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Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the Age of Perpetual War to the modern age today. For a thousand years, the Scandinavian countries were kingdoms of repression where monarchs played at the game of being European powers, at the expense of their own populations. The brand we now know as "Scandinavia" is a recent invention. During most of its history, Denmark and Sweden, and to some degree Norway, were bloody enemies. These sentiments of enmity have not been fully settled.

An informative and entertaining look at royal weddings through English history. The excitement surrounding the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton has prompted four of Britain's top historical biographers to look closely at Royal Weddings.

On the morning of April 9, 1940, German forces occupied Denmark and invaded Norway, leaving Sweden as the only neutral country in Scandinavia. It was to this country, surrounded by Axis forces, that Captain H. M. Denham was posted as Naval Attaché, arriving after evading capture by the Nazi Wehrmacht in the summer. Over the course of the next five years Captain Denham used his position to covertly provide valuable intelligence to the British military. In Inside the Nazi Ring, Denham gives vivid accounts of his meetings with numerous important political and military figures.

Camillo Benso conte di Cavour si spegne il 6 giugno 1861 a Torino, a soli 51 anni, dopo una settimana di dolori, vomito quotidiano e febbre altissima, lasciando dietro di sé una schiera di medici increduli e un sottile sospetto che si aggira nei salotti della neonata Italia: potrebbe trattarsi di avvelenamento? Analizzando il ruolo che ebbero le persone a lui più vicine, questo saggio biografico dal taglio quasi poliziesco utilizza diari, lettere e testimonianze dell'epoca per ricreare gli eventi che in soli otto giorni portarono all'inaspettata morte di Cavour.