European history

The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century collects nine essays by Trevor-Roper on the themes of religion, the Reformation, and social change.

'Taylor has done us a great service in making the personal stories of what it was actually like to live through the most crucial year of the twentieth century vivid, compelling and salutary.

Volume III examines the early Tudor period, from Henry VII through Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey, and Mary I, with an appendix discussng toleration.

A Sunday Times Book of the YearQueen Of Our Times is the definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth II by one of Britain's leading royal authorities, Robert Hardman.

'They were not just reporters; they were also pioneers, and Judith Mackrell has done them proud.

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First published in 1895, Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland's legal classic The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I expanded the work of Sir Edward Coke and William Blackstone by exploring the origins of key aspects of English common law and society and with them the development of individual rights as these were gradually carved out from the authority of the Crown and the Church.

Volume V details the accession of James I and the establishment of the Stuart dynasty, the heightened tensions between the king and parliament as the kingdom grappled with the questions of absolute rule and the problems of religion, continuing into the reign of Charles I, the civil war, and the execution of Charles.

Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I.

No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages?

Jim Rickett kept a diary of his work as a family doctor during the blitz of 1940/41.

Renowned for his Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy and Reflections on History, Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) has well been described as "e;the most civilized historian of the nineteenth century.

What happens in Spain, among the euro zone's largest economies, matters.

Albert Speer was one of the most brilliant and controversial men of the Twentieth Century.

'A deeply humane memoir of immense power - there is nothing more affecting than a first-hand experience finely told' - Philippe Sands, author of The Ratline'A fabulous memoir .

A generous feat of biographical sleuthing by an acclaimed historian rescues one child victim of the Holocaust from oblivionWhen the German Remembrance Foundation established a prize to commemorate the million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, it was deliberately named after a victim about whom nothing was known except her age and the date of her deportation: Marion Samuel, an eleven-year-old girl killed in Auschwitz in 1943.

Volume VI discusses the Commonwealth established by Oliver Cromwell, the Stuart Restoration, making Charles II king, succeeded by his brother, James II, the abdication of James, and Parliament's offer of the Act of Settlement, and the accession of William and Mary.

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The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerThe incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world.

The instant Sunday Times bestsellerBlackwells Non-fiction Book of the YearShortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year'The star of her generation' - Dan Snow, host of History Hit'Utterly, utterly brilliant' - Tracy Borman, author of The King's WitchWhere were you at age eighteen?

A riveting double biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women test pilots - Hitler's personal Valkyries.

Taking the events of Blair's last hundred days as his launching pad for captivating snapshots of key moments in his premiership, Adam Boulton follows Tony Blair intimately through his final day in office.

From the moment it began in 1936, the Spanish Civil War became the political question of the age.

At the age of sixteen, Catherine Tylney Long became the wealthiest heiress in England, and the public found their 'angel'.

Desperate circumstances were something Evelyn Prentis had to get very used to when she began her life as a nurse.

This famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought.

Originally published by Oxford University Press in the 1890s, the famed three-volume Payne edition of Select Works is universally revered by students of English history and political thought.

Volume I surveys pre-Roman Britain, the Anglo-Saxons, the Norman Conquest, and the kings of England from William I through John, and ends with a comparison of the feudal and the Anglo-Norman systems of government in England.

For much of Europe the seventeenth century was, as it has been termed, an "e;Age of Absolutism"e; in which single rulers held tremendous power.

The French political philosopher and historian Francois Guizot (1787-1874) was one of the French Doctrinaires, thinkers who sought to avoid the interpretations of the Revolution advanced by either extreme of Left or Right.

Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's political crises can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have long fractured the country.

What happens in Spain, among the euro zone's largest economies, matters.

Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution was a winner in the Scholarly/Reference category at the Chicago Book Clinic's 2009 Book & Media Show.

The Top Five Sunday Times Bestseller'Excellent .