20 of our finest historians recreate key moments in European history and imagine what it would have been like to witness them first-hand.

This detailed road atlas is suitable for both sightseeing and navigation. Major places of interest are highlighted for those travelling through Europe. It covers 47 countries, from Scandinavia in the north to Madeira in the south.

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.

Henri had a passion for Napoleon and Napoleon had a passion for chicken. From Boulogne to Moscow Henri butchered for his Emperor and never killed a single man. Meanwhile, in Venice, the city of chance and disguises, Villanelle was born with the webbed feet of her boatman father - but in the casinos she gambled her heart and lost. As the soldier-chef's love for Napoleon turns to hate he finds the Venetian beauty, and together they flee to the canals...

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.

Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveller. His journeys take him from his native Poland to small towns and villages with unfamiliar yet evocative names in Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova and Ukraine.

Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive alteration as a society and an eventual end. The book is not only an analysis of demographic and political realities, it is also an eye-witness account of a continent seemingly caught in a self-destructive spiral.

The story of Europe's emergence from the catastrophe of fascism and world war - and how the broad anti-fascist consensus on which this was based has ominously unravelled in recent decades.

A reference book for land battles in Europe, ranging from the Great Peloponnesian War to the Second World War - and essential companion for all those interested in history.

Wander through the courtyards of Prague Castle, admire the soaring spires of Kolner Dom, and sip champagne at the top of the Eiffel Tower - all with your trusted travel companion.