Search Results: HISTORY / EUROPEAN from Chilton Books

London: Guild Publishing, 1991.. 1st Guild Publishing ed. "Philip Ziegler follows the course of the plague as it swept from Asia into Italy and then into the rest of Europe." Pp. 6/249, 10 colour plates, 64 b/w illustrations. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w. VG/VG.

London: Books of Africa, 2011.. Tens of thousands of years ago African men and women became the first modern inhabitants of Europe...This work highlights the Africans who contributed to the great civilizations and historical movements in Europe....the Africans who made lasting and stellar contributions to the culture and religious beliefs of Euope. It is bolstered by many on-site visits and much first-hand and primary research." Pp.189, occasional colour and black & white illustrations. Paperback, minor curl to corner tips. VG.

London: Hurst and Company, 1994.. 1st edition. "Examines Bosnia's rich historical traditions in light of the conflict that erupted there in 1992. The authors explain the origins of Bosnia's major ethnonational groups in the religious conversions of the Middle Ages and under the Ottomans as a prelude to the transformation of its principal religious communities into the twentieth-century nationalities. The roles of Bosnia's Muslims, Serbs, and Croats in the events affecting the Yugoslav peoples in the twentieth century and then as Yugoslavia disintegrated n the earky 1990s are vividly presented." Pp.xii/318, occasional black & white photo illustrations. Paperback. VG.

Rennes: Editions Quest-France, 1999.. 1st ed. "...provides a set of data that is placed within its historical period and summarises the main importance of the event." Pp.32, coloured chronological time-line to right-hand page edge, colour illustrations throughout. Stiff card covers. VG.

New York: Peter Lang, 1991.. 1st edition. Studies in History and Culture series Vol.3. "British appeasement was a controversial policy in the 1930s, and has remained so during the more than 50 years since the problems the policy was to solve exploded into World War II. 'A Climate for Appeasement' delves into one of the primary reasons the appeasers used to justify their policy, one often accepted tp some degree by historians since that time: the existence of an anti-war climate of opinion held by many members of the British public. Did such a climate exist? If so, why did it, and how was it used by the appeasers?" Pp.x/ 263. Blue laminated boards. VG.

Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988.. Studies in European History series. "In this study of the cold war between the Western Powers and the Soviet Union, 1945-1963, Michael Dockrill provides a concise account of this period, taking into consideration the major political, diplomatic, military and strategic factors. He explores the origin and meaning of the term Cold War and analyses the literature on the period for the student approaching this subject for the first time." Pp.108, 2 maps, 3 marginal marks to p.66. Paperback. VG.

Dachau: Comite International de Dachau, 2002.. Contains in unabridged form in English a selection of important contributions of survivors of Nazi concentration camps, published in 17 issues of the Dachauer Hefte 1985-2000." Pp.266. Paperback, creasing to spine and minor edge wear. G+.

London: Collins, 1973.. 1st ed. "To read 'The Deadly Stroke' is to live again one of the most dramatic moments of the Second World War." Pp. 221, 12 b/w illustrations, maps to endpapers. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w price-clipped and creased flyleaves. VG/G+.

Dubrovnik: Matica Hrvatska Dubrovnik, 2002.. The articles for this edition were written between autumn 1991 and spring 1992. They were published, together with all the photos, in the review "Dubrovnik" under the Croatian title "Dubrovnik u ratu". Contents: The Defence of Dubrovnik by Vlado Gotovac; Theorem about the Egg by Slobodan Prosperov; Harshness vs Harmony by Bozidar Violic; Dubrovnik and Vukovar by Ivo Banac; The City of Measure. A Donna Flora by Luko Paljetak; La Lumiere Noire by Andre Glucksmann; Une Petite Tache sur l'Europe by Jean D'Ormesson; Dubrovnik and the Calamities of War by Hrvoje Kacic; The Siege of Dubrovnik and City's Wounds (Letter to an Italian Friend) by Igor Zidic; The Presence of Dubrovnik by Ivo Franges; Jus in Bello by Kathleen V. Wilkees; Dubrovnik Besieged by Tonko Maroevic; The Burnt Land by Zvonimir Mrkonjic; Dubrovnik's Destiny by Maren Frejidenberg; Dubrovnik: When the War is Over by Colin Kaiser; Qui t'a Permis d'Etre Aussi Belle: A Dubrovnik by Bruno Carnez, and… Read More

Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1975.. Here readers will encounter the famous story of Romulus and Remus among a number of other familiar legends and tales". Pp 424, toning to pages. P/b, slight creasing to front cover, illustrated cover. G+.

New York: AMS Press Inc., 1986.. 1st edition. Ex library. A Descriptive Index to his Diplomatic Manual on Europe. "Tyllney was the first to compile systematically intelligence on foreign countries and organize it into a manual. His work not only provides us with the largest and most complete description of Europe from the period but also with the political life's work of the man whose job it was to insure that the politics of contemporary dreamatist were innocuous enough for public consumption..." Pp.xiv/145, library stamps to closed page edges, title page and rear endpapers which also have library labels. Brown cloth has label to base of spine. Dustwrapper also has label to base of spine, scuffing to spine and small tears to top edge. Scarce. Good/Good.

London: Simon & Schuster, 2014.. 1st edition. "Packed with long-forgotten stories such as the murdeer of Queen Victoria's cook in Bonn, the disaster to Germany's ironclads under the White Cliffs, bizarre early colonial clashes and the precise, dark moment when Anglophobia begat modern anti-Semitism, this is the fifty-year saga of the tragic, and often tragic-comic, delusions and miscalculations that led to ...the Great War." Pp.x/437, occasional reproductions of cartoon illustrations of the time. Dark blue boards, dustwrapper has minor creasing to rear top edge and small tear to rear top corner fold. VG/VG.

London: Richard Bentley, 1868.. Edited by Sir Edmund Head. Pp.lii/464, spotting to inner endpapers and a few minor marginal marks. Brown bevelled cloth, gilt title to spine, wear to top and tail of spine and corner tips. G+.

Bristol: Privately published by the author, 1997.. The terror through which Germany, and then Europe, passed during the Nazi period is vividly described in this autobiography and in Ellen's Chronology, which forms part of it. The writer was born into a German-Jewish family in 1920. He escaped persecution as a schoolboy in 1935, was educated in England, joined the Pioneer Corps in 1940, and was later commissioned in The Royal Fusiliers as a platon commander...." Pp.421/13(facsimile handwritten record with child's illustrations to end), with some black & white and colour photos and facsimiles of documents, map to rear endpaper. Cream cloth, dustwrapper has removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

London: Faber and Faber, 1975.. 1st edition. "This examination of the complexity of Anglo-French relations throws light on some contemporary preferences, prejudices, insights and blind spots. Above all, it demonstrates that this long association has been of major importance for both nations." Pp.211, cartoon drawing frontispiece. Blue cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

London: Nisbet & Co.,1915.. 1st ed. A lecture delivered at King's College, London, in honour of the quin-centenary of John Hus. (By the author of The Spirit of the Serb). Pp.31. Grey stiff card covers, lower 5cm section of rear cover has been cut off. Scarce. G+.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.. 1st edition. "Presents a detailed account of the French Gendarmerie from the old regime up to the First World War, and looks at the reasons for how and why this model came to be exported across continental Europe in the wake of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic armies. In particular the gendarmes' role is examined within the differing national contexts of Italy, Germany, and the Habsburg Empire." Pp.xii/288. Dark blue cloth, dustwrapper, minor wear to corner tips. Scarce. VG/VG.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.. 1st edition. "The political history of the main protagonist of anti-militarism, German Social Democracy, is cast in a new light, as Stargardt reveals the lasting influence of older radical traditions and reappraises the role played by its espousal of Marxism." Pp.xiv/232. Paperback. VG.

Warszaw: Wydawnictwo Zachodnie, 1960.. English text. Contents includes: Tadeusz Derlatka: A Threat to Peace; Roman Nurowski: Summer Offensive of German Revisionism in 1960; Andrzej Lesniewski: Reaction of the Western Opinion. Pp.102. Paperback, slightly toned. G+.

London: Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, 1915.. Pp.56. Red card wraps have owners name and small bleach mark to front. G+.