European History
The grand halls of power and humble village squares of Europe have witnessed centuries of revolutionary ideas, epic conflicts, and cultural transformations that shaped our modern world. Here you'll find compelling accounts of emperors and peasants, intellectual movements and social upheavals, from ancient times through the Cold War and beyond.
European History Book Summaries
Bloodlands
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
History
War
World War II
A History of the Crusades, Volume 1
The First Crusade and the Foundations of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
History
Medieval
Medieval History
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
History
Scotland
Philosophy
How the Irish Saved Civilization
The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
History
Ireland
Irish Literature
The Enlightenment
A Very Short Introduction
History
Philosophy
Religion
The Invention of Russia
From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
History
Russia
Politics
The Berlin Wall
A World Divided, 1961-1989
History
Germany
Politics
Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of The Little Prince
In Search of Saint-Exupéry's Lost Child
Books About Books
Memoir
History
Vienna
How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
History
Politics
Travel
Atatürk
The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey
History
Biography
Politics
Medici Money
Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
History
Italy
Economics
Modern Times
The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
History
Politics
World History
The Great Divergence
China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
History
Economics
China
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"
How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
History
Politics
World War II
Tulipomania
The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
History
Economics
Microhistory
1000 Years of Annoying the French
History
Humor
France
River Kings
A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
History
Archaeology
Medieval
The Crusades
The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
History
Religion
Medieval
The New Vichy Syndrome
Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism
Politics
History
Essays
Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789
History
European History
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