Western Europe category: 1822 books
Fools, Martyrs, Traitors
The Story of Martyrdom in the Western World
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
In this engrossing exploration of martyrdom, Lacey Baldwin Smith takes us on a riveting journey through history as he examines one of the most baffling characteristics of the human species: its willingness to die to sanctify a deity, to defend a cause, or simply to prove a point. In telling the stories...
by (WWI Centenary Series)
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Originally published in 1915, this work gives a first hand account of what life was like for a front line nurse during the First World War. This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis....
by John Weal
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
The follow--on volume to Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 11 Bf 109D/E Aces 1939-41, this book charts the story of the myriad aces who flew the later marks of Messerschmitt fighter through to VE-Day. As good as the Emil had been during the opening 18 months of the war, the aircraft was being progressively...
1918
Winning the War, Losing the War
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
In 2018, the world will be commemorating the centenary of the end of the First World War. In many ways, 1918 was the most dramatic year of the conflict. After the defeat of Russia in 1917, the Germans were able to concentrate their forces on the Western Front for the first time in the war, and the...
Great Muslims of the West
Makers of Western Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
“[A] work of great synthesis. . . . [It] argues that the ‘makers of Western Islam’ have not only enriched Islam, but also humanity in general. This book is an important and timely contribution.”—Dr. Enes Karic, Professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo, and former...
THE CULTURE WAR
How the West Lost Its Greatness & Was Weakened From Within
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
The Culture War. How the West lost its greatness and was weakened from within outlines how the West lost its values, causing its current decline. It is a forceful attack on the extreme liberal, anti-religious ideology which since the 1960’s has permeated the Western culture and weakened its...
by Thomas William Francis Gann
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
The southern and eastern parts of Yucatan, from Tuluum in the north to the Rio Hondo in the south, are occupied to-day by two tribes of Maya Indians, the Santa Cruz and Icaichè or Chichanha. The number of Santa Cruz was estimated by Sapper in 1895 at about 8,000 to 10,000, but at the present day...
1917 – The Passchendaele Year
The British Army in Flanders: The Diary of Achiel Van Walleghem
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This unusual work offers a personal documentary and highly individual witness to the terrible events in Flanders in 1917. The Battle of “Third Ypres” - popularly known as “Passchendaele” - epitomized the worst slaughter on the western front of the First World War. Many thousands killed,...
by Knyaz Rikard
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
From where do the Western traditions come from?
From where comes my Anglo-Saxon name?
From where comes the name of my hometown?
Why Monday? Why is it called Monday? Sunday?
Did the Irish and the Brits had group-sex every 21 st of March?
Will you have smarter and healthier kids if the womb and nose...
by Robert Gibbings
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Readers of Robert Gibbings’ previous illustrated tales of river life such as “Sweet Thames Run Softly” (1940) and “Coming Down the Wye” (1942) will need no introduction to the unique style that this author uses to explore the people and places that he describes with warmth and affectionate...
Birthright of War
Essays on Civilization's Struggles from Ancient to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Birthright of War: Civilization's Struggles from Ancient to Modern Times, is a collection of over thirty short essays on battles, wars, or revolutionary transformations that were pivotal to western history. From the Bronze Age to the today, Birthright of War examines how western civilizations developed...
The Liberator
One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The untold story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War.
Written with Alex Kershaw's trademark narrative drive and vivid immediacy, The Liberator traces the remarkable battlefield journey of maverick U.S. Army officer Felix Sparks through the Allied liberation...
by Derek B. Lange
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Here, in this stirring, vivid book, historian Derek B. Lange uses The Hague as the focal point for a sweeping, panoramic history of the Netherlands. One seventeenth-century visitor called The Hague "the mightiest village in Europe" - an epithet that could still be used today to describe...
The Great Sea
A Human History of the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself:...