European history

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Claire is considered an old maid, and her father is arranging her marriage.

A global "e;death syndrome"e; is paralyzing medical facilities the world over.

The death of authority figures like fathers or leaders can be experienced as either liberation or loss.

From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s West German foreign policy underwent substantial transformations: from bilateral to multilateral, from reactive to proactive.

A classic collection of real-life ghost stories from all across Ireland.

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Image a person who defies the norms of longevity of the nineteenth century and who lives to give his firsthand account of many of the great events in American history.

"A rousing celebration of a moment in history when college football was more than metaphor and entertainment, it was a gritty sidebar to real war.

A full account of the Luzon campaign, from the planning stages to the surrender of the Japanese general Yamashita.

On October 28th, 1940 Benito Mussolini at 5 am, sent a telegram to his ambassador in Athens to demand that prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas allow his Italian troops to invade Greece without incident or face war.

During the Second World War, Winston Churchill won two resounding victories.

During the Holocaust, 99 percent of all Jewish killings were carried out by members of state organizations.

Eric Braeden, Emmy Award-winning star of The Young and The Restless, chronicles his amazing life as a famous actor and selfless humanitarian.

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A heavily illustrated account of the evolution, design and deployment of dreadnought battleships.

“[A] slice of largely-forgotten military history .

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Following his BusinessWeek bestsellers Elizabeth I, CEO and Patton on Leadership comes a new and perfect subject for Alan Axelrods innovative format: Winston Churchill, the quintessential leader of the 20th century.

On November 5, 1688, William of Orange, Protestant ruler of the Dutch Republic, landed at Torbay in Devon with a force of twenty thousand men.

This WWII regimental history traces an unsung U.

"e;The authors offer a very different perspective on this campaign and are very frank in their assessment of the performance of the Allies and Germans on many levels.

Explores the story of one star of the Silver Screen's role in the Second World WarJames Stewart was already a Hollywood star when the United States went to war in December 1941.

Whether or not it constituted a complete break from the past, the 15-M movement's most important legacy was a more expansive notion of the popular political, one that recognized cultural representation as a mode of political articulation and as part of a political culture.

Vicky Unwin had always known her father - an erstwhile intelligence officer and respected United Nations diplomat - was Czech, but it was not until a stranger turned up on her doorstep that she discovered he was also Jewish.

One of this book's goals is to evaluate the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco dictatorship to the present.

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.

At the beginning of World War II, a young Luftwaffe pilot, lured into defending Germany from an attack by a great enemy, soon learns the horrifying truth of Adolf Hitler's intent to conquer the world through violence.

Get the Summary of Eti Elboim and Sara Leibovits's The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz in 20 minutes.

As a nominally neutral power during the Second World War, Sweden in the early postwar era has received comparatively little attention from historians.

A frank and fascinating history of forty of Europe's most loony, deluded, and downright dangerous monarchs.