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AP European Timeline
Taher GawadDecember 7, 2014FREEA visual timeline representing significant events and historical figures within European History.
Lineage Journey Season 1 - Book 3
Suki Goonatilleke, Ashley Bloom & Kenneth RiveraJuly 7, 2020FREEHistory shapes identity. Identity defines mission. Mission determines destiny. This series of interactive study guides have been designed as a c...
A History of Germany in the Middle Ages
Ernest F. HendersonJune 3, 2017FREE"The fortunes and misfortunes of a Charlemagne and Henry IV., of a Barbarossa, a Henry VI. and an Emperor Frederick II... The rise and fall of the med...
Calm before the Storm...the last summer of the 2nd Republic of Poland
Marcin Krzanicki & Jakub IzdebskiJune 23, 2014FREECalm before the storm is a very special moment. This is not about dead silence, but about a unique sense of anticipation. The air is almost completely...
Roman Britannia Bulletin #1
Duncan MacDonaldAugust 27, 2019FREEExciting illustrated historical novel set in the 1st century in Britain and Europe. We first follow the adventures of a gallant Roman Legionary who wa...
The Story of Paris
Thomas OkeyJanuary 1, 1935FREEVery comprehensive history of Paris (and some other cities and countries, naturally, as they came into conflict or contact with it), from the Romans t...
The Vikings: Explore the Exciting History of the Viking Age and Discover Some of the Most Feared Warriors
History CompactedMay 16, 2019FREETake a journey back in time to witness the dawning of a civilization forever defined by its ferocious warriors, highly advanced seafaring technology, ...
The World War and What was Behind It
Louis Paul BénézetJanuary 1, 1961FREEFrederick the Great, regretting the fact that he was separated from his land in East Prussia by the county of West Prussia, which was part of Poland, ...
Winston Churchill: A Captivating Guide to the Life of Winston S. Churchill
Captivating HistoryJune 30, 2017FREEAs a British politician who was well known for serving twice as prime minister for the United Kingdom and as an infamous war organizer, leader Winston...
History of Scotland
Margaret MacArthur & Edward A. FreemanDecember 31, 1879FREEFrom the Gaelic Period to the struggle for independence from England to unification, this engaging book chronicles the battles, politics, and major fi...
German Culture Past and Present
Ernest Belfort BaxJanuary 1, 1926FREEIn this book the aim at giving a general view of the social and intellectual life of Germany from the end of the mediaeval period to modern times.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
Titus LiviusNovember 6, 2006FREEAb urbe condita, is a monumental history of ancient Rome written in the Latin language by Titus Livius(Livy), an ancient Roman historian. The work cov...
Holocaust Survivor Accounts: True Stories of Prisoners Surviving the Holocaust: Holocaust Survivor Stories and Heroes of Auschwitz
Cyrus J. ZacharyMay 26, 2018FREEThe Holocaust, (called Ha-Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the state sponsored murder and persecution of about six million Jews by the German Nazi regime an...
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1
Henry BaerleinJanuary 1, 1960FREEThe original Serbo-Croat names of the Dalmatian towns and islands have been commonly supplanted on the German-made maps by later Italian names. But as...
Os Lusíadas
Luís Vaz de CamõesDecember 31, 1579FREEEssa ação mitológica, a disputa entre Vênus e Baco, tem o propósito de elevar os navegadores à condição de semi-deuses. Numa clara alegoria, o...
The Black Death: A History from Beginning to End
Hourly HistoryFebruary 15, 2016FREESweeping across the known world with unchecked devastation, the Black Death claimed between 75 million and 200 million lives in four short years. In t...
The Story of the Middle Ages
Samuel Bannister HardingJanuary 1, 1927FREEThe Story of the Middle Ages is a Historical Book. The book tells that Intended for children 11 to 14 years old, The Story of the Middle Ages relates ...
French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire
Helena SeoApril 13, 2015FREEThis book explores the French Revolution and rise of Napoleonic Empire
The Borgias
Alexandre DumasJanuary 1, 1981FREEHis works show an intimate knowledge of the characters, and they are written without sparing the details. The subjects are of historical importance an...
A Short History of France
Mary Platt ParmeleDecember 31, 1910FREEAn identity in the structural form of language established with scientific certitude that however diverse their character and civilizaitons, Russian, ...
The Ancient and Medieval World
Winston BradyJuly 15, 2018FREEThe Humanities should help us understand what it means to be human. Accordingly, “The Classics & Modernity,” Volume 1 contains selections from...
The French Revolution
Vanessa Tan, Anthoula Bourolias & Lucy LiuJune 8, 2012FREEOften called the most significant event in modern Western history, the French Revolution is a story of life, liberty and struggle. This examination of...
Vlad the Impaler: Son of Dracul
Alan C. BairdOctober 22, 2015FREEMany will assume this is just another retelling of the "Dracula" horror myth... but Vlad's story is true. Hitler's Holocaust killed approximately 10% ...
Rosicrucian Digest Volume 96 Number 2 2018
Rosicrucian Order, AMORCOctober 1, 2018FREEIn anticipation of the Rome 2019 AMORC World Convention, this issue of the Rosicrucian Digest explores Mystical Italy.
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy
Niccolò MachiavelliDecember 31, 1526FREENiccolo Machiavelli, the first great Italian historian, and one of the most eminent political writers of any age or country, was born at Florence, May...
French Conversation and Composition
Harry Vincent WannMarch 28, 2004FREEThe book contains many (dated) anecdotes and interesting historical stories - followed by grammar exercises designed for class discussion (no answers ...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II.
Thomas Babington Macaulay MacaulayDecember 31, 1858FREEThomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) won instantaneous and outstanding success in prose poetry, in politics and oratory. His History, translated thro...
A History of Germany
Bayard TaylorDecember 31, 1877FREEWhen I assented to the request of the publishers that I would edit a new edition of the History of Germany, and write an additional chapter finishing ...
Germania. In latino, english, italiano
TacitoOctober 5, 2015FREEChristopher Krebs, un classicista dell’Università di Stanford, ha definito Germania di Tacito “un libro molto pericoloso” e ha dedicato alla fo...
A Short History of Spain
Mary Platt ParmeleDecember 31, 1910FREEAt the time of the sacking of Rome, this Gothic prince fell in love with Placidia, the sister of the Emperor Honorius; and after the fashion of his pe...
History of the Moors of Spain
M. FlorianDecember 31, 1793FREEThe description Moors has referred to several historic and modern populations of Berber, Black African and Arab descent from Northern Africa, some of ...
Rob-Roy
Walter ScottSeptember 20, 1832FREELorsque l'éditeur des volumes suivants publié, depuis environ deux ans, le travail appelé «antiquaire», il a annoncé qu'il était, pour la derni...
The Story of Ireland
Emily LawlessDecember 31, 1912FREEAs early as the introduction of Christianity Ireland was already divided into four such aggregations of tribes--kingdoms they are commonly called--ans...
Adolf Hitler: A Captivating Guide to the Life of the Führer of Nazi Germany
Captivating HistoryAugust 11, 2017FREELike someone racing under a snowstorm, tracked by a hunter, Adolf Hitler spent a good part of his life trying to blur the footsteps of his past, but a...
Paris War Days
Charles Inman BarnardDecember 31, 1849FREEThis is not a story of the world wide war. These notes jotted down at odd moments in a diary are published with the idea of recording day by day the a...
The Empire of Russia
John Stevens Cabot AbbottJune 16, 1877FREEThis book tells the path which Russia has trod from earliest infancy to the present hour. The career of this empire has been so wild and wonderful tha...
The Crusades: From Beginning to End
Henry FreemanFebruary 15, 2016FREEThe Crusades Much has been written and much has been omitted when it comes to the Crusades; especially in modern parlance. Many talking heads in recen...
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1
Thomas D'Arcy McGeeApril 6, 1868FREEThomas D'Arcy McGee : Ireland, lifting herself from the dust, drying her tears, and proudly demanding her legitimate place among the nations of the ea...
The Power of Propaganda
Alex CorrySeptember 10, 2015FREEA look at how propaganda assisted in securing and maintaining NAZI power over the German people, through pervasive infiltration of all aspects of Germ...
A Smaller history of Greece
William SmithDecember 31, 1892FREEThe literary education of a Spartan youth was of a most restricted kind. He was taught to despise literature as unworthy of a warrior, while the study...
Napoleon's Marshals
R. P. Dunn-PattisonNovember 23, 2010FREEThis is a Historical Book. This book describes that To be content ever to play an inferior part, to see all honour and renown fall to the share of ano...
Kaiser Franz Joseph
Christa Bauer, Anna Ehrlich, Sabine Fellner, Sigrid-Maria Größing, Martin Haidinger, Alma Hannig, Michaela Lindinger, Georg Markus, Gabriele Praschl-Bichler, Irma Gräfin Sztáray, Katrin Unterreiner & Friedrich WeissensteinerJuly 5, 2016FREEAm 21. November 2016 jährt sich der Todestag von Kaiser Franz Joseph I. von Österreich zum 100. Mal. Das Jahr steht ganz im Zeichen des am längsten...
La Tulipe Noire
Alexandre DumasDecember 31, 1869FREEEn 1672, Guillaume d'Orange prend le pouvoir en Hollande, profitant du massacre par le peuple des frères Jean et Corneille de Witt, accusés de tract...
The French Revolution
Hilaire BellocApril 1, 2015FREEThe object of these few pages is not to recount once more the history of the Revolution :that can be followed in any one of a hundred text-books. Thei...
Hitler vs Stalin: The Battle of Stalingrad
Francis HayesJune 10, 2017FREEIt was the most decisive battle of the Second World War. It brought the two most ruthless dictators of the 20th Century against each other in an epic ...
Pioneers of France in the New World
Francis ParkmanDecember 31, 1892FREEParkman, American historian, studied and wrote about the history of Canada and the early Northwest. Partial Contents: Early Spanish Adventure; Villega...
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A.
David HumeDecember 31, 1775FREEDavid Hume brings the history to life with just the details needed to remember leaders & events as well as the general condition of society during...
Ireland, Historic and Picturesque
Charles JohnstonJanuary 1, 1931FREEThe Shelf Life Irish Folklore and History Collection is a unique set of materials focused on Irish history, people and culture in the late 18th to ear...
Spain
Wentworth WebsterDecember 31, 1906FREESpain, with the neighbouring kingdom of portugal, constitutes the most westerly of the three southern penisulas of Europe, and in Cape Tarifa, latitud...
The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII
Juan Antonio LlorenteFebruary 7, 1823FREEA condensed translation, published in 1826, of Llorente’s History of the Inquisition. From the text’s introductory material: “All the records of...
Celtic Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas and Beliefs
Hourly HistorySeptember 8, 2016FREEThe gifted W.B. Yeats wrote of his own people "...even a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for ev...
Roman Britannia Bulletin Part 2
Duncan MacDonaldJuly 9, 2020FREEExciting illustrated historical novel set in the late 1st century and 2nd century CE in Britain and Europe, recorded by Roman Company Clerks of Legio ...
History of the English People, Volume I
John Richard GreenMarch 6, 1883FREEThe story from the landing of Hengest, 449 To the Death of Elizabeth I, 1610. "Milton's couplet from the Sonnet to Cromwell might well describe Green'...
World War 2 History: Stories of the Failed Assassination Attempts on Adolf Hitler’s Life
William Myron PriceSeptember 3, 2017FREEThe most celebrated attempt at Führer’s life is believed to be the one carried out by Clause von Stauffenberg in Hitler’s Wolf’s lair headquart...
Royal Children of English History
Edith NesbitMay 4, 1924FREECollection of narratives about children who later played an important role in English history, such as Alfred the Great, Prince Arthur and many more.
Medieval Europe
Henry William Carless DavisDecember 31, 1882FREEMedieval history begins with the dissolution of the Western Empire with the abandonment of the Latin world to German conquerors. Of the provinces affe...
International Relations
Zachary ConfinoOctober 24, 2012FREEA book giving a description with helpful information about European International Relations during the period 1879-1941
The Plight of the Working Class
Frederick EngelsJuly 2, 2015FREEFrederick Engels (1820–1895) was twenty-two years old when he left Germany in the autumn of 1842 to settle in England. He came from a wealthy family...
The Moors in Spain
Stanley Lane-PooleDecember 29, 1931FREEBritish archaeologist Stanley Lane-Poole, in collaboration with American academic Arthur Gilman, recounts the history of the Moors in Spain in this il...
A Short History of Italy
Henry Dwighte SedgwickFebruary 22, 2011FREEcial sense, was the Church to which Christ referred when He said to the apostle, "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the g...
The Psychology of Revolution
Gustave Le BonJanuary 1, 1931FREEThe author through this book explores the mob mentality of revolutionaries-religious, scientific, and political-examines the motives of their leaders,...
Norse Mythology
Stephan WeaverSeptember 24, 2017FREENorse Mythology is not only a relic of history but a fascinating record that exhibits humanities unending stream of creativity. This eBook delves into...
Hávamál
Óþekktur & NetútgáfanOctober 9, 2012FREEHávamál er kvæði úr eddukvæðum. Hávamál merkir mál hins háa, en hinn hái er Óðinn og er kvæðið lífsspeki hans, og inniheldur hvortve...
Repentance for the Holocaust
C. K. Martin ChungJuly 15, 2017FREEIn Repentance for the Holocaust , C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of "turning" ( tshuvah ) into a conceptual framework to analyze a part...
Greek Mythology: Captivating Stories of the Ancient Olympians and Titans
Ross TannerMay 18, 2017FREECaptivating Stories of the Ancient Olympians and Titans Did you know that Zeus loved many women, both goddesses and mortals? Did you know that he turn...
Freemasonry through the Funnel: The Widow's Sons of Sombor 1897-2017
Karlo HamederMarch 4, 2018FREEThis book is aimed at all those who would like to have more details about the world of Freemasonry, both young Freemasons and non-Masons. Our intentio...
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902)
John O'RourkeDecember 21, 2004FREEIn the 1840s, Great Britain was the richest, most powerful nation on earth. By virtue of the Union laws of 1800 and 1801, Ireland was fully part of Gr...
The History of Britain in 50 Events
Stephan WeaverSeptember 25, 2017FREEThis book provides an easy to understand overview of British History in 50 Events. Inside you will learn about… - The Foundation of London - The Gre...
Ferrari History
www.ferrari.comOctober 13, 2012FREEThis is a short history of Ferrari including some pictures and videos...
Irish Race in the Past and the Present
Augustus J. ThebaudDecember 31, 1884FREEWhile the whole European Continent was convulsed by the irruptions of the Germanic tribes, and of the Huns, more savage still, the island was at peace...
The French Revolution
Thomas CarlyleDecember 31, 1788FREEThe book gives an insight of the French Revolution from 1789 to the height of the Reign of Terror (1793–94) and culminates in 1795. Thus it is consi...
The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville & Alexander Teixeira de MattosApril 16, 1859FREEOriginally “mere notes jotted down at intervals on odds and ends of paper,” this work constitutes Alexis de Tocqueville’s thoughts on the French...
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C.
David HumeDecember 31, 1775FREEThis book deals with the enlightment of English history. A very detailed and researched historic book that covers the historical events and phases of ...
A Short History of Russia
Mary Platt ParmeleDecember 31, 1910FREERussia is the strange product of strange physical conditions. Nature was not in impetuous mood when she created this greater half of Europe, nor was t...
Denmark
M. Pearson ThomsonDecember 13, 2006FREEThe approach to this fine city from the North by the Cattegat is very charming. Sailing through the Sound you come upon this Athens of the North at it...
Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803
Dorothy WordsworthDecember 31, 1854FREEIn the late summer and early autumn of 1803, Dorothy Wordsworth undertook an extraordinary 663-mile journey through the Scottish Lowlands and southwes...
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F.
David HumeDecember 31, 1775FREEThis showcases the history of England in varied volumes. This is a vital object in the evolution of historical reporting, not for its subatomic accura...
Russia
Donald Mackenzie WallaceJune 19, 2012FREEThe Zaporovian Commonwealth has been compared sometimes to ancient Sparta, and sometimes to the mediaeval Military Orders, but it had in reality quite...
The Handbook to English Heraldry
Charles BoutellDecember 31, 1876FREEIn the olden time, in England, the love of Heraldry, which was prevalent amongst all classes, was based upon an intelligent appreciation of its worthi...
Defeat in the West
Milton ShulmanSeptember 2, 2017FREEMilton Shulman (1913 – 2004) was a Canadian author, film and theatre critic. After the phoney war period Shulman signed up for the Canadian army, wa...
A Short History of Germany
Mary Platt ParmeleDecember 31, 1910FREEThe German nation is of ancient lineage, and indeed belongs to the royal line of human descent, the Aryan; its ancestral roots running back until lost...
The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26
Titus LiviusFebruary 1, 2004FREETitus Veturius and Spurius Postumius, with their army, surrounded by the Samnites at the Caudine forks; enter into a treaty, give six hundred hostages...
A Celtic Passion
Dawn E. LynneFebruary 4, 2013FREEA Historical Romance Novel set in Celtic Ireland and Scotland in 512 AD
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
Alice Morse EarleDecember 31, 1910FREEFrom the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England he had a Spartan struggle for life. In summer-time he fared comparatively wel...
Hitler and the Nazi’s Rise to Power Comic Book
Jeremy ReidFebruary 24, 2015FREEThis book is a history of Germany between the World Wars. The focus is around how Adolf Hitler rose to power during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Ma...
Lectures on Modern history
Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton ActonApril 3, 2015FREESir John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, known as Lord Acton, was an English historian and master of the principal foreign languages. During his time, h...
Rasputin the Rascal Monk
William Le QueuxOctober 13, 1927FREEA book of popular narrative history about the Romanoff Empire in Russia and the role of the “rascal monk” Rasputin in their downfall. "Disclosing ...
Holocaust Rescuers: True Holocaust Survivor Stories Of The Liberators Of Auschwitz: Accounts Of The Holocaust Rescuers
Cyrus J. ZacharyMay 26, 2018FREEEvery so often, an event happens that yanks the reigns of the ever-churning machinery of time and stops the world in its tracks. The repercussions of ...
Revolution and Counter-Revolution
Karl MarxDecember 31, 1882FREERevolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany is a book by Friedrich Engels, with contributions by Karl Marx. Originally a series of art...
History of France
Charlotte Mary YongeDecember 31, 1609FREEContains short articles about French history, starting with the earlier Kings up to the French Revolution and its outcomes.
History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814
François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis MignetDecember 31, 1883FREEOf the great incidents of History, none has attracted more attention or proved more difficult of interpretation than the French Revolution. The ultima...
The Renaissance: A History From Beginning to End
Hourly HistoryApril 22, 2016FREEDuring the Middle Ages, the nations of Europe forged new identities that moved them away from the lost glory of the Roman Empire into their own ethnic...
A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland
Mary Platt ParmeleDecember 31, 1910FREEHis passionate love for his wife, Sarah Churchill, ran like a golden thread of romance through Marlborough's stormy career. On the eve of battle, and ...
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
Bertrand RussellFebruary 2, 1970FREEThe Practice and Theory of Bolshevism, is Bertrand Russell's critique of the Communist system he witnessed in the Soviet Union. The Bolsheviks, howeve...
Tacitus on Germany
Cornelius TacitusApril 3, 2006FREEThe whole of Germany is thus bounded; separated from Gaul, from Rhoetia and Pannonia, by the rivers Rhine and Danube; from Sarmatia and Dacia by mutua...
Nicholas II: The Romanov Coronation Albums
Hillwood Museum & Gardens, New York Public Library, Kristen Regina, Marla DiVietro, Lindsay Inge & Edward VreelandFebruary 1, 2013FREEThis e-publication is created with images from the New York Public Library Digital Gallery and presents highlights from the two-volume coronation albu...
The 6 Wives of Henry VIII
Nikki GotschallMay 14, 2014FREEDo you like Kings and Queens? How about Princes and Princesses? If you answered yes to either of these questions, this is the book for you! This book ...
Early European History
Hutton WebsterApril 1, 2005FREEThis book aims to furnish a concise and connected account of human progress during ancient, medieval, and early modern times. It should meet the requi...
Age of Enlightenment: A History From Beginning to End
Hourly HistoryDecember 8, 2016FREEFrom its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effect on public life in Europe, the A...
Best Seller Paid Europe Books of January 2023
The Shame of Survival
Ursula MahlendorfOctober 13, 2015$19.99While we now have a great number of testimonials to the horrors of the Holocaust from survivors of that dark episode of twentieth-century history, rar...
Paris-London Connection: The Assassination of Princess Diana
John MorganAugust 14, 2012$4.99Paris-London Connection is the most shocking yet factual book written on the 1997 Paris crash that took the lives of Princess Diana and her lover, Dod...
The Northern Crusades
Eric ChristiansenDecember 4, 1997$10.99The 'Northern Crusades', inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, are less celebrated than those in the Middle East, but they were also more succes...
The Last Jews in Berlin
Leonard GrossJanuary 20, 2015$11.99The incredible but little-known true story of the Jews who went underground in Nazi Berlin at the height of World War II—and lived to tell the tale ...
They Fought Alone
Charles GlassSeptember 11, 2018$2.99“Highly detailed and fast-paced, Charles Glass’s They Fought Alone is a must-read for those whose passion is the Resistance literature...
A Storm in Flanders
Winston GroomDecember 1, 2007$9.99From the Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Forrest Gump : “A fascinating, evenhanded, page-turning account” of Ypres’s pivotal WWI battles ( ...
France: A History
Marshall B. DavidsonMarch 20, 2015$9.99"Every man has two countries," Henri de Bornier once said, "his own and France." Indeed, France has captivated us for centuries. Here, in this compell...
The World Crisis: 1916–1918
Winston S. ChurchillSeptember 23, 2013$1.99A volume in Churchill’s history of the First World War that is “essential reading, as fresh and compelling as ever” (Jon Meacham, bestselling au...
Hungary in World War II
Deborah S. CorneliusApril 1, 2011$12.99A historian examines why Hungary allied with the Nazis, and the devastating consequences for the country. The full story of Hungary’s partici...
The History of Newgate Prison
Caroline JowettFebruary 28, 2017$9.99As the place where prisoners, male and female, awaited trial, execution or transportation Newgate was Britains most feared gaol for over 700 years. It...
The Escape Artist
Jonathan FreedlandOctober 18, 2022$14.99"A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information — and misinformation. Is it possible to stop...
The Gathering Storm
Winston S. ChurchillJune 30, 2010$12.99“It is our immense good fortune that a man who presided over this crisis in history is able to turn the action he lived through into enduring litera...
In the Garden of Beasts
Erik LarsonMay 10, 2011$10.99Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power. The time i...
Plantagenet Princesses
Douglas BoydMay 27, 2020$1.99A look at the royal women of twelfth-century England—from the empowered to the imprisoned—and their roles in the ruling dynasty. Eleanor of Aquita...
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991
Orlando FigesApril 8, 2014$12.99From the author of A People's Tragedy , an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle ...
Conquistadores
Fernando CervantesSeptember 14, 2021$12.99A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled...
Crown and Country
David StarkeyOctober 28, 2010$12.99An exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully re...
Magnificent Rebels
Andrea WulfSeptember 13, 2022$14.99A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of y...
In Search of a Kingdom
Laurence BergreenMarch 16, 2021$10.99“FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice In this grand and thrilling narrative, the accla...
Taking Berlin
Martin DugardNovember 1, 2022$14.99From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O'Reilly's Killing series, comes a nonfiction thriller about the race between the A...
Rogue Heroes
Ben MacintyreOctober 4, 2016$12.99NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incredible untold story of World War II’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by the modern master of wartime ...
D-Day Through French Eyes
Mary Louise RobertsMay 16, 2014$2.99“A moving examination of how French civilians experienced the fighting” at Normandy during WWII from the acclaimed author of What Soldiers Do ( Te...
The Swiss and the Nazis
Stephen HalbrookMay 19, 2006$11.99The award-winning author of Target Switzerland uses “a wide breadth of research to attempt to answer why Switzerland escaped the Nazi onslaught”...
The Wehrmacht
Bob CarruthersJuly 8, 2010$6.99This is the story of the Second World War as told for the first time by survivors of Germany's armed forces. Like old soldiers everywhere, they are fa...
The Spanish Civil War
Hugh ThomasDecember 4, 2001$5.99“Mr. Thomas has understood [the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a grea...
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
Lucy AdlingtonSeptember 14, 2021$14.99A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion works...
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen GreenblattSeptember 26, 2011$12.99Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction • Winner of the National Book Award • New York Times Bestseller Renowned scholar Stephen Greenblatt br...
Dead Mountain
Donnie EicharOctober 22, 2013$9.99A New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller – What happened that night on Dead Mountain? The mystery of Dead Mountain: In February 1959...
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Anthonỵ DoerrJanuary 8, 2015$10.99*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize* A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book* A National Book Award Finalist* From Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, mu...
Triumph and Tragedy
Winston S. ChurchillMay 11, 2014$11.99Winston Churchill recounts the end of WWII and its aftermath, in the conclusion of his majestic six-volume history. In Triumph and Tragedy , Br...
The Splendid and the Vile
Erik LarsonFebruary 25, 2020$11.99#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate...
The Longest Day
Cornelius RyanFebruary 16, 2010$15.99The unparalleled, classic work of history that recreates the battle that changed World War II—the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Co...
The Tudors in Love
Sarah GristwoodDecember 13, 2022$14.99Sarah Gristwood's The Tudors in Love offers a brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how the rules of romantic courtly love irrevocably shape...
The Bletchley Girls
Tessa DunlopJanuary 8, 2015$3.99'Lively...in giving us the daily details of their lives in the women's own voices Dunlop does them and us a fine service' New Statesman 'Dunlop is eng...
Living in Medieval England
Kathryn WarnerMay 30, 2020$11.99A month-by-month account of what life was like for the everyday person just before the Black Plague wiped out most of Europe. 1326 was one of t...
The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion
Daniel McCoyJune 1, 2022$7.99The Viking Spirit is an introduction to Norse mythology like no other. As you'd expect from Daniel McCoy, the creator of the enduringly popular w...
Enemy at the Gates
William J. CraigSeptember 29, 2015$12.99A New York Times bestseller that brings to life one of the bloodiest battles of World War II—and the beginning of the end of the Third Reich. On Aug...
European History
Introbooks TeamNovember 7, 2019$2.99Europe's relationship with culture, even at the most basic level, dates back to at least 20,000 BCE. The Venus of Willedorf and the cave paintings of ...
Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince (English Edition)
Niccolò MachiavelliJanuary 1, 1656$21.99"Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be bot...
Checkmate in Berlin
Giles MiltonJuly 13, 2021$12.99From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II as it’s never been told b...
On Every Tide
Sean ConnollyOctober 11, 2022$19.99A sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world When people think of Irish emigration, they often t...
Blitzed
Norman OhlerMarch 7, 2017$10.99A New York Times bestseller, Norman Ohler's Blitzed is a "fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich” (Washington Po...
Exploring English Castles
Dr. Edd MorrisApril 7, 2015$12.99A guide to some of the most historical and picturesque castles in England: A “big, luscious book . . . For travelers as well as histo...
The Battle for Spain
Antony BeevorJune 1, 2006$14.99A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem To mark the 70th anniversary o...
Panzer Commander
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Germany: A History
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Fintan O'TooleMarch 15, 2022$16.99NEW YORK TIMES • 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The Atlantic: 10 Best Books of 2022 Best Books of the Year: Washington Post, The New Yorker, Foreign Affa...
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. ShirerOctober 23, 2011$14.99National Book Award Winner: The definitive account of Nazi Germany and “one of the most important works of history of our time” ( The New York Tim...
Armageddon
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Winters in the World
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Taking Paris
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The Greek Revolution
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The Forgotten 500
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Hitler and Stalin
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The Fires of Lust
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World
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The Holy Roman Empire in Decline - A Short History of Germany in the Eighteenth Century
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Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Revised and Updated Edition)
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The Lighthouse of Stalingrad
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The Wolf Age
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All Honorable Men
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Children of Ash and Elm
Neil PriceAugust 25, 2020$14.99The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise...
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Three Ordinary Girls
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Blood, Fire & Gold
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The Winter Fortress
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Charles XII, King of Sweden
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Lenin on the Train
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Wellington's Rifles
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Panzer Ace
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Powers and Thrones
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Blood Sisters
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The Middle Ages
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What We Knew
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The Premonitions Bureau
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Life in Medieval Europe
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Revolution
Peter AckroydOctober 10, 2017$12.99The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England, beginning in 1688 with a revolution and ending in 1815 with a famous victory. In ...
Rome: The Autobiography
Jon E. LewisMarch 1, 2012$2.99The history of Ancient Rome has been passed down to us through official accounts, personal letters, annotated words of great orators and the considere...