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The Basque history of the world
By Mark Kurlansky. 2000
Traces the Basque cultural identity from its ancient origins to the twentieth century. Combines history, travelog, and reporting, including culinary…
and literary background. Examines the Basques’ contributions to western civilization, even as they preserved their fierce independence and venerable traditions through the ages. 2000.Under orders from Queen Elizabeth I, Privateer Martin Frobisher took up the search for a northwestern route to Asia. On…
July 14, 1576, he sighted the most easterly tip of Arctic North America. Over the next three summers the area would be the scene of an adventure involving the fruitless search for a northwest passage, the first attempt by the British to establish a settlement in the New world, and the first major gold-mining fraud in North American history. 2001.The Balfour Declaration: the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict
By Jonathan Schneer. 2010
Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century, committing Britain…
to supporting the establishment in Palestine of "a National Home for the Jewish people". Schneer recounts the public and private battles in the early 1900s for a small strip of land in the Middle East, and introduces the key players: Sharif Hussein, the Arab leader who secretly sought British support; Chaim Weizmann, Zionist hero; T. E. Lawrence, the legendary British officer who "set the desert on fire" for the Arabs; and Basil Zaharoff, the infamous universal arms dealer. 2010.The Armada (The American Heritage library)
By Garrett Mattingly. 1987
A historian tells the story of the Spanish Armada of 1588, including an account of the historical and political events…
that led up to the launching of the Spanish fleet against Elizabethan England. Winner of Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. 1987.Ten days that shook the world (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
By John Reed. 1977
The author conveys, with the immediacy of cinema, the impression of a whole nation in ferment and disintegration. A contemporary…
journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. 1977.Suleiman the elephant
By Margret Rettich, Elizabeth D Crawford. 1986
In 1551, Prince Max of Austria married Princess Maria of Spain. One of their wedding presents was an Indian elephant.…
As the procession went from Spain to Vienna, the people came to watch the gigantic beast pass by. Grades K-3. c1986. Uniform title: Soliman der Elefant.Scottish enlightenment: the Scots inventions of the modern world
By Arthur Herman. 2001
Harsh economic reality compelled Scotland into the Act of Union with England in 1707; within decades, a remarkable circle of…
Scottish thinkers gave birth to the key assumptions that underlie modern politics, economics, morals and cultural life. The Scots went on to become the mainstays of the British Empire. 2001.Stalin: the court of the Red Tsar
By Simon Sebag-Montefiore. 2004
There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore has…
unearthed the vast underpinning that sustained Stalin. Not only ministers such as Molotov or secret service chiefs such as Beria, but men and women whose loyalty he trusted only until the next purge. 2004.Sidney Reilly: the true story of the world's greatest spy
By Michael Kettle. 1983
The legendary exploits of the daring, enigmatic Russian-Polish Jew born Sigmund Rosenblum, who called himself Sidney Reilly. The author shows…
that Reilly failed in his major mission for the British Secret Service of overturning the Bolshevik government and that his disclosures upon capture by the Russians facilitated Soviet infiltration of the British Secret Service. 1983.Searching for Sofia: a tale of murder, obsession and war
By John Nadler. 2003
When Gjorg returns to his home in Kosovo, he finds that many people are missing and rumoured to be murdered.…
His girlfriend is also torn away from him because he is Albanian and she is Serbian. When Gjorg meets John Nadler, he asks for help in finding his lost love. Some descriptions for violence. 2003.Saving Italy: the race to rescue a nation's treasures from the Nazis
By Robert M Edsel. 2013
Edsel provides an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy's vast store of priceless monuments and…
art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy's culture. Companion to "The Monuments Men". 2013.Same-sex unions in premodern Europe
By John Boswell. 1994
Boswell claims that in ancient and medieval times there were official ceremonies for couples of the same sex that were…
similar to the marriage ceremony. He analyzes the concepts and vocabulary of love and marriage in the context of different societies, from the Greco-Roman world to sixteenth-century Europe, and compares the rituals for conventional marriage with the ceremonies in the texts he has discovered. 1994.Russia against Napoleon: the battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
By D. C. B Lieven. 2009
In the summer of 1812 after years of uneasy peace, Napoleon, the master of almost the whole continent, marched into…
Russia with the largest army ever assembled, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Less than two years later the Russian army was itself marching into Paris and Napoleon's empire lay in ruins. Using an array of new, rare and surprising sources, Dominic Lieven writes with great panache and insight to describe from the Russians' viewpoint how they went from retreat, defeat and the burning of Moscow to becoming the new liberators of Europe. 2009.Russia: people and empire, 1552-1917
By Geoffrey A Hosking. 1997
Traces the history of Russia as a nation and an empire up to the year 1917. Asserts that the economic…
and political processes of state building impeded the development of a sense of national identity and cohesiveness among the Russian people. 1997.Rome, Inc: the rise and fall of the first multinational corporation
By Stanley Bing. 2006
Bing chronicles the great city of Rome from its humble beginnings to its monumental collapse due to greed, in-fighting and…
general mismanagement. "Rome, Inc." then becomes a powerful lesson for business leaders, documenting the many dos and don'ts of a successful corporation. 2006.Rough crossings: Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolution
By Simon Schama. 2005
Chronicles the mass emancipation of slaves in the American colonies - by Britain - beginning in 1775, when Virginia governor…
Lord Dunmore promised freedom for slaves who bore arms against the rebels. Describes the flight of tens of thousands to British-controlled territory and their resettlement in Nova Scotia and later in Sierra Leone. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2005.Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration
By Antonia Fraser. 1979
Rubicon: the triumph and tragedy of the Roman Republic
By Tom Holland. 2004
Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness which would herald the catastrophe of…
its fall. It is a story of incomparable drama. This was the century of Julius Caesar, the gambler whose addiction to glory led him to the banks of the Rubicon, and beyond; of Cicero, whose defence of freedom would make him a byword for eloquence; of Spartacus, the slave who dared to challenge a superpower; of Cleopatra, the queen who did the same. This text brings to life this strange and unsettling civilization, with its extremes of ambition and self-sacrifice, bloodshed and desire. 2004.Rome, the biography of a city: The Biography Of A City
By Christopher Hibbert. 1985
Rome's often bloody history unfolds as a pageant of patrons and parasites, saints and tyrants, poets and warriors. Reveals the…
influence of Greek customs, gods and art on life in Imperial Rome. 1985.Romantics, rebels and reactionaries: English literature and its background 1776-1830 (Opus Ser.)
By Marilyn Butler. 1981
This text sets the romantic literary movement back into its context of the nineteenth century. Marilyn Butler successfully divorces the…
works of writers such as Byron, Keats and Austen from their usual setting of the author's self-image, and places them against the wider background of Europe in the nineteenth century. A refreshing account of an era rich in English literature. 1981.