From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, this book tells the entire story of Europe in a single volume. It was chosen ten times as Book of the Year.

Europe in 1945 was prostrate and was devastated by war, bombing and chaos. This book tells of Europe's recovery from the devastation, of the decline and fall of Soviet Communism and the rise of the EC and EU, of the end of Europe's empires, and of Europe's relationships with the memory of the war and with the two great powers, Russian and America.

This narrative tells how Irish monks and scribes saved classical and religious heritage by copying the manuscripts of writers such as Homer and Aristotle, while libraries on the continent were lost forever.

A history of the French Revolution, this book gives an account of the first few years of the great Revolution in France, and of the decades that led up to it.

Beginning with prehistory and the early civilizations of the Aegean, this title traces the development of European identity in its many guises, through the age of Christendom, the Middle Ages, early Modern history and the old European order.

An account of life in Medieval Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the coming of the Renaissance. Full coverage is given to all aspects of life in a thousand-year period which saw the creation of Western civilization.

The classic bestselling account of the history of the Third Reich, now repackaged and reissued.

Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This title presents an account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith.

The sixth edition of the leading text in contemporary European history has been thoroughly revised with up-to-date scholarship. Its coverage of southern and eastern Europe is expanded, as is its coverage of social history - especially women's history. It charts the theme of globalisation, starting with the 1890s and moving through to post-9/11 Europe. This new edition also examines how twenty ...

The story of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, when for six extraordinary months the city was at the centre of world government as the peacemakers wound up bankrupt empires and created new countries. This book brings to life the personalities, ideals and prejudices of the settlement brokers.

Presents one of the most extraordinary periods in European history - from the battered, introvert continent after the 30 Years War to the dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon. This title explores an era of unprecedented change, growth and cultural, political and technological ferment that shaped societies.

The first volume of Hobsbawm's classic and universally acclaimed trilogy on the 19th century, beautifully repackaged as an Abacus History Great

The Reformation was the seismic event in European history over the past 1000 years, and one which tore the medieval world apart. Not just European religion, but thought, culture, society, state systems, personal relations - everything - was turned upside down.

Presents general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean that combines a grasp of the scholarship of the day with a great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. This book features notes that allow the reader to appreciate the state of scholarship at the time of writing.

Introduces today's students to the medieval roots of our own society. This work includes coverage of Byzantium and Islam, a revised map program, and an essay program on medieval myths. The author writing about his realization, while in college, says that our world today is a product of the medieval past.

Features the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz; the ambitious Winston Churchill; the ruthless, sycophantic Chancellor Bernhard von Bulow; Britain's greatest 20th-century Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey; and Jacky Fisher, the eccentric admiral who revolutionized the British Navy and brought forth for the first true battleship, HMS Dreadnought.

George Rude's text provides an account of Europe before the great upheaval, outlining both the course of the Revolution in France and Napoleon's rule, and tracing their impact and influence on Europe.

Was the shift from old to new in this period a transition from medieval to modern? Professor Rice, assisted in this edition by Professor Tony Grafton continues to argue, as in the first edition, that this century represents a shift from medieval to early modern.

Describes the hopes and cynical betrayals of the author's experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War.