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  • The Holy Roman Empire

    A Thousand Years of Europe's History

    by Peter H. Wilson ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'Hugely impressive... Wilson is an assured guide through the millennium-long labyrinth of papal-imperial relations' Literary ReviewA great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from its founding by Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a millennium later, formed the heart of Europe. It was a great engine for ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Europe's Tragedy

    A New History of the Thirty Years War

    by Peter H. Wilson ...
    The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from Russia were heavily involved and, while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Iron and Blood

    A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500

    by Peter H. Wilson ...
    **“The scholarship of this book is breathtaking…No one interested in the history of Europe, and of the Germans in particular, can afford not to read this stupendous book.” —Simon Heffer, The Telegraph **“[Iron and Blood’s] long view of Germany’s military history, magisterial detail and acute analysis provide a new understanding of what was once Europe’s warring heart.” —*The Economist *  ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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  • The Thirty Years War

    A Sourcebook

    by Peter H. Wilson ...
    An edited and annotated collection of translated documents on the Thirty Years War, providing students with accessible source material on this destructive conflict. Covering all aspects of the war from a variety of contemporary perspectives, it brings together an exciting range of material from treaties to literature to eyewitness accounts. ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Lützen

    Great Battles

    by Peter H. Wilson ...
    Series series Great Battles
    The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) was Europe's most destructive conflict prior to the two world wars. Two of European history's greatest generals faced each other at Lützen in November 1632, mid-way through this terrible war. Neither achieved his objective. Albrecht von Wallenstein withdrew his battered imperial army at nightfall, unaware that his opponent, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, had died ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • 1848

    The Year of Revolutions

    Edited by Peter H. Wilson ...
    Series series The International Library of Essays on Political History
    Europe was swept by a wave of revolution in 1848 that had repercussions stretching well beyond the Continent. Governments fell in quick succession or conceded significant reforms, before being rolled back by conservative reaction. Though widely perceived as a failure, the revolution ended the vestiges of feudalism, broadened civil society and strengthened the state prior to the rapid ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Warfare in Europe 1815�1914

    Edited by Peter H. Wilson ...
    The history of nineteenth-century European warfare is framed by the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The Crimean War and the struggles for Italian and German unification divide this century in two. In the first half, armies struggled to emerge from the shadow of Napoleon amidst an era of financial retrenchment, political unrest and accelerating ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe

    Edited by Peter H. Wilson ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to European History
    A COMPANION TO EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE“This is an impressive volume, with leading experts providing a wide-ranging coverage that should satisfy most requirements for effective and thoughtful introductory surveys… All specialists on this period will find much of value in this excellent volume.”History, The Journal of the Historical AssociationThis Companion contains 31 essays by leading ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

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    Heart of Europe

    A History of the Holy Roman Empire

    by Peter H. Wilson ...
    Narrated by Napoleon Ryan ...

    Unabridged

    34 hours 3 min

    The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. Voltaire quipped that it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Yet as Peter H. Wilson shows, the Holy Roman Empire tells a millennial story of Europe better than the histories of individual nation-states.Heart of Europe traces the Empire from its ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Cognitive Behavioural Interviewing for Adult Disorders

    A Practical Handbook

    by Peter H. Wilson, Susan H Spence, David J. Kavanagh ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Psychiatry
    Originally published in 1989, the primary aim of this text was to provide a guide to the interview assessment of a wide range of common adult psychological problems. Emphasis is placed on the kinds of problems that were frequently encountered in outpatient centres at the time. The authors provide a general introduction to the nature and causes of each of the selected problems, with a focus on the ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Thirty Years War

    Europe's Tragedy

    by Peter H. Wilson ...
    Narrated by Matthew Waterson ...

    Unabridged

    33 hours 26 min

    The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world.When defiant Bohemians tossed the Habsburg emperor's envoys from the castle windows in Prague in 1618, the Holy Roman ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Lutzen

    Great Battles

    by Peter H. Wilson ...
    Narrated by Julian Elfer ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 10 min

    The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) was Europe's most destructive conflict prior to the two world wars. Two of European history's greatest generals faced each other at Lutzen in November 1632, mid-way through this terrible war. Neither achieved his objective. Albrecht von Wallenstein withdrew his battered imperial army at nightfall, unaware that his opponent, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, had died ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD