This history of psychoanalysis tells the story of its birth, development, and death in Europe between 1870 and 1945. It looks at how Freudian theory came together as a body of ideas, and how those ideas attracted followers who spread this model of the mind throughout the West.

We tend to think of the European past as the history of countries which exist today but, for example, how many people know that Glasgow was founded by the Welsh in a period when neither England nor Scotland existed? Norman Davies gives us a fresh perspective on the history of Europe.

1914: Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name as a journalist. While working part-time as a private tutor, he encounters Delphine, a woman who mixes startling candour with deep reserve. Entranced by the light of first love, Anton feels himself blessed. Until his country declares war on hers. 1927: For Lena, life with a drunken mother in a small town has been cosseted and cold. She is convinced she can amount to nothing until...

Moving from Vienna to London's West End, the battlefields of France and hotel rooms of Geneva, 'Waiting for Sunrise' tells the story of young English actor Lysander Rief who meets Sigmund Freud in a cafe, begins to write a journal, enjoys secret trysts with Hattie Bull and appears - miraculously - to have been cured of his neurosis.

Tracing the history of postwar Europe and its changing role in the world, Tony Judt's major history of the continent in our times investigates the political, social and cultural history from Retribution and Reconstruction to Exhaustion.

After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. In this book, Ian Kershaw has created a grand panorama of the world we live in and where it came from. Drawing on examples from all across Europe, 'Roller-Coaster'...

This text provides a set of thematic interpretations of one of the most dynamic and formative periods in Europe's history. It follows key themes such as politics, society, economy, culture, religion, and the position of Europe in the wider world.

This is a fascinating study of 16th and 17th century Europe and the fundamental changes which led to the collapse of Christendom and established the geographical and political frameworks of Western Europe as we know it. From peasants to princes, no one was untouched by the spiritual and intellectual upheaval of this era.

'Great Continental Railway Journeys' is now a firmly established series on BBC2, following in the illustrious tracks of its predecessor - 'Great British Railway Journeys'. Both series are fronted by ex-politician Michael Portillo and in this European odyssey he travels around continental Europe, using George Bradshaw's 1913 'Continental Railway Guide'.

As Europe moves inexorably towards disaster during the thirties, a new generation of the Neyler family grows up. Louis Rose returns to England for his father's funeral, only to find that he has lost his mistress to his nephew. His son Simon, meanwhile, has matured and is embarking on his first love affair. Val, Simon's cousin, visits Berlin for the Olympics, but finds herself experiencing first-hand the prejudice which is gripping Germany. Before...