'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the F

With "verve and panache," this magisterial history of Europe since 1453 shows how struggles over the heart of the continent have shaped the world we live in tod

A compelling new biography that recasts the most important European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century, famous for his alleged archconservati

This book offers a new critical history of the idea of Europe from classical antiquity to the present day.

In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a str