History - Europe - General

This history of the Catholic armies of the Hapsburg Empire that fought in the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) explores the role of infantry and artillery during the last major religious war in mainland Europe. As the states of the Holy Roman Empire fractured along...

Author: Georg Bucher, Bucher GeorgISBN-10: 1845743016ISBN-13: 9781845743017Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/25/2006Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.73d

Author: Karl Neureuther, Claus Bergen, Ed by Karl Neureuther and Claus BergenISBN-10: 1845742672ISBN-13: 9781845742676Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/22/2005Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of...

This is the first comprehensive study of European foreign policy in this period. It is based on extensive and original interviews with Henry Kissinger among others and lots of new, previously unavailable primary sources. It addresses the very current issue of American-European relations.Europe's first...

Napoleon's 1807 campaign against the Russians came close to being his first defeat. At Eylau the Emperor was outnumbered by the army of the Russian commander Bennigsen, yet he accepted battle. His reputation was saved by the flamboyant Murat, who led one of the...

Reads the imagined history of the long term relationship between pagan and Christian through quasi-factual fifteenth-century Middle English writings, from Lydgate's Troy Book to the hagiographies of Bokenham, Barclay and Capgrave and Mandeville's Travels. SHORTLISTED for the 2020 Katharine Briggs Award.Late medieval English culture...

Readable, enjoyable and provides a clear overview of runes and their importance to reading the past. EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE Runes, a unique functional writing system, exclusive to northern and eastern Europe, were used for some 1300 years in Scandinavia, from about AD 200 till...

Author: Naval &. Military PressISBN-10: 1843426137ISBN-13: 9781843426134Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/28/2003Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 8.94h x 6.22w x 0.31d

German submarine operations in the First World War had an inauspicious start, with the Uboats having apparently no role to play in the war at sea. However by February 1915 their task was clear: a blockade of the United KingdomThis important book contains a...

The United States Navy operated long range fleet submarines in the Pacific during World War II in what has often been referred to as a 'forgotten' campaign. In fact the operations of these submarines in the Pacific contributed greatly to the war against Japan,...

Author: War Office August 1914 General StaffISBN-10: 1843425106ISBN-13: 9781843425106Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/2003Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.79d

Author: F. Ziemke Earl F. Ziemke, Earl F. ZiemkeISBN-10: 1843425033ISBN-13: 9781843425038Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/2003Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.79d

Author: C. R. Simpson, Maj-Gen C. R. SimpsonISBN-10: 1843423553ISBN-13: 9781843423553Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2002Pages: 536Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.64lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.08d

Author: Von Hessenthal SchreiberISBN-10: 1843421445ISBN-13: 9781843421443Publisher: Naval & Military PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2001Pages: 648Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.97lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.30d

*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingIn terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the 4th...

The USS Barry toured post WWII Northern Europe on a people-to-people cruise initiated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The ship's crew was to spread good will among the nations that they visited. Their ports of call included: Portsmouth, England; Kiel, Germany; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Helsinki,...

These papers highlight recent archaeological work in Northern England, in the commercial, academic and community archaeology sectors, which have fundamentally changed our perspective on the Neolithic of the area. Much of this was new work (and much is still not published) has been overlooked...

It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions--supra-national geographical designations such as "Scandinavia," "Eastern Europe," and "the Balkans." Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical realities rather than a series of shifting, overlapping,...

A highly illustrated account of SS Panzer Regiment Totenkopf from 1943 to 1945, based on veteran memoirs.The 3rd SS Panzer Regiment was part of the Totenkopf Division--one of the 38 Waffen-SS divisions active during World War II. Notorious for its brutality, most notably a...

The Duke of Wellington described the Battle of Waterloo as 'the most desperate business I ever was in. I was never so near being beat'. The courage of British troops that day has been rightly praised ever since, but the fact that one-third of...

Focusing on films, works of fiction, memorials and museums, National Responses to the Holocaust opens up new ways of thinking about how different nations including Lithuania, Poland, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, the United States and Israel have responded to the Holocaust during the past...

This volume takes a fresh look at the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the wider impact of imaginative literature on Enlightenment culture in general. Covering key authors and work in areas as varied as philosophy, medicine, travel writing, religion, drama, history, publishing,...

First published in 1920, Europe and the Faith is Belloc's popular history of European civilization from the time of the Roman Empire. From the outset, the author's goal is clear. He intends to show readers how, through the Romans and Catholicism, Europe came to...

The mass of existing material on this subject is so great that the author has not attempted to make a survey of the whole of European 'Witchcraft', but has confined herself to an intensive study of the cult in Great Britain. In order, however,...

Author: Dimitri ObolenskyISBN-10: 1597407356ISBN-13: 9781597407359Publisher: ACLS History E-Book ProjectLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2009Pages: 526Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31d

The writer of this book was temporarily attached to the British Treasury during the war and was their official representative at the Paris Peace Conference up to June 7, 1919; he also sat as deputy for the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme...

Wojcik conveys the incredible true story of how he discovered and delivered information that overcame the Soviet Bloc. He learned the value of information as a student striving to survive under the communist system. Invited to the United States in 1986 by a university...

H.C. "Doc" Goldsmith served in the U.S. Navy during the early 1930s. Never imagining a return to service, he willingly re-joined the Navy in the fight against the Axis powers after the invasion of Pearl Harbor. Discovered after his death in 2000 by his...

*Includes pictures *Profiles important people and conspiracy theories *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading For decades, parodies featuring ominous, mysterious cults have been a favorite gag in pop culture. These fraternal brothers are often depicted in some type of underground lair,...

*Includes pictures *Describes the organization, its history, its rituals, and the theories surrounding it *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Not the greatest master can go even one step for his disciple; in himself he must experience each stage of developing...

In this exciting book, Sinadinoski embarks on a fascinating journey through the creation, evolution and demise of Macedonia's most notorious revolutionary organization. From rebels and assassins to terrorists and gangsters, we are immersed into the Macedonians' quest to obtain freedom and equality. But in...

The purpose of volume 2 of 3 is to present how our African ancestors ruled and excelled from the beginning of the multiracial Roman Empire of antiquity through its Christian rule over Europe for nearly 2,000 years. They provided the Europeans with the first...

SCHILTBERGER TO THE READER. I, JOHANNS SCHILTBERGER, left my home near the city of Munich, situated in Bavaria, at the time that King Sigismund of Hungary left for the land of the Infidels. This was, counting from Christ's birth, in the thirteen hundred and...

The Middles Ages aren't just an uninteresting period of history trapped between ancient times and the Renaissance, as the name suggests. It's 1,000 years of fascinating historical events, including the Crusades, the Black Death, and the longest war that has ever been fought. This...

This profoundly informed volume provides the first in-depth overview of Jewish assessments of the evolving Nazi Judenpolitik in the early years of World War II. J?gen Matth舫s showcases the perceptive reports compiled by two Geneva-based offices, among the first to predict the threat to...

From the Mediterranean to the colder climes of Scandinavia, this book takes readers on a journey through Europe, examining its diverse range of megalithic monuments, also looking at what insights these remarkable structures may provide into the ancient communities who were responsible for their...

The history of the Balkans incorporates all the major historical themes of the 20th Century--the rise of nationalism, communism and fascism, state-sponsored genocide and urban warfare. Focusing on the centuries opening decades, War in the Balkans seeks to shed new light on the Balkan...

"This elegant volume explains how the unique demographic, economic, and social situation in each area annexed to the Third Reich played out in anti-Semitic policies. In some cases, such as Memel, Eupen-Malmedy, and Alsace, it offers the first overview of the persecution of Jews...

Exploring the visions of the end of the Cold War that have been put forth since its inception until its actual ending, this volume brings to the fore the reflections, programmes, and strategies that were intended to call into question the bipolar system and...

Ramillies 1706 details one of the most important clashes in the War of the Spanish Succession, a battle that secure the Duke of Marlborough's place in history and helped determine the future of Europe. In 1706, as the War of Spanish Succession dragged on,...

Immortalized by the movie A Bridge Too Far, the parachute landings of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were the first part of an Allied breakthrough attempt. In the late summer of 1944, the First Allied Airborne Army began to plan a complex operation...

Ravenna has eight World Heritages sites--churches, baptisteries, chapels and monuments dating from the fifth and sixth centuries AD which are renowned especially for exquisite mosaics portraying biblical scenes and figures. They were designed, constructed and decorated over decades during the era of the fall...

The narrow strip of land now occupied by the modern state of Israel is where all paths from Europe, Asia, and Arabia must come together before they flow into Africa and has been the world's most hotly contested piece of territory for millennia. Occupied...

Medieval castles were, alongside the great cathedrals, the most recognisable buildings of the medieval world. Closely associated with concepts of justice, lordship and authority as well as military might, castles came to encapsulate the period's very essence. Looking at above and below-ground evidence and...

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "No country of people's democracy has so many nationalities as this country has. Only in Czechoslovakia do there exist two kindred nationalities, while in some of the other countries there are only minorities....

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading After Prussia was victorious in the Austro-Prussian War, Bismarck played a waiting game where the unification of Germany was concerned, as the joining of the southern states - initially resistant to Prussian rule,...

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading After Prussia was victorious in the Austro-Prussian War, Bismarck played a waiting game where the unification of Germany was concerned, as the joining of the southern states - initially resistant to Prussian rule,...

Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. He was a world-class rogue who held high office in five successive regimes. A well-known opportunist and a notorious bribe taker,...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "When one house dies, a second lives." - Maori proverb By the mid-17th century, the existence of a land in the south referred to as Terra Australis was generally known...