by participants in the crusade and by those who stayed behind. Her goal is to understand the enterprise from the perspective of its contemporaries and near contemporaries....
by Jakob Walter
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
A grunt’s-eye report from the battlefield in the spirit of The Red Badge of Courage and All Quiet *on the Western Front—*the only known account by a common soldier of the campaigns of Napoleon’s Grand Army between 1806 and 1813.
When eighteen-year-old German stonemason Jakob Walter was conscripted...
Passchendaele
The Untold Story; Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied and 200,000 German casualties. Yet the territorial...
Genius and Discovery
Five Historical Miniatures
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
One of two beautifully designed hardback gift editions of Stefan Zweig's breathlessly dramatic historical sketches, out in time for the holidays.
Millions of people in a nation are necessary for a single genius to arise, millions of tedious hours must pass before a truly historic shooting star...
by Richard Marius
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Most previous biographers of Thomas More have sought to prove him a saint; in this, the first full-scale biography of More in half a century, Richard Marius, a leading Reformation historian, seeks to restore the man. More’s life spanned a tumultuous period in Western history. He was born in 1478...
Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul
Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Skin-clad barbarians ransacking Rome remains a popular image of the "decline and fall" of the Roman Empire, but why, when, and how the Empire actually fell are still matters of debate among students of classical history. In this pioneering study, Ralph W. Mathisen examines the "fall" in one part of the...