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Kosovo: a short history
By Noel Malcolm. 1998
History of a disputed area in southeastern Europe that was once part of Yugoslavia. Both Serbs and Albanians contest the…
region known as Kosovo, based on historical records and mythology. Explores the impacts of Ottoman expansion in Europe, the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, national developments in 1912, World War II, and the years of Marshal Tito's rule until 1980. 1998.Patrice Chaplin tells the true story of the Englishwoman entrusted with the legacy of Rennes-le-Chateau. Rich with photographs, letters and…
historical documents, it fills in key gaps in one of the most compelling mysteries of all time. 2007.Calum's road
By Roger Hutchinson. 2006
Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay, Scotland, since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona…
lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago, until semi-automation in 1967 reduced his responsibilities. 'So what he decided to do,' says his last neighbour, Donald MacLeod, 'was to build a road out of Arnish in his months off. With a road he hoped new generations of people would return to Arnish and all the north end of Raasay...' And so, at the age of 56, Calum MacLeod, the last man left in northern Raasay, set about single-handedly constructing the 'impossible' road. 2006.Britain's best kept secret: Ultra's base at Bletchley Park
By Ted Enever. 1999
In 1938 the British Government's Code and Cypher School moved to Bletchley Park where dedicated teams unpicked Germany's Enigma codes…
bringing about the ultimate Allied victory of 1945. Although thousands of people worked at Bletchley, they never spoke openly of their work and the German high command believed that Enigma remained unbroken throughout the war. Only in 1975 did the story begin to be known and became Britain's best kept secret. The author traces the Park's early history and provides a guide to the key wartime buildings and what went on behind the scenes, as well as describing how the complex was recently saved from demolition. 1999.“Assassination” is the revelation of a 1000-year curse that has shaken the monarchy from Canute to Elizabeth II. Maislish uncovers…
the murder or attempted murder of every single King and Queen. 2012.Istanbul: city of majesty at the crossroads of the world
By Thomas F Madden. 2016
Perched at the tip of Europe, gazing across the shores of Asia, Istanbul remains as much a city of crossroads…
as it has for the past two millennia. The history of this fabled metropolis--known as Byzantium, then Constantinople, now Istanbul--is at once glorious, outsized, and astounding. Madden's biography of this city captures centuries of triumph and defeat, riches and poverty, seen through the eyes of those who inhabited it: the emperors and empresses, craftsmen and architects, sailors and fishermen, street vendors and harem concubines. 2016.Ivory Vikings: the mystery of the most famous chessmen in the world and the woman who made them
By Nancy Marie Brown. 2015
In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved…
from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Who carved them? Where? Brown explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. 2015.Ireland and the Irish: a short history
By Karl S Bottigheimer. 1982
In search of the Dark Ages
By Michael Wood. 1981
Imperial reckoning: the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
By Caroline Elkins. 2005
Recovers the lost history of the last days of British colonialism in Kenya. In the aftermath of World War II…
and the triumph of liberal democracy over fascism, the British detained and brutalised hundreds of thousands of Kikuyu - the colony's largest ethnic group - who had demanded their independence. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2005.As the Second World War and the Nazi assault on Europe ended, some 25,000 Jews walked out of the forests…
of Eastern Europe. For three years, these people had miraculously survived. They had escaped from the Nazi ghettos and slave labour camps and formed secret partisan camps in the surrounding forests. The forest not only protected them, it also became their base for sabotage and resistance efforts against the Germans and their allies. This is their story. 2009, c1998.In 1989 the Berlin Wall was dismantled, and Communism gave way to democracy. Since that time the former borderlands of…
the old Hapsburg and Soviet Empires have been trying to invent their own versions of democracy and market-driven economics. But these experiments have led to a widening gap between rich and poor, the worldwide economic crisis has tested Central Europe's determination to live peaceably, and there are many disquieting signs of racial tensions returning. Winner of the 2011 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for political writing. 2010.In medieval Europe (from the years 1000 to 1500), whatever work you got, you were stuck with. You might be…
a barber, chopping off people's hair (and sickly limbs), a rich lord, or work in a castle, the Church, or in law and order. It might have been fun or exciting to be a knight or an actor, but wait till you find out what a Gong Farmer did! Grades 3-6. Bestseller 2004. 2003.Chernobyl: the history of a nuclear catastrophe
By Serhii Plokhy. 2018
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor…
at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. 2018.Herman traces the history of Scotland's many contributions to our culture, drawing on the most recent research of scholars and…
historians to demonstrate just how central the Scots have been throughout the rise of the West. 2016.Brand Luther: 1517, printing, and the making of the Reformation
By Andrew Pettegree. 2015
A revolutionary look at Martin Luther and the Reformation details how the virtually unknown monk harnessed the power of the…
printing press to spread his ideas, triggering the wave of religious reform that changed the history of Europe. 2015.Great tales from English history: chedder man to the peasant's revolt
By Robert Lacey. 2004
From the ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and…
passion - a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists and highwaymen, bishops and scientists. Lacey captures the most pivotal moments and the stories of the extraordinary characters who helped shape a nation. 2004.Froissart's Chronicles: From The Great Wars Of England And France
By Jean Froissart. 1990
Froissart was the first great war correspondent of the Middle Ages, covering much of the Hundred Years' War (1339-1453). These…
are selections from The Great Wars of England and France. 1990. Uniform title: Chroniques.Hitler's thirty days to power: January 1933
By Henry Ashby Turner. 2016
Hood: life and death of a battlecruiser
By Roger Chesneau. 2002
'The Mighty Hood', as she became known, was launched in 1918 to much public acclaim. She was a fine ship;…
stately and imposing in appearance. This book traces the whole story, from the laying of the keel to that final desperate fireball, in a lively mix of technical data and historical narrative. A history of the battlecruiser which epitomised the power and the glory of the Royal Navy in the inter-war years, only to come to such a violent and horrible end beneath a salvo of shells from a superior enemy. 2002.