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  • Francesca Fiorani The best books to understand the art and culture of Renaissance Florence Book cover of Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style Book cover of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Book cover of The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance Book cover of Cosimo De' Medici and the Florentine Renaissance: The Patron's Oeuvre Book cover of The Companion Guide to Florence
  • Jules Stewart The best books on the Spanish Civil War and its impact on Spain Book cover of Guerra Book cover of Spain at War: Society, Culture and Mobilization, 1936-44 Book cover of The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War Book cover of Spain in Arms: A Military History of the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 Book cover of We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War
  • Sylvia Barbara Soberton The best books by Tudor historians Book cover of The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor: Elizabeth I, Thomas Seymour, and the Making of a Virgin Queen Book cover of The Voices of Nimes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc Book cover of Woodsmoke and Sage: The Five Senses 1485-1603: How the Tudors Experienced the World Book cover of All the Queen's Jewels, 1445-1548: Power, Majesty and Display Book cover of After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England
  • Michael Broers The best books on Napoleon and an era that shook Europe to its core Book cover of Metternich: Strategist and Visionary Book cover of Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 Book cover of To Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII Book cover of Napoleon: The End of Glory Book cover of Napoleon's Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire
  • Alfred Andrea The best books on the medieval crusades by world-class historians who write with clarity and you in mind Book cover of The Crusades Book cover of The World of the Crusades Book cover of The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives Book cover of The Atlas of the Crusades Book cover of The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople
  • Richard Shaw The best books about Bede, his Ecclesiastical History and early Christian Anglo-Saxon England Book cover of The Ecclesiastical History of the English People Book cover of The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England Book cover of Essays in Anglo-Saxon History Book cover of The Times of Bede: Studies in Early English Christian Society and its Historian Book cover of The Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 550-800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon
  • David Roman The best books on the batshit-crazy history of Nazi Germany Book cover of 1889-1936 Hubris Book cover of Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-SS Book cover of The Coming of the Third Reich Book cover of Lying about Hitler Book cover of I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41
  • Jeremy Black The best books on the history of France Book cover of France Since 1945 Book cover of Paris: The Biography of a City Book cover of The Oxford History of the French Revolution Book cover of The Merovingian Kingdoms 450 - 751 Book cover of The Valois: Kings of France 1328-1589
  • Helmut Walser Smith The best books on Imperial Germany before World War I Book cover of Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany Book cover of Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany Book cover of Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany Book cover of Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918 Book cover of Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa
  • Jonathan Harris The best books on Byzantium: From superpower to downfall (1000-1204) Book cover of Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus Book cover of Basil II and the Governance of Empire (976-1025) Book cover of Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantine, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade Book cover of The Alexiad Book cover of The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
  • Elizabeth Norton The best books on England’s medieval queens Book cover of Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior Book cover of Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England Book cover of Eleanor of Castile: The Shadow Queen Book cover of Elizabeth Woodville: Mother of the Princes in the Tower Book cover of Matilda, Wife of the Conqueror, First Queen of England
  • Sharon Bennett Connolly The best books on histories of medieval families Book cover of The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Crown Book cover of Crusaders and Revolutionaries of the Thirteenth Century: De Montfort Book cover of Red Roses: Blanche of Gaunt to Margaret Beaufort Book cover of The Brandon Men: In the Shadow of Kings Book cover of On the Trail of the Yorks
  • Henry C. Clark The best books to understand where “capitalism” came from Book cover of The Commercialisation of English Society 1000-1500 Book cover of The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England Book cover of The Moral Economy: Poverty, Credit, and Trust in Early Modern Europe Book cover of Artisans in Europe, 1300-1914 Book cover of Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
  • Peter Marshall The best books on the English Reformation Book cover of The Birthpangs of Protestant England: Religious and Cultural Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Book cover of Providence in Early Modern England Book cover of Thomas Cranmer: A Life Book cover of The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village Book cover of The Social Universe of the English Bible: Scripture, Society, and Culture in Early Modern England
  • Dina Gold The best books to read if you are visiting Berlin and love history Book cover of Fashion Metropolis Berlin 1836 - 1939: The Story of the Rise and Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry Book cover of In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin Book cover of Berlin Diary Book cover of DK Eyewitness Berlin Book cover of Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First-Century Companion
  • David Luhrssen The best books for understanding Nazi Germany Book cover of 1889-1936 Hubris Book cover of The Face of the Third Reich Book cover of Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural and Social Life in the Third Reich Book cover of The Last Days of Hitler Book cover of Inside the Third Reich
  • Julian Goodare The best books on the history of European witchcraft and witch-hunting Book cover of Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe Book cover of Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany Book cover of Witches and Neighbours: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft Book cover of The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present Book cover of The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition and Everyday Life
  • Stew Ross The best books to read about the French Revolution without losing your head Book cover of Women of the French Revolution Book cover of Marie Antoinette: The Journey Book cover of Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution Book cover of The Giant of the French Revolution: Danton, a Life Book cover of Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
  • Sarah Horowitz The best books about scandalous women you’ve never heard of Book cover of My Blue Notebooks: The Intimate Journal of Paris's Most Beautiful and Notorious Courtesan Book cover of Venus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France Book cover of Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England Book cover of The Trial of Madame Caillaux Book cover of The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
  • Kenneth L. Campbell The best books on British and Irish history for readers interested in a wide range of topics Book cover of A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal Book cover of The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England Book cover of Black Tudors: The Untold Story Book cover of The Making of the English Working Class Book cover of Bosworth 1485: The Battle that Transformed England
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