Europe: A History

Norman Davies’s Europe: A History is the most ambitious single-volume European history ever published — a book that traces the continent’s story from the Ice Age to the end of the Cold War, covering not just the standard narrative of Western European political history but the full diversity of European civilisation: its Eastern and Central European dimensions, its religious and intellectual history, its culture and its everyday life, and the deep structural patterns that repeat across centuries.

Encyclopaedic in scope, written with genuine literary flair, and organised to be both a readable narrative and a permanent reference — the essential one-volume European history. Published by Penguin.