EUROPEAN H I S TORY NEW TITLES FOR PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP

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1 EUROPEAN H I S TORY NEW TITLES FOR 2016 PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP

2 IAN KERSHAW To Hell and Back: Europe In this long-anticipated new volume in the Penguin History of Europe series, awardwinning scholar Ian Kershaw provides a brilliant overview of an extraordinarily dramatic, often traumatic, and endlessly fascinating period of upheaval and transformation in Europe, beginning with the outbreak of World War I through the rise of Hitler and the aftermath of the Second World War. Even those who know this history well will find much to shock them in these pages. They will find much to enlighten them too, for it is not just a catalogue of horrors, but also a rigorous analysis of causes. The Times (UK) VIKING HARDCOVER 624 PAGES $35.00 ANTONY BEEVOR Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge In this deeply researched work, with striking insights into the major players on both sides, prizewinning historian Antony Beevor gives us the definitive account of the Ardennes offensive, Hitler s last gamble, which was to become the greatest battle of World War II. "Clarifies, without simplifying, the human experiences and political stakes of the battle for the Ardennes, bringing realism to the battlefield and coherence to the larger history of the war." Timothy Snyder, The Guardian VIKING HARDCOVER 480 PAGES $35.00 RICHARD OVERY The Bombers and the Bombed Allied Air War Over Europe, From acclaimed World War II historian Richard Overy comes the fullest account yet of the controversial Allied bombing war against Germany and German-occupied Europe. Overy assesses not just the bombing strategies and pattern of operations, but also how the bombed communities coped with the devastation. This book presents a unique history of the bombing offensive from below as well as from above, and engages with moral questions that still resonate today. "A detailed, meticulous analysis that is all the more powerful for eschewing the hysteria that has long colored this subject for too long. Ben Macintyre, The New York Times Book Review For anyone interested in the politics of the Allied air war, this is an indispensable and eye-opening book. Adam Tooze, The Wall Street Journal PENGUIN PAPERBACK 592 PAGES $18.00 TONY JUDT When the Facts Change: Essays, EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JENNIFER HOMANS A great thinker s final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays spanning a career of extraordinary intellectual engagement. These seminal essays reflect the full range of Judt s concerns, including Europe as an idea and in reality; Israel, the Holocaust and the Jews; American hyperpower and the world after 9/11; and issues of social inclusion and social justice in a time of increasing inequality. Scintillating journalism...this collection is a reminder of Judt s clear mind and prose and, as Homans says in her lovely introduction, his fidelity to hard facts and to honest appraisal of the modern scene. Samuel Moyn, The New York Times Book Review PENGUIN PAPERBACK 400 PAGES $18.00

3 DOMINIC LIEVEN The End of Tsarist Russia The March to World War I and Revolution Based on exhaustive work in seven Russian archives as well as many non-russian sources, Dominic Lieven explores the connection between World War I and the Russian Revolution, providing both a history of the First World War s origins from a Russian perspective and an international history of why the revolution happened. A great book by a great historian, filled with riches not just about the end of Tsarism and the Revolution, but offering the most original of all recent accounts of the outbreak of war in It has uncanny internal knowledge of the state apparatus, terrific explanatory power and judgment and such narrative power that I found it hard to put down. John A. Hall, McGill University "[Lieven s] intimate familiarity with the Russia he describes and his extensive study of the letters, diaries and books of the chief actors in Russia s descent 'towards the flames' many not hitherto accessible to historians are what render this work so authoritative and readable. The New York Times VIKING HARDCOVER 448 PAGES $35.00 ADAM TOOZE The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, Yale historian Tooze offers a bold new interpretation of World War I and the birth of the American Century, focusing on the closing years of the conflict and its aftermath up to the Great Depression. Powerfully argued, The Deluge is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the roots of America s fraught relationship with the world. Epic in scope, boldly argumentative, deftly interweaving military and economic narratives, The Deluge is a splendid interpretive history. The New York Times Book Review PENGUIN PAPERBACK 672 PAGES $20.00 SEAN McMEEKIN The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Drawing on Sean McMeekin s years of groundbreaking research in the newly opened Ottoman and Russian archives, this astonishing retelling of twentieth-century history from the Ottoman perspective delivers profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle East. McMeekin synthesizes an impressive amount of fresh material from across Europe s archives in this balanced and perceptive analysis. Dennis Showalter, Colorado College PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER 576 PAGES $35.00 SUE ROE In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art A colorful and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century. A lively and concise account.even those familiar with the era will likely find that it broadens their understanding of key players and events. Associated Press "Engaging.[Readers] will find a fresh sense of how all these people the geniuses and the hangers-on, the wealthy collectors and the unworldly painters related to each other...roe brings Montmatre s hedyday back to life." The Sunday Times (London) PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER 384 PAGES $29.95

4 ANDREW PETTEGREE Brand Luther How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe and Started the Protestant Reformation A revolutionary look at Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the birth of publishing, fusing the history of religion, of printing, and of capitalism the literal marketplace of ideas into one enthralling story, revolutionizing our understanding of one of the pivotal figures and eras in human history. "Pettegree draws on a lifetime s scholarly engagement with the history of the book to offer us a fresh way of looking at Luther and his times.not just a biography of Martin Luther, but a study which uses the printing industry as a lens through which to view his extraordinary achievement as writer and inspiration of the movement which reshaped European religion. Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of The Reformation PENGUIN PRESS HARDCOVER 400 PAGES $29.95 MARK GREENGRASS Christendom Destroyed: Europe PENGUIN HISTORY OF EUROPE Greengrass chronicles the dramatic changes during the spiritual and intellectual upheaval of the sixteenth century, from Martin Luther s challenge to church authority to dynastic rivalries and military changes to geographical and scientific discoveries. A magnificent achievement. Engagingly written, remarkably comprehensive in scope, impeccable in its scholarship, it should find a wide readership which will be rewarded with a new understanding of one of the most decisive eras in European history. Robert A. Schneider, Indiana University PENGUIN PAPERBACK 752 PAGES $22.00 PAUL STROHM Chaucer's Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury In this highly accessible social history, Paul Strohm, one of the finest medievalists of our time, vividly recreates the bustle of everyday life in fourteenth-century London while he unveils the fascinating story behind Chaucer s journey from personal crisis to rebirth as the immortal poet of The Canterbury Tales. The real thrill is [Strohm s] portrait of Chaucer s London, one square mile of church bells pealing, neighbors gossiping, politicians conniving, severed heads rotting on spikes (quite near Chaucer s windows), and poetry rising out of all this. The New Yorker PENGUIN PAPERBACK 304 PAGES $18.00 JOHN HOOPER The Italians In vivid and fluid prose, John Hooper has written an indispensible guide to life in Italy past and present. His incisive portrait, at turns hard-hitting and affectionate, reveals the Italians in all their complexity, from their dolce vita and transcendent art to their gut-wrenching social and political struggles. Joseph Luzzi, author of My Two Italies PENGUIN PAPERBACK 336 PAGES $17.00

5 NEW TITLES EUROPEAN HISTORY DAN JONES Magna Carta The Birth of Liberty Jones reveals the history of how the Magna Carta came to be, following the story of its creation, its failure, and the war that subsequently engulfed England, and charts the high points in its unexpected afterlife. "By putting the Magna Carta in its proper historical context, the brilliant young historian Dan Jones triumphantly answers the questions he poses in his Introduction, about how it came to be granted, what it meant at the time, and what it should mean to us today." Andrew Roberts, author of Storm of War and Napoleon VIKING HARDCOVER 288 PAGES $27.95 AVAILABLE FROM PENGUIN CLASSICS: MAGNA CARTA, TRANSLATED BY DAVID CARPENTER, DAN JONES The Wars of the Roses The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors In this dramatic narrative history, historian Dan Jones describes how the longestreigning British royal family tore itself apart until it was finally replaced by the Tudors. Exhilarating, epic, blood-and-roses history...there is fine scholarly intuition on display here and a mastery of the grand narrative; it is a supremely skillful piece of storytelling. The Sunday Telegraph (UK) PENGUIN PAPERBACK 416 PAGES $18.00 WILLIAM ROSEN The Third Horseman A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot Rosen chronicles the cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare that began in May 1315 and would create the worst famine in European history, killing six million people. [A] rich interweaving of agronomy, meteorology, economics and history...rosen deftly delineates the backstory and the perfect storm of heavy rains, hard winters, livestock epidemics, and war leading to the catastrophe. Nature PENGUIN PAPERBACK 320 PAGES $17.00 THOMAS OF MONMOUTH The Life and Passion of William of Norwich EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MIRI RUBIN A new translation of the work that holds a unique and terrible place in the history of anti-semitism, The Life and Passion of William of Norwich gives a remarkable insight into daily life in a medieval cathedral city, while also documenting miracles at the shrine of William, a boy worshippers believed to be murdered by the Jews of Norwich. This was the earliest version of the blood libel, a horrible myth of ritual murder which has haunted Europe ever since. A readable edition rich with scholarship." Seth Lere, Times Literary Supplement PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK 320 PAGES $16.00

6 ANDREW ROBERTS Napoleon: A Life Written by an award-winning historian, this is the first single-volume, cradle-to-grave biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon s thirty-three thousand surviving letters, which radically transform our understanding of this extraordinary man. Epically scaled...roberts brilliantly conveys the sheer energy and presence of Napoleon the organizational and military whirlwind. The New York Times Book Review PENGUIN PAPERBACK 976 PP $20.00 STEPHEN KOTKIN Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, Drawing on Kotkin s exhaustive study of Soviet archival materials as well as vast scholarly literature, Stalin recasts the way we think about the Soviet Union, revolution, dictatorship, the twentieth century, and the art of history itself. In its size, sweep, sensitivity, and surprises...kotkin s first volume on Stalin is a monumental achievement...it s biography on an epic scale. Only Tolstoy might have matched it. John Lewis Gaddis Yale University A masterly account...kotkin offers the sweeping context so often missing from all but the best biographies." The New York Times Book Review PENGUIN PAPERBACK 976 PAGES $25.00 A. N. WILSON Victoria: A Life Wilson s exhaustively researched biography includes a wealth of new material from previously unseen sources, shedding light on one of the most enigmatic monarchs of all time. Wilson s [biography of Queen Victoria] may be the best I have read...not merely a persuasive, unsentimental but admiring and engaging portrait of the great woman herself, but a vivid account of the world in which she lived and to which she contributed so much. Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post PENGUIN PAPERBACK 656 PAGES $20.00 SONIA PURNELL Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill This deeply researched narrative reveals how Clementine Churchill was instrumental in softening FDR s initial dislike of her husband and paving the way for Britain s close relationship with America. "An astute, pacey account of a woman who hardly ever emerged from the shadows...a sharp analysis of what it meant to be a politician's wife." The Wall Street Journal VIKING HARDCOVER 448 PAGES $30.00 KENNETH WEISBRODE Churchill and the King The Wartime Alliance of Winston Churchill and George VI Weisbrode explores the important, though largely overlooked, relationship between King George VI and Winston Churchill, who together guided Britain through war while inspiring renewed hope in the monarchy, Parliament, and the nation itself. A thoughtful, deeply insightful account." Lynne Olson, author of Citizens of London PENGUIN PAPERBACK 224 PAGES $16.00

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