Western Europe Books

Guidebook to cycling the 720km Route des Grandes Alpes through south-eastern France. From Lake Geneva to Mediterranean Nice via numerous high Alpine passes, taking in the Vanoise, Ecrins and Mercantour National Parks, the route is challenging, although...

Unique among the worlds fighting forces, the Legion remains one of its most mysterious, as well. Open to volunteers from around the world (men from some 150 countries fill its ranks), the Legion boasts an illustrious and exciting military history...

Once the steel storm of the industrial war had passed, the idyllic Flanders Fields region in Belgium was left as a desolate moon landscape. The First World War had wiped dozens of villages and cities completely off the map. The fields had been destroyed...

Marco Polo Netherlands Map: the ideal map for your trip Let the Marco Polo Netherlands Road Map guide you around this beautiful country. Discover a truly wonderful country full of canal-side mansions, a treasure trove of art, tulip fields and beaches...

Let the Marco Polo Belgium and Luxembourg Road Map guide you around these beautiful countries. Discover picturesque towns, distinctive castles, Flanders Fields and the smallest city in the world with this highly durable, detailed touring map of Belgium...

This practical travel guide to Provence & the Cote d'Azur features detailed factual travel tips and points-of-interest structured lists of all iconic must-see sights as well as some off-the-beaten-track treasures. Our itinerary suggestions and expert...

This pocket-sized Amsterdam guidebook is perfect for tourists looking to explore Amsterdam's best sights and experiences. Written by Netherlands experts, it combines in-depth coverage of key sights and hidden gems with a wealth of practical tips. From...

The radical, French Romantic poet finds his ideal translators in Gallas and Ganz, bringing this important poet to the attention of a modern audience.

In the decades since 1945, Western Europe has undergone a seismic social and political transformation. The evils of racism, authoritarianism, and exclusionary nationalism, which once prevailed, have been defeated and marginalized. Through an arduous...

From 1890 to 1960, some of Anglo-America's most heated cultural contests over books, sex, and censorship were staged not at home, but abroad in the City of Light. Paris, with its extraordinary liberties of expression, became a special place for...

The ultimate Amsterdam guide book! Amsterdam is a place where high culture meets downtown vibe, where Van Goghs vie with museums of cannabis, where 17th century palaces rest weightlessly on sand, and cosy bars compete with cool designer clubs, funky...

The ultimate Paris guide book! Paris is a glorious city with a wealth of culture, architecture, fashion, the arts and gourmet food, all presented with the flamboyance that only Parisians can offer. From the beauty of Notre Dame to the stark steel...

Georg Bucher, a German infantryman from 1914 had lost almost all of his closest friends by 1918. The last friend he lost, Riedel, was crushed by a tank in one of the last battles of the war. This is his tale in their memory. A sergeant by 1918, Bucher...

This book is reproduced in facsimile format, exactly as it was published almost 100 years ago. It also contains fantastic line drawings of different contemporaneous guns and equipment, each labelled with its French interpretation. From the sublime to the...

Exploring the significant influences of Turkish dress on French fashion While French fashion has historically set the bar across the Western world, the cultural influences that inspired it are often obscured. Dressing a la Turque examines the theatrical...

In this study of Madame Guyon and, her defender, Francois de F? (R)nelon, the Archbishop of Cambray, Patricia Ward demonstrates how the ideas of these seventeenth-century Catholics were transmitted into an ongoing tradition of Protestant devotional...

In The Gods of Revolution, Christopher Dawson brought to bear, as Glanmor Williams said, "his brilliantly perceptive powers of analysis on the French Revolution. . . . In so doing he reversed the trends of recent historiography which has concentrated...

For the better part of the Queen Marie Antoinette's reign over France, one man was entrusted with the sole responsibility of ensuring that her coiffure was at its most ostentatious best. Marie Antoinette's Head tells the story of Leonard Autie, Marie...

For the better part of the Queen Marie Antoinette's reign over France, one man was entrusted with the sole responsibility of ensuring that her coiffure was at its most ostentatious best. Marie Antoinette's Head tells the story of Leonard Autie, Marie...