Alan Palmer

Tells the story of polyglot army (it included, at various times, contingents from seven countries) from the first landing at Salonika in 1915 to the peace in 1918. Meer

A study of traditional diplomacy at its peak of influence in the nineteenth-century and the first years of the twentieth. It focuses on the clashes of personality between crowned heads of the old empires and between rival statesmen and ambassadors seeking advancement. Meer

Presents a study of the political development over the last century and a half of the lands between Germany and Italy in the west and Russia in the east. Meer

Alexander 1, ruler of Russia for the first quarter of the 19th century, is remembered: as the Tsar who refused to make peace with the French when Moscow fell in 1812, and as the Emperor who died - or gave the impression of having died - at the remote southern seaport of Taganrog in the winter of 1825. Meer