History - Europe - General

TRYING TO STOP A WAR IN 1939 is a compendium of communications exchanged between the political and diplomatic representatives of Great Britain, Poland, Germany and Russia, in the year leading up to the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. Originally published by the...

Few countries are as marked by their history as the Maltese islands of Malta and Gozo. At least five centuries before St. Paul was shipwrecked on Malta's northern shore on his way to Rome and martyrdom, what are perhaps the oldest stone buildings in...

In many elections - especially those using single-member constituency systems - the allocation of seats is incommensurate with each party's share of the votes cast. Seats, Votes and the Spatial Organisation of Elections provides a convincing, rigorous analysis of this disproportionality which has not...

Europeans are eating out in unprecedented numbers - in cafs, pubs, brasseries and restaurants. Globalization brought about changes in patterns of leisure and consumption, as well as a democratization of restaurant culture. But what if we open up this concept of 'eating out' to...

The Sons of Night is two, or more, books in one. The first is Antoine Gimenez's memoir of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, an engaging tale of heroism and intrigue. The remaining three-quarters of the manuscript is a record of the fascination...

Author: Ralph G. a. Hamilton, The Hon Ralph G. a. Hamilton (Master ofISBN-10: 1847345182ISBN-13: 9781847345189Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2006Pages: 540Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.38d

Author: Rowland FeildingISBN-10: 1847341128ISBN-13: 9781847341129Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2006Pages: 428Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.06d

An incredible adventure from the Great War This is a unique and riveting book. The steamer Tara and her crew spent the early part of WW1 patrolling the Northern Channel between England and Ireland before a transfer to coastal duties off Egypt and Libya....

Two of history's greatest commanders clash with the fate of Empires at stake In the Ulm campaign of 1805, Napoleon demonstrated his mastery of the command of the Grande Armee-some 210,000 men-in a masterful flanking movement which was designed to defeat the Austrian Army...

Two of history's greatest commanders clash with the fate of Empires at stake In the Ulm campaign of 1805, Napoleon demonstrated his mastery of the command of the Grande Armee-some 210,000 men-in a masterful flanking movement which was designed to defeat the Austrian Army...

A unique and exceptional account of the British Army on campaign against Napoleon Most British military memoirs of the Napoleonic period focus, understandably, on the actions of Wellington's army as it fought through the Iberian peninsula during the bloody struggle to expel the French...

A Highland Regimental Scout recounts his experience of the Retreat from Mons. This is a superb account of the early stages of the First World War in Europe. Its author was a infantryman of the British Army who had been a serving soldier for...

The final phase of the campaign in the Iberian Peninsula F. C. Beatson's famous trilogy on the genius of the Duke of Wellington as military commander as he led his 'old peninsular army' towards victory is a classic study of the 'great captain of...

The East African Campaign through a British Army Doctor's eyes The author of this book-a practicing doctor in the British Army-had already served on the Western Front in the early months of the Great War and had actually become a P. O. W. at...

'Exciting Episodes In Libya and Hejaz, and Especially Railway-raiding Exploits With Lawrence' - Yorkshire Post - 'Rolls, the driver, our strongest and most resourceful man, the ready mechanic, whose skill and advice largely kept our cars in running order, was nearly in tears over...

This publication reveals that the Celts were not merely a collection of barbaric tribes but that their civilization compared favourably with those of other ancient civilizations. The detail of the book includes political and social groups, domestic and family life, social hierarchies, housing, food,...

What were the consequences of the German occupation for the economy of occupied Europe? After Germany conquered major parts of the European continent, it was faced with a choice between plundering the suppressed countries and using their economies to supply its needs. The choices...

Author: Somers Lord Somers, Lord SomersISBN-10: 1843426862ISBN-13: 9781843426868Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/2003Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61d

Author: W. Miller Henry W. Miller, Henry W. MillerISBN-10: 1843426811ISBN-13: 9781843426813Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/2003Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.73d

Author: M. Howell Edgar M. Howell, Edgar M. HowellISBN-10: 184342617XISBN-13: 9781843426172Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/28/2003Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.54d

Author: Onight Hawk O. MC (Pseud of W. J. HarveyISBN-10: 1843425513ISBN-13: 9781843425519Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/05/2003Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d

Author: H. a. JonesISBN-10: 1843424118ISBN-13: 9781843424116Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2002Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d

This is a great history, one of the best of its kind. Just look at the wealth of information contained in the appendices: the nominal roll of all officers and other ranks who served 1914-1919, identifying those who died (1,227); list of officers of...

Author: Lieut -Col C. C. R. MurphyISBN-10: 184342245XISBN-13: 9781843422457Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2002Pages: 468Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d

Author: Ludwig RennISBN-10: 1843421984ISBN-13: 9781843421986Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/22/2001Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.82d

Author: Capt Ea JamesISBN-10: 1843421968ISBN-13: 9781843421962Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/26/1994Pages: 60Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.14d

This is the story of the three battalions of Welsh Guards that served during WWII. After a very brief account of previous service (the regiment was raised in February 1915) the first part of the book gives a general survey of the regiment's part...

Although modern tourism did not begin in Ireland, it developed there rapidly after 1750, making the island one of the first counties in which tourism became a driving economic and cultural factor. Based on the accounts of British and Anglo-Irish travelers, this book charts...

The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal democratic traditions: whether treated as abstractions or concrete realities, cultural divisions challenge concepts of legitimacy and political representation as well as...

Following the convulsions of 1968, one element uniting many of the disparate social movements that arose across Europe was the pursuit of an elusive "authenticity" that could help activists to understand fundamental truths about themselves-their feelings, aspirations, sexualities, and disappointments. This volume offers a...

As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world. Democracy in Modern Europe surveys the conceptual history of democracy in modern Europe, from...

Although studies of fascism have constituted one of the most fertile areas of historical inquiry in recent decades, more and more scholars have called for a new agenda with more research beyond Italy and Germany, less preoccupation with definition and classification, and more sustained...

Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars, this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a specifically European context. While its first half offers comparative approaches to an array of significant issues...

It is one of the great ironies of the history of fascism that, despite their fascination with ultra-nationalism, its adherents understood themselves as members of a transnational political movement. While a true "Fascist International" has never been established, European fascists shared common goals and...

Political instability is nearly always accompanied by fuller prisons, and this was particularly true during the "long" Second World War, when military mobilization, social disorder, wrenching political changes, and shifting national boundaries swelled the ranks of the imprisoned and broadened the carceral reach of...

The issues around settlement, belonging, and poor relief have for too long been understood largely from the perspective of England and Wales. This volume offers a pan-European survey that encompasses Switzerland, Prussia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain. It explores how the conception of belonging...

This is the last in the series of three monographs covering the Japanese military activities in Manchuria from January 1943 to the end of World War II hostilities, prepared by former commanders and staff officers of the Kwantung Army. This monograph covers operations in...

Modern military history, inspired by social and cultural historical approaches, increasingly puts the national histories of the Second World War to the test. New questions and methods are focusing on aspects of war and violence that have long been neglected. What shaped people's experiences...

Antonio de Morga's History of the Philippines is one of the most important works ever written on the Spanish colonization of the Philippines in the sixteenth century and describes in fascinating detail the climate and peoples of the islands. The history also includes accounts...

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Europe's attempts to appease Hitler, most notably at Munich in 1938, failed, as Nazi Germany swallowed up Austria and Czechoslovakia by 1939. Italy was on the march as well, invading Albania in April...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading A land of almost 3 million square miles has lain since time immemorial on the southern flank of the planet, so isolated that it remained entirely outside of European knowledge...

PREFACE. "Why take the style of these heroic times? For nature brings not back the mastodon -- Nor we those times; and why should any man Remodel models?" What Tennyson thus said of his own first essay in the Idyls of the King, in...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading If one were to glide over the Dutch countryside via helicopter in the springtime, the beauty below them would seem almost surreal. The rolling rectangular fields are composed of immaculately...

*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingWorld War II was the culmination of a quarter century of tank development, and it would also be the first major test of tanks in mobile warfare, during which they had to face other tanks....

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Many Americans labor under the misconception that the nation's colonial and national heritage was almost wholly accomplished by an English migration, and the notion of early American diversity ends at...

This classic, originally published in 1938, was reprinted in 1969 for a new generation by Berg Publishers. From the new introduction by Harold J. Berman: That this book-- written six decades ago --is without question an extraordinary book, a remarkable book, a fascinating book,...

Author: Nicolo MachiavelliISBN-10: 1613822952ISBN-13: 9781613822951Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/19/2018Pages: 124Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

The Holocaust is an international event, its the brutal crimes happened in specific places and are remembered, to a large degree, in various national discourses. The essays in this book examine the complex and often ambiguous relationship between national identity and the legacy of...

Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness explores the novel's participation in eighteenth-century "inquiries after happiness," an ancient ethical project that acquired new urgency with the rise of subjective models of wellbeing in early modern and Enlightenment Europe. Combining archival research on treatises on happiness...

"Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita"" by Hilaire Belloc puts forward the smart theory that Rome did not fall, it evolved. The European history is explained by Belloc, who addresses the influence of peoples and religions, mainly the catholic religion, in the...