European History

The history of Europe covers the peoples inhabiting the European continent from prehistory to the present. Some of the best-known civilizations of prehistoric Europe were the Minoan and the Mycenaean, which flourished during the Bronze Age until they collapsed in a short period of time around 1200 BC.

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The French Revolution: A Political History
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
Bloody Crowns: A New History of the Hundred Years War
World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews
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Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
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Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
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The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
The Traitors Circle
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
The Guns of August
Napoleon: A Life
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Europe: A History
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815
The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815 - 1914

History shows that changes in sovereignity and state borders as a result of conflicts, as well as the rise and fall of political regimes in different parts of the planet, often forcibly divide local populations and/or artificially modify the names of places. At all latitudes, such measures arise from the political need to impose apparent homogeneity of culture and language, according to the model of the nation-State that does not tolerate exceptions to the supremacy of its founding values.
Giuseppe De Vergottini, Topographical Names and Protection of Linguistic Minorities

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Then, in an unusual moment, she grew emotional, which left little doubt about the level of profound respect and admiration Merkel had for her American colleague: ‘So eight years are coming to a close.  This is the last visit of (President) Barack Obama to our country…I am very glad that he chose Germany as one of the stopovers on this trip…Thank you for the reliable friendship and partnership you demonstrated in very difficult hours of our relationship. So let me again pay tribute to what we’ve ...more
Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

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