Cultural Region/Western Europe
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The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
$24.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller
The unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper who joined the Dutch Resistance, helped save dozen of lives, were captured
- Author: Van Iperen, Roxane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0063119331
- Language: English
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On to Victory: The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23-May 5, 1945
$27.95 Add to cartThis print-on-demand title is available by request from most booksellers.
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BOOK EIGHT in the Canadian Battle Series.
On to Victory is the little-told story of the tense final days of World War II, r
- Author: Zuehlke, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 554
- Publish Date: January 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1771622652
- Language: English
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Ireland in the Twentieth Century
$52.00 Add to cartA rousing history of Ireland in its most tumultous century by one of the most well-known and beloved Irish writers of our time. Tim Pat Coogan’s Ireland in the Twentieth Century will be a must-read fo… [more below]
- Author: Coogan, Tim Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: February 21 2006
- ISBN10: 140396842X
- Language: English
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Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1919-1933 the Secret Funding of Hitler’s Rise to Power, 1919-1933
$28.95 Read moreCalled “one of the most useful and illuminating studies of Nazism” by The New Yorker, this highly acclaimed work of history unravels the secret financial web which Hitler spun across Europe and around… [more below]
- Author: Pool, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 22 2006
- ISBN10: 0671760831
- Language: English
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Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
The epic true story of Dunkirk–now a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance
In 1940, the Al
- Author: Levine, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 006274030X
- Language: English
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The Monocle Travel Guide to Amsterdam: Updated Version
$9.90 Add to cartAmsterdam: a city that surprises first-time travellers and longtime visitors alike.
At first glance, horseshoe-shaped Amsterdam is a breeze to circumnavigate and its offerings seemingly obvious. But lo
- Author: Monocle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 3899558731
- Language: English
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The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War
$34.95 Add to cartIn this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European e… [more below]
- Series: Verso World History (Paperback)
- Author: Mayer, Arno J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1844676358
- Language: English
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And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe’s Crisis and America’s Economic Future
$45.50 Read moreA #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK]
A titanic battle is being waged for Europe’s integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and mal- Author: Varoufakis, Yanis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1568585047
- Language: English
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Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History
$35.00 Add to cartCritically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbinding narrative that places the island at the crossroads of world history.
“Sicily,” said Goethe, “is- Author: Norwich, John Julius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0812995171
- Language: English
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Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century
$37.27 Add to cartA sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe that examines its unprecedented destruction–and abiding promise
A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era o- Author: Jarausch, Konrad H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 888
- Publish Date: August 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0691173079
- Language: English
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Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century
$18.99 Add to cartPart history, part autobiography, WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II. Personal stories of the survival or destruction of Modris
- Author: Eksteins, Modris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 31 2007
- ISBN10: 061808231X
- Language: English
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The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
$21.99 Add to cart“Theroux is at his best when he tells [people’s] stories, happy and sad . . . Theroux’s great mission had always been to transport us beyond that reading chair, to challenge himself–and thus, to chal… [more below]
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 054422793X
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling Through Europe with the Most Perplexing Founding Father
$18.99 Add to cartA debut that combines historical nonfiction with travel books, for fans of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, In Pursuit of Jefferson is the story of an American on a journey through Europe, following the
- Author: Baxter, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1728259401
- Language: English
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Easy Spanish Crossword Puzzles
$10.00 Add to cartLearn Spanish through crossword puzzles
Easy Spanish Crossword Puzzles offers you an entertaining but effective way of expanding your knowledge of the Spanish language and culture. The crucigramas in
- Series: Language – Spanish
- Author: Burnett, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: February 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0844272442
- Language: English
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Roman Britain: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFor four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to the Tyne and beyond. Its involvement with Rome starte… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Salway, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0198712162
- Language: English
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Maldoror and Poems
$20.00 Add to cartOne of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing
Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautr?amont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Lautr?amont
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0140443428
- Language: English
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Insight Guides Switzerland (Travel Guide Ebook)
$25.99 Add to cartInsight Guide to Switzerland is a pictorial travel guide in a magazine style providing answers to the key questions before or during your trip: deciding when to go to Switzerland, choosing what to see
- Series: Insight Guides
- Author: Insight Guides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1839050306
- Language: English
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5 Cities That Ruled the World: How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London & New York Shaped Global History
$19.99 Add to cartIn Five Cities that Ruled the World, theologian Douglas Wilson fuses together, in compelling detail, the critical moments birthed in history’s most influential cities –Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London
- Author: Wilson, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 1595551360
- Language: English
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The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world?
Western exceptionalism–the idea that E- Author: Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1541774396
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Italy: Tracing the Renaissance, Unification, and the Lively Evolution of Art and Culture
$30.99 Add to cartJourney to the romantic land of Italy and meet the artists, warriors, and leaders who forever left their mark on Western culture.
Perhaps no country has had such a lasting impact on Western culture as
- Author: Haynes, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 191571043X
- Language: English
