著者:Max Hastings
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2004年11月16日
This is epic story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe by one of Britain’s most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as worthy……続きを見る
著者:Derek Wilson
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
An incisive and absorbing biography of the legendary emperor who bridged ancient and modern Europe and singlehandedly altered the course of Western history.
Charlemagne was an extraordinary figure: ……続きを見る
After returning to free the trapped spirit of a lost friend, an old soldier on holiay in France, tells his story to a group of young men.
My grandfather John Oliver fought with the East ……続きを見る
著者:Howard M. Sachar
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
By the end of World War I, in November 1918, Europe’s old authoritarian empires had fallen, and new and seemingly democratic governments were rising from the debris. As successor states found their ……続きを見る
England's most famous and ruthless king...
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Heavenly Intrigue is the fascinating, true account of the seventeenth-century collaboration between Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe that revolutionized our understanding of the universe–and ended in……続きを見る
What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective abdications. Commonsensical explanations impute such……続きを見る
Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentaries on the Gallic War) is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battl……続きを見る
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distribute……続きを見る
The most handsome man of his era… yet also the most feared...
Cesare Borgia was the most infamous member of history’s original crime family – the Borgias. Son of the scandalous Pope Alexander VI, an……続きを見る
Durant plus de deux siècles, il a été de mode chez nous de considérer comme une époque d’impuissance et de barbarie la période plus que millénaire qu……続きを見る
The attack on Libya laid bare the iron fist within the velvet glove of slogans such as “humanitarian intervention." Like the destruction of Yugoslavia and the rape of Afghanistan, the reduction of L……続きを見る
In 1585, the English launched a pre-emptive strike against Spain, by attacking her New World colonies. Led by Sir Francis Drake, in command of 21 ships and 1,800 soldiers, the expedition struck firs……続きを見る
著者:Oliver Hayes
出版社: Bretwalda Books
発売日: 2015年05月10日
For six weeks in the spring of 1812 Wellingston’s Anglo-Spanish army marched and countermarched across western Spain as it sought to find away past the French army of Marshal Marmont. Their chance c……続きを見る
Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881) was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era.[1] He called economics "the dismal science", wrote articles for the……続きを見る
After WWII, Europe was awash in refugees. Never in modern times had so many been so destitute and displaced. No longer subjects of a single nation-state, this motley group of enemies and victims con……続きを見る
“Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpet……続きを見る
In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the fri……続きを見る
著者:Dorothy Gilding
出版社: Horizon Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年12月14日
“There were dead men everywhere, and a good number of our cavalry. We passed Fritz artillery with dead horses attached to their limbers. I come across a wounded Fritz. He was just a young boy and ou……続きを見る
著者:R. John Rath
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2013年12月18日
Liberalism, in the nineteenth-century sense of the term, came to Austria much later than it came to western Europe, for it was not until the 1840s that the industrial revolution reached the Hapsburg……続きを見る
著者:Linda Risso
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年01月10日
This book offers the first account of the foundation, organisation and activities of the NATO Information Service (NATIS) during the Cold War.
During the Cold War, NATIS was pivotal in bringing nati……続きを見る
Long repressed following the collapse of empire, memories of the French colonial experience have recently gained unprecedented visibility. In popular culture, scholarly research, personal memoirs, p……続きを見る
Renowned for its accuracy, brevity, and readability, this book has long been the gold standard of concise histories of the Napoleonic Wars. Now in an updated and revised edition, it is unique in its……続きを見る
The steadfast alliance between America and Europe represents one of the most important and complex political relationships in the modern world. But with the end of the Cold War, America and Europe s……続きを見る
In Packaging Post/Coloniality, Richard Watts breaks from convention and reads Francophone books by their covers, focusing on the package over the content. Watts looks at the ways that the 'paratext'……続きを見る
Drawing on diverse cultural forms, and ranging across disciplinary boundaries, Nation States maps the contested cultural terrain of Irish nationalism from the Act of Union of 1800 to the present. In……続きを見る
In recent years numerous scholars in disciplines not traditionally associated with theology have promoted an interesting thesis. They maintain that one particular Christian doctrine, the Incarnation……続きを見る
The Polish crisis in the early 1980s provoked a great deal of reaction in the West. Not only governments, but social movements were also touched by the establishment of the Iindependent Trade Union ……続きを見る