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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,600 ratings — published 2005
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,775 ratings — published 1978
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 146,650 ratings — published 1960
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 144 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 83,754 ratings — published 1962
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 79,476 ratings — published 2015
Napoleon: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 27,863 ratings — published 2014
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,364 ratings — published 2006
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,337 ratings — published 2010
Europe: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,193 ratings — published 1996
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 114 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,763 ratings — published 2012
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,239 ratings — published 2012
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as european-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 217,808 ratings — published 2011
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 14,992 ratings — published 2001
The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,399 ratings — published 2007
The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815 - 1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,004 ratings — published 2016
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,199 ratings — published 2012
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 93 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 67,752 ratings — published 1998
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,348,564 ratings — published 1956
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as european-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 46,651 ratings — published 1995
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,133,364 ratings — published 1947
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,307 ratings — published 1962
The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as european-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,104 ratings — published 2009
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 158,749 ratings — published 2018
The Coming of the Third Reich (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 12,017 ratings — published 2003
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,276 ratings — published 1989
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as european-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 107,914 ratings — published 2011
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,846 ratings — published 2021
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,090 ratings — published 2015
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,600 ratings — published 1965
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 14,833 ratings — published 2014
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as european-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,093 ratings — published 2009
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as european-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,863 ratings — published 2017
The Thirty Years War (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,900 ratings — published 1938
Homage to Catalonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 69,948 ratings — published 1938
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,759 ratings — published 2015
Peter the Great: His Life and World (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,005 ratings — published 1980
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 9,188 ratings — published 2020
The Crimean War: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,115 ratings — published 2010
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 159,660 ratings — published 2015
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,873 ratings — published 2010
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 134,814 ratings — published 2020
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,311 ratings — published 2013
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as european-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,347 ratings — published 2011
The Reformation: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,520 ratings — published 2003
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as european-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 12,805 ratings — published 1992
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 72,591 ratings — published 1992
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as european-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,004 ratings — published 2020
The Romanovs, 1613-1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 16,070 ratings — published 2016
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 26,241 ratings — published 2008
The First World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as european-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 15,771 ratings — published 1999
“History shows that changes in sovereignity and state borders as a result of conflicts, as well as the rise and fall of political regimes in different parts of the planet, often forcibly divide local populations and/or artificially modify the names of places. At all latitudes, such measures arise from the political need to impose apparent homogeneity of culture and language, according to the model of the nation-State that does not tolerate exceptions to the supremacy of its founding values.”
― Topographical Names and Protection of Linguistic Minorities
― Topographical Names and Protection of Linguistic Minorities
“No one wanted to use the word 'murder' then, using instead words more apt to talking about a pest problem than a human race. Even today the United States still has not officially recognized genocide in its history.”
― Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
― Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
