Thomas Moore
This is the remarkable, 150-year story of continental Europe's leading university. The school was forged at the dawn of the Industrial Age, as the technological progress first demonstrated by Britain spread across Europe and America in the 19th century... (read more)
Gretel Ehrlich
Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-361) and index.... (read more)
David Armin Howarth
Savage Will brings to life a remarkable story of perseverance, heroism, and survival: the true tale of the American medics and nurses who endured two months in Nazi-occupied Albania—and the fearless citizens and Allied intelligence officers who... (read more)
Karel Tomei
A rare perspective on the Dutch landscape is provided in this stunning collection of more than 300 aerial photographs. Cities, farms, lakes, beaches, and fields of flowers are recognizable from above but are more abstractly rendered in the aerial view as... (read more)
Patrick Desgraupes
An astonishing land of fire and ice, where active volcanoes, hot springs, and lava floes stand beside thundering waterfalls, glaciers, and ice fields in deserted, rocky landscapes, Iceland is home to some of the most dramatic scenery in the world. In... (read more)
Neil Kent
Kent explores the history and culture of the "Daughter of the Baltic," a small fishing village that became a powerhouse of design and technology. Illustrations & maps.... (read more)
Jan Bondeson
Recreates the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, an ardent opponent of apartheid and major figure in world politics.... (read more)
Veronica Buckley
Not unlike the elusive figure played by Greta Garbo, the real Queen Christina stood among the most flamboyant and controversial figures of the seventeenth century. All of Sweden could not contain her ambition or quench her thirst for adventure. Freed... (read more)
