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European History New Titles • European History NEW TITLES • EUROPEAN HISTORY NEW TITLES • EUROPEAN HISTORY JOHN GUY EUROPEAN STEPHEN KOTKIN Elizabeth: The Later Years Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 “A superb book….Guy persuades us that pretty much everything we think we know about The second installment of Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin’s definitive biography Elizabeth is wrong….Considering that she was a Protestant in a Catholic-dominated Europe, of Joseph Stalin explores the brutal transformation of Russian society—and the trans- a woman in a male-dominated world, the daughter of one parent who had been executed by HISTORY formation of Stalin himself—from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict PAID Presort Std the other…[she] should be seen as the most remarkable individual to have worn a European U.S. Postage with Hitler's Germany. Permit No. 169 crown between Charlemagne and Napoleon.”—Andrew Roberts, The Wall Street Journal Staten Island, NY Penguin Press Hardcover • 1,184 pages • 978-1-59420-380-0 • $40.00 “A fresh, thrilling portrait….Guy’s Elizabeth is deliciously human.”—Stacy Schiff, The Also available: Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, 978-0-14-312786-4 New York Times Book Review Penguin Paperback • 512 pages • 978-0-14-311009-5 • $20.00 COSTA AWARD FINALIST RICHARD J. EVANS AN ECONOMIST AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 Evans returns with a monumental new addition to the acclaimed Penguin History of JERRY BROTTON Europe series, covering the period from the fall of Napoleon to the outbreak of World War I. Evans’s gripping narrative ranges across a century of social and national conflicts, The Sultan and the Queen giving the reader a magnificently human picture of Europe in the age when it dominated The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam the rest of the globe. Brotton tells the riveting and largely unknown story of the traders and adventurers who “Unpacks the fascinatingly complex and interconnected range of historical forces at first went East to seek their fortunes—and reveals how Elizabeth’s fruitful alignment work between 1815 and 1914….[A] skillful interweave of political conflict and transi- with the Islamic world, financed by England’s first joint stock companies, paved the way tion, economic transformation, social upheaval, and cultural change.”—The New York for its transformation into a global commercial empire. Times Book Review “We are accustomed to seeing Elizabeth as a dazzling but essentially limited monarch, ob- Penguin Paperback • 848 pages • 978-0-14-311042-2 • $22.00 sessed with defending her small corner of northwest Europe….But as Brotton shows, for the last quarter of her reign, England was also deeply engaged with the three great powers of the Islamic world. The Sultan and the Queen is both a colorful narrative of that extraor- PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street NY 10014-3657 New York, IAN KERSHAW dinary time and a reminder that our own fortunes and those of the wider Islamic world have been intertwined for much longer than we might think.”—Dan Jones, The Times (UK) To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 Penguin Paperback • 352 pages • 978-0-14-311062-0 • $18.00 This new volume in the Penguin History of Europe series offers comprehensive coverage of the tumultuous era, beginning with the outbreak of World War I through the rise of Hitler and the aftermath of the Second World War. Award-winning British historian Ian DAN JONES Kershaw combines original scholarship and gripping prose as he profiles the key deci- sion makers and the violent shocks of war as they affected the entire European continent Summer of Blood: England's First Revolution and radically altered the course of European history. In the summer of 1381, ravaged by poverty and oppressed by taxes, the people of England "Chilling....To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every edi- rose up and demanded that their voices be heard. A ragtag army, led by the mysterious Wat torial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinking….Kershaw Tyler and the visionary preacher John Ball, rose up against the 14-year-old Richard II and documents each and every ‘ism’ of his analysis with extraordinary detail and passionate his most powerful lords and knights, who risked their property and their lives in a battle to humanism."—The New York Times Book Review save the English crown. Jones brings this incendiary moment to life and captures both the Penguin Paperback • 624 pages • 978-0-14-310992-1 • $25.00 idealism and brutality of that fateful summer, when a brave group of men and women dared to challenge their overlords, demand that they be treated equally, and fight for freedom. "Combines zest and flair with an acute historical intelligence. Bold. Surprising. Unput- ADMIRAL JAMES STAVRIDIS, USN (Ret.) downable."—David Starkey Penguin Paperback • 256 pages • 978-0-14-311175-7 • $17.00 Sea Power The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans The Templars New Titles for Courses From one of the most admired admirals of his generation—and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO—comes a remarkable voyage through all of the The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors 2017-2018 world’s most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of Jones tells the true story of the Templars for the first time in a generation, drawing on human history and a crucial element in our current geopolitical path. extensive original sources to build a gripping account of these Christian holy warriors www.penguin.com/academic “Stavridis spent nearly four decades as a U.S. Navy Sailor, and is well known as an impor- whose heroism and depravity have so often been shrouded in myth. PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP tant geopolitical thinker. In Sea Power both of those attributes come together in creating “A fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate military-religious crusading HISTORY a must read for anyone seriously thinking about the world's challenges in the 21st cen- order, combining sensible scholarship with narrative swagger, featuring a cast of exuber- EUROPEAN tury.” —Admiral Bill McRaven, USN (Ret.), Chancellor, The University of Texas System, antly monstrous sword swingers spattering Christian and Islamic blood from Spain to Courses for Titles New PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP former Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command Jerusalem.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem: The Biography www.penguin.com/academic Penguin Press Hardcover • 384 pages • 978-0-7352-2059-1 • $28.00 Viking Hardcover • 448 pages • 978-0-525-42830-5 • $30.00 NEW TITLES • EUROPEAN HISTORY NEW TITLES • EUROPEAN HISTORY JOHN GUY EUROPEAN STEPHEN KOTKIN Elizabeth: The Later Years Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 “A superb book….Guy persuades us that pretty much everything we think we know about The second installment of Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin’s definitive biography Elizabeth is wrong….Considering that she was a Protestant in a Catholic-dominated Europe, of Joseph Stalin explores the brutal transformation of Russian society—and the trans- a woman in a male-dominated world, the daughter of one parent who had been executed by HISTORY formation of Stalin himself—from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict PAID Presort Std the other…[she] should be seen as the most remarkable individual to have worn a European U.S. Postage with Hitler's Germany. Permit No. 169 crown between Charlemagne and Napoleon.”—Andrew Roberts, The Wall Street Journal Staten Island, NY Penguin Press Hardcover • 1,184 pages • 978-1-59420-380-0 • $40.00 “A fresh, thrilling portrait….Guy’s Elizabeth is deliciously human.”—Stacy Schiff, The Also available: Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, 978-0-14-312786-4 New York Times Book Review Penguin Paperback • 512 pages • 978-0-14-311009-5 • $20.00 COSTA AWARD FINALIST RICHARD J. EVANS AN ECONOMIST AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 Evans returns with a monumental new addition to the acclaimed Penguin History of JERRY BROTTON Europe series, covering the period from the fall of Napoleon to the outbreak of World War I. Evans’s gripping narrative ranges across a century of social and national conflicts, The Sultan and the Queen giving the reader a magnificently human picture of Europe in the age when it dominated The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam the rest of the globe. Brotton tells the riveting and largely unknown story of the traders and adventurers who “Unpacks the fascinatingly complex and interconnected range of historical forces at first went East to seek their fortunes—and reveals how Elizabeth’s fruitful alignment work between 1815 and 1914….[A] skillful interweave of political conflict and transi- with the Islamic world, financed by England’s first joint stock companies, paved the way tion, economic transformation, social upheaval, and cultural change.”—The New York for its transformation into a global commercial empire. Times Book Review “We are accustomed to seeing Elizabeth as a dazzling but essentially limited monarch, ob- Penguin Paperback • 848 pages • 978-0-14-311042-2 • $22.00 sessed with defending her small corner of northwest Europe….But as Brotton shows, for the last quarter of her reign, England was also deeply engaged with the three great powers of the Islamic world. The Sultan and the Queen is both a colorful narrative of that extraor- PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street NY 10014-3657 New York, IAN KERSHAW dinary time and a reminder that our own fortunes and those of the wider Islamic world have been intertwined for much longer than we might think.”—Dan Jones, The Times (UK) To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 Penguin Paperback • 352 pages • 978-0-14-311062-0 • $18.00 This new volume in the Penguin History of Europe series offers comprehensive coverage of the tumultuous era, beginning with the outbreak of World War I through the rise of Hitler and the aftermath of the Second World War.
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