Britain's Europe

DescriptionAmid the ongoing Brexit crisis, both sides are appealing to Britain's past relationship with Europe to justify their positions. But much...

This book is an historical examination of the impact short-term political expediency played in the positions adopted by members of Britain's politi...

This publication explores the interactions between the inhabitants of early medieval England and their contemporaries in continental Europe. Starti...

Photographic identification guide to 280 bird species most commonly seen in Britain and northern Europe is perfect for amateur naturalists. High qu...

DescriptionIn The Europe Illusion, Stuart Sweeney considers Britain's relationships with France and Prussia-Germany since the map of Europe was red...

Presents an account of the reconstruction of prehuman history of the earth. This title takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe...

Dazzling ... a trenchant, provocative account of the intimate relations of Britain and Europe and how each shaped the other' Prospect Magazine'Eleg...

Stanley Johnson's new satirical thriller KOMPROMAT purports to tell what really happened in the run-up to those two recent political earthquakes, t...

Reducere. The story of how Europe was converted to Christianity from 300AD until the barbarian Lithuanians finally capitulated at the astonishingly late date...

Reducere. This groundbreaking history explains how Nathan Mayer Rothschild rose from comparatively humble circumstances to become the founder of an extraordi...

Reducere. A career-spanning anthology from the greatest traveler--and travel writer--of the twentieth century. The adventures of Patrick "Paddy" Leigh Fermor...

Reducere. The family that shaped Europe's ruling classes in the twentieth century.Although rarely documented as the warmest of monarchs and often criticised ...

With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin ascendent, U.S. officials set out to reconstruct Western Europe as a bulwark against communist authorit...

DescriptionThis illuminating biography reveals how the daughter of Lord Byron, Britain's most infamous Romantic poet, became the world's first comp...

In a work of splendid scholarship that reflects both a firm mastery of difficult sources and a keen intuition, one of Britain's foremost medievalis...

Reducere. The story of Britain's invasion of Russia at the end of the First World War has remained largely untold. Although not its initial architect, its ch...

Reducere. The year is 1799. The year before, Napoleon Bonaparte, the newest upstart among Republican France's generals, led a large expeditionary force acros...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Captain John Lacroix returns home from Spain, wounded, unconscious, and alone, he believes that he has seen the worst of what men m...

DescriptionScotland is the largest producer of oil and is the second largest producer of gas in Europe. It has more than an eighty per cent share o...

The battlefield of 17th Century Europe On land, the Thirty Years War was fought primarily in Germany. It was one of the most destructive conflicts ...

DescriptionThis book offers an original interpretation of Britain's relationship with Europe over a 25 year period: 1959-84 and advances the argume...

Reducere. DescriptionGeneral Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck of the German East-Africa campaign shares his narrative of the war, and his effective use of guerilla wa...

Between 1940 and 1945, Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) carried out sabotage and organised resistance across occupied Europe. Over 5 ye...

DescriptionNever before has a single volume been devoted exclusively to the intrepid and disparate band of pilots who could claim to be Gladiator a...

From the inimitable Jane Gardam, whose Old Filth trilogy cemented her status as one of England's greatest living novelists, comes a collection of s...

DescriptionHow has the UK evolved into the country it is today? This clear, comprehensive survey of its history since 1900 explores the political, ...

In their 20 years of architectural practice, Proctor and Matthews Architects have developed a reputation for being at the centre of Britain's urban...

Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) is one of the most influential British designers of all time and is widely regarded as Britain's first independent ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis powerful interpretation of English history provides a completely new framework for understanding how Britain emerged in the eightee...

Reducere. Great Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal decline--ungovernable, an economic train wreck, and rapidly headed for global irrelevance. Th...

Reducere. ``Remarkable.... The first comprehensive history of the war written from the perspective of the Central Powers.`` --Los Angeles Review of BooksFor ...

From prompting a transition from hunter-gatherer, to an agrarian lifestyle in ancient Mesopotamia, to bankrolling Britain's imperialist conquests, ...

The beautiful Langhorne sisters lived at the pinnacle of society from the end of the Civil War through the Second World War. Born in Virginia to a ...

Reducere. DescriptionRichard Armstrong narrowly escaped Hitler's atrocities in Eastern Europe on his courage and his wits--skills that served him well in pea...

Reducere. They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers. The empire's most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges...

Reducere. THE ELECTRIC TOM BUCKINGHAM SERIES TURNED INTO MAJOR MOTION PICTURE CONTINUES WITH SAS: STATE OF EMERGENCY On a freezing winter's night, a small cr...

Never in the lifetime of most British adults has there been such uncertainty about the future of the political and governing institutions of the st...

Reducere. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs Europe buckles under Nazi occupation, Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens devastating re...

THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe author of the celebrated bestseller The English and Their History puts Brexit in its historical contextGeogr...

Reducere. As Europe buckles under Nazi occupation, Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens devastating repercussions for Britain's war eff...

Reducere. In this innovative new study, Zach Sell returns to the explosive era of capitalist crisis, upheaval, and warfare between emancipation in the Britis...

Duty Calls: Battle of Britain, throws you deep into the heart - and horror - of Britain's darkest, and finest, hour. Pilot officer Archie Jackson, ...

Reducere. The "first-rate . . . abundantly funny" conclusion to the Salterton Trilogy, following Leaven of Malice and Tempest-Tost (The New York Times). Loui...

Reducere. Albanian Mafia Wars is a fast-paced account of how one of the world's most dangerous criminal societies has seized control of Britain's 5 billion c...

Reducere. Throughout the chronicle of Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of kings, the security of trade, and the integri...

Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The dramatic, untold history of the heroic women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied vict...

Reducere. The Newest Upstart Among France's Generals The year is 1799. The year before, Napoleon Bonaparte, the newest upstart among Republican France's gene...

DescriptionKnown as the War to End all Wars and the Great War, World War I introduced new forms of mass destruction and modern technological warfar...

DescriptionOn 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, f...

DescriptionThe author of this concise guide to unarmed combat and self-defence is a legend. W. E. Fairbairn (1885-1960) spent over thirty years in ...

DescriptionIn this new study of personal relationships within the British (including Canadian) Command in 21st Army Group during the campaign in No...

Fully illustrated and enhanced with colourised images, this is the Combat Edition of what is regarded as the classic manual of unarmed combat, it w...

Reducere. Fully illustrated and enhanced with colourised images, this is the Combat Edition of what is regarded as the classic manual of unarmed combat, it w...

Reducere. Britain's Brexit is causing waves across the world. The Balkans Protocol, a top-secret operation, generates a hive of espionage activities happenin...

In the summer of 1839, Henry Layard--just twenty-two years old--left England for eastern Europe and distant lands of the Ottoman Empire. He had nev...

Reducere. Explore How World War 2 Began, the Aftermath and the Events in Between The Second World War was one of the most traumatic events in human history. ...

Reducere. During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the countryside of Egypt, in the Egyptian Labor Corps ...

Reducere. In 1936, the British monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era--the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The ...

The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World...

DescriptionCould history have been different? This gripping book looks at top-secret plots that never saw the light of day . . . and considers what...