Modern European History

July 1914: Countdown to War

The outbreak of the First World War was ‘a drama never surpassed’. One hundred years later, the cha...

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Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World

Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense his...

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Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career

The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of Lo...

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The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction

The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wal...

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The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917

During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and Ame...

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Prisoners of Time: Prussians, Germans and Other Humans

Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our cen...

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The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe

The Ottomans have long been viewed as despots who conquered through sheer military might, and whose...

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The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II

The Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew—the roots of the Second World War—and upend...

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Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit

A magisterial and profoundly perceptive survey of Britain’s post-war role on the global stage, from...

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Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union

A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified continent in attemp...

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Stalin's War: A New History of the Second World War

'Gripping, authoritative, accessible and always bracingly revisionist' Simon Sebag Montefiore'A terr...

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Lev's Violin: An Italian Adventure

*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*'Utterly enthralling - a beautifully-written voyage of discovery that ta...

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To Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII

A groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever...

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Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947

The second volume in Daniel Todman's acclaimed history of Britain's experience of the Second World W...

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Victoire: A Wartime Story of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal

Occupied Paris, 1940. A woman in a red hat and a black fur coat hurries down a side-street. She is M...