Penguin Press HC, The, October 2005. Hardcover. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award One of the"New York Times"'""Ten Best Books of the Year Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the.....
Ballantine Books, February 2000. Hardcover. An examination of the origins of the modern world looks to a world-wide climatic event that blocked out much of the sunlight for eighteen months, wreaking havoc on civilization.
E. J. Brill, 1962. Trade Paperback. 99 pages. Text in German. On the sociology of the Byzantine monasticism. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Light stains on the cover.
Verlag von Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 164 pp. of text in German and English (Introduction and Plates and Descriptions). 154 full-page plates, 113 monochrome and 41 in color. Band II of Historische Waffen und Kostume. First edition (first printing). Near fine in full moroccan leather.....
Allen Lane, January 1753. Trade Paperback.
Penguin Books, September 2006. Trade Paperback. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award - One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year Remarkable . . . The writing is vivid; the coverage-of little countries as well.....
Univ of Wisconsin Pr, February 1985. Trade Paperback.
Harvard University Press, January 1971. Hardcover.
Cambridge University Press, July 1983. Trade Paperback. The major emphasis of Volume 1 is on the movements for national sovereignty, the revolutionary activity associated with them, and the place of these events in the international relations of the day for the major nationalities of the Balkan region. Volume 2 deals.....
Cambridge University Press, August 1983. Trade Paperback. This volume concentrates on the Balkan wars and World War II, which both had their origins in the desire of nationalist circles to complete the territorial unification of their states. A substantial part of this book deals with the wartime experience, the establishment.....
Oxford University Press, February 1986. Trade Paperback. Civilization has long sought to limit the violence and ugliness of war. War and Law Since 1945 traces the recent history of these efforts, and explores important contemporary issues in the area. Geoffrey Best shows how the Second World War prompted reconstruction of.....
Thames & Hudson, May 1984. Trade Paperback. Discusses the rules and local variants of a wide range of folk games played b children in Great Britain.
Routledge, December 1998. Hardcover. 'From about 13,000 BC it began to get warmer in Europe..' begins this all-encompassing survey of European cultural history. This book is a major and original contribution to the idea of Europe and its formation, from its Celtic and German origins, the influence of the Greeks.....
Oxford University Press, 1991. Trade Paperback. This book is a survey and analysis of the European Reformation of the sixteenth century. During this period western Christianity underwent the most dramatic changes in its entire history. From Iceland to Transylvania, from the Baltic to the Pyrenees, the Reformation divided churches and.....
Wiley, February 2004. Trade Paperback. ACCLAIM FOR ENIGMA "CRACKING STUFF...VIVID AND HITHERTO UNKNOWN DETAILS." -Sunday Times (London) "IN A CROWD OF BOOKS DEALING WITH THE ALLIED BREAKING OF THE WORLD WAR II CIPHER MACHINE ENIGMA, HUGH SEBAG-MONTEFIORE HAS SCORED A SCOOP." -Washington Post Winston Churchill called the cracking of the.....
Broadway Books, January 2014. Trade Paperback. A shimmering literary examination of the ghost of communism, a haunting presence of Europe's past Oskar has just killed himself. After waiting a quarter century, he returned to Prague only to find it was no longer his home. With his memorial service, Yale historian.....
Back Bay Books, June 1993. Trade Paperback. From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for.....
Viking Studio Book, April 1982. Hardcover.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2008. Trade Paperback. In this acclaimed international bestseller, Claudio Magris tracks the Danube River, setting his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, Christianity and Islam. In each town he raises the.....
B. H. Blackwell, 1911. Hardcover. 78 pages. 5-1/4 by 7-7/8 inches. A very good hardcover copy.
Picador, September 2008. Trade Paperback. An extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties -- set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, liberated 400 million people from the British Empire. With the loss of.....
Weidenfeld & Nicholson, October 1989. Hardcover.
Hurst and Blackett, 1880. Hardcover. Two volumes. Conversations on Continental politics. First edition (first printing). Two volumes, nicely rebound in stury cloth; minor library markings inside.