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U.S.A: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1962. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean with light wear to extremities; tight glued binding; Title page has some figures written on it, otherwise pages clean, no other markings. A brilliant sketch of 16th century history with a vivid portrait of the issues and personalities of this century of the Religious Wars. 114 pages w/index. 5.25 x 8 inches. 1962, Harper & Row, New York, USA. Originally published in 1943 by Jonathan Cape of London.

London, UK: ELEK BOOKS LIMITED, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Ex-Library Hardcover Ex-Library Quarto and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Except for minimal, usual library marks, in Very Good Condition. 87 Plates, inb/w and full color; 4 maps. Jacket illus: Statue of Charles, east end of Church of St. Johann, Munstair in Grison, Switzerland. Back side: Manuscript page: The Adorations of the Lamb from the Gospels of Saint-Nedard-de-Soissons, Paris. Red cloth binding is clean, some extremities rubbed; sewn binding tight, solid and square. Internals very clean, no marks of any kind, nocreases. Lavislhy illustrated. A masterpiece of social history-a penetrating and vivid portrait of life in the Carolingian age. Includes more than 100 illustrations of Carolingian art, creating a detailed and realistic description of how the people of the Carolingian empire lived, felt, and thought. It traces the Carolingian Age from the chaos which followed the breakdown of Roman… Read More

Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back Sixth Printing, Revised 1979. Large Hardcover Book in Fine Condition. No jacket. One of the "Great Ages of Man" Series. Books in this series are elegantly and elaborately illustrated in full color and provide a concise history of the culture, peoples, society, religion, art, technology, demographics, and more, of various ages of civilization, from ancient, nomadic, primitive societies to more highly developed civilizations. This volume provides a comprehensive and extensive survey of The Age of Kings, a great age of monarchies largely in the 17th century, sometimes called the Age of Baroque. This is the age of Louis XIV and Peter the Great, who achieved monarchial absolutism, which was eventually destroyed, and the epoch of the secular state. such as England, France, and Russia, who finally won independence from ecclesiastical supervision and… Read More

USA: Mariner Books, 2002. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Clean and unmarked, tight and square book, pages toned. A biography of the legendary Napoleon I and a portrait of an entire age - political, cultural, military, commercial, social, Napoleon's rise from common origins to enormous political and military power and his ultimate defeat. 478 pages, indexed. 5.5 x 8.25. 2002, Mariner Books, USA

New York: Norton & Company Publishers, 1970. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Trade Paperback Printing, in Near Fine Condition. Bright & clean, unmarked, tightly bound; pages clean and free from any markings. No defects. Cover illustration: Detail from :La Gare St. Lazare" by Claude Monet. 45 historical illustrations, Norman Rich explores in detail this new age of nationalism. The Revolutions of 1848 swept away the foremost champions of international conservatism and new statesmen with new aims dominated Europe during the latter part of the 19th century. Napoleon III's attempt to re-establish French ascendancy was defeated by a rising and newly unified power-Germany under Bismarck. Nationalism spread unheeded with little attention to the consequences of rising state control. Confidence in human progress dominated the era. 212 pages with index. Norton & Company Publishers, New York, 1970.

New York, New York, USA: W. W. Norton & Company, 1977. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Norton History of Modern Europe Series Volume. Second Edition. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Many b/w illustrations and maps throughout. Bright illustrated wraps are clean and worn, binding is solid, pages are clean with much underlining of text but remains quite readable. The French Revolution of 1789 is a watershed in European History, with all countries in Europe affected, shattering long-standing traditions and affecting succeeding generations. In this volume, Charles Breunig provides a clear analysis of the Revolution and the changes it brought about; the near-conquest of Europe by Napoleon; the "Concert of Europe" established at the Congress of Vienna; and the era of Restoration which attempted to preserve the status quo against outbursts that culminated in the Revolution of 1848. This second edition expands the treatment of new classes and the profound… Read More

Washinton, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Regnery Publishing, 2006. 10th Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Black paper-covered boards with white titles, clean and unmarked; lower edges lightly rubbed. Internals as new. Dust jacket has slight wear to corners/edges. Mark Steyn is the world's sharpest and wittiest observer of Islamic imperialism. America Alone is as funny as it is deadly serious. 224 pp. Index. 8vo. 2006, Regnery Publishing. ISBN10: 0895260786, ISBN13: 9780895260789

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Dust Jacket As New. The first comprehensive statement by leading RAND thinkers on a redefined Atlantic partnership- a book about how the way Europe and America interact. Individual essays in the area of free trade; NATO reform; joint "Atlantic" strategies toward the former Soviet Union and the Middle East; and other shifts in American and European policies toward one another and the world at large. Binding of blue-green cloth with black titles on spine, very clean with slight discoloration on bottom edge of front board, else Fine. Tight and solid. sewn binding, square with sharp corners. Interior fine-very clean,completely unmarked. 276 pages with bibliography and index. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 1997, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE in Very Good Condition. No dust jacket. Endpapers showing the Track of the Spanish Armada. 2 maps. 20 illustrative plates. Red cloth binding with gold stamped design of a sailing ship, green title panel on spine with brown titles. Very clean with no marks except a brown dot on the upper quadrant of the front panel. Tight, solid and square. Pages clean with no markings. A handsome volume. The history of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. xviii + 443 pages with Chapter Notes and Index.5.75 x 8.6 inches. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA 1959.

Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins Press and Oxford Univ Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. An examination of 18th C England and Europe, by distinguished scholars whose lectures on many varied topics were delivered before The John Hopkins Seminar in the Humanities, 1965 series devoted to study of the eighteenth century. Thirteen essays by George Boas, Isaiah Berlin, Rene Welleck, Jean Seznec, Rudolf Wittokwer, Edward Lowinsky and others. Bright red cloth binding, gilt titled, very clean and unmarked with light wear to extremities. Former owner name on endpaper. First eleven pages have some text underlined, not much, otherwise internals clean, unmarked. Cream jacket with red print is clean and unmarked with trace wear. 346 pages.with Index. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 1965, The John Hopkins Press and Oxford Univ Press, Baltimore and London

New York and London: WW Norton & Co, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Illustrations, maps, and charts. Clean red pictorial wraps, no marks, small scuff to edge of spine hinge, light wear to extremities. Tight glued binding. Square and solid. Page edges clean and white. Former owner name on inside of cover. A light number stamp on title page. Pages clean with pencil underlined text. Carlo Cipolla, an historian of international reputation, explores the process that made possible the European transformation from a backward agrarian society to a powerful industrialized society. One of the most, if not the most, useful history available of preindustrial Europe. 352 pages inc index and bibliography. 5.25 x 8.25 inches. Norton Publishers, New York and London, 1980.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, 1943. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Hardcover Literary Guild Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. The moving story of a people crushed under the 'New Order' of Nazism, torn from their homeland, and forced to manufacture weapons of tyranny, who rise up to become part of the vast European underground movement. Bound in dark red cloth with gilt titles on spine, debossed blind stamped vignette on cover, of man overcoming his trials. Very clean and unmarked, a touch of wear to extremities; tight, solid and square; inner hinge cracked. Fore edge and bottom edge rough cut. Top edge tinted dark red. Endpapers with maps of the locale of "Beneath Another Sun"--Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Italy. Former owner name of endpaper and bookplate on flyleaf. Jacket is in good condition, clean and colorful, depicting people, supply wagons, mules moving from peaceful village to war-torn city; chipped at… Read More

Great Britain: Patrick Stephens, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. First Printing. Fine in a Fine Jacket. Bound in blue-grey cloth w/gilt titles. Numerous b/w photographs throughout. In this graphic account, former RAFVR Squadron Leader Robert Jackson recreates vividly those tense days forty years ago when the Iron Curtain came down with a vengeance. All links between Berlin and the West were severed. The Berlin Airlift began, a vital lifeline for the people of Berlin. For ten months the RAF, the USA Air Force and many chartered airlines supplied food, fuel, household goods, etc., operating round the clock, in all weather, being constantly harrassed by Russian fighters. Included in this book are detailed appendices of aircraft and crew casualties, tables of individual aircraft performances, monthly tonnages. A story of true courage and ingenuity. 160 pages with glossary and index. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. Patrick Stephens Pub.… Read More

New York, New York, USA: Basic Books, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Top edge of text block is lightly specked with near colorless spots. otherwise the book is in fine condition, in maroon half-cloth with gilt titles, gray boards, clean, unmarked, tight, solid and square. Internals as new. b/w historic illustrations. At the time of the French Revolution, 1789- , the promises of "liberty, equality, and fraternity" did not apply to women--but in this book the voices of women who witnessed and experienced the Revolution can finally be heard and given their place in history. They left eighty accounts of what they saw, these chronicles ranging from the 16-page testimonial of the Widow Bault, wife of the concierge in Marie-Antoinette's prison, to the ten volume memoirs of the prolific writer Mme de Genlis; and from a dictated life story of an illiterate… Read More

London, England: Papermac, 1994. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. 4th Printing. Clean, unmarked, tight & solid gently used book. Two pale spots on fore-edge of textblock. An account of Bosnia from its beginnings to its tragic end. The author 'lays to rest' the historical fallacies that have dominated not only the media coverage of the war of 1992-93 but also the words and actions of Western statesmen. Noel Malcolm also clarifies the various myths of racial, religious and political history which have clouded the modern understanding of Bosnia's past. The lasting importance of this book is not only that it puts the Bosnian war into its true perspective, but that it celebrates the complex history of a country whose past as well as its future has been all but erased. xxiv, 340 pp inc. Notes, Bibliography & Index. 5.25 x 8.5 inches. Papermac, London, England, 1994.

New York: Atheneum/Macmillan Publishing Co, 1994. First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Atheneum, First American Edition 1994. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Monotone contemporary historic illustrations throughout. A superb evocation of 16th century Europe, rich in textual and illustrative detail. How people lived, how they saw themselves, what they wore and ate, what they bought and sold, how they communicated, what languages they spoke--social and well as conventional history. Jacket with small closed tear to spine heel, tape protected; slightly wrinkled spine head, otherwise very good condition. Book with gray cloth over spine with silver titles, blue boards, as new. Tight, solid and square binding. Rough cut. Internlas as new. 648 pages, indexed with Notes and Bibliography. 6.5 x 1.8 x 9.5 inches. 1994, Atheneum/Macmillan Publishing Co., New York.

Hoboken, New Jersey: Cliffs Notes/Wiley Publishing, Inc, 2002. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9. Large Paperback in Good Condition. Your complete guide to a higher score on the AP European History Exam---3 full-length practice tests; insights and strategies for each type of question; complete explanations for every question; test taking tips, and more. Clean yellow/black/green cover is unmarked, wear to corners and spine head and heel; binding intact, tight and solid. Lightly toned pages are perfectly clean, clean, unmarked, no underlining or highlighting, no marginalia. 422 pages. 4to - over 9?" - 12" Tall. 2002, Cliffs Notes/Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

Hertfordshire, England: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Wordsworth Military Library Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. 16 pages of monotone historic illustrations, on glossy paper. Cover illustration: a detail from "The Return of Inkerman in 1854" by Lady Butler. Slight wear to some edges of rear cover, else fine. The Crimean War has traditionally been seen as an example of military and medical blundering. In this reappraisal, a distinguished military writer puts the record straight, defining the army's achievements and setbacks, the medical and logistical misfortunes and the sheer horror of the war, in the context of time and place. 216 pp, Maps, Bibliography, Index. 5.4 x 8.5 inches. 2001, Wordsworth Editions, Hertfordshire, England

New York: Philosophical Library, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Publisher: Philosophical Library, 1951. Hard Back First Printing in Very Good Condition. No jacket. 192 pages. Very clean red cloth gilt titled, with light wear to corners and spine edges. Tight and solid. Interior Fine. Endpapers with maps of Western Germany. An exploration of the first-line problem of West Germany in the British, French and US Zones, in relation to the need for a line of defense, as conditions existed in the early fifties. 192 pages, indexed. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 1951, Published by Philosophical Library, New York.

Vintage Books, 1998. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Vintage Books, 5th Printing, 1998. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Maps. Clean, unmarked wraps with light wear around edges, crease to lower front corner, spine crease. Glued binding solid and square. Dedication page has upper corner cut out. Pages are clean, some highlighted and underlined sentences throughout. Neat notes written in margins. Nick to edge of p. 413/414. Text is clean and easily readable. The author depicts a 20th century world as one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a foregone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political solutions that battled in an effort to determine the course the continent would take. A most provocative take on the shape of 20th century European history. Maps, Tables, Chapter Notes, Guide to Further Reading, Index. 487 pages. 8vo. 1998, Vintage Books. ISBN10: 067975704X, ISBN13: 9780679757047