Vanished Kingdoms
Subtitled, "The Lives & Afterlives Of Europe's Lost Realms". From the author of "The Isles", which sold 100,000 hardbacks and 180,000 paperbacks, this is a magical history of the lost parts of Europe which were the major states of their time, but are now largely forgotten. 24 pages of colour illustr

Europe: A History
From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, this is the story of Europe in a single volume.

God's Playground: A History of Poland: Volume One
In this first volume, Davies points out that long before the rise of Russia and Prussia the kingdom of Poland was a major power in eastern Europe. As an early recipient of Latin culture, Poland was deeply involved in the Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and Enlightenment. Before the notorious Parti