The Illustrated History of Europe

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With over 520 illustrations and 120 colour maps, and covering 3,000 years, the Illustrated History of Europe unravels the many cultural, economic, social and political strands of Europe's history from a European rather than national perspective. The collective effort of twelve historians, from twelve different countries, it examines the great prehistoric people migrations, their cave paintings in Spain and France, the Roman Empire, the spread of christianity, the middle ages, the glory of the Renaissance, the Reformation, the revolutions, Empire building, the two world wars of the 20C, and concludes with the fall of the Berlin wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union.