History - Europe - Western

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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, B...

Tom Reiss

By the author of the internationally bestselling biography The Orientalist, The Black Count brings to life one of history's great forgotten heroes: a man almost unknown today yet with a personal story that is strikingly familiar.  Hi...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2012

Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance ...

Thomas Cahill

From the inimitable and bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history, focusing on the Renaissance and Reformation and how this innovative period changed the Western world.  In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2013

The Basque: History of the World

Mark Kurlansky

The buzz about the Guggenheim Bilbão aside, the Basques seldom get good press--from the 12th-century Codex of Calixtus ('A Basque or Navarrese would do in a French man for a copper coin') to current news items about ETA, the Basque n...

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2006

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Vo...

Alfred Lansing

A well-researched story recounts how explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew battled against almost insuperable odds to return to civilization after their ship Endurance sank near the South Pole in 1914. Read by Tim Piggott-Smith.

Abridged CD
Published: Dec 2002

Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment...

James MacGregor Burns

"With this profound and magnificent book, drawing on his deep reservoir of thought and expertise in the humanities, James MacGregor Burns takes us into the fire's center.  As a 21st-century philosopher, he brings to vivid life t...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2014

Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, th...

Brad Gregory

When Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October 1517, he had no intention of starting a revolution. But very quickly his criticism of indulgences became a rejection of the papacy and the Catholic Church emphasizing the Bible as ...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2018

A Brief History of Italy: Tracing the...

Dominic Haynes

Journey to the romantic land of Italy and meet the artists, warriors, and leaders who forever left their mark on Western culture. Perhaps no country has had such a lasting impact on Western culture as Italy. Whether it's the fresc...

Paperback
Published: Aug 2023

Redskin and Cowboy A Tale of the Wes...

G. a. Henty

The principal part of the tale is laid among the cow-boys of the Western States of America, a body of men unrivalled in point of hardihood and devotion to work, as well as in reckless courage and wild daring. The picture I have given ...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2018

The Death of Caesar: The Story of His...

Barry Strauss

William Shakespeare's gripping play showed Caesar's assassination to be an amateur and idealistic affair. The real killing, however, was a carefully planned paramilitary operation, a generals' plot put together by Caesar's disaffected...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Mar 2015

The Venetians: A New History: From Ma...

Paul Strathern

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Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2021

The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, ...

Patrick Wyman

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Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2021
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