European Historical Biographies

Shadows of a Princess

By Patrick Jephson

Through Ice and Fire: A Russian Arctic Convoy Diary 1942

By Leona Thomas

The Spy Who Loved: The secrets and lives of Christine Granville, Britain's first female special agent of WWII

By Clare Mulley

J. D. Bernal: The Sage of Science

By Andrew Brown

Four Girls from Berlin: A True Story of a Friendship That Defied the Holocaust

By Marianne Meyerhoff, Alexander Smithline

Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck

By Johanna Luthman (Associate Professor of History, University of North Georgia)

Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian

By Leonora Neville (John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History, John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Ostend: Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

By Volker Weidermann, Carol Janeway

Alexander the Great: A Very Short Introduction

By Hugh Bowden (Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at King's College London)

Aethelstan: The First King of England

By Sarah Foot

Hellenistic Lives: including Alexander the Great

By Plutarch, Robin Waterfield (Freelance writer and translator, Freelance writer and translator), Andrew Erskine (Professor of Ancient History, Professor of Ancient History, University of Edinburgh)

Carve Her Name with Pride

By R., J. Minney

Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy from William the Conqueror to Charles III

By Tracy Borman

Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction

By Robert Wokler (, formerly Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Yale University)

Nell Gwyn

By Charles Beauclerk

Rex Whistler's War

By Jenny Spencer-Smith, Alan J. Guy

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

By Philippa Gregory

Harry's War

By Harry Drinkwater, Jon Cooksey, David Griffiths

Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England

By Steven Gunn (Fellow and Tutor in History, Fellow and Tutor in History, Merton College, Oxford)

Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict

By Christiane Tietz (Professor for Systematic Theology, Professor for Systematic Theology, University of Zurich), Dr Victoria J. Barnett

Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

By Anna Quindlen

The Good Sharps: The Eighteenth-Century Family that Changed Britain

By Hester Grant

The Story of Spain

By Mark Williams

D-Day to Victory: The Diaries of a British Tank Commander

By Sgt Trevor Greenwood, S. V. Partington

Stalin and the Shaping of the Soviet Union

By Alex De Jonge

William and Harry: The People's Princes

By Ingrid Seward

Corsican Command: A Dramatic First-hand Account of Clandestine Operations in the Western Mediterranean, 1943-1944

By Patrick Whinney

Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence between Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke, 1944-45

By Helmuth Caspar von Moltke, Johannes von Moltke, Dorothea von Moltke

Thomas Paine Reader

By Thomas Paine

Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II

By P. C. Doherty