Best Sellers: European History, August 23, 2012

October 2011 to date as identified by YBP Library Services

1) Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Massie, Robert K.
Random House
2011. ISBN 9780679456728. $35

2) With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918
Stevenson, David
Belknap: Harvard University Press
2011. ISBN 9780674062269. $35

3) Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750–1790
Israel, Jonathan I.
Oxford University Press
2011. ISBN 9780199548200. $45

4) Invisible Romans
Knapp, Robert
Harvard University Press
2011. ISBN 9780674061996. $29.95

5) Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations
Davies, Norman
Viking
2012. ISBN 9780670022731. $40

6) Mary I: England’s Catholic Queen
Edwards, John
Yale University Press
2011. ISBN 9780300118100. $35

7) Polybius: The Histories: Books 9–15
Polybius
Harvard University Press
2011. ISBN 9780674996595. $24

8) Europe’s Angry Muslims: The Revolt of the Second Generation
Leiken, Robert S.
Oxford University Press
2012. ISBN 9780195328974. $27.95

9) Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World
Kwarteng, Kwasi
Public Affairs
2011. ISBN 9781610391207. $29.99

10) The Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300–1800
Monter, William
Yale University Press
2012. ISBN 9780300173277. $38

11) Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
Ives, Eric
Wiley-Blackwell
2011. ISBN 9781444350180. $19.95

12) Polybius: The Histories: Books 16–27
Polybius
Harvard University Press
2012. ISBN 9780674996601. $24

13) The Birth of the Past
Schiffman, Zachary Sayre
Johns Hopkins University Press
2011. ISBN 9781421402789. $65

14) Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500–700
Sarris, Peter
Oxford University Press
2011. ISBN 9780199261260. $65

15) Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
Hughes, Robert
Alfred A. Knopf
2011. ISBN 9780307268440. $35

16) Heinrich Himmler
Longerich, Peter
Oxford University Press
2012. ISBN 9780199592326. $34.95

17) The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
Preston, Paul
W.W. Norton
2012. ISBN 9780393064766. $35

18) A Culture of Freedom: Ancient Greece and the Origins of Europe
Meier, Christian
Oxford University Press
2012. ISBN 9780199747405. $29.95

19) Hitler’s Hangman: The Life of Heydrich
Gerwarth, Robert
Yale University Press
2011. ISBN 9780300115758. $35

20) The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
Gilmour, David
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2011. ISBN 9780374283162. $32.50