European history

1993 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, sponsored by Choice Magazine.

Historical analysis of the German Democratic Republic has tended to adopt a top-down model of the transmission of authority.

A beautifully illustrated art history and cultural biography, The Street of Wonderful Possibilities focuses on one of the most influential artistic quarters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - London's Tite Street, where a staggering amount of talent thrived, including James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde and John Singer Sargent.

The Second World War Italian campaign is often less well remembered than the struggle of the Germans against the western Allies in north-west Europe and against the Soviet Union in the east.

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust categoryA monumental work of nonfiction on a wartime atrocity, its sixty-year denial, and the impact of its truthJan Gross's hugely controversial Neighbors was a historian's disclosure of the events in the small Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10, 1941, when the citizens rounded up the Jewish population and burned them alive in a barn.

"e;The book is replete with maps, photographs, profiles of commanders and weapons, and illustrations that help explain the brutal combat in a region that another historian has called the 'bloodlands' of Europe.

The Iberian Peninsula has always been an integral part of the Mediterranean world, from the age of Tartessos and the Phoenicians to our own era and the Union for the Mediterranean.

A Laboratory of Her Own gathers diverse voices to address womens interaction with STEM fields in the context of Spanish cultural production.

A daring investigation of Primo Levi's brief career as a fighter with the Italian Resistance, and the grim secret that haunted his lifeNo other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and historically influential as Primo Levi.

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In 1800 Mexico City was the largest, richest, most powerful city in the Americas, its vibrant silver economy an engine of world trade.

This is not just one love story.

This is Ken Wharton's second oral history of the Northern Ireland troubles told again from the perspective of the ordinary British soldier.

First English translation of the best German account of retreat between August and September 1944.

Where did the story that ended with the great Edwardian castles of north Wales begin?

En Cholula Mexico, la ciudad rodeada por los volcanes del Iztaccihuatl, el Popocatepetl y la Malinche, la ciudad que se niega a dejar atras su magia prehispanica, y que es sede de la piramide de Quetzalcoatl, la mas grande del mundo; en el ano 1914, cuando no solo estalla la gran guerra mundial, sino que Mexico es el corazon sangriento de la revolucion Mexicana, abanderada por Zapata y Carranza; y que habia sido contenida por el sangriento y escalofriante cuartelazo de Victoriano Huerta y el embajador Lane Wilson, en la decena tragica de 1913, que resulto con la muerte Madero y Pino Suarez.

Della Lambert, an ingenue on the brink of womanhood, is a member of an 1850 wagon train heading west with her widowed father when she was captured by an Indian raiding party.

A Laboratory of Her Own gathers diverse voices to address womens interaction with STEM fields in the context of Spanish cultural production.

Field Marshal Lord Wolseley was an eminent Victorian, one of a handful of late nineteenth-century military men whose reputation transcends his age.

The Royal Naval Commandos had one of the most dangerous and important tasks of any unit in World War II – they were first onto the invasion beaches and they were the last to leave.

THE FOURTH YEAR began with intensified fighting on Guadalcanal in the southern Solomon Islands in September 1942.