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. 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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.