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  • The Rise of the Great Powers 1648 - 1815

    by Derek Mckay, H.M. Scott, D Mckay ...
    Series series The Modern European State System
    The heyday of the European states system was in the century before the First World War. How the system of five great powers in conscious equilibrium came into being is the central theme of this book. ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

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  • The Thirty Years War, 1618–1648

    The First Global War and the End of the Habsburg Supremacy

    by John Pike ...
    The 'Defenestration of Prague', the coup d'etat staged by Protestant Bohemian nobles against officials of the Hapsburg Emperor triggered the Thirty Years War. When Habsburg Spain intervened in support of their Holy Roman Emperor relative, what had started as a localised political and religious dispute in Germany, transformed into a European and global conflict. In seeking to exploit the Bohemian ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rites of Peace

    The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna

    by Adam Zamoyski ...
    Following on from his epic ‘1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow’, bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna.In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the Continent was to be reconstructed after his defeat. There were many who dreamed of a peace to end ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Wars Against Napoleon Debunking The Myth Of The Napoleonic Wars

    Debunking the Myth of the Napoleonic Wars

    by Franceschi General Michel ...
    Popular and scholarly history presents a one-dimensional image of Napoleon as an inveterate instigator of war who repeatedly sought large-scale military conquests. General Franceschi and Ben Weider dismantle this false conclusion in The Wars Against Napoleon a brilliantly written and researched study that turns our understanding of the French emperor on its head.Avoiding the simplistic clichés and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Baltic

    by Alan Palmer ...
    Alan Palmer traces the history of the Baltic region from its early Viking days and its time under the Byzantine Empire through its medieval prime when the Baltic Sea served as one of Europe’s central trading grounds. Palmer addresses both the strong nationalist sentiments that have driven Baltic culture and the early attempts at Baltic unification by Sweden and Russia. The Baltic also dissects the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gustavus Adolphus

    A History of the Art of War from Its Revival After the Middle Ages to the End of the Spanish Succession War, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the Great Swede

    by Theodore Ayrault Dodge ...
    A grand sweeping military history of the “pike and shot” era, with a particular emphasis on the Thirty Years’ War in Europe (1618–1648). Originally published in two volumes, the first covers the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and known as “The Lion of the North” by his many opponents. Born into an era of constant warfare, he became king at 17, transformed the Army of Sweden into the ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • I Used to Know That: History

    by Emma Marriott ...
    Series Book 18 - I Used to Know That
    If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, ‘Hmm, I’ve heard of that – what was that again?’, then this is the book for you.This entertaining yet informative book travels back through time to fill in those embarrassing gaps in your knowledge, from the invasions of Britain, the Renaissance and the Cold War, to the American, French and Russian ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Bismarck

    by A.J.P. Taylor ...
    A reevaluation of Bismarck's motives and methods, focusing on the chancellor's rise to power in the 1860's and his removal from office in 1890. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The End of the German Monarchy

    The Decline and Fall of the Hohenzollerns

    by John Van der Kiste ...
    A new look at the German empire from the age of Bismarck onwards, its decline during the First World War, the Kaiser’s abdication, and royal connections with the Nazi regimeComprehensive selection of images, including some rarely seenInsightful portrait of the Kaiser’s family, including accounts of his sons, often neglected by biographersA fascinating read for those interested in modern German ... Read more

    $14.74 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Napoleon's Wars

    An International History, 1803-1815

    by Charles Esdaile ...
    No other soldier has provoked as much anger or as much fervour as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he a monster, driven on by an endless, ruinous quest for military adventure – or was he a social and political visionary, brought down by petty reactionaries clinging to their privileges?Charles Esdaile’s major new work reframes our understanding of Napoleon. Napoleon’s Wars looks beyond the insatiable greed ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire

    by James Wycliffe Headlam ...
    Otto Eduard Leopold Von Bismarck was born at the manor-house of Schoenhausen, in the Mark of Brandenburg, on April 1, 1815. Just a month before, Napoleon had escaped from Elba; and, as the child lay in his cradle, the peasants of the village, who but half a year ago had returned from the great campaign in France, were once more called to arms. ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Prussia

    The Evolution of an Empire

    by John Marriot ...
    SINCE the death of Frederick the Great in 1786 the kingdom of Prussia has been a state of a unique type, occupying a special position both in Germany and in Europe. Since 1867 it has accomplished by its own methods a momentous task, the unification of Germany and the erection of a German Empire, under the presidency of the House of Hohenzollern. Since 1871 it is not without the justification of ... Read more

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