Europas historia

The story of the ‘Winter War’ between Finland and Soviet Russia is a dramatic David versus Goliath encounter.When close to half a million Soviet troops poured into Finland in 1939 …

Nordens historia från vikingatid till den senaste EU-utvidgningen är en historia om både integration och splittring. I olika omgångar har Norden knutits närmare andra europeiska …

The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos …

Erika Fatland er tilbake! Med seg i skipssekken har hun hele det portugisiske imperiet, fra 1400-tallets oppdagere, via koloniveldets fall i 1970-årene og til i dag: En …

'Iceland's 1100 Years' recounts the history of a society on the margin of Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and wealth of a proper state. Iceland is unique among …

När Ludvig XIV drog sitt sista andetag på Versailles den 1 september 1715 var det inte bara ett människoliv, utan en historisk epok, som tog slut. I exakt 72 år och 110 dagar hade …

Harald Hardrada is perhaps best known as the inheritor of seven feet of English soil in that year of fateful change, 1066\. But Stamford Bridge was the terminal point of a …

A "riveting" (Wall Street Journal) book tells the unbelievable true story of an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall--the people who built it, the spy who betrayed it, and the media …

I 1914 stod den første store verdenskrigen for døren. De unge mennene som ble innkalt til militærtjeneste da, var gjennomsnittlig 10 centimeter lavere enn de norske soldatene som …

The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the acclaimed author of Churchill and The Last King of America--winner of the LA Times Book prize, finalist for the …