Singled out by Foreign Affairs for its reporting on the brutal frontiers of new Europe,”Fortress Europe is the story of how the world’s most affluent region—and history’s greatest experiment with glob
A centuries-old story with remarkable contemporary resonance, Blood and Faith is celebrated journalist Matthew Carr’s riveting and ?richly detailed” (Choice) chronicle of what was, by 1614, the larges
A sweeping historical travelogue of the contentious border of France and Spain, in the great tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Jan MorrisWith the Catalonia crisis making international headlines, the uniq
In this gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century Spain, a Catholic priest is murdered by a mysterious Muslim avenger as the Inquisition continues to force Moriscos to live and worship as
On the militarized Turkish-Greek border, Afghan migrants brave minefields to cross into Europe—only to be summarily ejected by Greek border guards. At Ceuta and Melilla, Spanish enclaves in North Afri
To know what war is, one should follow our tracks,” General William T. Sherman once wrote to his wife, describing the devastation left by his armies in Georgia.Sherman’s Ghosts is an investigation of
An account of the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by Russian revolutionaries in 1881 evaluates the event's links to worldwide modern-day terrorist practices, in a historical survey that argues that
An account of the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by Russian revolutionaries in 1881 evaluates the event's links to worldwide modern-day terrorist practices, in a historical survey that argues that
In this gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century Spain, a Catholic priest is murdered by a mysterious Muslim terrorist as the Inquisition continues to force Moriscos to live and worship a
