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1) Vanished kingdoms: the rise and fall of states and nations

Author

Davies, Norman

Publisher

Viking

Pub. Date

2011.

Language

English

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Chronicles the history of fourteen lost European kingdoms and what their stories can teach the modern world, providing narrative accounts of the rise and fall of nations ranging from Tolosa to the Soviet Union.

2) Europe: a history

Author

Davies, Norman

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

1996

Language

English

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Here is a masterpiece of historical narrative that stretches from the Ice Age to the Atomic Age, as it tells the story of Europe, East and West. Norman Davies captures it all-the rise and fall of Rome, the sweeping invasions of Alaric and Atilla, the Norman Conquests, the Papal struggles for power, the Renaissance and the Reformation, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, Europe's rise to become the powerhouse of the world, and its eclipse...

3) No simple victory: World War II in Europe 1939-1945

Author

Davies, Norman

Publisher

Viking

Pub. Date

2007

Language

English

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If history really belongs to the victor, what happens when there's more than one side declaring victory? That's the conundrum Norman Davies unravels in his groundbreaking book No Simple Victory. Far from being a revisionist history, No Simple Victory instead offers a clear-eyed reappraisal, untangling and setting right the disparate claims made by America, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union in order to get at the startling truth.In detailing...