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History - European
9 public-domain history - european books, summarised. Page 1 of 1.
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber
J. A. (James Aitken) Wylie
A man journeys through the heart of Italy, witnessing a land where ancient glory and modern decay collide under the long shadow of the Vatican.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3)
Edwin Emerson
The nineteenth century unfolds not as a single, static tapestry, but as a series of cascading, interconnected tremors. This chronicle tracks the shifting borders and clashing ideologies that defined an era of relentless, often violent, global transformation.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09
Unknown
The sixteenth century shatters the medieval world, setting the stage for modern empires, religious schism, and the scientific reordering of the heavens.
History of the Rise of the Huguenots, Vol. 1
Henry Martyn Baird
France’s religious future turns on ministers, queens, kings, and judges who keep trying to control a faith that will not stay contained.
The Huguenots in France
Samuel Smiles
Religious conviction and persecution intertwine in a gripping tale of resilience and faith amid the harsh repression of the Huguenots in 17th- and 18th-century France.
Heimskringla
Snorri Sturluson
Kings rise, swear, raid, convert, and fall while skalds turn bloodshed into memory. Norway’s early history here moves like a tide, carrying saints, traitors, lawmen, and boys into the same cold current.
The red terror in Russia
S. P. (Sergeĭ Petrovich) Melʹgunov
A revolution promises a new order, but these pages keep asking what happens when power decides that fear is a method and death a routine.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2
Henry Baerlein
A detailed chronicle of Yugoslavia’s turbulent birth reveals the complex interplay of national ambitions, foreign interventions, and internal struggles that shaped a new Balkan state after World War I.
They Shall Not Pass
Frank H. (Frank Herbert) Simonds
A relentless struggle of endurance and spirit unfolds amid the ruins of a shell-ravaged city, where the fate of a nation hinges not on territory but on the unyielding will to hold the line.