European History

The history of Europe covers the peoples inhabiting the European continent from prehistory to the present. Some of the best-known civilizations of prehistoric Europe were the Minoan and the Mycenaean, which flourished during the Bronze Age until they collapsed in a short period of time around 1200 BC.

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 (Revolution Trilogy, #2)
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
The Last White Rose (Tudor Rose #1)
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
The Guns of August
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Napoleon: A Life
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
Europe: A History
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815
The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815 - 1914

I wanted to devour this woman's dignity. Congratulations for what exactly? For having a family who made it through genocide? For being part of the slim population of surviving Native Americans post-colonization? An anger simmered in my throat, begging to be let loose on this stupid woman who was there to simply enjoy her vacation. How dare she remain blissfully unaware of the modern existence of Native Americans when all she had seen were movies making us look like history? As mad as I was, I kn ...more
Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

Calvin Coolidge
It was the fate of Europe to be always a battleground. Differences in race, in religion, in political genius and social ideals, seemed always, in the atmosphere of our mother continent, to be invitations to contest by battle.
Calvin Coolidge

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