Название: Modern Europe, 1789-Present, 2nd Edition
Автор: Asa Briggs
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 0582772605
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 478
Размер: 39,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Now covering the whole of Europe from the French Revolution to the present day, this major new edition has been completely revised and brought up-to-date. The approach embraces the whole continent from both national and regional perspectives, and combines political survey with grass roots 'people' history. Bringing this history vividly to life, the authors use a very broad range of sources including memoirs, archives, letters, songs and newspapers.

Название: The Barbarian's Beverage: A History of Beer in Ancient Europe
Автор: Max Nelson
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 0415486920
Год: 2008
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 224
Размер: 8,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Comprehensive and detailed, this is the first ever study of ancient beer and its distilling, consumption and characteristics
Examining evidence from Greek and Latin authors from 700 BC to AD 900, the book demonstrates the important technological as well as ideological contributions the Europeans made to beer throughout the ages.

Название: Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
Автор: Judith Herrin
Издательство: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1846144663
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 528
Размер: 93,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on the coast of Italy, Arian Goths and Catholic Romans competed to produce an unrivaled concentration of buildings and astonishing mosaics.

Название: To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
Автор: Ian Kershaw
Издательство: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0670024589
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 624
Размер: 7,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Penguin History of Europe series reaches the twentieth century with acclaimed scholar Ian Kershaw’s long-anticipated analysis of the pivotal years of World War I and World War II.

Название: Historical Atlas of Central Europe: Third Revised and Expanded Edition
Автор: Paul Robert Magocsi
Издательство: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487523312
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 299
Размер: 23,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Central Europe remains a region of ongoing change and continuing significance in the contemporary world. This third, fully revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Central Europe takes into consideration recent changes in the region. The 120 full-colour maps, each accompanied by an explanatory text, provide a concise visual survey of political, economic, demographic, cultural, and religious developments from the fall of the Roman Empire in the early fifth century to the present.

Название: The Armies of Europe
Автор: Edor von Koppen
Издательство: Start Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1649740106
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 172
Размер: 5,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

A fascinating glimpse into the history of warfare. A must for military history buffs, writers wishing to for historical accuracy in their portrayal of historical armies, or anyone interested in the eighteen hundreds.

Название: The Jacobites: Britain and Europe, 1688–1788
Автор: Daniel Szechi
Издательство: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526139669
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 344
Размер: 2,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Jacobites: Britain and Europe, 1688–1788 is a completely revised global survey of the Jacobite phenomenon. Exploring Jacobitism in England, Ireland, Scotland, Europe and the wider world, it offers a fresh interpretation of the Jacobites’ impact on the development of modern Britain and Europe.

Название: Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe
Автор: John Kelly
Издательство: Hachette Books
ISBN: 030690277X
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 384
Размер: 29,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

During World War II, the Allied leaders banded together, forged a great victory—and created a new and dangerous post-war world.
In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send aid to Russia as it had to Britain.

Название: The US Navy and the War in Europe
Автор: Robert C. Stern
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1848320825
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 306
Размер: 31.5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Although the defeat of Japan was the US Navy s greatest contribution to the Second World War, it also played a significant role in the battle against Hitler. Even before Germany declared war in 1941, US naval vessels were actively engaged in Atlantic convoy battles, and suffered their first casualties long before the Pearl Harbor attack formally pitched America into the conflict. Thereafter the US Navy immediately sent reinforcements to the over-stretched Royal Navy, taking part in attacks on German-occupied Norway, flying aircraft to Malta and Egypt from its carriers and adding protection to the convoys to Russia.