Dé ondernemersgids waarmee u leert om te zeggen wat moet worden gezegd en te vragen wat moeten worden gevraagd.  Meer

Was ever a monarch so festooned as Emperor Francis Joseph? He ruled from the Year of the Revolutions, 1848 until his death in 1916. His empire was the most multi-national state ever.  Meer

Alexander 1, ruler of Russia for the first quarter of the 19th century, is remembered: as the Tsar who refused to make peace with the French when Moscow fell in 1812, and as the Emperor who died - or gave the impression of having died - at the remote southern seaport of Taganrog in the winter of 1825.  Meer

Clement von Metternich held continuous office at the head of Europe's affairs for a longer period of time than any other statesman in modern history. The 'Age of Metternich' lasted for more than a generation, and gave Europe a measure of peace, that was much needed after the Napoleonic convulsions.  Meer

The East End as an idea is known to every Londoner, and to many others, though its boundaries are vague.  Meer

Presents a study of the political development over the last century and a half of the lands between Germany and Italy in the west and Russia in the east.  Meer

Tells the story of polyglot army (it included, at various times, contingents from seven countries) from the first landing at Salonika in 1915 to the peace in 1918.  Meer

A study of traditional diplomacy at its peak of influence in the nineteenth-century and the first years of the twentieth. It focuses on the clashes of personality between crowned heads of the old empires and between rival statesmen and ambassadors seeking advancement.  Meer

Time and time again from the seventeenth century onward observers predicted the collapse of the Ottoman Empire;  Meer

Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace'. But in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the Western Front, of which it is part, saw a 1500 day military campaign of mud and blood at the heart of the First World War that turned it into the devil's nursery.  Meer